Research material for a work in progress
An Interview with NomaRussia Bonase, Khulumani Support Group, conducted in Phola Park, Johannesburg /Guateng Province, on February 17th 2017, by Franziska Koch and Tim Zulauf. Pictures of paintings taken out of the publication «Plough back the fruits», published by NomaRussia Bonase & Judy Seidman (Khulumani Support Group), Simone Knapp & Boniface Mabanza (KASA), Maren Grimm & Jakob Krameritsch (Akademie der Bildenden Künste). Hamburg, Heidelberg, Johannesburg, Wien, 2016.
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«"Destroyment" in Mpondoland» An interview with Nonhle Mbuthuma, activist of the Amadiba Crisis Committee. Since 2005 the Australian mining company «Mineral Commodities Limited» (MRC) wants to extract titanium out of the sands of South Africa’s Wild Coast. The project would condone the destruction of a unique eco-cultural landscape.
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«“Planetarisation”! Learning from the African Archive» An interview with Prof. Achille Mbembe at the WISER-Institute, Johannesburg, 19th of August 2015. Starting with South Africa, the political scientist Achille Mbembe talks about the interrelations of racism, capitalism and spatial segregation. Of main concern is the question: How to go on? What is the potential with which the African continent heads towards a new future? Mbembe states: «And that the future, in any case, the future of a place like Africa for instance, will depend on our capacity to negotiate our relationship with the ecology. And it will depend on our capacity to open up this vast continent to circulation – which implies the abolition for instance of the boundaries inherited from colonialism. Which implies for instance the opening up of the continent to a new phase of immigration. So this new age of planetarization and circulation, I think objectively, allows us to imagine a different form of wordliness. That turns it’s back onto the old conceptions that were prevalent at the age of colonialism – or slavery, for that matter. So the black archive, or the African archive, the archive of African origin, can still help us to harness what we need, to imagine a different world in the future.»
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«From Apartheid until Today: Hidden Deals and Profits in South Africa» – Hennie van Vuuren at HEAD, Geneva.
Book-presentation «Apartheid, Guns and Money – A Tale of Profit», a lecture by the author Hennie van Vuuren, framed by Denise Bertschi's video-work «CONFIDENTIAL», (2018) and a conversation with Hennie van Vuuren, the artist and the audience. HEAD – University of Art and Design Geneva on the 24th of January 2019.
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Hennie van Vuuren talks about his book «Apartheid, Guns and Money – A Tale of Profit». The interview was conducted by Tim Zulauf in Cape Town on August 12th 2018.
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«Von der Apartheid bis heute: Verdeckte Geschäfte und Profite in Südafrika» Der Autor Hennie van Vuuren und die Ökonomin Mascha Madörin im Gespräch in der Gessnerallee Zürich, am 22.01.2019.
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«Von der Apartheid bis heute: Verdeckte Geschäfte und Profite in Südafrika» Der Autor Hennie van Vuuren und der Historiker Josef "Jo" Lang im Gespräch in der Dampfzentrale Bern, am 23.01.2019.
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«Von der Apartheid bis heute: Verdeckte Geschäfte und Profite in Südafrika» Hennie van Vuuren, Politologe und Autor von «Apartheid, Guns and Money», im Gespräch mit dem Strafrechtsprofessor Mark Pieth, in der Kaserne Basel am 29.01.2019.
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«Circle Labour Hostel – Rustenburg, South Africa» More than 100 dismissed ex-miners are eating jackals, wild birds, cats, monkeys and rats to survive at a tuberculosis-infested hostel where they have been waiting for eight years for their provided fund payouts.
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