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ISBN13: | 9783958293250 |
ISBN10: | 3958293255 |
Binding: | Hardback |
No. of pages: | 256 pages |
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Language: | English |
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David Goldblatt: Fietas Fractured
Fietas Fractured
Publisher: Steidl
Date of Publication: 31 December 2037
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This book presents photos by David Goldblatt taken between 1952 and 2016 of Fietas in Johannesburg, with an emphasis on his 197677 images of the suburbs last Indian residents before they were forcibly removed under apartheid. Known affectionately by its inhabitants as Fietas, though officially called Pageview, this was one of the citys few non-racial suburbs, where Malay, African, Chinese, Indian and a few white people lived. Composed of narrow streets and small houses of two rooms and a kitchen for up to 15 people, here different races and religions formed a strong, safe community where children played in the streets. There were two mosques, Hindu, Tamil and Muslim schools, cricket, soccer and bridge clubs, and 170 shopscustomers came from all over the Witwatersrand. In 1948 the National Party came to power and made the clearance of all non-white inhabitants of Pageview an immediate objective. Some 5,000 Africans and other people of color were evicted or persuaded to leave by the promise of better townships, while under the Group Areas Act the Indians were to move to Lenasia, an apartheid creation 35 kilometers from the city. For 20 years the remaining Indians fought against removal, principally in the courts, but in 1977 police and their dogs finally forced them out, except for a few. Almost all buildings were destroyed and in their place new houses for lower-income whites built. Today these are occupied by a mix of people from Africa, Europe and Asia; no sense of community remains except that of the homeless sheltering in the spaces left by demolition.