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For the storage of human ashes: 46,000 holes with a bust of Al Debbo on one of them. A private initiative in response to a lack of protection of graves and persons in municipal cemeteries. Avalon Memoriam District Bloemfontein, 15 March 2013

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

The Women's Monument at the Union Buildings, Pretoria. It commemorates the march by some 20,000 women on 9 August 1956, through Pretoria to the Union Buildings, where they attempted to present a letter to prime minister JG Strijdom, protesting the "pass laws" and in particular, the law requiring African women to carry "passes." Neither Strijdom nor anyone else in government accepted the letter. In 2006 this memorial to the march was unveiled. It is in the amphitheatre where the women gathered. The artists were Wilma Cruise and Marcus Holmes. It is not accessible to the public. 1 November 2013

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

Memorial to Sister Dr. Mary Aidan Quinlan, who was murdered on November 9, 1952, by a mob near Duncan Village. It was the time of the ANC's Defiance of Unjust Laws Campaign. Several thousand people had gathered on Bantu Street, near Duncan Village, for what was supposedly a religious meeting for which the magistrate had given permission. Hidden in a house nearby, waiting to address the crowd, were ANC leaders. At the last minute, the police, suspecting the true purpose, ordered the crowd to disperse, but opened fire before they could do so. Nine were killed and many wounded. The crowd became a vengeance seeking mob into which, taking a familiar shortcut to her church, drove Sister Quinlan. Her car was overturned and set alight. She was killed and perhaps partly cannibilised. Running battles between police, troops, and township people continued into the night. It was said that more than two hundred people were killed. She had devotedly served the Duncan Village community as a medical doctor. KokoQebeyi, not born at that time, became an anti-apartheid activist and city councilor and arranged for the erection of this monument to a woman who had devotedly served the community of Duncan Village. Catholic Church, Duncan Village, East London, 13 October 2013

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

"Unity is power: Let us be united," is a carving in wild fig by Noria Mabasa, on the campus of the University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, 14 March 2013

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

Frances Baard, born in Kimberley either in 1901 or 1909 (the date is in dispute), was a militant trade unionist and leader of the ANC Women's League. She was arrested in 1960, again in 1963 when she was held in solitary confinement for 12 months, and again in 1964 when she went to prison for five years for her ANC activities. After release in 1969 she was banished for two years. She died at Mabopane in 1997. Kimberley, 5 February 2013

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

On August 16, 2012, South African police shot striking mineworkers of the Lonro platinum mines, killing 34 and wounding 78 in seemingly wild shooting without good cause. The men were shot, some with their hands up in surrender, within a radius of about 300 meters of this koppie on which they met. Beyond is the Lonro smelter, which stood idle during the strike. Marikana, North West Province, 11 May 2014

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

Street traders and the colonnade of the Walter Sisulu Square Dedication, Kliptown, Soweto, 7 February 2014

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

Monument to the Cradock Four, who, while traveling from Port Elizabeth to Cradock, were abducted here by security policemen, then assaulted, assassinated, and their bodies burnt on 27 June 1985. Vulindela Houseing Estate, Coega, Port Elizabeth, 21 Decembe

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

Memorial to four members of the Colesburg Youth Organization (CYO) killed here by the police on 3 July 1985. Kuyasa Township, Colesburg, 31 March 2014

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

"Belated Wake," sculpted in 2010 by Angus Taylor. Waterkloof Corner Centre, Pretoria, 11 February 2014

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

Sculpted in stainless steel, a tricycle commemorates the happiest years of the poet Ingrid Jonker, spent here in her childhood at Gorden's Bay. In 1965, at the age of 31, she took her own life by walking into the sea at Three Anchor Bay. Sculpture by Tyro

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

A portrait of Nelson Mandela in steel uprights at the site of his capture by South African police on August 5, 1962. Near Howick, KwaZulu-Natal, 14 July 2014

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

Student's sculpture commemorating the uprising of 1976: Across the road from Morris Isaacson High School in Soweto, there is an open piece of ground and some trees. It is said that students met under the trees to "strategies" for the march that became the

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

Built in 2013: The Zulu side of a Bridge of Reconciliation between Voortrekkers and the Zulus at the Nkome or Blood River. This is the Zulu side of the bridge. The Voortrekker side is usually locked for lack of funds to fence it against unpaid entrance to

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

The dethroning of Cecil John Rhodes, after the throwing of human feces on the statue and the agreement of the university to the demands of students for its removal, University of Cape Town, 9 April 2015

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

Two hooks where photographs of Black Sash leader, Molly Blackburn, hung before they were burnt together with paintings, by students in April 2015. Molly Blackburn was a leader of the Black Sash and a hero of the struggle against Apartheid. Some 20,000 people, most of them Black, attended her funeral in Port Elizabeth, in 1985. Molly Blackburn Memorial Hall, University of Cape Town, 14 May 2016

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

The Lupedze Primary School, one of 28 schools in the Vuwani municipal area of Limpopo destroyed by fire or damaged in April/May 2016 in protest against the proposed amalgamation of Vuwani with the municipality of Malamulele. Thus far no group has claimed responsibility for the attacks and no one has been prosecuted. 12 June 2016

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

Pedestrian bridge over the Cape Town–Johannesburg railway line in the village of Leeu Gamka (population about 2,000). Apartheid law required that all public amenities had to be racially segregated. Accordingly, from about 1966, the people of Leeu Gamka crossed this bridge in two streams—"White" and "Non White." Since 1992 the Apartheid laws and notice boards have gone but the steel divider remains. 20 August 2016

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

On this hook hung a painting by Richard Keresemose Baholo, a Black student of the University of Cape Town. It depicted the relighting of the torch of Academic Freedom on 20 July 1994, in the new democratic South Africa. It was one of four works by this ar

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

The remains of 20 paintings and two photographs burnt by students, University of Cape Town, 14 May 2016

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

"Temporary" censorship of artworks by the management of the University of Cape Town: At left a drawing by Diane Victor has been covered to hide it; at right, where woodcuts by Cecil Skotnes hung, there are now empty spaces, University of Cape Town, 14 May 2016

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

Willie Bester's sculpture of Sarah Baartman covered in cloth by students of the Rhodes Must Fall Movement and then endorsed by the University, which did not remove the cloth. Main library, University of Cape Town, 14 May 2016

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

The 1,000-seat Sanlam Auditorium of the University of Johannesburg, destroyed by arson, probably by students, at 02h00 on 15 May 2016, 10 August 2016

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

Cosmos and sunflowers, near Villiers, Free State, 2 April 1982

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

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For the storage of human ashes: 46,000 holes with a bust of Al Debbo on one of them. A private initiative in response to a lack of protection of graves and persons in municipal cemeteries. Avalon Memoriam District Bloemfontein, 15 March 2013

"Unity is power: Let us be united," is a carving in wild fig by Noria Mabasa, on the campus of the University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, 14 March 2013

Street traders and the colonnade of the Walter Sisulu Square Dedication, Kliptown, Soweto, 7 February 2014

Monument to the Cradock Four, who, while traveling from Port Elizabeth to Cradock, were abducted here by security policemen, then assaulted, assassinated, and their bodies burnt on 27 June 1985. Vulindela Houseing Estate, Coega, Port Elizabeth, 21 Decembe

Memorial to four members of the Colesburg Youth Organization (CYO) killed here by the police on 3 July 1985. Kuyasa Township, Colesburg, 31 March 2014

"Belated Wake," sculpted in 2010 by Angus Taylor. Waterkloof Corner Centre, Pretoria, 11 February 2014

Sculpted in stainless steel, a tricycle commemorates the happiest years of the poet Ingrid Jonker, spent here in her childhood at Gorden's Bay. In 1965, at the age of 31, she took her own life by walking into the sea at Three Anchor Bay. Sculpture by Tyro

A portrait of Nelson Mandela in steel uprights at the site of his capture by South African police on August 5, 1962. Near Howick, KwaZulu-Natal, 14 July 2014

Student's sculpture commemorating the uprising of 1976: Across the road from Morris Isaacson High School in Soweto, there is an open piece of ground and some trees. It is said that students met under the trees to "strategies" for the march that became the

Built in 2013: The Zulu side of a Bridge of Reconciliation between Voortrekkers and the Zulus at the Nkome or Blood River. This is the Zulu side of the bridge. The Voortrekker side is usually locked for lack of funds to fence it against unpaid entrance to

The dethroning of Cecil John Rhodes, after the throwing of human feces on the statue and the agreement of the university to the demands of students for its removal, University of Cape Town, 9 April 2015

On this hook hung a painting by Richard Keresemose Baholo, a Black student of the University of Cape Town. It depicted the relighting of the torch of Academic Freedom on 20 July 1994, in the new democratic South Africa. It was one of four works by this ar

The remains of 20 paintings and two photographs burnt by students, University of Cape Town, 14 May 2016

"Temporary" censorship of artworks by the management of the University of Cape Town: At left a drawing by Diane Victor has been covered to hide it; at right, where woodcuts by Cecil Skotnes hung, there are now empty spaces, University of Cape Town, 14 May 2016

Willie Bester's sculpture of Sarah Baartman covered in cloth by students of the Rhodes Must Fall Movement and then endorsed by the University, which did not remove the cloth. Main library, University of Cape Town, 14 May 2016

The 1,000-seat Sanlam Auditorium of the University of Johannesburg, destroyed by arson, probably by students, at 02h00 on 15 May 2016, 10 August 2016

Cosmos and sunflowers, near Villiers, Free State, 2 April 1982

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