Rashid Lombard

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Cape Town news photographer who documented the worst years of the 1980s, including Desmond Tutu being tear-gassed in Gugulethu in 1989, and then co-founded the city's international jazz festival and ran it through his company espAfrika. He was given the National Order of Ikhamanga in Silver in 2014 and died in June 2025, aged 74.

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  1. Daily Maverick: Tribute, Rashid Lombard, legendary photographer and jazz pioneer

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