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Mabel Cetu is considered South Africa’s first Black woman photojournalist and documented the everyday lives of Black communities in the 1950s.
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Marie Meyerding is a PhD candidate at the Department of African Art at Freie Universität Berlin, writing a dissertation on women and photography in apartheid South Africa.
Mabel Cetu is considered South Africa’s first Black woman photojournalist and documented the everyday lives of Black communities in the 1950s.