Newell Harry is an Australian-born artist of South African and Mauritian descent. Harry’s work often references the cultural agitation brought about by colonial migration and the associated complexity of identity, nomadism, dislocation and myths. Untitled (gift mat #XIX) (Cape Flat / Kape Shack) is part of a series of gift mats that Harry has created in collaboration with weavers from the Vanuatu island of Mataso since 2007. Untitled (gift mat #XIX) (Cape Flat / Kape Shack) is a contemporary work of art that takes the form of a woven ‘gift mat’ - an example of material culture of Vanuatu. Conceptually and visually significant to all of Harry’s gift mats is the use of text, which in the case of this work refers to Cape Flats - an area of Cape Town, South Africa, that was designated for settlement by ‘non-Whites’ in the late 1950s under the South African Apartheid system. Newell’s gift mats generally merge the material culture of Vanuatu and the Afrikaans language of South Africa and present it in a Western contemporary art forum. But ‘Untitled (gift mat #XIX) (Cape Flat / Kape Shack)’ also invites an interpretation of the words ‘flat’ and ‘shack’ with reference to an Australian usage. The object represents a mix of the artist’s familial and experiential influences that relate to his mother’s homeland, South Africa; the country of his birth and upbringing, Australia; and his place of creative retreat, Vanuatu.

Index, bibliography, ill, maps, p.190.non-fictionThe Boer War was an epic both of heroism and of barbarism. Fought by the British against the Dutch inhabitants of South Aftrica, the Boer War had an extraordinary cast of characters including Commanders-in chief buller, Roberts and Kitchener, Winston Churchill, Arthur Conan Doyle, Emily Hobhouse, Rudyard Kipling, and Gandhi. The war revealed the ineptitude of the British military, and exposed the corrupt underside of British imperialism . For the first time, Judd and Surridge debunk several myths. There was not, for instance, a straightforward divide between the Boers and British. In fact, the overriding aim of both sides was to maintain European supremacy and to keep Africans and Indians "in their place." Giving us a sense of how the Apartheid era was born.south african war 1899-1901, second boer war

The World Alliance of Reforned Churches had declared the South African Dutch Reformed churches heretical because of their doctrinal advocacy of apartheid. Storey spoke about the situation in South Africa - "Speaking from his non-violence Christian viewpoint, he said that violence was counter-productive. 'When an organisation uses these methods it loses something of its moral case. I understand why people such as the ANC turn to those methods. I will never agree with them.' He saw four main taks for the church in South Africa - to continue to tell the truth in a propagandised society, to continue to bind up the wounds of people who are victims in that society—in this area the church's record is a good one, to demonstrate in its own life an alternative to apartheid, and to try to fashion strategies which would bring about change, in harmony with the teachings of Christ."Storey is shown sitting at a table addressing a meeting.C&N identification.apartheid, storey, peter, south african churches