Imijondolo

Imijondolo

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Omar Badsha

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"Imijondolo is the Zulu word for the makeshift houses built from industrial waste, wattle and daub, so characteristic of third world slums which have mushroomed in and around our segregated cities. This book by Omar Badsha, acknowledged as one of the most active social documentary photographers in the country, takes us into one of apartheid's sprawling ghettos. The pictures, taken over a period of three years in Inanda—which is the home and battleground for more than a quarter of a million black people—are held out as the mirror of what is happening in hundreds of similar communities under the threat of removals. The photographer, himself a victim of removals under the Group Areas Act, sees the people of Inanda not as victims to be pitied, but as people involved in a struggle to assert their human dignity and the attainment of a free and democratic society."