and Development. The study sought to revise the outcomes of the first Corporation study by commissioning more research into poverty in South Africa which would focus on both Black and White South Africans. An exhibition of the photographs included in the Second Carnegie Commission on Poverty and Development study was held at The University of Cape Town. Badsha could not attend the opening of the exhibition as he was detained. The exhibition was later held throughout the United States and it became a book entitled South Africa: The Cordoned Heart. He is also the founder of South African History Online SAHO, which he founded in 1999 it is South Africa's largest history website. Badsha runs SAHO and in 2009 the website won the South African NGO Coalition's NGO Web Awards in the category of Best Use of Social Web. He is the author of a number of photographic books. His first book co-authored with Fatima Meer was A Letter to Farzanah. It was published by the Institute for Black Research, at the University of Natal. The book was banned immediately after its publication in 1979. It was based on a letter to his daughter Farzanah. The book features 67 photographs of Black children living in apartheid South Africa along with key newspaper articles. His book Imijondolo: A Photographic Essay on Forced Removals in the Inanda District of South Africa was published in 1985 The book was inspired by his work as a local social change agent in the Inanda informal settlement located outside of Durban, South Africa References 1945 births Living people Natal Indian Congress politicians South African photographers South African activists Documentary photographers Gujarati people