Thirteen Formative Years |
 JOHANNESBURG: The Albert Hertzog Tower is 237 metres / 777 feet high. It was built in 1961, and when I photographed it in 1962 it was the tallest building in Africa. Named after a former Minister of Posts and Telegraphs, who notoriously said that South Africa would get television only over his dead body, the tower was exclusively used for FM radio broadcasts until the mid-1970s, when (despite the fact that Hertzog was still alive) it became Johannesburg’s main television broadcasting tower. |