Later, still covered with the purple dye that riot police sprayed on protesters, Mandindi created a linocut celebrating the spirit of freedom.
Mandindi's work featured in a Museum of Modern Art Exhibition in London (1990) and in the South African National Gallery in Cape Town (1994).
For example, in the print triptych "Prophecy" (1985) and again in the oil painting "African Madonna"[10] (1986) Mandindi reinterpreted the fateful Xhosa prophetess Nonqawuse in relation to the experience of economic exploitation of migrant labourers under apartheid.
His works can be found all over the world Mandindi's art combined warm colours and comic figures with serious political issues to create unsettling results.
[11] Mandindi also worked with more traditional media, such as oil pastels (for example, in "The Death of Township Art"),[11] and his use of charcoal (in a self-portrait, for instance).