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Sam Nzima’s photograph of Hector Pieterson.

OPINION | Our youth have new but old battles to win

During Youth Month led us reflect on ways in which they can be helped to mobilise and become productive citizens

An image of a colour pastel drawing reproduced as a print that was hawked by Aisatic merchants in black townships.

The current infatuation with portraiture has colonial roots

However, contemporary artists such as Cinga Samson, Zanele Muholi and Mohau Modisakeng found a liberating ally in self-portraiture

(John McCann/M&G)

Entrepreneurship will save South Africa’s youth

Complaining about ‘reverse racism’ and BEE serves no one. South Africa’s white youth should focus on entrepreneurship instead

Sam Nzima’s photograph of Hector Pieterson.

A portal to empathy: Photographs that change the world

It is important not to look away from visceral pictorial evidence of the suffering of disempowered people

Young people today want Youth Day to go beyond the history, to acknowledge their current reality and the struggles they face. (David Harrison/M&G)

Young people want Youth Day to focus on today’s issues

It’s important to honour past heroes, but today’s youth activists also want their own struggles, and contemporary heroes, to be recognised

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A snapshot of Sam Nzima

The photo that made him famous cost him his career and almost his life. His death may bring to life his plans for a school of photography

South African photographer Sam Nzima

Ramaphosa, ANC hail veteran photographer Sam Nzima

The veteran photographer who ‘captured the full brutality of apartheid oppression’ died over the weekend

History for sale: Images such as these of Winnie and Nelson Mandela

Exposed: SA’s iconic pics plundered

Our photographic heritage is being stolen by pirates peddling ‘pictures of pictures’

Smouldering: Vhudzani Secondary School is one of about 50 schools that have been burnt or vandalised.

‘We didn’t burn schools,’ Zuma and 1976 activist tell Youth Day crowd

"Each and every student was hell bent on defending their classrooms. Classrooms were never ever torched," 1976 student leader Dan Montsitsi said.

(Delwyn Verasamy/ M&G)

[Archives] Ten things about June 16 1976

The day on which black South African school pupils rose up against "Bantu education" is now celebrated as Youth Day.

Letting MuseumAfrica collapse is a cultural assault

Though it may never have lived up to the high ideals of its founder, its mandate certainly did

Photographer says GCIS mum over R20m demand for Madiba image

The state agency allegedly responsible for distributing a picture of Madiba globally says it is seeking an amicable resolution to the matter.

JZ knows he can’t get away with a massacre anymore so he decides to bring out his secret weapon.

Family feud behind mall’s removal of June 16 statue

A statue of Hector Pieterson was removed earlier this month from Soweto’s Maponya Mall "in response to the demands of Mbuyisa Makhubu’s family".

Finding Mbuyisa Makhubu, the June 16 1976 hero

What happened to the pupil carrying Hector Pieterson in the photo that epitomises June 16 1976? The trail leads to Canada, but hope is fading.

Lulu Pieterson

Keep it in the family, begs Hector Pieterson’s sister

When it comes to the name and legacy of her brother, Hector, Lulu Pieterson does not take no for an answer.