There used to be a man in Inanda who shot wedding videos. She’d always see him around the township carrying a camera, and this impressed Omelga Hlengiwe Mthiyane no end. She was a child then. It was the ’80s and South Africa was in the final throes of apartheid.
Despite the successive states of emergencies imposed by the NP-led white apartheid government, civil unrest in response to white oppression, killings by police and internecine warfare, the rich texture of life in all its beauty and painfulness continued to create endless possibilities for imagination and ‘what if?’ for the oppressed.
“Every time I saw that man, I’d think, yoh, yoh, I want to do that. I want to do something to do with cameras.
