Red Ants: Photographs and Poems

Botsotso is coordinating an exhibition on the subject RED ANTS, the notorious eviction squads used to clear buildings of “undesirables’.

The photographs are by Kabelo Mofokeng and we invite all poets to submit poems/prose-poems on the subject of housing needs and the debacles of eviction without alternatives being given to those made homeless.

The deadline for submission is 30 November 2008. We cannot guarantee that all poems submitted will be used in the exhibition but a book will also be produced and that may have room for more contributions. The exhibition will kick off at the Womens Gaol, Constitution Hill complex, Johannesburg early next year.

All submissions to be sent to: botsotso@artslink.co.za