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‘A camera is more powerful than an AK47,’ said the veteran photojournalist, who was also famous for his jazz photos.

If you ever crossed paths with veteran photographer and former City Press pictures editor Ntate Mike Ndumiso Mzileni, you would know the key lesson he drummed into anyone he mentored: “Awenzeli mina, uzenzela wena [You’re not doing it for me, you’re doing it for yourself].”

“A camera is more powerful than an AK47,” said iconic photographer Mike Mzileni at the launch of his solo exhibition at Gallery 1989 at the Market Photo Workshop on Saturday, December 11.

– Neil Strauss, “ – Thoko Thomo aka “Shukuma Thoko,” A Common Hunger to Sing . Thokozile Elizabeth Ndlozi has been silent for too long. But like her 1950s namesake Thoko Thomo, the speedball inferno from George Goch known for her high-octave package – she sang, acted, danced, pouted, and teased audiences and fellow collaborators with peerless brio – before being effectively “disappeared” from public memory prior to her actual death in 1995, Thoko Ndlozi, who died on 14 January at 74, just won’t die.  Not dying – as opposed to being dead and famous, or alive and unseen...