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To whom it may concern Pumflet ‘gladiolus’ will be on sale at the Adderley Street flower market on 30 November throughout the day. It documents the conversation between ourselves about Luyolo, the black neighbourhood in Simonstown that was completely demolished in 1964 and from where most of the residents were moved to Gugulethu; and about Redhill, a black neighbourhood where people were moved to Ocean View and of which ruins still remain today. During our research about Luyolo and Redhill we looked at the paintings of Gladys Mgudlandlu, an artist from Gugulethu and the writings of Gladys Thomas, a poet living in Ocean View, in an attempt to find visual and literary links to these historic and contemporary sit es of forced removal. ‘gladiolus’ documents our speculations on Mgudlandlu’s depictions of Cape Town’s built environment of the 1960s and also our discussions with the poet Thomas from her Ocean View home. Through the documentation we meditate on the way these sites were linked t...

On 30 March 2017 pumflet: art, architecture and stuff  distributed its second edition called pumflet   'gaiety'.  'Gaiety' published the recollections of  Wilfred Damon,  ex-resident of Die Vlakte a site of apartheid forced removals in Stellenbosch. Wilfred's memories focused on the Gaiety Cinema, the bioscope designated for racialised persons of colour. He writes how he learnt that his favourite opera would not be screened there despite it showing at the Plaza, the cinema for white patrons. He snuck into the white cinema and watched the opera 'illegally'. The intervention included a public tour of the demolished neighbourhood and a screening of La Boheme at the site where the Gaiety once stood, today a commercial complex and a pizza eatery. A big thank you to all who contributed to make this event and intervention possible and to everyone who attended. Another tour is organised on 18 November 2017 from 10am -1pm and organised by Gallery University Stellenb...

This project evokes the lived experiences of Die Vlakte. Die Vlakte was demolished between 1969 and 1972 as part of apartheid’s project of separate development and forced removals of racialised people of colour from the centre of Stellenbosch.  Residents of Die Vlakte, led by Wilfred Damon, will take the audience on a tour of their memories behind contemporary Stellenbosch. "Wherever you see a parking lot - that's were we lived". The tour will be given in Afrikaans, translated into English. The tour will end at GUS with a music performance of live guitar by Wilfred, discussion, refreshments and distribution of the second edition of pumflet ‘gaiety’ - a publication of Wilfred’s recollections of Die Vlakte based events: the earthquake interrupted screening at Gaiety Bioscope and the non-screening of La Bohème. pumflet: 'gaiety’ compiled by  Ilze Wolff , Wilfred's daughter, architect and artist, is part of a serial publication co-founded with artist Kemang Wa Lehuler...

Join us in conversation with António Tomás as he presents his upcoming book 'In the skin of the city: Luanda or the dialectics of spatial transformation'. RSVP to tours@oharchitecture.com limited numbers apply TIME 18H00 - 19h00 MEET Wolff Architects  136 Buitengracht Street Bo Kaap Cape Town ABOUT António Tomás António Tomás received his doctoral degree in Anthropology from Columbia University, in New York. He is the author of a study on the African nationalist Amílcar Cabral titled O Fazedor de Utopias: Uma Biografia de Amílcar (The Maker of Utopias: A Biography of Amilcar Cabral (Lisbon [Portugal]; Praia [Cape Verde], Tinta da China; Spleen, 2007; 2008). He was the Ray Pahl Fellow at the African Centre for Cities, in 2014, at University of Cape Town, working on a book called In the skin of the city: Luanda, or the dialectics of spatial transformation. He has taught as a permanent staff member and visiting scholar in a number of academic institutions such as Makerere ...