Photo Essay
“Our blood does not want to be spilled in the land of South Africa”
Refugees respond to UNHCR media statements
Text by Madison Yauger. Photos by Ashraf Hendricks.
Photo Essay | 26 October 2019
Satire and the City: Zombies and a dead president protest in Cape Town
Housing activists compare City’s housing policies to apartheid era
By Tariro Washinyira, Madison Yauger and Ashraf Hendricks
Photo Essay | 30 September 2019
#AmINextProtest: police use water cannons against protesters
Demonstrators demand action from Ramaphosa
By Mary-Anne Gontsana, Tariro Washinyira, Ashraf Hendricks and Lucas Nowicki
Photo Essay | 4 September 2019
Generations of Cape Town flower traders cut it in the city market
“Everybody in the family is here, cousins, aunties and great aunties”
Text by Tariro Washinyira. Photos by Ashraf Hendricks.
Photo Essay | 28 August 2019
Shack dwellers raise their own funds for flood relief
“City doesn’t send officials to help residents whose shacks are flooded, so we made a decision to help ourselves,” says Marikana resident
By Vincent Lali
Photo Essay | 8 August 2019
Cape Flats residents cheer arrival of army
Military deployed on Mandela Day to help quell Cape Town’s gang crime
Photo Essay | 19 July 2019
Township youths build exquisite sculpture
It doesn’t make all the violence stop but it reminds people that there is beauty in the world, says volunteer
Photo Essay | 12 July 2019
Life in Plastic City is hard, but being an immigrant makes it worse
Mozambican immigrants and Xitsonga-speakers say they are discriminated against
Photo Essay | 8 July 2019