ASC Seminar: The Bungha Building as a Site for the Contestation of History

During the setting up of apartheid South Africa’s native reserves, or homelands, large-scale subsidies allowed the formation of ten separate states, with concomitant government offices, schools, hospitals, housing for relocation after forced removals, factory parks, hotels and sports centres. When apartheid ended, some of these buildings were incorporated into the functioning of the new South African provinces, whilst others were allowed to fall into ruin. Brenton Maart’s current research is investigating these architectural structures in a bid to read, within their histories, the signs of inadvertent monumentalization. Please register

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