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The Alf Kumalo photographic Museum 

The Alf Kumalo photographic Museum and Institution, a brainchild of veteran photojournalist Alf Kumalo, are located in the suburb of Diepkloof in historical Soweto and have been up and running since October 2002.

THE MUSEUM->2004/119210/23 MISSION STATEMENT: the Alf Kumalo photographic museum is the testament of the road traveled by photographer Alf Kumalo, a road that has lasted over five decades and outlasted even some children he photographed a few minutes after their birth. The museum wishes to educate the youth of the rich history be it political or civil not only by Kumalo but by our nation from the early years of apartheid to present-day South Africa. To the South African visitor, the museum wishes to enlighten on an otherwise hidden history of our nation as well as highlight international characters that have breezed past the lens of Kumalo’s camera, and to South Africa’s adults, the museum is a reminder that the transgressions of the past never be repeated – lest we forget.

The museum contains photographs depicting the political and civil life of South Africa from the treason trial through the teargas and forced removals of the seventies and the eighties; the cries at the funerals and smiles at the weddings; the stumbles of CODESA and the walk thereafter to freedom; the disappointments of losing the 2006 World cup Bid and the celebrations of winning the 2010 one. The museum also boasts having the only photographs of Nosekeni Mandela, the mother of an international icon and Nobel Prize winner and South Africa’s first democratically elected President Nelson Mandela. The museum delights in its collection which includes, among it, such diverse characters as Robert Sobukwe and Hendriek Verwoerd, Pik Botha and Bantu Biko, Brenda Fassie and Sarah Vaughn, Bentley Mbonjeni and Charlize Theron. And Alf Kumalo keeps on clicking and thus adding to the vast collection of photographs in the museum.

THE SCHOOL- DATE OF LODGEMENT- 17/01/2005 MISSION STATEMENT: the photographic institute, which is attached to the museum, is Kumalo’s way of assisting Gauteng’s (a South African province) post-matric youth with an interest in photography to realize their photographic dreams. With the establishment of the institute, the C.E.O and staff of the Alf Kumalo Museum and institute hope they can arm our students in underprivileged communities with the most important of weapons- knowledge. For this reason, we go an extra mile for our gifted students and try to assist them with employment placement and gain recognition by displaying their work nationally and internationally whenever Kumalo exhibits.