in 1984, when the apartheid regime still reigned south africa, violent revolt took place in the townships of johannesburg: the so called 'township rebellions'. kevin carter [person] was working in johannesburg at the time, together with numerous white photojournalists, fighting a media-war against the apartheid regime by publishing photos of the cruelties committed by the regime.carter was still there in 1990, when mandela's a.n.c. and the Zulu-supported Inkatha Freedom Party were involved in a civil war. carter and three other photojournalists (Greg Marinovich, Joao Silva and Ken Oosterbroek) formed a four-piece of photoreporters and took pictures of the cruelties committed in this civil war. despite the risks the white journalists took when visiting fighting areas, they kept going and became quite famous. many of their pictures directly confronted the viewer with agressive cruelties, the reason why a Johannesburg lifestyle-magazine called 'living' dubbed them 'the bang-bang paparazzi' in a 1992 article. the photographers were offended by the term 'paparazzi' and asked to change it into 'the bang-bang club' when the magazine published a follow-up article about the four photographers, written by chris marais.