Eastern Cape Bloodlines I: Assembling the Human
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Date
2016
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Taylor & Francis
Abstract
This is an article less about red as installation, colour or symbol, and more
about assembly.1 I have used Red, the installation by Simon Gush, as provocation
to think of exhumation, its work and processes of assembling�disassembling�
reassembling.2 The particular exhumation discussed here involves the
mortal remains of five anti-apartheid activists recovered at Post Chalmers
outside the rural Eastern Cape town of Cradock in July 2007 by the Missing
Persons� Task Team (MPTT).3 �Topsy� Madaka and Siphiwo Mthimkulu, and
Champion Galela, Qaqawuli Godolozi and Sipho Hashe (the �Pebco Three�)
were killed in April 1982 and May 1985 respectively by Port Elizabeth security
police, who thereafter burnt the bodies.4
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Assembly, Missing Persons Task Team, Pebco Three, Exhumation
Citation
Rousseau, N. (2016). Eastern Cape Bloodlines I: Assembling the Human. Parallax, 22(2): 203-218.