Chief Albert Luthuli, 1964 ,1964
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Notes : Photojournalist Ranjith Kally worked for Drum magazine from 1955–1985. Based in Durban, he documented the vestiges of the indentured labour system and the Indian community in KwaZulu-Natal. He captured not only notable scenes of political struggle, but also iconic jazz scenes of the 1950s. When Miriam Makeba returned to Maseru, Lesotho, for a concert for black South Africans at the height of apartheid, Kally too ventured to Lesotho and returned home with a remarkable image of an exiled singer poised between joy and heartbreak. And in a series of unflinching portraits, he documented with probity the horror of the forced removals in Natal. In short, the wider appreciation of his contribution to our struggle for dignity needs to remembered and fully embraced for current South Africans intent on honouring their past – from the book on Kally’s life’s work, Memory Against Forgetting (Quivertree, 2014).
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