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Monday’s Monument: Hector Pieterson Memorial and Museum, Soweto, Johannesburg, South Africa

Monday’s Monument: Hector Pieterson Memorial and Museum, Soweto, Johannesburg, South Africa

by Susan | Aug 29, 2022 | Monuments

On 16 June 1976, at the age of 12, Hector Pieterson was shot by police during the student uprising in Soweto. Although not the first to be shot, he was the first of 23 students to die. The picture taken by news photographer Sam Nzima of his body being carried by...
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;...
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