As part of a public sculpture festival to commemorate Heritage Day, Beezy converted the bronze statue of Boer War General Louis Botha outside Parliament into a Xhosa initiate - wearing a traditional blanket and hat, face painted with white clay. The statue's transformation provoked a death threat and received extensive international press and TV coverage as a provocative symbol of South Africa's transition.
September 1999
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