Billy Monk
Billy Monk was born in 1942 in Cape Town, South Africa, into the coloured community of the Cape Flats — the sprawling, impoverished townships to which non-white South Africans were increasingly confined under the apartheid system that had been formalised in law since 1948. His early life was hard, shaped by poverty, racial discrimination, and […]
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David Goldblatt was born in 1930 in Randfontein, a gold-mining town on the Witwatersrand in South Africa, to Lithuanian Jewish immigrant parents who ran a small clothing shop. He grew up in the shadow of the mines whose wealth had built the region and whose labour practices — the systematic exploitation of black workers under […]
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