Gille de Vlieg Collection

Activist and once Afrapix photographer Gille De Vlieg’s collection consists of black and white digital images. The images, in part, tell the story of South Africa’s turbulent political history of the 1980s, set in both rural and township scenes. These sometimes disturbingly serene lifestyle scenes act not only as a contrast against, but also as a result of the political activities of the day, as people are, for example, displaced due to land removals. The photographs cover the following topics: land removals, rural lifestyle, township lifestyle, gender lifestyle, United Democratic Front (UDF), anti-harassment campaign, police violence, protests against death penalty, funerals, Black Sash, protests against incorporation into Bophuthatswana; Release Mandela Campaign, End Conscription Campaign (ECC), conscientious objectors, African National Congress (ANC) Welcome Home Rally, Day of the Vow (Geloftedag), street children and homeless people. It also includes photographs of Harare street scenes in Zimbabwe, and numerous lifestyle images of people (including the Herero and Himba people) living in Namibia.

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July 1985; Mass funeral, KwaThema, Ekurhuleni

February 1990; Mandela at Welcome Home rally Soweto