At the Fort entrance off Kotze Street is an exhibition introducing the different types of inmates who were held in this prison: Nelson Mandela and Mahatma Gandhi, but also violent criminals and ordinary people whose only crime was that they were black. Also at the entrance, in the old "delousing room", there is a display of the various models for the Constitutional Court and the Constitution Hill precinct. Further information about the site and the City of Johannesburg's plans for it can be obtained in the Documentation Room in the Women's Gaol (see below).
The History of our Future: Rampart Walk
The Fort ramparts provide a unique vantage point over the site of Constitution Hill, Hillbrow, the city of Johannesburg and, indeed, South Africa. The ramparts are a bridge between the past - as represented by the old prison buildings - and the future as represented by the Constitutional Court. But the past remains misunderstood and the future under construction. Using South Africa's Constitution and Bill of Rights, this exhibition looks at where we are today, standing on the ramparts of a society in transition, looking back at the difficulties of the past and the possibilities of the future …
"Three Women": Women's Gaol
Daisy de Melker, Nomathemba Funani, Jrannie Noel. A murderer, an ordinary woman spurred to become a pass resister, a political activist from Durban. An installation in silk, sound and photographs which tells the stories of three very different women who spent time at the Women's Gaol, in 1932, 1956, and 1976 and whose ghosts and memories still occupy its cells and corridors …
Memory Room and Documentation Room: Women's Gaol
All these exhibitions are starting points for how Constitution Hill will eventually operate as a heritage, education and tourism site. In the Memory Room - which is located in the Women's Gaol - visitors are invited to listen to recordings of ex-prisoners' memories and to record their own memories of and responses to Constitution Hill. Adjoining the Memory Room is a Documentation Room, out of which the Constitution Hill Archive will develop.
Art of Africa
Halala Joburg
Celebrating projects that have made a difference in regenerating the Joburg inner city.
