(14 Jun 2016) South Africa will mark the 40th anniversary since the start of the Soweto student uprisings this week.
Award-winning apartheid-era photojournalist, Peter Magubane, now in his 80s, covered the uprisings for the Rand Daily Mail newspaper.
Speaking at his home in Johannesburg, surrounded by framed copies of some of his most famous photos, Magubane described how events played out on the first day of the uprising on 16 June 1976.
He said on the second day of the uprising, he nearly lost his life whole covering events in the Alexandra township, near Johannesburg.
A bullet narrowly missed him and hit a female protestor in the stomach.
Magubane captured the wounded woman on camera being led away by a fellow protestor.
"I say my camera is my weapon and I have to show the world as to how Apartheid works," he told the Associated Press.
The uprising that began in Soweto left hundreds dead in the township and across South Africa after clashes with police.
The protests, started by students, were against discrimination and an edict requiring blacks to be taught in Afrikaans, the language they associated most closely with apartheid.
Magubane said it was important to mark the anniversary to remind younger generations of the events that took place four decades ago.
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