Remains of long-drop lavatories built for the 'closer settlement camp' of Frankfort, Eastern Cape. The 5000 members of the black farming community of Mgwali were to have been forcibly removed and resettled here after their land was declared a 'black spot' by the apartheid government in 1983. However the people of Mgwali resisted strongly and in 1986 the removal scheme was dropped. The lavatories were gradually stripped of their usable building materials by people in the area and all that is left now are concrete bases over some 1500 anatomically shaped holes in the veld.
22 February 2006
Archival pigment ink digitally printed on cotton rag paper
paper size: 112 x 137.5cm
image size: 99 x 127cm
Edition of 10
paper size: 112 x 137.5cm
image size: 99 x 127cm
Edition of 10
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