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Monday’s Monument: Freedom Charter Monument, Kliptown, Soweto, South Africa

Monday’s Monument: Freedom Charter Monument, Kliptown, Soweto, South Africa

by Susan | Feb 3, 2020 | Monuments

On 26 June 1955, more than 3,000 representatives of resistance organizations made their way through police cordons to gather on a dusty square in Kliptown, 40 kilometers south of Johannesburg. This “Congress of the People” met to draw up the Freedom Charter, an...
Monday’s Monument: Memorial to the Six Million, Johannesburg, South Africa

Monday’s Monument: Memorial to the Six Million, Johannesburg, South Africa

by Susan | Apr 29, 2019 | Monuments

Memorial to the Six Million in Johannesburg’s Westpark Cemetery pays tribute to the Jewish men, women and children who lost their lives during the Second World War. The monument depicts six bronze fists, each five feet high, bursting out of the ground as a protest...
Monday’s Monument:  Gugulethu Seven Monument, Gugulethu, South Africa

Monday’s Monument: Gugulethu Seven Monument, Gugulethu, South Africa

by Susan | Nov 6, 2017 | Monuments

This monument recalls the brutal murder of seven young black activists by South African security forces in 1986. The young men were on their way to what they believed to be a job interview in a minivan driven by an undercover security officer, when they stopped at a...
Monday’s Monument: Perceiving Freedom, Cape Town, South Africa

Monday’s Monument: Perceiving Freedom, Cape Town, South Africa

by Susan | Jun 12, 2017 | Monuments

In 2014 a giant pair of Ray-Ban Wayfarers appeared on Cape Town’s  Sea Point Promenade, pointed towards Robben Island, where Nelson Mandela was incarcerated for 18 of his 27 years as a prisoner. The artist, Michael Elion, pitched it as a public art installation;...
Monday’s Monument: Gandhi Statue, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa

Monday’s Monument: Gandhi Statue, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa

by Susan | Jun 6, 2016 | Monuments

The events of the night of 7 June 1893 changed the course of Mahatma Gandhi’s life. The young Indian lawyer had come to South Africa for work. He was traveling from Durban to Johannesburg and had a first class ticket for the train. He was told to leave the...

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