Red Pepper television studios, Johannesburg. A background actor waiting for his entrance on stage. Johannesburg.
Student going to school. Johannesburg.
Township panoramic view, Katlehong, Johannesburg.
Train surfing is a widespread phenomenon in Johannesburg and the surrounding townships. Every year hundreds of young man lost their life trying to surf over the top or on the back of Metro-Line trains. Katlehong, Johannesburg.
Katlehong, Johannesburg.
Casting outside television studios in city center, Johannesburg.
Red Pepper television studios, Johannesburg. Making of a national rap talent show.
2014 presidential election. Peoples singing at the Democratic Alliance final rally, Coca Cola Dome, Johannesburg.
2014 presidential election. Youth marching band at the Democratic Alliance final rally, the Coca Cola Dome, Johannesburg.
2014 presidential election. Siyanqoba rally, the last ANC electoral speech before the presidential elections. Soweto FNB stadium, Johannesburg.
Exhausted workers resting inside a buscoming back to the township. Katlehong, Johannesburg.
A man playing golf near family mausoleums. The area was propriety of five white families, expropriated in the 60's by President Verwoerd, it become a black segregated township. Katlehong, Johannesburg.
Landfill, Katlehong, Johannesburg.
Crowed grocery at the payday. Katlehong, Johannesburg.
kids party after a storm. Katlehong, Johannesburg.
Spazas, local slang for tuck-shops, became a feature of townships landscape under the apartheid. They are instrumental for people who still live in acute poverty and can only afford a single item. Spazas generates employment for almost 290,000 SA citizens, half of them immigrants. Xenophobic violence against immigrant Spazas owners are cyclicals since 2012.
Sabata Mbapela, at home. Katlehong, Johannesburg.
Sunday mass, Jehovah's witnesses church. Katlehong, Johannesburg.
A student the day of his high-school graduation. Katlehong, Johannesburg.
Kids street games. Thokoza, Johannesburg.
Chabedi Thulo training in a gym set in a garage shared by the neighborhood. Katlehong.
Chabedi Thulo chilling with friends and eating Kota. Kwesine, Johannesburg.
Sabata Maphela inside his hut smoking nyaope, a mix of heroin wastes and marijuana. Only son, his father was killed by the Zulu 4 months after his birth, in the last period of apartheid. He regularly robs persons and shops to provide money for his disabled mother and to buy the drugs he needs. Kwesine, Johannesburg.
Shaun Tebaune, outside his home, smoking nyaope, a mix of heroin wastes and marijuana. Shaun came from a middle-class family. His addiction stared when he was a minor. Kwesine, Johannesburg.
A drunk man in a kota fast food. Katlehong, Johannesburg.
Illustration on a spaza's container. Katlehong, Johannesburg.
Tebogo Sadiki at home. Few days after this picture was shoot, he has been falsely imprisoned for almost two weeks charged with an imputation for rape and kidnapping of a minor. It was a false accusation led without any evidence by a CID police officer, father of the minor. The officer first intimidated Sadiki and his family and some days later jailed Chabedi Thulo and him. Thulo has been detained 2 days in the Germiston jail just because present at the moment of the arrest, Sadiki has been released by a sentence of the Palm Ridge Court of Katlehong twelve days later. He experienced violence in jail and was forced to leave Katlehong for months. The Officer has never never been charged for false arrest.
Katlehong, Johannesburg.
Tebogo Sadiki hiding in Thulo's car. Few days after this picture was shoot, he has been falsely imprisoned for almost two weeks charged with an imputation for rape and kidnapping of a minor. It was a false accusation led without any evidence by a CID police officer, father of the minor. The officer first intimidated Sadiki and his family and some days later jailed Chabedi Thulo and him. Thulo has been detained 2 days in the Germiston jail just because present at the moment of the arrest, Sadiki has been released by a sentence of the Palm Ridge Court of Katlehong twelve days later. He experienced violence in jail and was forced to leave Katlehong for months. The Officer has never never been charged for false arrest.
Katlehong, Johannesburg.
Tebogo Sadik's brother and nephew outside his home. Few days after this picture was shoot, he has been falsely imprisoned for almost two weeks charged with an imputation for rape and kidnapping of a minor. It was a false accusation led without any evidence by a CID police officer, father of the minor. The officer first intimidated Sadiki and his family and some days later jailed Chabedi Thulo and him. Thulo has been detained 2 days in the Germison jail just because present at the moment of the arrest, Sadiki has been released by a sentence of the Palm Ridge Court of Katlehong twelve days later. He experienced violence in jail and was forced to leave Katlehong for months. The Officer has never never been charged for false arrest.
Katlehong, Johannesburg.
Tebogo Sadiki leaving Katlehong with Chabedi Thulo and a friend. Few days after this picture was shoot, he has been falsely imprisoned for almost two weeks charged with an imputation for rape and kidnapping of a minor. It was a false accusation led without any evidence by a CID police officer, father of the minor. The officer first intimidated Sadiki and his family and some days later jailed Chabedi Thulo and him. Thulo has been detained 2 days in the Germoston jail just because present at the moment of the arrest, Sadiki has been released by a sentence of the Palm Ridge Court of Katlehong twelve days later. He experienced violence in jail and was forced to leave Katlehong for months. The Officer has never never been charged for false arrest.
Katlehong, Johannesburg.
Tebogo Sadiki hiding in Ventersburg, Free State with Chabedi Thulo and a friend. Few days after this picture was shoot, he has been falsely imprisoned for almost two weeks charged with an imputation for rape and kidnapping of a minor. It was a false accusation led without any evidence by a CID police officer, father of the minor. The officer first intimidated Sadiki and his family and some days later jailed Chabedi Thulo and him. Thulo has been detained 2 days in the Germiston jail just because present at the moment of the arrest, Sadiki has been released by a sentence of the Palm Ridge Court of Katlehong twelve days later. He experienced violence in jail and was forced to leave Katlehong for months. The Officer has never never been charged for false arrest. Ventersburg, Free State.
The girl crying on the right of the frame is the minor. She was there to recognise Chabedi Thulo while police officers were arresting him outside his house. He has been falsely imprisoned with Tebogo Sadiki for almost two weeks charged with an imputation for rape and kidnapping of the minor. It was a false accusation led without any evidence by a CID police officer, father of the minor. The officer first intimidated Sadiki and his family and some days later jailed Chabedi Thulo and him. Thulo has been detained 2 days in the Germiston jail just because present at the moment of the arrest, Sadiki has been released by a sentence of the Palm Ridge Court of Katlehong twelve days later. He experienced violence in jail and was forced to leave Katlehong for months. The Officer has never never been charged for false arrest. Ventersburg, Free State.
Saskia Thulo, Chabedi's grandmother, the day he's been released from the Germison jail. He lives with the grandma since his childhood. Kwesine, Johannesburg.
Chabedi Thulo at home, having a bath with aloe vera the day he's been released from the Germiston jail. In Sotho traditions the aloe vera is useful to drive away evil spirits. Kwesine, Johannesburg.