The Transported of KwaNdebele is a riveting documentation of South Africa’s jarring history of apartheid. The book, dating back to 1989, follows Goldblatt as he records the journeys of the Ndebele people of KwaNdebele, a tribal homeland set aside for blacks during apartheid. The homeland was the NP government’s way of dissolving any economic accountability and responsibility to the people of KwaNdebele. The supposed intent was to grant independence to the homeland and allow its people to govern themselves. KwaNdebele had no self-sufficiency and its inhabitants were impossibly reliant on the industrial/commercial buzz of predominantly White Pretoria. Foreigners in their own land,this photo essay shows the people of KwaNdebele moving to and from work, many catching buses as at a time as early as 04:00 am, trying to navigate their way through apartheid’s choke-hold in pursuit an elusive freedom.
