Peter Magubane, a South African photographer who captured 40 years of apartheid, dies at age 91

Paul Magubane in 2016. He captured the violence and horror of South Africa’s brutal apartheid era of racial oppression and documented Nelson Mandela’s first years of freedom after his release from prison. (Associated Press)

CAPE TOWN, South Africa — Peter Magubane, a fearless photographer who captured the violence and horror of South Africa’s apartheid era of racial oppression, and was entrusted with documenting Nelson Mandela’s first years of freedom after his release from prison, has died. He was 91.

Magubane died Monday, according to the South African National Editors’ Forum, which said it had been informed of his death by his family.