Twenty Years After Apartheid

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Twenty Years After Apartheid

Joao Silva came of age as a photographer as his native South Africa was navigating a treacherous path to democracy. Twenty years later, he reflects on what has — and has not — changed.

via Lens Blog: https://archive.nytimes.com/lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/04/29/twenty-years-after-apartheid/

In a sprawling South African township stands a tall slab of polished stone etched with names of people killed in the political violence preceding the country’s first democratic elections. It is dedicated to those from Tokoza, where almost 1,000 people died violently some 20 years ago, and sits on Khumalo Street, the very road where many died.

Lost among the scores of the memorialized are my friends Ken Oosterbroek and Abdul Shariff.