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Between States of Emergency © PAUL VELASCO © PAUL The Nelson Mandela Foundation was established by Madiba to continue his life’s work to deepen democracy, build peace and advance human rights. We continue Madiba’s work through an archival and research programme, host dialogues on social issues that Madiba cared deeply about and we convene the Mandela Day programme to support his ongoing humanitarian efforts. BETWEEN STATES OF EMERGENCY F: NelsonMandela 107 Central Street, Tel: +27 (0)11 547 5600 www.nelsonmandela.org PHOTOGRAPHERS IN ACTION 1985 – 1990 F: NelsonMandelaCentreOfMemory Houghton, Fax: +27 (0)11 728 1111 [email protected] T: @NelsonMandela Johannesburg, 2198 Exhibition Credits: Curator: Robin Comley | Printer: Lightfarm and Southern Editions | Exhibition Designer: Sam Colyn, C3 Designs | Manufacturer: Progroup | Framer: Frame Depot | Visitors’ Guide Design: Cube Design © Nelson Mandela Foundation THE NELSON MANDELA FOUNDATION Nelson Mandela was South Africa’s first democratically elected President. On 9 May 1994, soon after our landmark election results were in, he was unanimously elected President by I reiterate our call for, inter alia, South Africa’s new Members of Parliament. the immediate ending of the The next day Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela Nelson Mandela, providing an integrated He donated his personal papers to was sworn in at an inauguration ceremony public information resource on his life and the Nelson Mandela Foundation and State of Emergency and the freeing at the Union Buildings in Pretoria. times, and by convening dialogue around mandated it to document his life and He vowed to only serve one term as critical social issues. times. He also assigned it to promote of all, and not only some, political President and in 1999 he stepped down his legacy by creating a safe space for to make way for President Thabo Mbeki. THE BUILDING: dialogue where sustainable solutions to On his retirement in 1999 Nelson intractable problems could be found. prisoners. Only such a normalised Soon after the new President was Mandela kept his offices at his home in inaugurated on 16 June 1999, Mandela 13th Avenue, Houghton in Johannesburg. A comprehensive refurbishment of the situation, which allows for free was on the telephone to rally his staff for His staff ran the Nelson Mandela Foundation’s building provided it with an new tasks ahead. They had to remind him Foundation from there. As the work of appropriate physical home, the Nelson that they no longer worked for him and so the Foundation expanded, a bigger Mandela Centre of Memory. political activities, can allow us the Nelson Mandela Foundation was born. space became necessary. 107 Central Street, Houghton became that space in The Centre was opened on 18 November to consult our people in order to As Mandela’s post-presidential office it 2002 through a generous grant from the 2013, three years to the day after Mandela provided the base for his charitable work, government of India. last used the building as his office. obtain a mandate. covering a wide range of endeavours, from building schools to HIV-AIDS work, from Mandela came to his office at the research into education in rural areas to building almost every day when he was While the entire building has been peace and reconciliation interventions. not travelling. He received most of his refurbished to accommodate a state of Five years later the Foundation began its guests here sitting behind his desk or in the art archive, exhibition and dialogue transition into an organisation focused on armchairs in the lounge area. It was at spaces, Mandela’s office has been memory, dialogue and legacy work. this building that he would hold press preserved as he left it when he was last in conferences, receive dignitaries and often the building. This office is now part of a THE VISION OF THE FOUNDATION: bring his guests to the front door to be permanent exhibition. A society which remembers its pasts, photographed by waiting media. listens to all its voices, and pursues social Created courtesy of a grant from the justice. From 2004 it was agreed by Mandela that National Lottery, the Nelson Mandela the work of his Foundation would change Centre of Memory represents the new THE MISSION OF THE FOUNDATION: fundamentally. This coincided with his focus of the Nelson Mandela Foundation. To contribute to the making of a just announcement to the world that it was It is the physical hub from which the 11 February 1990, Grand Parade, Cape Town society by keeping alive the legacy of time for him to “retire from retirement”. Foundation seeks to fulfil its mission. CURATOR’S MESSAGE BETWEEN STATES OF EMERGENCY ROBIN COMLEY PHOTOGRAPHERS IN ACTION 1985 – 1990 The apartheid regime responded to days the ANC and PAC were banned. many dedicated journalists shone the soaring opposition in the mid-1980s This marked the beginning of a massive spotlight on its actions. Our visual concept of history would be a 1987 in which all of Lagardien’s State Benny Gool’s moment of Colleen by imposing on South Africa a series of clampdown on political dissent. shadowland, vague outlines, without the of Emergency work was ‘removed’. Lombard reuniting with her husband States of Emergency – in effect martial On 28 August 1985, when thousands of courage and tenacity of photographers, The image on display was scanned from Rashid after her release from detention law. In July 1985 Nelson Mandela and his activists embarked on a march to the and in the late 1980s South African a reject print that he had discarded for reinforces the strength of the human comrades were in the twenty-first year of prison to demand Mandela’s release, photographers truly came of age in laying being unsharp. spirit that was so evident of the time. Ultimately the Emergency regulations their life imprisonment for sabotage. the regime reacted swiftly and brutally. before the eyes of the world evidence of The same spirit decades earlier had held prohibited photographers and journalists He was in Pollsmoor Prison in Cape Town People were severely beaten and shot. this country’s appalling abuses. Away from the frontline, Between States Peter Magubane steady during 586 days from even being present when police where after a 17-year battle he could Some were killed in the aftermath. of Emergency also reflects the effect of solitary confinement. acted against protesters and other buy newspapers. Through the media and Thanks to the work of these photographers The opening image of this exhibition, the Emergencies had on broader South activists. Those who dared to expose reports from outside, he was aware of the Pollsmoor March and countless other taken by Greg English at the funeral of African society. Chris Ledochowski’s closing image in the daily nationwide brutality by the reinvigorated opposition sweeping events did not go unnoticed. the Cradock Four, the day PW Botha which a free Nelson Mandela calls for the security forces risked being jailed. the country and he continually lobbied announced the first in a series of States We see the militarisation of white lifting of the State of Emergency before the state to lift the Emergency, to release Apart from some days of respite between of Emergency in the 1980s, stands as a suburbia (Hilton-Barber, Lawson), forced a democratic process could begin, marks Many photographers, journalists and political prisoners and to unban anti- renewals, the State of Emergency lasted portent of the pain, brutality and loss of conscription (Altschuler, Hutchings), the advent of South Africa’s new era. activists nevertheless felt duty-bound to apartheid organisations. effectively until 7 June 1990 except for innocence that lie ahead. apparent white ignorance (Wulfsohn), show the world just how the iron fist of KwaZulu-Natal where it was retained shattered communities (Goldblatt, Nunn) Yet today in that democracy, the role of apartheid dealt with opposition. The 1985 Emergency was imposed for longer. Many photographers and activists and peaceful defiance (Gubb, Mofokeng, photographers is no less important as less than two years after the United found their place on the Struggle Sols, Vallie, Weinberg, WiIliams). myriad societal issues call for continued The Nelson Mandela Foundation Democratic Front was launched, Not all the photographers who took risks to frontline (Bradlow, Gubb, Kumalo, exposure through the lens. conceived this exhibition, Between drawing scores of organisations under tell the story of apartheid are featured on Ngwenya, Magubane, Mendel, Tillim, That defiance is most perfectly captured States of Emergency, to honour the one huge umbrella. Intending to stifle these walls, but the ones who are represent Weinberg and more) and these are the in Paul Weinberg’s image of a lone woman To each and every one of these fine photographers who took a stand against opposition to apartheid, the Emergency the whole. This exhibition features some better-known images on show that in Soweto confronting massive army photographers - and to the many more the atrocities of the apartheid regime. was first declared in 36 magisterial starkly brutal images while others are more carried great risk in their execution. vehicles patrolling the township shortly who would be featured here if space had Their work contributed to increased districts and less than a year later, reflective and subtle. All denote the spirit after the first State of Emergency came allowed - my deepest respect, and international pressure against the South extended to the entire country. of defiance that carried South Africa’s Ismail Lagardien’s photograph of Firoz into effect. a lifetime of good light. African government and contributed to people through those harsh years. Cachalia’s arrest at Wits embodies much the ultimate downfall of apartheid. Thousands of men, women and children of what 1980s South Africa represented: Joe Alfers’ image of fisherwomen in Kosi were detained without trial, some for Through the efforts and courage of these defiance, brutality, courage, duplicity, Bay may appear out of place, until its Project manager Lucia Raadschelders’ On Sunday 21 July 1985 the government years.
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