Staking Claims: Confronting Capetown
Staking Claims: Confronting Cape Town Cape Town One City Festival September 22 October 6 1999 Curator: Emma Bedford Venue:The Granary, Buitenkant Street, Cape Town N ot very long ago. the world had a clear picture of South Africa as a country which in the space of a few years had miraculously mutated from the universally despised oppressive apartheid regime to a true democracy. It is a picture which has inevitably blurred and lost the sharpness of focus as time and global attention moved on. The minutiae of programmes of reconstruction and rehabilitation, the personal struggles of reassessment, the backsliding into old habits, the difficult processes of integration can never be as dramatic as the grand gesture of the official takeover by the heroes of the struggle from their former oppressors.