The Javett Art Centre organises and participates in the much anticipated "Yakhal’ Inkomo" exhibition

The Department of Library Services and the Faculty of Humanities’ Javett Art Centre organised and participated in the much anticipated Yakhal’ Inkomo exhibition. Yakhal’Inkomo, which can be translated as ‘the bellowing bull’, was inspired by a 1968 jazz recording composed by Winston Mankunku Ngozi and is a call to black artists to awaken and unite to continue confronting and resisting the legacy of the apartheid era.

This is the first curated exhibition of works from the Bongi Dhlomo collection, which features works by some of the best-known black South African artists who were active between 1960 and1990. The artist Bongi Dhlomo collected the artworks for the Javett Foundation during the period 2017 to 2019. Tumelo Mosaka is the leading curator of this exhibition, which includes more than 100 classical artworks produced by black South African visual artists, musicians, filmmakers, authors, and theatre-makers.

The Vice-Chancellor, Professor Tawana Kupe, officially opened the exhibition during an exclusive event on 25 March and it will be open to the public until 23 January 2003.

A total of 39 books from the Department of Library Services’ special collections and the Humanities and Mamelodi libraries are also on display.

Books from the library chosen to be part of the exhibition