| The following two photographs (by S. Sack)
"were taken in Soweto during 1986. As one frives into Soweto
on the Baragwanath Hospital highway, these [two] signs were the visual
landmarks of the township landscape. They have all been removed
and replaced with new signs. The advertising billboards in Soweto
tend to dominate the landscape and become transient landmarks.
They get woven into the social fabric and serve as literal and
metaphorical indicators of the underlying social forces. (Culture
in Another South Africa pp. 77-78.)
larger size An ad in Braamfontein Johannesburg, contrasting the South
African reality, the good time, Coke is it, and the security Peaceforce
that makes it possible and impossible. In the background is the
Johannesburg to Soweto train. (image source: Culture in Another South Africa p 81-82.) |
