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The Young Lions on 16 June 1976. The Young Lions students wanted to stop Peter Magubane from photographing on the morning of 16 June 1976. Magubane explained to them, ‘A struggle without documentation is no struggle’. They agreed and issued an instruction that photographers and journalists be allowed to document the march . (Photo: Peter Magubane)
Black Power 1976: Late afternoon in Soweto, 16 June, 1976. (Photo: Peter Magubane)
Peter Magubane at the opening of his ‘Nelson Mandela. Man of the People’ exhibition at the European Solidarity Centre in Gdansk, Poland, on 6 June 2016. The photo exhibition of portraits of the former South African president presented important milestones in Mandela’s life as well as major moments in South African history, pre and post-apartheid. (Photo: EPA / Adam Warzawa)
Dr Peter Magubane. (Photo: Facebook)
Peter Magubane at the memorial service for politician and apartheid General Magnus Malan on 2 June 2000, in Pretoria. (Photo: Gallo Images / Sondag / Liza van Deventer)
Undated: Poems are accompanied by Peter Magubane’s piercing photographs, which reflect the brutality of black life under apartheid as well as how black people lived in joy and pain. (Photo: Supplied)
Peter Magubane on 19 October 2000. (Photo: Supplied)