Homage to Soweto

CCAC #: 0077
Artwork title: Homage to Soweto
Artist(s): Dumile Feni
Year made: 1977
Artwork type: Paper
Medium: Pen and ink on paper
Dimensions (mm): 578 x 810
Framed dimensions (in mm): 895 x 1147 x 45
Source: Donated by Albie Sachs
Year acquired: 2004
Installation type: Movable artwork
Location area: On a travelling exhibition
Signage:

Feni draws from Pablo Neruda’s poem ‘I’m Explaining a Few Things’(1937), Neruda’s response to the fascist bombing of Guernica during the Spanish civil war. Feni relates this to the “blood in the streets” in Soweto on 16 June 1976, where Black students protested against government’s plans to impose Afrikaans as the medium of instruction in their schools.

Themes: Soweto Uprising (16 June 1976)
Constitutional links: Education rights (section 29)

CCAC 433456

Photographer: Ben Law-Viljoen
Photo copyright: CCT

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