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Jozi photographer Gulshan Khan finds the epic in modern Muslim life in SA Award-winning Khan is a judge in National Geographic s #ExploreWithNatGeo photo competition, which invites amateurs to capture special moments 07 March 2021 - 00:02 A girl rides the carousel at the Sultan Bahu Fete in Johannesburg. Image: Gulshan Khan
National Geographic Explorer and award-winning photographer Gulshan Khan doesn t wade into Arctic waters or Amazonian forests to document the lives of the people or the wildlife who inhabit remote parts of the planet. Instead, the Joburg photographer turns her camera on her own country and the Muslim community in which she grew up, producing memorable images of everyday life.
While doctors and nurses do all they can to fight the onslaught of Covid-19, many are still losing their lives to this deadly virus daily. Here, an entirely new group of frontline ‘heroes’ step in – the undertakers. Often forgotten, those who escort individuals to their final destination are under immense strain. The pandemic has skyrocketed demand for their services, but this has left the profession facing issues – with many dying of Covid-19 themselves. Speaking to The Wall Street Journal, Vice President of the National Funeral Directors Association, Lawrence Konyana, has said ‘the union is still compiling the total number of undertakers who have contracted Covid-19 and died, with many parlors too busy to respond to requests’. Below, Gabriele Steinhauser and Gulshan Khan of The Wall Street Journal document the turmoil that funeral parlour workers, undertakers and morticians face on a daily basis in South Africa.
Picture for illustration. Assistant Nurses Agnes Lencwe (37) and Kgomotso Mlanyede (30) stand for a portrait outside the COVID-19 ward in the Taung Hospital in Taung, the North West Province, South Africa, on September 4, 2020. Picture: Thomson Reuters Foundation/Gulshan Khan
The country has officially entered the second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic, with over 6 000 new cases reported as of Wednesday afternoon and a 18% positivity rate.
And January could see a serious impact following the festive season, when many people would return home to rural areas and visit vulnerable elderly family members, said South African Medical Association chairperson Dr Angelique Coetzee.
DA leader John Steenhuisen speaks to The Citizen in Benoni, 4 December 2020, during his door to door campaign in the area. Picture: Nigel Sibanda