LONDON.- Trojan Horse III by Willie Bester
is on
show at Robert Bowman Modern from 1st July 2010. The title of the work
refers to
the Trojan Horse Massacre. In October 1985, heightened tensions between
anti-apartheid demonstrators and police came to a head in the Cape Town
suburb
of Athlone. Eleven days after the Government declared a state of
emergency in
other parts of the country, police hidden in the back of a South African
Railways truck fired directly into a hundred-strong crowd at an
intersection on
Thornton Road. Michael Miranda, 11, Shaun Magmoed, 16, and Jonathan
Claasen, 21,
were killed. Thirteen others were injured. Because it was an ambush, the
incident became known as the “Trojan Horse Massacre.” 2010 marks the
25th
anniversary of the tragedy.