a national monument marks nelson mandela’s capture site in natal midlands by marco cianfanelli, 2012 image courtesy marco cianfanelli via jonathan burton south african artist marco cianfanelli has constructed a monument to recognize the 50 year anniversary of peace activist and politician nelson mandela’s capture by the apartheid police in 1962. mandela’s profile spans 50 steel columns measuring 21.32 and 29.52 feet (6.5 and 9 meters) high, each anchored to the concrete-covered ground. the shape and form of the sculpture are representative of the leader’s 27 years behind bars for his efforts to bring equal rights and governmental representation to the once racially divided nation. the statue of the nobel prize winner has been erected in howick, a town located 56 miles (90 kilometers) south from the city of durban in the countryside of the southernmost african country

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Marco Cianfanelli (1970-) obtained a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Fine Arts from the
University of Witwatersrand in 1992. He has taken part in numerous solo and group exhibitions in South African and abroad, and won the prestigious Absa Atelier Award in
2002. This culminated in a residency at the Cité des Arts in Paris, and an Ampersand
Fellowship in New York.
Fiercely committed to testing the possibilities for artistic intervention in the public realm and engaging with other professionals from diverse fields, he has been involved in a wide range of projects involving art, architecture and public space. As a public artist, he designed the steel sculpture and mosaic artworks that currently adorn the Hollard Street Mall in downtown
Johannesburg, MTN’s head office and the fountain installation at the University of
Johannesburg’s new art centre. His work can be found in public and private collections in
South Africa (Spier, Absa, Anglo Gold Ashanti, Didata, Bloemfontein Art Museum and the
Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy collections) Europe and the United States.
Cianfanelli’s slick, pared-down and iconographic works are intricately linked with the complexity of loving South Africa. He began his career painting landscapes and continues to be concerned with romanticised space and its inverse — that which is marginalised through

the very act of romanticising. He creates work using a wide range of materials and likes to
‘bastardise’ his materials, whether ‘painting’ digitally, making oil paintings and then branding them, digitally manipulating photographs to evoke a sense of nostalgia for the South African landscape.
The artist Marco Cianfanelli
Born 1970, Johannesburg, South Africa.
Style and technique of the artist: Digital Art , Installation art , Painting ,
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Public art is art in any media that has been planned and executed with the intention of being staged in the physical public domain , usually outside and accessible to all. Public art is significant within the art world, amongst curators, commissioning bodies and practitioners of public art, to whom it signifies a working practice of site specificity , community involvement and collaboration. Public art may include any art which is exhibited in a public space including publicly accessible buildings, but often it is not that simple. Rather, the relationship between the content and audience, what the art is saying and to whom, is just as important if not more important than its physical location.
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On 5 December 2013, Nelson Mandela , the first President of South Africa elected in a fully representative democratic election, died at the age of 95 after suffering from a prolonged respiratory infection
Apartheid ( Afrikaans pronunciation:
[ɐˈpartɦɛit] ; an Afrikaans [1] word meaning "the state of being apart", literally " apart -hood ") [2][3] was a system of racial segregation in South Africa enforced through legislation by the National Party (NP) governments, the ruling party from
1948 to 1994, under which the rights, associations, and movements of the majority black inhabitants were curtailed and Afrikaner minority rule was maintained. Apartheid was developed after World War II by the Afrikaner-dominated National Party and Broederbond organisations and was practised also in South West Africa , which was administered by South
Africa under a League of Nations mandate (revoked in 1966 via United Nations Resolution
2145), [4] until it gained independence as Namibia in 1990. [5] However, racial segregation in
South-Africa was partly made by Great-Britain , for example Cecil Rhodes was the first man to construct racial segregation laws in South-Africa.
[6] By extension, the term is nowadays currently used for every kind of segregation, established by the state authority in a country, against the social and civil rights of a certain group of citizens, due to ethnic prejudices.
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Racial segregation in South Africa began in colonial times under Dutch East India rule, until
1695 when the British took over the Cape of Good Hope.
[7] Apartheid as an officially structured policy was introduced following the general election of 1948 . Legislation classified inhabitants into four racial groups
—"black", "white", " coloured ", and "Indian", the last two of which were divided into several sub-classifications [8]
—and residential areas were segregated.
From 1960 to 1983, 3.5 million non-white South Africans were removed from their homes, and forced into segregated neighbourhoods, in one of the largest mass removals in modern history.
[9] Non-white political representation was abolished in 1970 , and starting in that year black people were deprived of their citizenship , legally becoming citizens of one of ten tribally based self-governing homelands called bantustans , four of which became nominally independent states. The government segregated education , medical care, beaches, and other public services, and provided black people with services that were often inferior to those of white people.
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Apartheid sparked significant internal resistance and violence, and a long arms and trade embargo against South Africa.
[11] Since the 1950s, a series of popular uprisings and protests was met with the banning of opposition and imprisoning of anti-apartheid leaders. As unrest spread and became more effective and militarised, state organisations responded with repression and violence. Along with the sanctions placed on South Africa by the international community, this made it increasingly difficult for the government to maintain the regime.
Apartheid reforms in the 1980s failed to quell the mounting opposition, and in 1990 President
Frederik Willem de Klerk began negotiations to end apartheid , [12] culminating in multi-racial democratic elections in 1994 , won by the African National Congress under Nelson Mandela .
The vestiges of apartheid still shape South African politics and society. De Klerk began the process of dismantling apartheid with the release of Mandela's mentor and several other political prisoners in October 1989.
[13] Although the official abolition of apartheid occurred in

1991 with repeal of the last of the remaining apartheid laws, nonwhites were not allowed to vote until 1993 and the end of apartheid is widely regarded as arising from the 1994 democratic general elections.