Thirteen Formative Years |
 JOHANNESBURG: A recent article by Doria E. Charlson in the MIT Press’ Drama Review notes that “Performances of ‘tribal dances’ in the mining compounds from the 1950s to 1970s provided a means to project miners’ productivity, contentment, and general well-being to both tourists (mostly white tourists from across South Africa, as well as from the UK and the US) and potential investors, alike.” This is a photograph that my father, Bobby Roberts, took in August 1953 at a gold mine in Randfontein (which is about 40 kilometres / 25 miles west of Johannesburg). |