Peter Magubane, a South African photographer who captured 40 years of apartheid, dies at age 91
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Peter Magubane, a fearless photographer who captured the violence and horror of South Africa’s brutal apartheid era of racial oppression, and was entrusted with documenting Nelson Mandela’s first years of freedom after his release from prison, has died
CAPE TOWN, South Africa -- Peter Magubane, a fearless photographer who captured the violence and horror of South Africa's apartheid era of racial oppression, and was entrusted with documenting Nelson Mandela's first years of freedom after his release from prison, has died. He was 91.
Magubane died Monday, according to the South African National Editors' Forum, which said it had been informed of his death by his family.
He was a “legendary photojournalist,” the editors' forum said. The South African government said Magubane “covered the most historic moments in the liberation struggle against apartheid.”
Magubane photographed 40 years of apartheid South Africa, including the 1960 Sharpeville massacre, the trial of Mandela and others in 1964, and the Soweto uprising of 1976, when thousands of Black students protested against the apartheid government's law making the Afrikaans language compulsory in school.
The Soweto uprising became a pivotal moment in the struggle for democracy in South Africa after police opened fire on the young protesters, killing at least 176 of them and drawing international outrage. Magubane's award-winning photographs told the world about the killings.
