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Fragments of Fietas

By (author) David Goldblatt

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Between 1948 and 2016, David Goldblatt returned periodically to Fietas, a suburb west of Johannesburgâ€™s city centre, to photograph the impact of punitive segregation and ethnic cleansing wrought by apartheid legislation on its residents and landscape. Moved by the life force of the predominantly Indian communityâ€™s families, shopkeepers, and small business owners, Goldblatt attempted â€˜to grasp something of their life and what they had built.â€™Â The resulting photographs, collected and published here for the first time, form a vivid social document of Fietas before, during, and after its destruction under the Group Areas Act. Earlier images of storefronts and domestic interiors contrast poignantly with those of their demolition from the late 1970s onwards. Dignified portraits of traders in their stores capture their determined efforts to build a life for their families. Interviews with past and present Fietas residents close the book, recalling the testimonials of Goldblattâ€™s subjects inÂ The Transported of KwandebeleÂ andÂ Ex-Offenders at the Scene of Crime.Â Exemplary of Goldblattâ€™s empathetic and observational documentary style, these photographs and oral histories establish a generous exchange between photographer and subject. Together these materials preserve narratives of Fietas as a racially diverse community that existed in defiance of apartheid. An accompanying essay by Professor Ashwin Desai places Fietas within the wider historical context of Indian South Africans and racist ideology before and after the advent of apartheid, completing a compelling reference to a little known community forever changed by the darkest point in South Africaâ€™s history.

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