Breaking the silence: A luta continua documents a process involving over one thousand Khulumani Support Group members in the Western Cape who used scrapbooks, body-maps, photographs, memory cloths, drawings, paintings, art banners and film to tell the stories of their lives under apartheid. The purpose of the process is twofold: to give unacknowledged heroes and survivors of the struggle against apartheid a chance to remember and express their experiences, and to create a record that might honor their sacrifice and educate future generations. The exhibition spans almost two decades of collaborative work between the Human Rights Media Centre and the Khulumani Support Group, Western Cape. It was initially funded by the Foundation for Human Rights – EU. Fundraising for art and memory workshops is ongoing.
A luta continua painting (5.5m x 3m) by Dathini Mzayiya and Nkoali Nawa
The award-winning exhibition has been hosted by:
- Holocaust Centre, Cape Town (24 – 26 June 2003)
- The Apartheid Museum, Johannesburg (June 2004 – February 2005)
- Cape Town Civic Centre, Cape Town (October 2005)
- IZIKO Slave Lodge, Cape Town (July 2006 – February 2007)
- Slough Museum, London (March – April 2007)
- The Red Location Museum, Port Elisabeth (December 2006 – October 2008)
- Centre for Applied Human Rights, University of York at St Martin-Le-Grand (13 – 29 May 2009)
- University of Monrovia, Liberia, hosted by Liberia Media Centre and Civic Initiative, funded by International Sites of Conscience (29 March 2010 – 2 April 2010)
- Slave Church, SA Sendinggestig Museum, Cape Town (26 June – 10 August 2010)
- Constitution Hill Museum, Old Fort Mess, Johannesburg (11 June – 12 August 2011)
- Stanford University, Centre for African Studies and Institute for Diversity in the Arts, California, USA (10 – 14 October 2016)
- Constitution Hill Museum Ramparts, Johannesburg (12 April – 7 May 2016)
- IZIKO Slave Lodge, Cape Town, components on loan to the A Luta Continua exhibition (June 2019 – June 2022)
Interested hosts may contact the HRMC.