| Anyone who travels over the vast expanse of South Africa is immediately struck by the great variations in its landscape and the differing contexts and conditions under which Black rural people live... |
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| “They strongly insisted that we had been appropriating more and more of their land which had been theirs all these centuries... |
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| By the 1860s, subjugation of African people in the immediate vicinity of the Cape had been achieved... |
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| “Awaking on Friday morning, June 20, 1913, the South African Native found himself, not actually a slave, but a pariah in the land of his birth”... |
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VI. TCOE Exhibition
Photo-documentary Exhibition and Land dispossession history
The text and gallery of images here are concerned with the crucial issue of land rights in South Africa.
They are from a rural people's Photo-documentary Exhibition convened by the Trust for Community Outreach and Education (TCOE), the South African Council of Churches (SACC) and the National Land Committee (NLC).
The Exhibition and programme of Public Dialogue was designed to:
- give insight into rural life and struggle in South Africa today
- strengthen the voice of the rural poor regarding their concerns, dreams and aspirations
- support rural people in reflecting on their lives, struggles and demands
- build solidarity and deepen the understanding between urban and rural South Africans around the need for redress and resolution of the land question in South Africa
- identify limitations in land reform policies and show their impact on the lives of millions of South Africans
The Exhibition opened in Cape Town and is touring 18 towns and cities across South Africa and Europe .
TCOE exhibition - Inequality
TCOE exhibition - Land & livelihoods
TCOE exhibition - Life of Dignity
TCOE exhibition - Women bear burden
TCOE exhibition - Youth
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The gains achieved by the White minority in the first four decades of the 20th century were, by the 1940s, increasingly under threat however, as African resistance to the racially based system rapidly escalated... |
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“We the marginalised people of South Africa, who are landless and land hungry, declare our need for all the world to know... |
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The images from this exhibition .... |
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In all countries where market-assisted land reforms have been undertaken, the outcomes have been disappointing... |
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The following reference material was used in writing this paper... |
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