Cape Town's Tana Baru Burial Ground: Wasteland or Private Property?

Abstract

Architect and artist Rodney Place, in an interview about concepts of
beauty and ugliness in the post-apartheid city of Johannesburg,
suggests that the industrial modernity of the landscape of South Africa
is a ‘wasteland' or friche waiting for ‘reinterpretation' and ‘occupation'.
Place argues in this regard that while much of the urban and rural
landscapes of South Africa may have been inherited or deliberately
created, they are also readymade ‘territorial frames' waiting for cultural
occupation:

Journal for Islamic Studies Vol. 24&25 2004/5: pp. 55-77