‘In that empire, the art of cartography attained such perfection that the map of a single province occupied the entirety of a city, and the map of the empire, the entirety of a province. In time, those unconscionable maps no longer satisfied, and the ...
and many others working against particular sets of constraints and responding to particular sets of needs and sensibilities. Nonzuzo’s response to the call of this tradition is a redeeming and generous dialogue concerning Black people, deviance, love, and necessity.
Under apartheid, the city was declared a “Whites-Only area”. On one side of the mine dumps, the man-made forest of Johannesburg engulfs residents in a Jacaranda-purple dream of Human Rights, constitutionalism and social justice, while downwind from the dumps, the townships are set as a spaceless place of violence, social death and despair.
Nonzuzo’s work shows us how we are able to turn to the philosophy of Ubuntu to replenish that humanity which has been vandalised in us. The minibus taxi industry in South Africa was deregulated in 1986 by the apartheid government in blanket privatisation where they “issued permits like confetti”. The industry was deregulated in an attempt to destabilise race relations and cause public violence that would demobilise the movement to vote the apartheid government out of power. Today, taxis transport more than 15 million people a day , making an estimated R49-billion every year in cash.
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