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Remnant of a wild almond hedge planted in 1660 to prevent livestock from being taken out of the European settlement in South Africa by the indigenous Khoi, Kirstenbosch, Cape Town, 16 May 1993

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

The second church of this Dutch Reformed parish, inaugurated in 1874, abandoned in 1942, Ladismith, [Western] Cape, 11 May 1992

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

Dutch Reformed Church, built in 1911, Swellendam, Cape Town, 9 April 1993

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

Dutch Reformed Church, built in 1911, Swellendam, Cape Town, 9 April 1993

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

Second Avenue, Houghton, Johannesburg

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

Monument to Karel Landman, Voortrekker leader, unveiled 16 December 1939, De Kol, Cape, 10 April 1993

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

Part of the Candle of Hope, a sculpture by businessman Bart Dorrestein and sculptor Sally-Ann Graham, corner of Maud and Fifth Streets, Sandton, Johannesburg, 18 December 2011

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

Red Location Museum, built with agreement of the community on condition that their housing was improved. When this was not done, the community threatened to burn down the Museum and forced it to close. Red Location Museum and House, Port Elizabeth, 22 December 2014

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

There were going to be seven apartment buildings to house White civil servants and their families—10,000 people—part of a plan by the Apartheid government to keep Pretoria white. Five were built, when the government ran out of money and the international banks refused to roll over their loans (1985–86). After the end of Apartheid, people of different races moved into the buildings, which were incompetently managed. Gradually everything that could be removed—doors, windows, plumbing, fittings—was stolen, and five skeletons remain at the western side of the city. Four are shown here. Schubartpark, Pretoria, 23 February 2016

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

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

UFO, a sculpture made from scrap by Leslie Goldman, Fairwood. Neighbours complained that it devalued their properties and went to court against Goldman, who was eventually compelled to remove his work. May 1975

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

A new shack under construction, Lenasia Extension 9, Lenasia, Transvaal, 5 May 1990

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

Domestic worker’s afternoon off, Sunninghill, Sandton, 23 July 1999

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

Miriam Mazibuko waters the garden of her RDP house for which she waited eight years. It consisted of one room. Her four children live with her in-laws. Extension 8, far East Alexandra Township, 12 September 2006

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

Refugees from Zimbabwe and refugees from violent acts of xenophobia on the Witwatersrand, sheltering in the Central Methodist Church, Kerk Street, Johannesburg, 22 March 2009

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

The City, the Firewalker, and the aftermath of copper cable theft. Queen Elizabeth bridge, Johannesburg, 29 December 2011. The 11-metre sculpture by William Kentridge and Gerhard Marx depicts one of the women often seen on Joburg streets carrying a brazier with live coals on her head. She will set it up on a city sidewalk where she will roast yellow mielies, or sheep's heads, for sale to passersby. The scattered paving stones result from an electric cable connecting these lampposts being tied to a rope hitched to the back of a bakkie, which then ripped the cable out of the ground for the theft of its copper wire.

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

Cows at a taxi rank on Error Street, New Doornfontein, Johannesburg, 8 December 2012

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

Sculpted by Kagiso Pat Mautloa, a memorial to those who died while in the detention of the Security Police in this building, John Vorster Square, now Johannesburg Central Police Station. 27 February 2012

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

This park and its art works are dedicated to the memory of David Webster, anti Apartheid activist, anthropologist, and academic. Webster was assassinated outside his Troyville home on 1 May 1989, by Ferdi Barnard, an agent of the Apartheid government's hit squad, the Civil Cooperation Bureau. Troyville, Johannesburg, June 2012

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

Copies of advertisements regarding destitute children that appeared in the Cape Government Gazette form part of a memorial to children entitled "We are still here." Between 1841 and 1921 some 7000 children were advertised as destitute in the Gazette. If not claimed by someone able to support them, they were indentured, presumably as laborers. Memorial by Lovell Friedman and Leora Lewis, Longmarket pedestrian mall, Cape Town, 11 March 2012

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

Memorial to the enslaved by Wilma Cruise and Gavin Young. The white building was the Dutch East India Company's slave lodge in the center of Cape Town. Some 9000 slaves, convicts, and mentally disturbed people are thought to have been confined within it between 1679 and 1811. It is now a museum. 11 March 2012

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

The Thinking Stone, 32 tons of granite sculpted by Willem Boshoff. One of a number of artworks commissioned by the university after some Afrikaner male students were alleged to have urinated into the food of some Black workers. This "sculpture on the campus" project was undertaken in the hope that it would "promote greater respect for cultural differences and would instill a sense of belonging in staff and students." University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, 14 March 2013

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

A modest square sown, at the time of this photograph, with blue daisies, regularly weeded by municipal workers, the borders of its paths neatly outlined in beer bottles: a memorial to local heroes of the struggle against Apartheid, Steynsburg, Eastern Cap

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

"Van hier tot daar" by Angus Taylor. One of a number of artworks commissioned by the university after some Afrikaner male students were alleged to have urinated into the food of some Black workers. This "sculpture on the campus" project was undertaken in the hope that it would "promote greater respect for cultural differences and would instill a sense of belonging in all staff and students." University of the Free State, Bloemfontein

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

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Remnant of a wild almond hedge planted in 1660 to prevent livestock from being taken out of the European settlement in South Africa by the indigenous Khoi, Kirstenbosch, Cape Town, 16 May 1993

The second church of this Dutch Reformed parish, inaugurated in 1874, abandoned in 1942, Ladismith, [Western] Cape, 11 May 1992

Dutch Reformed Church, built in 1911, Swellendam, Cape Town, 9 April 1993

Dutch Reformed Church, built in 1911, Swellendam, Cape Town, 9 April 1993

Second Avenue, Houghton, Johannesburg

Monument to Karel Landman, Voortrekker leader, unveiled 16 December 1939, De Kol, Cape, 10 April 1993

Part of the Candle of Hope, a sculpture by businessman Bart Dorrestein and sculptor Sally-Ann Graham, corner of Maud and Fifth Streets, Sandton, Johannesburg, 18 December 2011

Red Location Museum, built with agreement of the community on condition that their housing was improved. When this was not done, the community threatened to burn down the Museum and forced it to close. Red Location Museum and House, Port Elizabeth, 22 December 2014

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UFO, a sculpture made from scrap by Leslie Goldman, Fairwood. Neighbours complained that it devalued their properties and went to court against Goldman, who was eventually compelled to remove his work. May 1975

A new shack under construction, Lenasia Extension 9, Lenasia, Transvaal, 5 May 1990

Domestic worker’s afternoon off, Sunninghill, Sandton, 23 July 1999

Miriam Mazibuko waters the garden of her RDP house for which she waited eight years. It consisted of one room. Her four children live with her in-laws. Extension 8, far East Alexandra Township, 12 September 2006

Refugees from Zimbabwe and refugees from violent acts of xenophobia on the Witwatersrand, sheltering in the Central Methodist Church, Kerk Street, Johannesburg, 22 March 2009

Cows at a taxi rank on Error Street, New Doornfontein, Johannesburg, 8 December 2012

Sculpted by Kagiso Pat Mautloa, a memorial to those who died while in the detention of the Security Police in this building, John Vorster Square, now Johannesburg Central Police Station. 27 February 2012

A modest square sown, at the time of this photograph, with blue daisies, regularly weeded by municipal workers, the borders of its paths neatly outlined in beer bottles: a memorial to local heroes of the struggle against Apartheid, Steynsburg, Eastern Cap

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