The Boxer Story

Jacob Zuma pulled out of dining with Mike Tyson in the end, called away by an emergency engagement but it doesn't seem like people believe that. Winnie Mandela sat next to him though.....

The Boxer story

So the Mike Tyson story has now hit the media, the evening news opened with 'Jacob Zuma is having dinner with a rapist tonight'. 45,000 rapes are reported a year in South Africa and domestic violence and violence generally is a reality for many women and men here. So there's protest in response to the ANC president seeking out the company of a convicted rapist.....

The Boxer

I'm told that Jacob Zuma the President of the ANC is planning to honour Mike Tyson the boxer sometime in the next couple of days. The most comic but worrying pair the country will see for a while. One man's record of assault and rape may be well known, whilst the other is facing allegations of corruption and was recently up (but cleared) for rape charges.

Dora

I met Dora when we were out photographing in Orange Farm one Saturday. As the group walked round the community with our cameras we were invited into peoples’ homes, asked what we were doing and then asked to ‘shoot’. It was very encouraging for me and the rest of the group – they couldn’t believe how friendly everyone was.

Dora is a lifelong ANC supporter but wanted us to photograph her so that the powers that be would help her. She’s not well and the house she’s living in is in disrepair.