The AMO's african.pictures project includes the past and present works of Afrapix photographers, including images from:

Gille de Vlieg (approximately 800 images)
Paul Weinberg (approximately 3000 images)
Graeme Williams (approximately 4000 images)
Gisele Wulfsohn (approximately 400 images)

"The collection consists of over 1100 black-and-white and color exhibit prints representing the work of over 50 South African photographers who documented conditions during and after apartheid, from about the 1940s to 2013, with most dating after 1960. Arranged in five series representing projects curated by documentary photographers Alex Harris, Paul Weinberg, and others: Beyond the Barricades, The Cordoned Heart, Then and Now, Underexposed, and The Other Camera. There is also a series of work by Jeeva Rajgopaul. Set in rural and urban South Africa, the images portray political rallies; protests; forced removals; funerals; social gatherings such as dances and concerts; work and domestic life; the life of the elderly, the migrants, and the impoverished; and labor organizing and strikes. There are many portraits of individuals of all races and classes, well-known activists and politicians, as well as countless ordinary South African citizens. Many of the photographers were members of Afrapix, a collective photography agency engaged in documenting the anti-apartheid struggle. There is a small amount of printed material, as well as a selection of digital image files and a digital audio file of an exhibit talk. Acquired as part of the Archive of Documentary Arts at Duke University."
Source: South Africa documentary photographs collection, Archives & Manuscripts, Duke Univerity Libraries

The exhibition and subsequent book publication, was curated and produced by Omar Badsha, as a product of the photographic project for the Second Carnegie Inquiry into Poverty and Development in Southern Africa in 1983. The exhibition was comprised of the work of 28 South African Photographers.

"On 24th April 1984 over 300 hundred academics, artists and photographers attended a conference at UCT where 300 research papers were presented and the exhibition titled South Africa The Cordoned Heart made up of over 36 photographic essays comprising of 386 images were exhibited in the foyer of UCT's Leslie Building. The exhibition was part of a mini cultural festival of film, music and performances. (Francis essay)"

South Africa: The Cordoned Heart: A short history of the photography project of the Second Carnegie Inquiry into Poverty and Development in Southern Africa (Source: Omar Badsha website https://www.omarbadsha.co.za)

Taking Sides: Conflict in South Africa 1984-1986: An Afrapix exhibition

The exhibition was compiled with photographs from the Afrapix collective, with the assistance of Oxfam, Canada. They depict images of conflict, funerals, youth, labour and culture vs Apartheid South Africa.

The scrapbook was compiled by Robert Sobukwe whilst held on Robben Island. The cover page is signed by Robert Sobukwe 'RMS Robben Island, 1963' and 'South Africa: 2nd book'.

The newspaper cuttings in this scrap book cover relate issues of Nationalist Party view points from the newspaper Die Burger; administration of justice in South Africa; Hoover Institute bursary for Rand Daily Mail reporter Benjamin Pogrund; politics and the church; Darius 'Ndaru' Dhlomo, former soccer captain marrying a white woman in Holland; calls to train non-whites as artisans; UN Security Council resolution for an arms embargo against South Africa; four man held in detention after Rivonia Liliesleaf farm raid, escape from Marshall Square including Arthur Goldreich, Harold Wolpe, Mosie Moolla, and Abdulhai Jassat; how Apartheid isolates South Africa; James Kantor to be tried under Sabotage Act, with photographs of Rivonia trialists; Miriam Somana suing her former husband Brian for divorce, on the ground of adultery with Winnie Mandela; Dr. Dan Phule Kunene awarded Carnegie Grant; Potlako Leballo reported alive in Basutoland; artist Gladys Mgudlandlu selling 43 of her paintings in Cape Town gallery; how solitary confinement affects prisoners, by Professor Kurt Danziger; case of Rev. Arthur Blaxall; Nana Mahome wanting PAC office in New York; Vorster's attacks on NUSAS; 'V.I.P. detainees' Robert Sobukwe and Hazel Goldreich.

The newspaper clips were collected by Robert Sobukwe whilst held on Robben Island.

Newspaper coverage of the reign of two Popes, John XXIII, and his successor Paul VI; issues of religion, the churches and race relations; series of interviews by Benjamin Pogrund with various church representatives; Walter Sisulu giving evidence at the Rivonia trial about ANC decision to train guerrillas; political map of Africa in 1967; banned academic Dr. Hoffenberg leaving South Africa; photographs of Nikita Khrushchev, Prime Minister of Soviet Union; Madie Hall Xuma leading march of Black & White in Washington; UN walk out at General Assembly in protest against Apartheid after speech of Mr Jooste, chief delegate of South Africa; various articles by Wayfarer relating to religious matters; news from the African continent.