From Dallas, Texas to Durban, South Africa, communities that have experienced a history of exploitation, neglect, and marginalization harbor an understandable distrust of the state.
Within hours, protests and widespread looting, particularly in his home city of Durban, were reported as supporters stationed themselves around his compound and challenged police.
Yet officials in major cities such as Cape Town and Johannesburg and the Durban suburban region have been demolishing temporary homes built on public land, without offering alternative housing to those being thrown out onto the streets.
The latest of these, a highlight of “Republic,” he has called “Sangoma Series,” after the Zulu healers he observed as a young man as they performed rituals, chanted and drummed on the streets of Durban.
a port in E South Africa, in E KwaZulu/Natal province on the Indian Ocean: University of Natal (1909); resort and industrial centre, with oil refineries, shipbuilding yards, etc. Pop: 536 644 (2001)