June 1963 - Africa's Only Lamplighter - Greying Mr

June 1963 - Africa's Only Lamplighter - Greying Mr. O. Magethe is South Africa's only old-world lamplighter - and he may well be the last in Africa of a dying tradition of men. Lamplighters were colourful characters in the old cities of Europe, but electricity has taken over from gas-light in most of them now - and the lamplighters have gone. Mr. Magethe lights 15 gaslamps at the street corners in the little Free State hamlet of Luckhoff every evening, and puts them out at 10. 30 every night. (Photograph by Allen Loxton @ BAHA)

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