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Cloete Breytenbach was a veteran South African photographer; photojournalist and war correspondent from Cape Town, South Africa. His photographic works include many that mark contemporary history: Louis Washkansky; the world's first heart transplant recipient; Nelson Mandela and Walter Sisulu imprisoned on Robben Island (1964) and Nobel peace Prize winner Chief Albert Luthuli. The Yom Kippur War in Israel (1973), the last battle of Saigonin Vietnam (1975).

He is the brother of South African poet and writer Breyten Breytenbach and Jan Breytenbach, a retired career South African Special Forces military officer and author of military books.

Biography
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Early life
Cloete Breytenbach was born in 1933 and grew up in Bonnievale in the Cape Winelands unil the family moved to Riversdale where his father was a farmer. When the family moved to Wellington, Cloete stayed behind in Riversdale to complete his matric. As a young man he was supposed to become a teacher but admitted that he would have “killed those kids”. in 1951, as an 18-year-old, he went to the offices of Die Burger where he was handed a camera and told that he could start as a photographer and and went on to an international career. The newspaper was known as a mouthpiece of the apartheid regime in those days and one of Breytenbach’s first assignments was photographing future Defence Minister General Magnus Malan. (sahistory.org.za) .



Expanded description
He joined the Cape Times in Cape Town in 1955. Some of his most famous photographs from those early days was one of the Nobel peace Prize winner Chief Albert Luthuli which hangs in the Guggenheim museum in New York. in 1961 he left for London where he became a photojournalist at the Daily Express. Three years later while working for the Daily Express, he took the famous photo of Nelson Mandela with Walter Sisulu when there were rumours that Mandela had died.

In his own words.”

The Nelson Mandela foundation named in their tribute to him following his death in 2019, that Cloete gave permission that the picture may be used free of charge on their website. They give him the necessary acknowledgement for the use of the photograph. That acknowledgement is important because Cloete often had to pursue people or institutions  who used his photographs without permission.

During his time abroad, he worked on assignment for various news magazines including Paris Match and Bunte.

A photo collection by Albert Luthuli - anti-apartheid activist laureate with the Nobel Peace Prize in 1960 - is part of the Guggenheim Museum's collection in New York.

On his return to South Africa in 1964, he accepted a two year contract as photo journalist with the Information Bureau of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland in Salisbury. (from his CV) In 1966, he established a photo agency called Luga with fellow photographers in Cape Town to supply both local and international publications with images covering major events from the African continent and the world. Assignments included the publications Time, Life, Paris match, New York Times, Telegrah and many other international and local magazines and newspapers. These photo stories included the ground-breaking first heart transplant for Life magazine  in 1967. Photos in Life magazine meant that Cloete landed in the Super league, because Life at its hey day sold 13 million magazine per week. Cloete specialised in covering conflict across Africa, including Angola, Rhodesia (Zimbabwe), Mozambique, Congo and South Africa.

1973: Yom Kipur – His photographs depicted how war affected children and what people did to other people.

1975: Breytenbach recorded the end of the Vietnam war. He often told the story how he managed to catch the last plane out before the fall of Saigon.

In 1974 with the launch of the Afrikaans daily in Johannesburg Die Beeld,  Cloete was appointed photo editor.

1976 – 1981: Angolan war.

He was able to stay relatively unaffected because the camera was a shield to the reality. He preferred to work in black and white because he believed it outlined contrasts better.

1977 Assistant editor of the magazine SA Man, later known as Magnum

1980: Reagan presidential campaign

1981 -1987 With the change in ownership of SA Man, Breytenbach returned to Cape Town and became the Bureau chief of Republican Press in Cape Town. It entailed the editorial responsibility of the publication Scope, Garden and Home, Rooi Rose, Your Family, Femina, personality and Keur, among others.

Renamo resistance in Mozambique

1988 He returns to freelance work. Assignments include production of books; year reports, news and travel articles, press release, compilation of brochures, production of TV documentaries; commercial videos

1990: He moved to King William’s Town to produce a weekly newspaper called the Border Post as news editor.

In the run up to the 1994 General elections, Breytenbach signed a two year contract with the Inkatha Freedom party as media liaison.

He also produced a number of video documentaries.

Angola

Cloete has held photographic exhibitions across the world

1966:  One man photo exhibition in the Shell venue, titled South Africa and its people.

1972: Photo exhibition Southern Africa sunsets. This exhibition travelled nationally.

1973:  Group exhibition about South Africa that travelled to South America, Europe, Israel and Japan.

Exhibitions of his District Six photos were held in several venues in South Africa, New York and at Die Melkweg Gallery in Amsterdam in 2010.

Its a heart rending report of the dismantling of a suburb in Cape Town. His poignant images from his collection of District Six during the 1970s before the area was dramatically demolished by the apartheid government. It is an historical record about the inhabitants and their surroundings of that time and was compiled over a period of five years.

The most recent was in 2018 in Porto, Portugal. The War in Angola | Angola War 1967-1987 ”is a documentary of photographs taken between 1967 and 1987. About 80 images were for  first time displayed  at the Mira Forum Gallery as part of the photographic festival Encontres de Imagem. Breytenbach was allowed to accompany Jonas Savimbi, UNITA, and SADF on several occasions during the conflict. He was the only South African press photographer authorized to be so close to the active front. Although these photographs were taken from one side of the war (UNITA and SADF), they are an important documentary of this war that has affected the lives of thousands of people.

Marriage and children
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Philosophical views
He did not believe in manipulating photos and never wanted to intrude in people’s privacy, because then the photographer and the camera became the intruders. That is why he liked working with a small camera. The Leica.

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Published works
He illustrated various books including

1964 Vers en Foto

1968 Gees van die wingerd

1970 Wine Country /Wynland

1983 South African Wine

1983 Cape Town:  The fairest Cape. See Charles Darwin for example.

Publications include

1970: The Spirit of District Six

1984: UNITA

Savimbi’s Angola

1989: Namibia The birth of a Nation

1991: The new South Africa: The Zulu factor

He produced 30 documentaries for TV; including Dans met die dood;

Honours, decorations, awards and distinctions
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