Mama Winnie's death exposes international trade in counterfeit photos: report

Winnie Madikizela-Mandela’s death has laid bare a roaring international trade in counterfeit photographs implicating both rogue merchants and reputable agents‚ the M&G reported on Friday.

The newspaper said its reporters caught one man in America acknowledging in a taped phone conversation that he was selling a “picture of a picture”‚ and a Frenchwoman‚ whose modus operandi seems to be to travel to the world’s museums "to pursue a roaring trade" in hawking memorabilia and historical photographs.

The piracy is hurting the estates of the select few photographers who were given access to the Mandelas' lives‚ and other era-defining moments in South Africa - such as Alf Kumalo‚ Peter Magubane and Sam Nzima‚ the report said.