The Melrose Gallery is proud to present ‘Sugar Tax’, Mbongeni Buthelezi’s latest solo exhibition.

Mbongeni Buthelezi’s preferred medium is waste plastic, a material that if treated without the required care and management can cause much damage to our environment.  His chosen medium spawns from his fascination with the tensions created between the important functional role that plastic plays, and how the material can become such a dangerous threat to our planet if discarded without proper thought and planning.

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Clint Strydom, in collaboration with Constitution Hill, and co-curator Gaisang Sathekge, will release a powerful new body of contemporary photographs on the Number 4 Prison Section in May 2017.

This exhibition titled ‘Hidden Shadows and Silent Voices of Prison Number 4’ will narrate the fascinating story of this nefarious prison. The Number 4 Prison Section was restricted to male prisoners and was home to Nelson Mandela, Mahatma Gandhi, Robert Sobukwe, Oliver Tambo and thousands of other people who were incarcerated here.

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