South Africa

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SOUTH AFRICA. Hamanskraal. 1978. Colonel S.J. MALAN, Director of the Police Academy, with trainees. | License

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SOUTH AFRICA. Carltonville. 1978. Black miners from a gold mine in their living quarters. | License

SOUTH AFRICA. Durban. 1978. The Turf Club. Blacks, white and Indian.

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SOUTH AFRICA. Durban. 1978. The Turf Club. Blacks, white and Indian. | License

SOUTH AFRICA. Town of Graaf Reinet. 1978. Hotel maids.

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SOUTH AFRICA. Town of Graaf Reinet. 1978. Hotel maids. | License

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SOUTH AFRICA. Pretoria. 1978. Police Academy. A white policeman searches a black man, standing as a dummy for a simulated dog attack. | License

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SOUTH AFRICA. Johannesburg. 1978. During the Apartheid system. A white woman learning how to use a pistol at a gun club. | License

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        In 1999, I meet again the Director of the Police Academy, this time in the boarding house he runs with his family in Stellenbosch.

        It is not the Colonel with the uniform and the stick that I find. It is retired Police General Stephanus Jacobus Malan. The man whose face had become an icon of Apartheid over the years, was an affable, courteous man with exquisite hospitality.

        The moral responsibility of the photographer? It was not the man I had photographed in 1978, but the uniform that personified the Apartheid regime.

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