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Africa News of Tuesday, 28 January 2020

Source: bbc.com

Tributes paid to top South African photographer

Santu Mofokeng took part in the Venice Biennale international art exhibition in 2012 Santu Mofokeng took part in the Venice Biennale international art exhibition in 2012

Tributes are being paid to one of South Africa's most-celebrated photographers, Santu Mofokeng, following his death at the age of 64.

The Soweto-born Mofokeng started his career as a street photographer in his teens, before becoming one of the greatest chroniclers of the struggle against the racist system of apartheid.

In 1985, Mofokeng co-founded Afrapix, an agency which defied the apartheid regime's restrictive media laws and supplied mainly black newspapers with photographs rarely published in the white-dominated media.