Rainbow Nation Peace Ritual

The day after South African State President F. W. De Klerk announced that the African National Congress (ANC) and other political organisations would be unbanned and Nelson Mandela would be released from prison, a small group of Capetonians took to the streets in an act of guerrilla street theatre.

The production, which lasted a couple of hours, began at the Old Townhouse in Greenmarket Square, Cape Town.

It then proceeded down Shortmarket Street and ended in St George's Mall.

Participants included the anarchist Nat Tardrew, filmographer Nodi Murphy, ecologist and artist Karen Rolfes, performance artist Rehane Abrahams, publisher David Robert Lewis, and musician Philip Nangle.

Documentary footage of the event was filmed by Craig Mathews of Doxa Productions.