Just across the harbour from the relatively safe and affluent area I inhabit in Hout Bay, a suburb of Cape Town, is a colored community whose presence inspires both fear and awe amongst my fellow residents. And the general relationship between the two communities is one driven mainly by mutual suspicion. After 5 years in…
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The Karoo desert lies in the Northern Cape in South Africa and is a semi-desert region made up of flat scrublands and grasslands, interrupted by ridges of dolorite rock and conical hills. In such a vast expanse whose physical geography has remained largely unchanged for hundreds of millions of years, it would be a…
An SPLA soldier exercises getting ready for military duty early in the morning at the SPLA base at the Star Hotel in Bor. Jonglei State, South Sudan. 2014.
An SPLA soldier relaxes next to his gun and ammunition getting ready for military duty early in the morning at the SPLA base at the Star…
A child Awareness Campaign at a primary school in Khayelitsha. A Theatre group, sponsored by the NGO the Simelela Centre - a one-stop 24/7 Rape Centre - performs a puppet show in the local Xhosa language to warn of the dangers of friendly approaches by older people – be they a family friend or even relative. …
Zambian Elections. 2011 A Patriotic Front supporter in the capital Lusaka holding placards near Soweto Market protesting at the delays in announcing the results of the poll. He is holding his forefinger to his mouth symbolising the Opposition party's main slogan 'Don't Kubeba' meaning 'Don't Tell'. Following allegations that the incumbent party had been trying…
Muna Mohamed Ahmed, 18 years old talks incessantly after her recent arrival patient at the Habeeb Public Mental Health Hospital. She has been diagnosed with mania. A week before being admitted she started suffering from insomnia, continuous and incomprehensible speech and started singing and dancing at inappropriate times. She also began to use abusive language…
Ugandan soldiers (top right) relaxing in a bombed-out structure at the Uruba hotel AMISOM base. Mogadishu, Somalia. 2011
Ugandan soldiers sitting and relaxing in the work-out area at the Uruba Hotel AMISOM base. Mogadishu, Somalia. 2011
A bullet mark in the reinforced bullet-proof window of a Casper-armoured vehicle. In March 2007, the African…
Nowhere else in the world is the divide between all that is positive and negative with the urban human experience so harshly exposed as it is in the African city space. As cities have continued to expand at an alarming rate that sees no sign of slowing any time soon, governments and local authorities have…
Kim I was sexually abused and raped at a very young age by someone I loved and adored. My whole world fell apart and the only way I knew how to deal with what was happening to me was to push it as far away in my mind as I could. In my early thirty's…