`TAUZA` BOB GOSANI`S PEOPLE

 "TAUZA" BOB GOSANI'S PEOPLE

Gosani started off at  magazine as a messenger but soon moved to the photographic department where he became 's darkroom assistant. He later became one of Drum's best photographers.

Some of his pictures have become iconic images of the 1950s in South Africa e.g. the picture of Women during the  in 1952, sparring with his boxing club's star boxer of the time, Jerry Moloi and Nelson Mandela outside court in 1958.

Perhaps his most famous sequence of pictures was the sequence he took of the humiliating and degrading Tauza dance that naked prisoners were forced to perform in the courtyard of the notorious  prison, , in . This dance was a humiliating way of ensuring that the prisoners were not smuggling any weapons or contraband into their cells after a day's . It essentially involved thrusting their rectums up into the air for inspection by the . Gosani managed to photograph the Tauza dance secretly from the top floor of a nurses' home overlooking the prison. As a result of the pictures being published in Drum, there was a public outcry and the  government was forced to act.

POSTAGE QUOTED FOR SOUTH AFRICA ONLY