Rows of dolls bedecked with beads line the shelves of the stall in Johannesburg city center. They’re dressed in the traditional rainbow colors of South Africa’s Ndebele people, the ethnic group to ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Ndebele Girl Sewing Beads, 1936-1949. Photographic image of a woman sitting on a step in front of a low wall of a homestead. She is sewing beads ...

Ralph Ziman estimates he was 13 or 14 years old the first time he had a gun pulled on him in anger. It was the mid 1970s, and he was with friends outside a shopping mall in the northern suburbs of his ...

Raised in a small, rural town called Siyabuswa, in the KwaNdebele region of north-eastern South Africa, Zana Masombuka is on a mission to create art that bridges old and new Africa. Inspired by her ...

In his collaborative collection with Barbie and Europa Art, designer Gert-Johan Coetzee references Ndebele print, Xhosa beadwork and draws influences from modest dress as well as Pedi and Zulu ...

Esther Nostokana Mahlangu was born on 11 November 1935 in the Middelburg area of South Africa’s mostly rural Mpumalanga province. Today she lives in Mthambothini village, a few hours away. Mahlangu ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. 1 Negatives (photographic) ((silver gelatin)., b&w, 6 x 6 cm.) 1 Photographic print ((contact print)., b&w, 6 x 6 cm.) 1 Photographic print ((dupe ...