Massacre

ABOUT

Is an exhibition in collaboration between Bellaire Ethic Art Gallery and Amandla Dance Co, in remembrance of the lives lost on September 7th 1992.

The event will be live streamed and will take place in what was nominally the independent homeland of Ciskei which is now part of the Eastern Cape. 

The exhibition is a remembrance of what took place amid tense negotiations between the African National Congress (ANC) and the South African government under President FW Dr Klerk.

Led by top ANC officials including Chris Hani, Cyril Ramaphosa, Steve Tshwete and Ronnie Kassrils, a group of 80,000 people gathered outside Bhisho demanding an end to military rule and re-absorption of the so-called black homeland in South Africa. When the marchers tried to cross Ciskei Defence Force Lines from Transkei to enter Bhisho, Gqozo's soldiers were instructed to open fire.

Through the use of Contemporary Dance and Visual Art as a form of healing, the exhibition aims to do this through these silent mediums as a resolution to past trauma.

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