
Facing north towards O.R. Tambo International Airport, this water park in Boksburg was reserved for the use of the ‘white’ population during the apartheid era.

Situated between Clifton and Camps Bay, Maiden’s Cove was one of the few beaches on the Atlantic seaboard reserved for the exclusive use of the ‘coloured’ population. During apartheid, a fence was erected between Maiden’s Cove and Bachelor’s Cove (a beach used by the homosexual community) as a means of keeping these two groups separate.

The industrial port of Port Elizabeth was used as a buffer zone between the beach reserved for the ‘black’ population to the north, and all beaches south of the coal depot which were previously reserved for the exclusive use of ‘white’ people under apartheid.

The ATKV (Afrikaans Language and Culture Association) still owns a substantial part of Hartenbos today. The facilities were reserved for the exclusive use of the ‘white’ population during apartheid.

Facing westwards from Soccer City and surrounded by the Crown Mines dump, this area was originally intended as a water park for the exclusive use of the ‘black’ population of Soweto during apartheid. Shareworld was never completed.
Michel Foucault said: "A whole history remains to be written of spaces – which would at the same time be the history of powers." This body of photographs examines the way in which the landscape was constructed to enforce separation, in the form of separate amenities, during the time of apartheid in South Africa.