Students during the graduation at the ALA in Johannesburg. The African Leadership Academy (ALA) in the north of Johannesburg, South Africa, a school that chooses the most promising young talents of Africa every year and teaches them leadership and entrepreneurship. The school wants to prepare six thousand young leaders in fifty years time and thus ensure positive change on the continent.
ALA is the brainchild of Fred Swaniker, a Ghanaian who fled his country as a child after a coup and moved to Botswana.
Lauren-Lee leaves the house together with her prom date. The prom is held yearly at the end of high school in Manenberg (which is only finished by 22.2 % of the population). The big end of the year prom, to mark the end of the last year of school, is one of the most important celebrations in teenage life. Lauren-Lee attends Phoenix Secondary School, the school had to be closed down in 2013, due to the shootings in the streets of Manenberg.
Under cover police check a suspected gang member for tattoo's. The tattoo's show to which gang they belong. If you grow up in the notorious neighbourhood Manenberg in South Africa in Cape Town you are exposed to shootings, neighbours and parents addicted to alcohol and drugs, and relatives who belong to gangs. Here it takes only the slightest argument about who's allowed to sell drugs where - or about a girl - and bullets start tearing through the streets. The only way out is finishing your high school to have a shot at a better future. In Manenberg, only 22.2 percent of the population over twenty has completed high school.
Rietfontein, South Africa - A maid sweeps under the feet of Johan Groblers older sister in their home in Rietfontein, South Africa. Johan Grobler attended the Kommandokorps camp in Carolina. Johan and his family members do not know the correct name of their maid, who comes into the house every day (except Sundays), to clean the house and wash their clothing. She has been working there for years, but as family members stated: 'Her name is too complicated to remember, so when we need her we just say tss tss.'
Afrikaner children being trained in a camp to hate black children, and to be proud of their own skin color. being trained Children born after 1994 are part of the Born Free Generation. This generation, born after apartheid, is supposed to bring unity and change to the country. The boys in the photographs all went to the right wing Kommandokorps camp, where an old apartheid Major, Kolonel Franz Jooste, told them that the rainbow generation does not exist.
Bela-Bela, South Africa - EC Streicher's (16) school in Bela Bela, South Africa (he is not the boy pictured, the boy pictured in the image is just a student at the school).
EC Streicher attends a school in his hometown Bela-Bela. His mother Magda sent EC to the Kommandokorps camp in the hopes of 'making a man' out of him. She is a single mother and wanted EC to experience a camp with men, that would 'toughen him up'. When he returned from the camp she was surprised at how well mannered he was, making her coffee and things like that. But she was also surprised he came back very racist. He came back more racist than she thought he would and she was a bit worried.
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