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Young Christian Students South Africa (YCS), Records

The Afrapix photographers represented in this collection are Anna Zieminski, Eric Miller, and others unidentified.

The YCS was an international movement, which embraced Christian values of love, justice and peace. It was an ecumenical Christian student movement operating in parishes, schools, seminaries, universities and other higher education institutions. It had its origins in the Belgium Catholic Church at the beginning of the twentieth century.

The YCS was started in South Africa in 1959, initially as a parish for younger school goers who were members of the Young Christian Workers. The main aim of the YCS at this time was to ‘Christianise’ the schools and universities. From 1965, it also began to focus on high schools. Its activities were centred around get-togethers, rallies and groups who looked critically at youth culture and education. Actions focused on: charity, parish work, and challenging values at schools.

In the mid 1970’s the YCS became an independent non-racial movement in South Africa.

Women in the 1980s

The photographs by Afrapix photographers were used for an exhibition depicting women in various settings. The images are of relocations (forced removals - Weenen and others), women workers and farm workers, demonstrations by women, FEDTRAW rally, women in trade unions, women affected by violence, and living conditions of women in urban environments.

Photographers include: Paul Weinberg, Chris Ledochowski, Lesley Lawson, Gill de Vlieg, Anna Zieminski, Cedric Nunn, Gisele Wulfsohn, Dave Hartman, Paul Grendon, Guy Tillim, Pax Magwaza, Gill Cargill, Steve Hilton-Barber.

William Matlala, Photographic collection

The collection of the more than 4000 photographs by the photographer William Matlala also contains a small number by Afrapix photographers Cedric Nunn, Anna Zieminski, Santu Mofokeng and Paul Weinberg.

William Matlala was a freelance photographer specializing in Labour and Trade Union activities, who has served the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) in his capacity as photographer particularly in the 1990s.

UCT Libraries Digital Collections

Some of the Afrapix photographers have deposited their collections at the University of Cape Town, where there have been digitised and made available as part of the UCT Libraries Digital Collections.

The following past and present works of Afrapix photographers can be found here, including images from the Afrapix period:

John Liebenberg: https://digitalcollections.lib.uct.ac.za/john-liebenberg
Cedric Nunn: https://digitalcollections.lib.uct.ac.za/cedric-nunn-0
Guy Tillim: https://digitalcollections.lib.uct.ac.za/guy-tillim
Graeme Wiliams: https://digitalcollections.lib.uct.ac.za/graeme-williams

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