His photographs cut through apartheid — and never diminished their subjects. David Goldblatt’s photographs, on view in a brilliant retrospective, exposed the moral rot of apartheid while ...

Goldblatt vividly documented this reality in “Young men with dompas (an identity document every African had to carry), White City, Jabavu, Soweto, 1972.” “The Destruction of District Six Under the ...

He downplayed the meaning of apartheid by calling it an “exclusionary democracy” and yet asked a black president who fought for democracy for a job and lost it when the president didn’t respond.

The dompas, apartheid South Africa's most demeaning instrument of racial segregation, sought to ensure that the movement of black people was limited and that certain areas were to be protected as the ...

When South Africans talk about their experiences under apartheid, they highlight its expungement from law but not its expungement from reality. Storytelling is empowerment. By reclaiming the parts of ...

South Africa’s green ID book has been used as the country’s main identity document for 44 years, during which time it has only received a handful of minor security upgrades.

In the years of Apartheid, it was issued only to white citizens from the age of 16, while black people had to carry the passbook or “dompas. ...

It feels like we’re back in Apartheid and we have to carry a dompas around to keep the police from harassing us,” Ismali said. Programme director, Themba Mlotshwa Marabastad imbizo.

Magubane in New York in 2010. Clint Spaulding/Patrick McMullan/Getty Images. The photographer suffered great losses during apartheid. In 1969 Magubane spent 586 days in solitary confinement.

Deadly Johannesburg fire exposes post-apartheid South Africa’s ... 80 Albert Street was an office of the white minority regime that issued the hated “dompas” passports that restricted where ...