In 1975 the forced removals of all people of colour from Cape Town’s inner-city, created the so-called “Cape Flats”, where all “non-whites” were relocated. Mitchells Plain is one of those areas, where gangsterism and gang violence runs the streets. An ongoing, joint operation between the South African Police and SANDF (South African National Defence Force) is in place to try fight against gang violence in the Cape Flats. Raids have been conducted in different areas of the Cape Flats […]
The work that I am interested in and do a lot of is work dealing with issues of rape and other social issues, this is based on personal experiences as much as it is a global issue. My one biggest interest is using self-portraiture to speak about a lot of social issues and tell all these stories. I would also like to use poetry in combination with photography. What started as a personal healing journey for me slowly […]
Employing Credo Mutwa’s thinking of deconstructing nguni words to their roots, I hope to find a different approach of looking at the term, but also understanding the concept of Umoya a bit more broadly. Starting with the first part, Mo (here, in Sesotho), imo (a condition in Xhosa), ummo (ones nature in characteristics), secondly “ya” suggests movement, going (uYAphi, iYA pha, O YA kae ). In essence then using my discernment and understanding of this, I can safely say […]
In this body of work, I aim to focus on the notion of death and my healing processes accompanied with it through a personal narrative. ‘Conversasie van Wina’ speaks about my personal emotive state, questioning the period after my father’s death and how I dealt with this experience. I explore themes of time, death, memory and presence that my close family and I have shared in his absence – with scenes pertaining to our family home, where he spent […]
I grew up in a Methodist Church family, we would go to church together on Sundays. One Sunday morning I asked her why she did not join Women Manyano, because she is also married. Her response was simple and short, “Motlotleng go nna mme wa merapeko ke mmereko o montse.” That was her response. After completing Sunday school in 2015, I joined Confirmation class in 2016 . Confirmation class is where I was taught about the history of the […]