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Situating Nukain Mabuza's rock garden: a study of a landscape dwelling through multiple explanatory frameworksCuthbertson, Hazel Claire January 2017 (has links)
A research report submitted to the
Faculty of Humanities, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg,
in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree
Master of Arts (History of Art) by coursework and research report
March 2017 / In the 1960s and 1970s, farm worker Nukain Mabuza created a painted hillside rock
garden on a farm between Barberton and Kaapmuiden, Mpumalanga, South Africa. He
transformed his dwellings, and rearranged and painted the surrounding rocks according
to a unified scheme of geometric and animal motifs with a carefully selected colour
palette. This altered environment went far further aesthetically, and lasted far longer in
time, than the signs and scars that might typically result from a farm worker’s dwelling
upon the land. His work arguably bears some of the hallmarks of an inhabited ‘total work
of art’.
I challenge the dominant ‘outsider art’ explanatory framework adopted by JFC Clarke and
re-evaluate the fragmentary archive of Mabuza’s life and work. Working from the
likelihood that no single context will offer sufficient grounds for situating Nukain
Mabuza’s particular creative practice, I assess the relevance of cultural, historical and
religious contexts, which might have shaped Nukain Mabuza’s personal vision and
contributed to the form of his expressive environment. Nukain Mabuza’s altered
landscape has suffered considerable damage – there is no longer any trace of the two
dwellings and the stile, and the paintings on the rocks have all but disappeared. My
project seeks to contribute to the scholarship on Nukain Mabuza’s work by extending,
analysing, interpreting and situating his inhabited painted environment within the
worldview of southern African Bantu-speakers, as a unique personal creative expression,
and as an expression of the artist’s modernity. / MT2018
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Trials and triumphs in public office: the life and work of E J N MabuzaSarimana, Ashley January 2011 (has links)
Enos John Nganani Mabuza's life and work is used as a case study to highlight the conceptual and methodological theories and challenges in academic biographical writing regarding history, memory and legacies. This thesis answers the question: Who was Mabuza and what is his place or relevance in South Africa's history? We over-simplify and stereotype people because it is convenient. We judge others but there is no saint without a past or a sinner without a future. Mabuza reconciled with the main liberation movements and moved from a maligned position on the political fringes to a respectable one within the emerging black economic elite. History, like reference systems and values is not calcified or static. It is prone to interpretation, adaptation, modification, invention, manipulation, decomposition and re-composition. Bourdieu's habitus-field analysis, theory or logic of practice, notions of capital (symbolic, political, social, cultural and economic) is used together with Latour's actor-network theory as the basis of analysis of the social contracts and trust bonds that Mabuza was able to create and which enabled him to navigate South Africa's socio-political and economic milieus during apartheid and the transition in the early 1990s. As people or actors, we believe in the mantra, nothing ventured, nothing gained. We exercise agency and take risks every day. We make choices and those choices have consequences. Mabuza's choices in the fields of education, politics and business had implications for how he is perceived or has been written into history. His choices put notions of identity, citizenship, power, legitimacy, ambition, elite accommodation, class, personal and professional networks, popular struggles, agency and structure under the spotlight. Mabuza's involvement in Bantustan politics, for instance, is contextualised in terms of a historical overview of the unpopular role played by traditional authorities in South Africa before and during colonialism and apartheid. His later foray into the world of business, however, was facilitated in part, by the personal and professional contacts that he made whilst he was in politics and the opportunities which opened up during the country's political transition. Mabuza adapted to changing circumstances and demonstrated a level of versatility which other Bantustan functionaries did not or could not exercise.
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