David GoldblattThe monument, covering what was Freedom Square, commemorates the Congress of the People in 1955. Costing R160 million, it has a hotel, conference center, auditorium, galleries, shops, museums, and plaza for informal traders, conical tower in which the Freedom Charter is displayed. The community of Kliptown, in whose midst it was built, were not consulted. Most of the facilities are hardly used. Fearing that tourists might confuse Freedom Park, Pretoria, with Freedom Square, Kliptown, the branding experts named it instead the Walter Sisulu Square of Dedication. Sisulu had very little to do with this place. Kliptown, Soweto, 22 June 2006David GoldblattThe monument, covering what was Freedom Square, commemorates the Congress of the People in 1955. Costing R160 million, it has a hotel, conference center, auditorium, galleries, shops, museums, and plaza for informal traders, conical tower in which the Freedom Charter is displayed. The community of Kliptown, in whose midst it was built, were not consulted. Most of the facilities are hardly used. Fearing that tourists might confuse Freedom Park, Pretoria, with Freedom Square, Kliptown, the branding experts named it instead the Walter Sisulu Square of Dedication. Sisulu had very little to do with this place. Kliptown, Soweto, 22 June 2006
David GoldblattXolani Seko stands weeping outside the house where, in 1995, his erstwhile employer was accidentally killed after attempting sex with Xolani, East London, 21 May 2016
David GoldblattChristmas decorations at Port Nolloth, Northern Cape, in the time of AIDS, 28 December 2003
David GoldblattCrippled by a stray bullet from an argument in which he had no part, a former gold-miner sits in wheelchair and begs at a crossroad on the Johannesburg–Cape Town highway, while pursuing winning numbers for the national lottery, Springfontein, 7 August 200
David GoldblattBungee jumper, Bloukrans on the border of Eastern and Western Cape, 25 April 2006
David GoldblattHennie Gerber where he tortured and then murdered Samuel Kganakga, Heriotdale, Johannesburg, 14 April 2010
David GoldblattAdverts on the base of the Hillbrow microwave tower, Joburg, 18 January 2002
David GoldblattMartin Klaaste, mayor of the Kamiesberg Local Municipality, in the council chamber, Garies, Northern Cape
David GoldblattSquatter camp on foreign nationals between the N1 and railway property at Woodstock, Cape Town, 22 August 2006
David GoldblattBlitz Maaneveld at the Terrace, Woodstock, Cape Town, where he murdered a man with whom he had been gambling, 7 October 2008
David GoldblattJohannes Rens, Mayor, Letsemeng Local Municipality, in the council chamber, Koffiefontein Free State, 31 August 2004
David GoldblattBHJ, Richtersveld, in the time of Aids, Northern Cape, 25 December 2003
David GoldblattHere, high on drugs, Cinto White and a friend robbed a man after Cinto had shot him, Signal Hill, Cape Town, 31 May 2010
David GoldblattSammy Matsebula was a police officer when, in 1996, he joined in a cash heist here, in Lenasia South, Johannesburg, 14 June 2010
David GoldblattWillie 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
David GoldblattPolo Pavilion, Kurland Estate, Plettenburg Bay, Western Cape, 9 October 2004
David GoldblattAlfie Meadows near Parliament Square, where on 9 December 2010 a policeman fractured his skull during a protest against the raising of university fees, Westminster, England, 8 May 2015
David GoldblattNear Botterkloofpas, Karoo, 2 March 2002
David GoldblattMemorial to Abraham Esau, a colored man who defied the Boers and supported the English during the Anglo Boer War; he was executed by the Boers here, outside his hometown, Calvinia in the Northern Cape in 1902, 6 October 2003
David GoldblattTrenton Oldfield near the point on the Thames, England, from which he dived on 7 April 2012 and disrupted the Oxford-Cambridge boat race, 11 May 2015
David GoldblattA 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, Mokopane, Limpopo Province, May–June 2006
David GoldblattMemorial to four members of the Colesburg Youth Organization (CYO) killed here by the police on 3 July 1985. Kuyasa Township, Colesburg, 31 March 2014
David GoldblattThere 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
David GoldblattMISSING!!! C&B Hiring and Decor, Voortrekker Road, Parow, Cape Town, 26 March 2006
David GoldblattHere, on his bed, in 2007, Ellen Pakkies strangled her son Abie, after his need for money to feed his drug addiction had led to him robbing the household of everything saleable for so long, that she could no longer bear the strain, Lavender Hill, Cape Town, 12 September 2010
David GoldblattWomen singing, Newtown Squatter Camp, Johannesburg, 1 November 2001
David Goldblatt5:52 am Going to work in 2012: Buses from former KwaNdebele homeland stream down the road to Pretoria
David GoldblattOverflow at Hytkoras, Namaqualand, 30 December 2003
David GoldblattStudent'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 uprising of June 16, 1976. Soweto, Johannesburg, 28 July 2014
David GoldblattOn the farm Wildebeesfontein, Koup, Laingsburg, 27 August 2016
David GoldblattThe Docrats' lavatory was part of this concrete structure that supported the water tank of their house in Fietas. The Docrats were "Asians" and the area in which they had lived since the 1880s had been declared a Group Area for whites by the Apartheid government. So they were moved to Lenasia and their house on the 20th Street Pageview/Fietas was destroyed. However, the front end loaders couldn't bring down this core which stands to this day. Fietas, Johannesburg
David GoldblattHouse of 288 Khayelitsha Hanover, 5 July 2011
David GoldblattSwerwers, nomadic sheep shearers, and farmworkers, descended from the San hunter gatherers and Khoi pastoralists. Without work for four months they lived in the "gang," the corridor between farms fences and roads, hunting, fishing when they could and eating roadkill. Near Nuwe Rooiberg, Northern Cape, 18 September 2002
David GoldblattThe remains of 20 paintings and two photographs burnt by students, University of Cape Town, 14 May 2016
David GoldblattThree men rest at the side of the track between Bute Asbestos Mine and Heuningvlei in Northern Cape, 18 December 2002
David GoldblattWaiting to sell food to construction workers who are putting the finishing touches to 93 Grayston, Sandton, Johannesburg
David GoldblattThe 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.
David GoldblattWindmills, Ventersburg, Free State, 6 August 2003
David Goldblatt"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
David GoldblattSarie Fink doing her hair; she lived with her aunt, who farmed here at Klein Rivier, Buffelsdift, between Oudtshoorn and Uniondale, Western Cape, 23 November 2004
David GoldblattOn 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
David GoldblattA villager's asbestos map, Kuraman, Northerns Cape, 21 December 2002
David GoldblattOn the farm Wildebeesfontein, Koup, Laingsburg, 27 August 2016
David GoldblattBridget Makhomza and her former partner Nomsa Mlambo at the house where a man attempted "corrective" rape on Bridget and stabbed Nomsa, Soweto, 26 May 2012
David GoldblattIn the cemetery, Sutherland, Western Cape, 16 December 2007
David GoldblattBlue asbestos waste on the Owendale Asbestos Mine tailings dump, near Postmasburg, Northern Cape, 21 December 2002
David GoldblattAt 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 2006
David GoldblattMemorial 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