You’d think that when the ANC came into power it would tend to favour it’s political heartland for strategic reasons and as reward for the prominent role the people of the Eastern Cape played in the liberation struggle.With reports of scores of children dying unnecessarily and the education system in shambles, I went to the Eastern Cape to see first hand how the ANC are keeping their promises.
Following a request from a friend, here is a painting given to me by Credo Mutwa, along with a few photographs I took around his house.
Tambo looked at the dusty red soil that flowed between the government houses, and he thought about the colour red. He remembered the grand velvety richness of the cover of the little red book his father had proudly brought back with him from his training in Angola, and he remembered the sadly worn red in his mothers eyes when she explained that his father would never be coming home again.