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(File image) Winnie Madikizela-Mandela (right) paid a visit to renowned photographer Alfred Khumalo at the Netcare Waterfall Hospital in Sunninghill, Sandton, earlier this year. Khumalo has passed away at the age of 82. Photo: Dumisani Dube
Johannesburg – Renowned South African photographer Alfred Khumalo has died, eNews Channel Africa (eNCA) reported on Sunday.
He died in a Johannesburg hospital after suffering from renal failure.
Khumalo, 82, was born in Alexandra and made his name as a photographer for Drum Magazine.
In his retirement, he ran and managed the Khumalo Photographic Museum in Diepkloof, Soweto.
Khumalo, who matriculated at the Wilberforce Institute in Evaton, began his working career as a journalist and photographer for Bantu World in Johannesburg in 1951. In 1956, he joined the Golden City Post as a permanent staffer.
He covered the 1976 student uprising, the State of Emergency during the 1980s, the unbanning of the liberation movements and the inauguration of South Africa’s first democratic government among a host of other events during a career that spanned more than 50 years. – Sapa
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Renowned photographer Khumalo dies