...Michael Godby Copyright © 2009 Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art 2009 COLOR IN THE REPRESENTATION OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN TOWNSHIPS Michael Godby his article explores the function of color in Chic uses text to both explain something of the T...

... Artist of Fame and Promise Award in 1966, he became the first to cross the divide between black and white artists. The three months spent abroad as part of that prize enabled him to break out of the conventions of “township art,” and further change and new artistic directions followed his emigration...

... demeanor of the character. Shai's performance is township life." crucial because it is through Zamani's character that the film ultimately While being South Africa's first all-black feature film is significant in gives a sense...

... In the language of the township, then 42 • Nka Journal of Contemporary African Art and now, photographs are not developed, they are washed. Technical mishaps such as over- or under-exposure were considered "burns', for an example; "Why did you burn my face so much? Why am I so black? Why do...

... 'The Total Onslaught". Troops were deployed in Black townships such as KwaZakhele. where Hennie...

... has moved into the dilapidated houses, shel- António Ole, Township Wall, 2004. Africa Remix, Museum tered from the hustle and bustle of the metropolis, Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf, July 24–November 7, 2004. Wood, corrugated iron, plastic, iron, glass, 360 × 960 cm with its population of 6 million...

... to house itinerant laborers in spe- cially demarcated townships adjacent to the cities.12 In the cities themselves, apartheid was expressed in bricks and mortar. The very...

... water- particular analogy did not find much colours documenting township life It is perhaps surprising that the resonance...

... to Black Pride, Maluka a township taxi rank. Mthethwa's piece is a her neck, her stomach, her lower back, the gazes directly into the camera, proclaiming wooden dressing table, the mirrors and soles of her feet and the palms of her hands...

... tastemakers have decided efface the markers of their impoverished township a particular style is on trend. For centuries these identities. Because nonwhites’ access to travel, qual- designers hailed from places such as London, Paris, ity education, and equal employment opportunities Milan, and New York...

... Fokofpolisiekar sings “I’m just a tourist / In ship north of Johannesburg. “Witnesses said,” ran my country of birth,” the end result is comparable: part of the story, “the rioting was the worst in the black life is a foreign territory, a spectacle, an object three days of bloodshed in Alexandra township...

... on hung alongside one another on the interiors of tin township shacks tes- their shared bench.3 Lit from the right, wall. Each bedroom alcove confronts tifies to a kind of pleasure in work the ordered interior rephrases the men’s the viewer with the stark blankness of within the home...

... - - - - - - - print, 59×76 in ­print, seminated their images of township township of images...

... or a fragment rescued from fire, singed and sooty. Nemasetoni encountered his father s passbook when, in 1992, at the height of South Africa s cha­ otic transition toward democracy, he returned to his family home in the township Bantu. For six months he stayed with his parents. His mother, a 36 Nka Journal...

... tation; and media: sculpture, animated films. Through images paint- ing, photography, video, of displacement in the Townships, and multi-media constructions. absence and loss, death and The themes are also...

... wall. Another squatter camp, Diepsloot, has belatedly been upgraded to a postapartheid high-density township. There is no mass transport system...

... to Khayelitsha (in the economically to pull this off with great aplomb. With underdeveloped townships of the much criticism of the centralized oper• Cape...

... wanted to engage with photographic seeing until the release of Mandela in 1990; SADF troops moved in a more direct sense—careful looking, clarity, focus, and into the townships and of course, South Africa was also the acknowledgment of a “subject,” as it were. And while fighting...

... the intimacy of personal belongings with the absence people gather to procure illicit licjuor. But in South African townships, of the owner of these belongings. This absence of the body not only cre• it is both a social space for drinking and a hot bed of political...

... on paper, 26 x 40 cm. Courtesy of the artist of a number of photojournalists who entered townships to document protests, police brutality, and internecine violence with the purpose of illuminating the liberation struggle and its adversaries.3 The early deaths of Carter and Oosterbroek by suicide...