documenting 5 decades of struggle

alf kumalo: south african photographer, who cut his photographic teeth with the legendary ’50s magazine DRUM and went on document the struggle against apartheid. his work spans images from the treason trials of mandela, sisulu, et al., to the violent last days of the apartheid regime, to his long lasting friendship with muhammad ali whom he met in then zaire for the “rumble in the jungle”.

kind of related: “drum“, 2004 film about life in sophiatown, south africa, inspired by the life of the writers, photographers, musicians, tsotsis who wrote for or were featured in that magazine.