The ‘1913 Natives Land Act’ exhibition currently on at the Cape Town International Convention Center.

Peace and Blessings be with you.

I had the privilege of photographing the opening of the exhibition that is currently taking place at the Convention Center in Cape Town commemorating the 1913 Natives Land Act.  The Exhibition was meant to run only on Thursday and Friday, but was extended to Sunday with very good reason.

To say that the multimedia exhibition is visceral would be an understatement. The experience is one that necessarily all South Africans, who want to look back at the last 100 years and more of this country’s struggle MUST see. The dynamic of legitimizing the legal robbery of the land, the human consequences that reverberate strongly today even, and the instant labour force for the complicit mining industries are there made evident.

Entrance to the exhibition.
Entrance to the exhibition.

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Apartheid Police checking for your "pass"
Apartheid Police checking for your “pass”
Validation of the pass
Validation of the pass
The pass system.
The pass system.
Mass Protests
Mass Protests
Mass Action
Mass Action

 

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Forced removals
Forced removals

 

" all I have left is what i could carry"
” all I have left is what i could carry”
Forced Removals
Forced Removals

 

The Monoliths.
The Monoliths.

 

I urge you to take your family and go if you are in the Cape Town region.

 

Salaam.

Yasser

 

 

Published by yasserbooley

I live and work in cape town South Africa as a freelance photographer .

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