Pat Olliphant / Nelson Mandela memorial - 9 December 2013

[telemann.livejournal.com]

Recommended: Per-Anders Pettersson's photography collection After Apartheid: Reflecting on South Africa 20 Years Later

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[hardblue.livejournal.com]

Places like Soweto are changing rapidly because of massive investments through private and public funding. Its residents travel to and from work via upgraded taxi stations. They shop in upmarket malls, go to the movies, visit world-class theaters. South Africa’s policies of black economic empowerment reaped astonishing wealth for a new black elite and saw the rapid emergence of a black middle class.

But during the second decade, greed and disillusion began to smother this hope. In these photographs, I sought to portray the heady sense I felt of a latter-day gold rush, the energy and the optimism often forgotten.

-- Per-Anders Pettersson

Black, white, I guess greed works the same way for all. But I guess it is the Western way and it is a stable country at least.

[yes-justice.livejournal.com]

Thank you for the post Telemann!

[ice-hesitant.livejournal.com]

Africa isn't one country.

[telemann.livejournal.com]

That's nice.