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South Africa Cape Town. A supporter of the National Party, the party responsable for Apartheid, listens with rapt attention as the party leader, F. W. De Klerk (pictured) delivers an election speech to supporters in a small village close to C.T. during the build up to the country's first democratic elections.
Onlookers look at two fishing boats that were driven onto the beach, by stormy seas, near Melkbosstrand, about 30Kms north of Cape Town. 2008.
"Easy" Nofomela, one of the men convicted of killing American Fullbright scholar, Amy Biehl, in Gugulethu in 1993. Here, Nofomela is at his home in Gugulethu, in Cape Town.
Comet McNaught, over Hout Bay, Cape Town.
South Africa Johannesburg. Members of the predominantly Zulu traditionalist, Inkatha Freedom Party, IFP, march in battle groups, or Impi, along Khumalo road, in Thokoza, a township in Johannesburg, armed with spears, clubs, and shields. Here they are marching next to the single sex hostels they live in, with the police and army keeping a watchfull eye. During the period when this pic was taken, the IFP, and ANC(African National Congress) were invoved in bloody conflict, fomented by agents of the Apartheid government.
Reveller at a party in Cape Town.
South Africa Cape Town. A volunteer firefighter, sprays water into a huge blaze, on Steenberg Estate, a wine and golf estate, about 15Km from the centre of the city.
W. Cape Province Lamberts Bay. Large numbers of Rock lobsters lie dying in the sun after they crawled out of the sea, after a bloom of a microrganism called, red tide, which leaches the oxygen out of the water. Here, a helicopter picks up tons at a time to drop them far out at sea.
South Africa Johannesburg. A man cries outside the auditorium, after listening to the testimony being given at the first hearings of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission(TRC) in Johannesburg, at the Central Methodist Church.
Black and white, employees and employers, farmers and labourers, lined up in Paarl, about 60kms from Cape Town, to cast their votes in South Africa's second general election.
New Age adherents watch the partial eclipse of the sun, which fell also on the Winter Solstice in Cape Town, together with dogs and gongs.
South Africa Cape Town. Members of the Treatment Action Campaign(TAC)protest outside parliament against the govt's refusal to freely supply anti-retroviral drugs to HIV+ pregnant women, as well as calling on international drug companies to lower prices. Administering the drug during pregnancy reduces the risk of mother-to-child transmission of the desease.
South Africa Cape Town. Police fire rubber bullets and stun grenades at striking security guards, after the strikers had damaged cars and looted shops, during a march through the centre of the city. The strikers were members of COSATU(Congress of South African Trade Unions) affiliated SATAWU(South African Transport and Allied Workers Unions), and were demanding an 11% pay increase.
F.W. de Klerk, and Nelson Mandela, in varying humours at the National Peace Convention, in Jo-burg. De Klerk was at the time president of the country, and leader of the Nationalist Party, and Mandela, leader of the African National party, would become president, afer De Klerk, and both men would win the Nobel Peace Prize for their efforts.
Libyan leader, Muhammar Ghadaffi, gives a victory salute to waiting media, from the prison cell on Robben Island, in which Mandela spent most of his time in prison. This was during a state visit by the Libyan leader to South Africa.