Transported of KwaNdebele

Photographs by David Goldblatt. The apartheid dream required the geographical separation of the races. Millions of black people were forced to live in ethnic ‘homelands’ or Bantustans, most of which were remote from centres of employment. Goldblatt’s photographs, made between 1983 and 1984, document the daily eight hour bus journeys of people from KwaNdebele, the designated ‘homeland’ of the Ndebele, to and from their jobs in Pretoria. This exhibition positions Lwandle within the broader history of migrant labour in South Africa.