Umlabalaba
| CCAC #: | 0596 |
| Artwork title: | Umlabalaba |
| Artist(s): |
Bongane Malapane |
| Year made: | 2007 |
| Artwork type: | Paper |
| Medium: | Etching |
| Dimensions (mm): | 420 x 300 |
| Framed dimensions (in mm): | 501 x 382 x 32 |
| Edition: | 32/50 |
| Artwork series: |
Commemorating Sophiatown |
| Source: | Donated by MTN Foundation |
| Year acquired: | 2021 |
| Installation type: | Movable artwork |
| Location area: | On a travelling exhibition |
| Signage: | This work refers to Jürgen Schadeberg’s We won't move! Sophiatown in defiance (1955). The original photo depicts a tagged wall and three Black men playing umlabalaba, an indigenous, strategic board game, signifying their planned and persistent resistance to the forced removals at the time. In this re-imagining, the men have left the game, perhaps to protest or to flee the police. |
| Themes: |
Land reform Sophiatown |
| Constitutional links: |
Housing rights (section 26) |
Photographer: MTN Foundation
Photo copyright: Consult with CCT curatorial team
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NOTE: The process of photographing artworks in the CCAC is underway - we are currently working to improve image quality and display on the CMS but have included internal reference photos for identification purposes in the interim.