![]() ![]() ![]() Joao Silva and Greg Marinovich were offended and persuaded the editor, Chris Maris, to change into ‘the Bang Bang Club’. They are famous thanks to their bravery and the dangerous risks they took.Īt first they were named by a local lifestyle magazine, ‘Living’ as ‘the Bang Bang Paparazzi’. The four members, Kevin Carter, Greg Marinovich, Ken Oosterbroek and Joao Silva, went into the townships to denounce the violence that was a rife in those areas at the time. This group of four young South African photojournalists became know as the ‘Bang Bang Club’ These journalists bravely protested and tried to awaken the world to the gruesome reality of the rivalry between these prominent political parties. Whilst, most of the media based their articles on police reports, there were a few journalists who had ‘first-hand’ experience of what was happening at the time. At the same time, there also was a raging war between the Inkhata Freedom Party (IFP) and the African National Congress (ANC). From 1991 to 1994 violence dominated the country. However, the transition didn’t take place in one day. This year South Africa will celebrate twenty years of democracy since Nelson Mandela’s election in 1994. ![]()
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