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Oct 22, 2021 · South African ex-policewoman Nomia Rosemary Ndlovu has been found guilty of killing five relatives and her boyfriend at the end of a trial that has gripped the country. The six were murdered...
Nov 16, 2021 · Image: Catherine White. Williams was the prosecutor who delivered a solid case during the former Thembisa policewoman’s trial, which was concluded earlier this month. The court sentenced Ndlovu...
Nov 5, 2021 · Convicted killer cop Nomia Rosemary Ndlovu, who murdered five relatives and her lover to score from insurance policies, gave an ambiguous apology on Friday to the families and friends of her...
Aug 3, 2023 · The story of Nomia Rosemary Ndlovu, convicted in 2021 of killing her own family members and a lover, that shocked the nation. This is an extract from 'Killer Cop', the upcoming book by TimesLIVE...
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- Protest and (Over)Exposure
- The Photograph’S Shadow
- History Reanimated
What happens to images that appear over and over again in the visual economy? Art historian Colin Richards suggeststhat powerful images can also be extraordinarily vulnerable, for when they are sensationalised overexposure can weaken the historical moments they capture. In 1989 liberation struggle stalwart Albie Sachs made a similar assertion when ...
In Nzima’s original photograph the three figures cast a deep shadow on the ground. However, many versions of this image that were silkscreened onto protest posters and T-shirts flattened the image and omitted the shadow. Artworks that drew from this image, such as Kevin Brand’s duct tape mural on the outside wall of Musée de Dakar (1998) in Senegal...
The persistence of Nzima’s photograph is remarkable. Not only was it used on T-shirts, posters and pamphlets in the 1980s, but it has reappeared in the form of artworks, memorials, monuments, and numerous cartoons, including the workof cartoonists Sifiso Yalo and Zapiro. The fact that it raises ongoing debate is important, as this works against the...
His death was captured in a photograph by Sam Nzima that generated international outrage and intensified condemnation of South Africa’s apartheid government. Pieterson and Hastings Ndlovu, who was also a student, were the first Black protesters killed during the Soweto Uprising.
Aug 26, 2020 · She became very well known for her critical and close-to-the-ground southern African reporting under the name of Hanna Ndlovu. After Nkobi’s death, she returned with their children to Düsseldorf and met Goldberg in the course of ongoing solidarity activity in Germany. After their marriage, the two lived in Cape Town, where she died in 2006.
