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...received the Nobel Peace Prize, symbolizing the triumph of black African rights in his native land. Last week he had only words of hard truth for 2,000 blacks, many of them barefoot and clad in tatters, gathered at a soccer field among the shacks of Orange Farm, a township in the southern Transvaal. Seven months into his term as President of South Africa, the good times he promised have barely begun. "Don't expect us to do miracles," he told the crowd. "Before the election I went around telling all our people that we wanted to ensure a better...
...force headquarters in Pretoria. A bomb attributed to the A.N.C. had exploded, killing 19 people. After leaving the service, Carter got a job at a camera supply shop and drifted into journalism, first as a weekend sports photographer for the Johannesburg Sunday Express. When riots began sweeping the black townships in 1984, Carter moved to the Johannesburg Star and aligned himself with the crop of young, white photojournalists who wanted to expose the brutality of apartheid -- a mission that had once been the almost exclusive calling of South Africa's black photographers. "They put themselves in face of danger, were...
Early on Monday, April 18, the Bang-Bang Club headed out to Tokoza township, 10 miles from downtown Johannesburg, to cover an outbreak of violence. Shortly before noon, with the sun too bright for taking good pictures, Carter returned to the city. Then on the radio he heard that his best friend, Oosterbroek, had been killed in Tokoza. Marinovich had been gravely wounded. Oosterbroek's death devastated Carter, and he returned to work in Tokoza the next day, even though the violence had escalated. He later told friends that he and not Ken "should have taken the bullet...
...past five years, Scott MacLeod has seen more than his share of tragedy. But nothing prepared him for the devastating news in July that a colleague, 33-year-old South African photojournalist Kevin Carter, had killed himself. Carter was famous in South Africa for his fearless coverage of deadly township violence, and he had become internationally known for his Pulitzer prizewinning photo of a vulture coolly eyeing an emaciated Sudanese child struggling toward a feeding station. "Few journalists saw as much violence and trauma as he did," says MacLeod. Shocked by Carter's suicide, MacLeod determined "to understand as best...
...representatives of more than 150 countries, ; Nelson Mandela became the first black President of South Africa. "Never, never and never again shall this beautiful land experience the oppression of one by another and suffer the indignity of being the skunk of the world," he said. On Friday, however, township violence broke out again, resulting in 12 deaths...