, Jan. 2 -- His photographs witnessed pivotal moments and captured the essence of the anti-apartheid movement, including the shooting deaths of 69 unarmed demonstrators in Sharpeville in 1960, the Rivonia trial of Nelson Mandela and other leaders of the African National Congress in the early 1960s, and the uprising by high school students in Soweto in 1976.

He was born in 1932 in the Johannesburg suburb of Vrededorp - now Pageview and grew up in Sophiatown.

Magubane passed away at his home, surrounded by his family - as confirmed by his daughter Fikile Magubane in local media.

"My father passed peacefully today, at midday - he was not well, he's passed on peacefully. My father would have been 92- on the 18th of January," she is quoted ...