BOB GOSANI

After passing my Standard Six I attended the Western Native High School, where I did Form IV and gave up school for a job on Drum magazine. I had a dream of joining the photographic staff, though I first had to work as a messenger, a tea-boy, a driver. Two of my friends worked there---Can Themba, a reporter and Bob Gosani, a photographer. They were both blacks and very good in their respective fields, and in those days Drum was very good. . . Whenever I used to go out with photographers and reporters I watched what they did, especially Bob Gosani. He was a very good photographer, it is just a pity that he did not live long enough to be able to show the world what kind of photographer he was. At the time, those years, journalism was unknown among the blacks. Those among us who worked on Drum were fortunate because some of the people on the magazine were whites from overseas who were prepared to teach us.

-Peter Magubane, Magubane's South Africa (1978).