Pieter-Dirk Uys at Wits

Pieter-Dirk Uys spoke at Wits on Monday, here is a couple of portraits I shot while he was on stage.

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Johannesburg - An oppressive system similar to apartheid could emerge again if South Africans did not get more involved and held government accountable, activist Pieter-Dirk Uys said on Monday.

"Apartheid will never come back again under the same name but of course it will come back under a different name," he said at a public lecture at the University of Wits in Johannesburg.

"It will be an acronym and we won't know what it stands for but we'll continue to vote for it."

Uys said apartheid was a "stupid" system. He recalled how he was explaining to a 12-year-old how during apartheid that black people were not allowed to sit on certain benches and the boy thought it was stupid.

"Stupidity kills... It's so inventive; never underestimate stupidity... Don't underestimate the ANC Youth League," Uys said.

He said South Africans should not ignore what suspended ANCYL president Julius Malema said. "We ignore [Malema] at our peril."

The ANCYL was the future of this country, said Uys.

He urged the youth of South Africa to get more involved within youth structures.

- SAPA

Rand Easter Show

The Rand Easter Show started on the 6th of April and will be on till the 15th of April.

http://www.randshow.co.za/index.html 

Masterjudge Andrew Atkinson

I went and photographed Masterchef South Africa Judge, Andrew Atkinson, at The Michaelangelo Hotel in Sandton for Beeld newspaper.


Great guy and he did a lot of staring for the pics.


Masterchef South Africa is now showing in SA on DStv.

Baby Israel

On 9 May 2008 a healthy baby Israel was born.

November 2009, at 18 months, he was hospitalized with croup.

Due to negligence by the doctors and nurses, his ventilation pipe is blocked, and his heart stops for nearly 10 minutes.

His parents are suing the Gauteng MEC of Health for more that R20 million.

Now at age four, he still can't do anything for himself.