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War memorial, erected in 1946 in memory of the "boys of Hanover" killed in the second World War. The monument's fishpond acquired an "apron" of barbed wire and netting in the early 1990s, to protect, according to a municipal official, its "abundant goldfish" from birds and to prevent children from paddling in its waters. No one recalls when the pond dried up, Hanover, Northern Cape, 12 February 2005

Artist: David Goldblatt (South African, 1930–2018)

Berg-En-Dal Monument and Sarcophagus, Dalmanutha, Mpumalanga, 24 June 2005

Artist: David Goldblatt (South African, 1930–2018)

Mother and child, Nelson Mandela Square, Sandton, 8 March 2005

Artist: David Goldblatt (South African, 1930–2018)

The founders of Buffelsjagbaai, a small village on the Southern Cape Atlantic coast, Johannesand Sophia Swam, came there in the 1920s. Shipwrecks and driftwood provided planks fromwhich they built a house and a boat. Scarcity of water was a problem and there were few roads. But in time the community grew. The women would walk to surrounding villages to sell fish which they carried on poles and to buy provisions. Between March and May when the geelbek were running, people would come on donkey carts to buy their catches. Under\r\napartheid the community lacked permanent rights of residence. Today they have electricity, water and security of tenure. They harvest kelp but the fish and the perlemoen (abalone) on which they depend are in decline. 5 October 2005

Artist: David Goldblatt (South African, 1930–2018)

A consultation under a marula tree between the Mohlohlo farming community and their lawyers, Richard Spoor and Steven Goldblatt, to discuss attempts by the Anglo-American Corporation to force the community off their land to make room for a platinum mine,

Artist: David Goldblatt (South African, 1930–2018)
Printer: Tony Meintjes (South African, born 1956)

Remains of households in a children's game called onopopi, and the shells of incomplete houses in a housing scheme that stalled, Kwezinaledi, Lady Grey, Eastern Cape, 5 May 2006

Artist: David Goldblatt (South African, 1930–2018)

Remains of long drop lavatories built for the "closer settlement camp" of Frankfort, Eastern Cape. The 5,000 members of the Black farming community of Mgwali were to have been forcibly moved and resettled here after their land was declared a "black spot" by the Apartheid government in 1983. However, the people of Mgwali resisted strongly, and in 1986 the removal scheme wad dropped. The lavatories were gradually stripped of their usable building materials by people in the area and all that is left now are concrete bases over some 1500 anatomically shaped holes in the weld, Frankfort, Eastern Cape, 22 February 2006

Artist: David Goldblatt (South African, 1930–2018)

Bungee jumper, Bloukrans on the border of Eastern and Western Cape, 25 April 2006

Artist: David Goldblatt (South African, 1930–2018)

At the entrance to Willowmore, Eastern Cape, 14 January 2006

Artist: David Goldblatt (South African, 1930–2018)

Our summer garden and ADT, Fellside Johannesburg, 4 January 2006

Artist: David Goldblatt (South African, 1930–2018)

Squatter camp on foreign nationals between the N1 and railway property at Woodstock, Cape Town, 22 August 2006

Artist: David Goldblatt (South African, 1930–2018)

The waiting room of Bingo Cash Loans, Elliot, Eastern Cape, 8 August 2006

Artist: David Goldblatt (South African, 1930–2018)

Farmhouse Grassdae near Molteno, Eastern Cape

Artist: David Goldblatt (South African, 1930–2018)

Incomplete houses, part of a stalled municipal development of 1,000 houses. The funding allocation was made in 1998, building started in 2003. Officials and a politician gave various reasons for the stalling of the scheme: shortage of water, theft of materials, problems with sewage disposal, problems caused by the high clay content of the soil, and shortage of funds. By August 2006, 420 houses had been completed. Lady Grey, Eastern Cape, 5 August 2006

Artist: David Goldblatt (South African, 1930–2018)

At the food-shop and restaurant of Annatjie Mostert-Joubert, during a kultuurfees (cultural festival). Annatjie is a daughter of Gamkaskloof and the only member of the original community still living there in 2006. Gamkaskloof, Western Cape, 27 October 20

Artist: David Goldblatt (South African, 1930–2018)

Ugqirha Wisintu (traditional healer) Dr. Paul, Hofmeyer, Eastern Cape, 4 August 2006

Artist: David Goldblatt (South African, 1930–2018)

On Justice Street, Philippolis, Free State, 19 October 2006

Artist: David Goldblatt (South African, 1930–2018)

MISSING!!! C&B Hiring and Decor, Voortrekker Road, Parow, Cape Town, 26 March 2006

Artist: David Goldblatt (South African, 1930–2018)

MB Fast Food & Takeaway, Alexandra Township, Johannesburg, Gauteng, in the time of AIDS, 12 September 2006

Artist: David Goldblatt (South African, 1930–2018)

From Devil's Bellows Nek on Old Katberg Pass, Transkei, Eastern Cape, 7 May 2007

Artist: David Goldblatt (South African, 1930–2018)

At Kevin's Kwanele's Takwaito Barber, Lansdowne Road, Khayelitsha, Cape Town in the time of AIDS. 16 May 2007

Artist: David Goldblatt (South African, 1930–2018)

On Lansdowne Road, Khayelitsha, Cape Town, in the time of AIDS, 16 May 2007

Artist: David Goldblatt (South African, 1930–2018)

The road to Nqondwana, Transkei, 6 May 2007

Artist: David Goldblatt (South African, 1930–2018)

The road from Nqondwana to Port St. John's, 6 May 2007

Artist: David Goldblatt (South African, 1930–2018)

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