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12-05-2025
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The Love Letter Exhibition - commemorating 10 years of Movie Snaps
A look inside an installation of the Love Letter exhibition at Michaelis Galleries, UCT. Image: Supplied As South Africa marks 31 years of democracy, the Love Letter exhibition at the UCT Michaelis Galleries speaks in the language of absence and memory, with some of its standout pieces including an over two-metre large apartheid eviction letter and 80kg of keys once kept by families forcibly removed from their homes. Running until May 16, it appears alongside the evocative Movie Snaps photographic exhibition. The Love Letter commemorates the 10-year anniversary of Movie Snaps, the exhibition and documentary film on street photography and forced removals in Cape Town by University of Pretoria Professor Siona O'Connell in 2015. Once a beloved pastime, having your black-and-white portrait taken by Movie Snaps photographers captured everyday elegance on Cape Town's streets from the 1940s to the '70s. The Love Letter invites visitors to revisit those memories through images, installations, and the stories behind them. The project is produced collaboratively by O'Connell and Michaelis Galleries, UCT, curator Jade Nair, with the support of the University of Pretoria, District Six Museum and the Centre for Curating the Archive. 'The Love Letter' exhibition runs until May 16. Image: Supplied Along with the two-metre display, the exhibition features a further selection of eviction letters in display provided by the District Six Museum and the Commission on Restitution Land Rights, as well as period-accurate recreations of outfits worn by people in the Movie Snaps photographs sourced from vintage stores, alongside movie snaps photographs. 'When I joined this project as a project manager ten years ago I'd never heard of Movie Snaps, I didn't know what a Movie Snaps was. Until I saw a few and realised that the photos of my maternal family I had grown up looking at were Movie Snaps. So deeply ingrained are Movie Snaps in family archives across Cape Town that for many, the only photographic record of our forebearers are Movie Snaps. They are glamorous objects - beautiful black and white photographs of stylish people. But they belie a collective trauma, the displacement of forced removals,' said Nair. Video Player is loading. Play Video Play Unmute Current Time 0:00 / Duration -:- Loaded : 0% Stream Type LIVE Seek to live, currently behind live LIVE Remaining Time - 0:00 This is a modal window. Beginning of dialog window. Escape will cancel and close the window. 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Speaking at the opening, UCT, Emerita Professor Linda Ronnie added that South Africa was by no means unique in its history of dispossession, 'this is the story of every person whose land was and is being forcibly taken from them'. 'One of the most brilliant pieces of writing to capture this notion of historical dispossession is from Lebogang Seale and he writes: '[my home] is only a distant nostalgia now, for the land is no longer ours. Today it belongs to the descendants of colonial settlers; strangers who came from far-off places, and claimed it as their own. As in other parts of the country, the claiming of this land was an arbitrary and capricious land grab with no regard for owner's rights and sovereignty. The occupation altered our lives on a scale that is unimaginable.' Like Lebogang Seale and others, Siona O' Connell looks at 'the long reaches of the past'. She reminds us that everyday life continued then and still continues now and that we owe it to ourselves to acknowledge, remember, and talk about those moments (for ourselves and for future generations), even though they hold the potential to conjure up what Dikgang Moseneke, former Deputy Chief Justice, describes as 'feelings of fresh dispossession' – a haunting, melancholic yet necessary reflection. What can we learn from these past/present experiences? To continue the conversations and to raise issues wherever and in whichever way we can,' said Ronnie. The Love Letter is open to the public, free of charge until May 16 at Upper Gallery, Michaelis Galleries, UCT Hiddingh Campus, 31 Orange Street Gardens, Cape Town. The gallery is open weekdays from 10am to 3pm. Cape Times
Yahoo
11-03-2025
- Yahoo
Multiple Olathe convenience stores raided
OLATHE, Kan. — FOX4 has learned several Snaps stores in Olathe were raided Friday. 'We don't know any of the products was illegal, otherwise we won't put it out at the store, right?' the owner of the Ridgeview and Kansas City Road shop, who did not want to be identified, shared with FOX4 Monday. Snaps Food Mart, at Ridgeview and Kansas City Road, has flags out-front advertising it sells e-juice, vapes and accessories, along with Kratom. New lawsuit filed in three Chiefs fans' deaths following charges The store, at Ridgeview and Kansas City Road, had some product pulled from its shelves Friday. It's unclear what was taken and exactly how much. 'One of my employees called me and they said: 'We got raided.' They came and they took all these products, put them in these boxes and they left,' the owner said. 'Items off the shelf.' The owner, of that specific store, claims he didn't know any of the products he sold might have been illegal. 'Add to that, everybody in the state of Kansas, from border to border, they sell (the) same thing,' he added. 'Same wholesalers. Same suppliers. Same companies.' He said education surrounding what can be sold and what can't – is lacking. 'They (companies who sell the product) come running around the vape shop and gas station and sell them the same stuff. Show them lab result is good for Kansas and according to Kansas law and we buy it. We put it on the display (in) front of everybody. Nothing hidden,' the owner said. 'Everybody (is) confused, should I carry it or not?' Another store in Olathe, classified as a vape shop, confirmed to FOX4, it too had product taken, this store is under different ownership. Download WDAF+ for Roku, Fire TV, Apple TV 'You go see different places, you'll find the same products, so my question, why don't you go bust everybody then?' The owner at Ridgeview and Kansas City Road says officers took product for 'lab testing.' He doesn't know when he will get items back, if at all. FOX4 tried several times throughout the day Monday to reach out to the Olathe Police Department, to understand why the raid happened and what was seized. We were unable to get information from the department Monday. We are hoping to have answers from them Tuesday. . Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
