Thread by @drtlaleng

We, @SweatTweets are calling Lead Curator Gabi Ngcobo & Christopher Till, Director of the Javett Art Centre at University of Pretoria @UPTuks to remove the artwork of convicted womxn murderer Zwelethu Mthethwa from "All in Day's Eye: The Politics of Innocence" exhibition

On 13 April 2013 Nokuphila Kumalo, a 23-year old womxn and sex worker was brutally beaten and stomped to death by Zwelethu Mthethwa in Cape Town. The crime was captured on CCTV footage and Mththwa was sentenced to 18 years imprisonment in 2017.
Link: bit.ly/2mtxUlY

The Javett Art Centre at the University of Pretoria, @UPTuks is exhibiting Mthethwa's work with a caption that notes Mthethwa has ‘always maintained his innocence’. This is a violent erasure of his deeds.

#masepa

The irony of promoting the work of a man convicted of murdering a womxn as part of an exhibition against the backdrop of the current GBV and femicide epidemic in South Africa is a complete disregard of the trauma this and all other acts of violence against womxn causes.

We demand the Lead Curator Gabi Ngcobo and Christopher Till, Director of the Javett Art Centre at the University of Pretoria to take down Mthethwa’s work out of respect to the family of Nokuphila; to vulnerable and marginalised populations, and to the countless victims of GBV/F

"Her injuries are indicative of a high degree of force. The liver was virtually torn in half. She had various rib fractures and injury to the face.
He kicked her more than 60 times, paused during the attack and then chose to continue."

The murderer @UPTuks chooses to exhibit

Here's a petition to help us, @SweatTweets get the message out.

NO TO MTHETHWA EXHIBITION AT @UPTuks!!

STOP REWARDING MURDERERS. HE KICKED HER MORE THAN 60 TIMES. ALL CAPTURED IN CCTV FOOTAGE. HE WAS FOUND GUILTY.

STOP THIS EXHIBITION AT @UPTuks

awethu.amandla.mobi/petitions/remo…

YOU ARE DISGUSTING @JavettUP and @UPTuks should be ashamed.