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Passings: Sam Nzima, Who Took Iconic Apartheid Photo, Dies at 83

By David Schonauer   Wednesday May 23, 2018

South African photographer Sam Nzima, whose iconic photograph from a Soweto uprising in 1976 helped turn world opinion against apartheid, died on May 12in Mpumalanga province, South Africa, reports PDN. He was 83. Nzima’s famous photograph showed a distraught 18-year-old named Mbuyisa Makhubo carrying the dead body of 13-year-old Hector …

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