As part of a public sculpture festival to commemorate South Africa's Heritage Day, in September 1999, Bailey converted the bronze statue of Boer War General Louis Botha outside Parliament into a Xhosa initiate, wearing a traditional blanket and hat and 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. Please click a thumbnail for a detailed view: