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TATE AT TATE

TATE AT TATE

Die suikerryk het baie aan Londen gegee, en twee van die stad se hoofmuseums word gekoppel aan die liefde vir kuns van die magnaat Sir Henry Tate, wat in staat is om sy dubbele siel, die klassieke een en die veel gevierde kontemporêre een, te beliggaam. Tate Britain is gehuisves in 'n elegante gebou met die fasade van 'n neoklassieke tempel en 'n breë trap wat na die Teems afdaal, voor die beroemde Geheime Diensgebou, wat eerder soortgelyk aan 'n Asteekse tempel oorheers wat deur hoekige groen loodglasvensters oorkant word. van die rivier. Die museum is veral beroemd omdat dit die beste versameling Engelse skilderkuns bevat ná dié van die Nasionale Galery en besonder ryk is aan werke deur Dante Gabriel Rossetti en sy Pre-Rafaelitiese metgeselle, wat 'n diep spore op die Britse verbeelding getrap het met hul vroulike figure met beslissende kenmerke en lang rooi hare. Daar is nie net hulle binne die groot sale nie, maar ook ruimtes wat gereserveer is vir William Turner en sy Kentiese lug, Constable, Hogarth, Gainsborough en ander reuse van Engelse kuns, asook werke deur die Amerikaner John Singer Sargent. Die kontemporêre kunsafdeling is baie merkwaardig, met werke van Lucien Freud en Francis Bacon en met 'n konstante blik op nuwe kunstenaars. Om die kompetisie van die Tate Modern, wat die harte van besoekers verower het deur hierdie Tate tot 'n bietjie van 'n ou tannie se rol te verplaas, te weerstaan, is daar 'n ambisieuse restourasie, die kwaliteit van die uitstallings het baie verbeter en die fasade self het word 'n wit ruimte om deur kontemporêre kunstenaars herwerk te word. Boonop is die ou restaurant wat met 'n fyn fresko deur Rex Whistler versier is, maar beelde bevat wat as rassisties beskou word en nou heeltemal onaanvaarbaar is vir vandag se publiek, gesluit, en 'n nuwe toegewyde ruimte is gebou vir eet en drink na die besoek. Buiten sy uitstekende winkel is die museum 'n spesiale plek wat dit 'n skande sal wees om oor te kyk, nie net omdat dit 'n onvergeetlike versameling het nie, maar omdat dit 'n rustige atmosfeer het en sy eie manier om kuns na die besoeker te bring. Die ideaal, om niks te mis nie, is om tussen die twee galerye te pendel deur 'n klein Tate-to-Tate-vaart op die Teems aan te pak (https://www.tate.org.uk/visit/tate-boat) : dit vertrek elke halfuur en deurkruis die hele middestad totdat jy onder die groot swart mastodont van die Tate Modern kom, een van die mees besoekte museums ter wêreld, gehuisves in 'n voormalige kragsentrale. Daar is ander geboue soos hierdie langs die Teems en tot 'n paar jaar gelede was die bekendste die Battersea-kragstasie, bekend daarvoor dat dit op die voorblad van Pink Floyd se album Animals was en vir dekades die onderwerp van 'n hewige debat oor die moontlike gebruik daarvan. Op die ou end is dit in 'n groot woonkompleks geïnkorporeer wat sy ietwat donker bekoring, wat steeds gedeeltelik na vore kom wanneer jy daar verby ry op die trein wat van Gatwick na Victoria aankom, aansienlik verminder het. Gelukkig het die transformasie van Bankside Kragstasie in Tate Modern nie die lyne wat die groot argitek Sir Giles Gilbert Scott verlang het, verdraai nie, dieselfde as Battersea

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moenie hierdie kans misloop nie!moenie meer hoofpyne voel in die bou van jou middestad nie! Die MonographS Adviseur het gekom om jou lewe makliker te maak in 'n professionele manier. toegang tot die skakel en sien stap vir stap.

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Happy Mothers day Queens👑💕♥️💕 #mommiesday #mothersday2020 #queenmother (at Middestad Mall) https://www.instagram.com/p/B__04RSJha-/?igshid=wkqe95f4ze5d

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Die middestad geluide kom uit Noorde, kom uit Suide omring my waar ek gaan, laat my hardloop as ek staan, maar ek onthou ‘n plek waar die vlaktes eindloos strek... 🖼 • • • • • • #misdieplatteland #myharttrekmetnpunthuistoe #vrystaatvlaktes #kleindorpiegevoel (at Bloemfontein, Free State) https://www.instagram.com/p/BuRnrS3hf-Q/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=4lb2owr733ks

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Revisiting inner city Bloemfontein

Architecture school has been a journey of self discovery, of noticing unique things that often appear to be mundane and ordinary. This often make me want to explore places and visit parts of the city that I’m unfamiliar with and in the case of the CBD it was more about visiting a place that holds so many childhood memories.

As someone who has grown up in Bloemfontein, I couldn't wait to leave after matric because it simply lacked any appeal especially after 18 years . Now that I’m a bit older however, I’ve starting to become a bit sentimental and realised that Bloemfontein is not all that bad. Visiting the inner city made me realise the potential that Bloemfontein has, thats hiding under years of political unrest, neglect and public misconceptions. There were so many times in the past that I wanted to visit the inner city yet I was always discouraged from going due to safety concerns and maybe I’m a bit naive in so easily dismissing these warnings, but how else would we get to know more about the city and its inhabitants if we avoid places like these. As architects its our responsibility to understand the context that we work in and sometimes I’m grateful to be studying what I am simply because I can use it as an excuse to visit places like the CBD. 

As you can gather I was beyond excited, rather ecstatic to visit the inner city and it brought back so many childhood memories. My dad had a shop in Charles street and I spent a considerable amount of Saturdays going with my dad to work till I was around 13 years old. I knew most of the people who had neighboring shops and my best friends dad had a shop right next to my dads shop. This was a happy time, a place filled with many happy memories from running down the street and visiting all the shops, playing hide and seek in the storeroom or dressing up the window display in my favorite clothes. Aside from this I remember the walks to Middestad mall, Sanlam plaza and even Floreat Avenue( it still smells the same). Below is picture from another time when a march to raise awareness about the plight of Palestinians was held.  This is on Charlotte Maxeke street.

Figure 1: This was a march for Palestine (2014) in Bloemfontein’s CBD.

Going back after so many years was rather nostalgic and it was incredible to see how some things have changed completely like the mall, and some things are still the same like the arcade that we walked through. However it was incredible to see things which I had forgotten about or remembered incorrectly and things that I never paid much attention to like the lack of greenery, public seating and an the amount of people that walk from place to place. 

This physical engagement that people have with another, with their surroundings is something that we as car users have lost and even though I have driven around the area a few times, it does not compare with walking and taking in the sites and smells that were all around. One of the highlights was Central market and witnessing the transition from the market outside to the inside of the mall, which is completely dislocated from its surroundings, and I remember thinking how this could be anywhere in any place. This is the beauty of how people take ownership of architecture and how they adapt the place to suite their own needs, not the other way around.

In terms of architecture, there is a lack of connection towards the street and pedestrians. The buildings appear cold and aloof and resemble obstacles that are almost in the way of everyday activity. Bloemfontein has a lot of potential for an urban renewal project that brings back life to the buildings by adapting the way that the buildings interact with the public.

I look forward to visiting the area again and hope maybe someday it will become a diverse area that many people occupy and are proud to call it Bloemfontein.

Amirah

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Ramaphosa: Facts exposed at Zondo compensation will certainly harm

The truth will come out in the Zondo commission of inquiry into state capture, and the truth will hurt the ANC and some individuals, President Cyril Ramaphosa said on Friday. 

While Ramaphosa was campaigning in Delft in the Western Cape, the ANC’s election head and former minister Fikile Mbalula was testifying before the commission of inquiry.

Ramaphosa was asked about this when journalists had the rare opportunity for an impromptu presidential press conference. 

“Our view on state capture is we appointed the commission. It was the ANC that said there should be such a commission because it was the ANC that realised that corruption and state capture had set in and we felt that we needed to address this,” Ramaphosa claimed.

In fact, the commission had been ordered in the remedial action of the former Public Protector Thuli Madonsela in her report, State of Capture, and the commission was only appointed after former president Jacob Zuma ran out of legal routes to stop it.

The Constitutional Court ruled in the landmark Nkandla case that the Public Protector’s recommendations are binding unless reviewed and set aside by a court.

Accountability

Ramaphosa said the truth would come out in the commission, and acknowledged that this would hurt.

“Telling the truth sometimes hurts. It will hurt the organisation. It will hurt individuals. But if we are serious about serving the interests of the people of South Africa, we must tell the truth,” he said. 

“As the ANC we were humble enough to say: wrong things were done in the past. And we humble ourselves. There have been mistakes, there have been missteps. But at the same time we are saying accountability must take its course. Those who were responsible for anything that has gone wrong must be accountable. They must face the full might of the law.”

Also during the press briefing, Ramaphosa said he doesn’t worry about voters punishing the ANC at the ballot box for the rolling blackouts. Similarly, he says voters are still willing to put their crosses next to the ANC, despite all the revelations, as the ANC is admitting its mistakes and taking steps to correct them.

Ramaphosa said the ANC had “laid it all bare” in its elective conference in December 2017 report, “saying we ourselves have done a number of things wrongly and we are putting ourselves in the hands of our people with great humility”.

“And so we are saying having done so, we are saying: let’s move forward. We need to repair whatever has gone wrong. We must be measured on our determination, firstly on our humility to accept and secondly on our determination to get rid of corruption and to move forward. To this end, we are already taking enormous steps to move forward and rid South Africa of corruption. 

“And our people are listening to that, they are heeding our message, and they are saying, yes ANC, we hear you, we thank you for the way you are projecting it and we are prepared to vote for you so that you can continue with the work you have started.”

While Ramaphosa was speaking to journalists, he was flanked by Western Cape election campaign coordinator Ebrahim Rasool, who was recalled as Western Cape premier after allegedly bribing journalists to write positive stories about him in the so-called brown envelope scandal; Police Minister Bheki Cele, who was dismissed as national police commissioner after former Public Protector Thuli Madonsela found he was guilty of improper conduct and maladministration when the police entered into a R500m lease for the Sanlam Middestad Building in Pretoria; and Zizi Kodwa, who was recently accused of rape, which he vehemently denies.

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