Get Up, Stand Up!

CCAC #:	0466
Artwork title:	Get Up, Stand Up!
Artist(s):	Nirupa Sing
Year made:	Unknown
Artwork type:	Painting
Medium:	Mixed media
Framed dimensions (in mm):	1350 x 980
Source:	Donated by Justice Zak Yacoob
Installation type:	Movable artwork
Current location:	On private display
Signage:	Nirupa Sing’s Get Up, Stand Up! reflects on life under apartheid through a surreal scene. A mud-red and blue San rock art foreground anchors layered imagery: a mineworker, dancing woman, elephants, tribal patterns, water, gears, and architecture; merging illusion and reality in a symbolic call for resilience and shared humanity.
Themes:	Anti-apartheid Archive and documentation Art as social practice Belonging Civic engagement Democratic South Africa Human Rights Johannesburg Memory and memorialisation Public participation Rainbow Nation
Constitutional links:	Human dignity - constitutional value (section 1a, section 10) Freedom of expression (section 16) Right to assembly, demonstration, picket and petition (section 17) Equality - constitutional value (section 1a, section 9) Language and culture rights (section 30) Rights of cultural, religious and linguistic communities (section 31)
Related constitutional cases:	S v Makwanyane & Another (1995) Minister of Home Affairs and Another v Fourie and Another (2005) Mlungwana and Others v S and Another (2018)

Photographer: Staff
Photo copyright: CCT

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