Near the Guga S’Thebe Arts & Cultural Centre are four colourful, mosaic-decorated plinths. Each side of the plinths has a different theme: one is the only memorial to the Mendi, a troop ship that sank in the English Channel in 1917, drowning 607 members of the South African Native Labour Corps.
The huge mural painted on the building opposite the cultural centre was done by Philip Kgosana, the man held aloft in the composition – it commemorates the 1960 defiance campaign against apartheid laws.
