After On the Mines, The Transported of KwaNdebele is the second of
David Goldblatt's books re-designed and expanded by the artist for
Steidl Publishers. Dating originally from 1989, it talks about the
workers of an apartheid tribal homeland for blacks, KwaNdebele,
which has no industry, very few opportunities for jobs, and is a
long way from the nearest industrial- commercial activity of
white-controlled Pretoria. Workers from KwaNdebele catch buses in
the very early morning, some as early as 2:45 am, in order to be at
their workplaces in Pretoria by 7:00. At the end of the day they
repeat the journey in the other direction, to get home at between 8
and 10 pm. Goldblatt takes us on their bone-jarring journeys
through the night, which is a metaphor for their arduous struggle
toward freedom itself. In photographs devoid of sentimentality and
artifice, the grim determination of these people to survive and
overcome emerges in almost heroic terms. Brenda Goldblatt,
filmmaker and writer, interviewed some of the bus-riding workers
who endured not only these journeys but a civil war precipitated by
the apartheid government's attempt to foist a kind of independence
on KwaNdebele; a condition which would have made the workers
foreigners in the land of their birth, South Africa, and thus
deprived them of their limited right to work there. Interviews with
contemporary (2012) bus-riders fill out the account. Phillip van
Niekerk, former editor of the Mail & Guardian, provides an
essay on KwaNdebele, its place in the logic of `grand apartheid'
and its half-life in post-apartheid South Africa. David Goldblatt
is a definitive photographer of his generation, esteemed for his
dispassionate depiction of life in South Africa over a period of
more than fifty years. Born in Randfontein in 1930, Goldblatt
worked in his father's menswear business until 1963 when he took up
photography full time. Goldblatt's work concerns above all human
values and is a unique document of life during and after apartheid.
His photographs are held in major international collections, and
his solo exhibitions include those at the Museum of Modern Art in
New York in 1998, and the Fondation Henri Cartier- Bresson in Paris
in 2011. In 1989 Goldblatt founded the Market Photo Workshop in
Johannesburg to teach visual literacy and photography especially to
those disadvantaged by apartheid.
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