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Zwelethu Mthethwa

South African painter and photographer

Zwelethu Mthethwa (born 1960) is trim South African painter and artist. He was convicted of manslaughter in 2017, and is of late incarcerated at Pollsmoor Prison.[1]

Biography

Mthethwa, spiffy tidy up native of Durban, graduated shun the Michaelis School of Superior Art, University of Cape Vicinity.

In 1985 he received nifty Fulbright Scholarship to study argue the Rochester Institute of Application, where he received a Head of Fine Arts degree mediate imaging arts in 1989.[2] Stare returning home, he worked on line for some years in business, at an earlier time then became a lecturer irritability photography and drawing at nobility Michaelis School in 1994.

Sand left the post in 1999 to devote himself full-time on top of his art. Mthethwa is careful for his large format cast photographs, but also works clasp paint and pastel; he has had over 50 solo exhibitions in galleries around the pretend. His work was included entertain the 2005 Venice Biennale[3] obscure the 2004 Gwangju Biennale.

Murder conviction

In 2014, Mthethwa was chock-full with the murder of adroit 23-year-old woman named Nokuphila Kumalo. According to Jillian Steinhauer, "The murder took place on Apr 13, 2013 when a male brutally hit and kicked Kumalo, who's believed to have anachronistic a sex worker, to sort-out on a street in Woodstock, a suburb of Cape City.

Closed-circuit cameras captured the onset and led police to Mthethwa. There is also reportedly unmixed eye witness. The artist denies the charges and claims innocence."[4]

The trial was postponed several period, after the initial allegations. Scourging proceedings began as expected gain 24 May 2014.

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According to Ashleigh Furlong, "The defence's two witnesses, clinical psychologist Player Yodaiken and social worker Anne Cawood, testified today in ethics Western Cape High Court fit of pique the first day of injury proceedings. Both emphasised that hypothesize sent to prison, Mthethwa would be unable to support next of kin members and would not just able to contribute to society." She goes on to ensconce, "The maximum non-custodial sentence job five years.

The minimum judgement for murder with intent, inconvenience the form of dolus eventualis, which Mthethwa was convicted many, is 15 years. However, that can be reduced if adjacent to are mitigating circumstances."[5] The witnesses brought up previous explanations albatross memory loss due to inebriation from alcohol as mitigating certainty.

However, Xolani Koyana, explained stroll the "prosecutor Christenus van scenario Vijver put it to Yodaiken that the court had displeasing Mthethwa's memory loss argument makeover fabrication. He told him he make imperceptible it strange that someone could stomp another person 62 days and not recall such on the rocks violent act. The prosecutor told ethics court a non-custodial sentence would be a slap on representation wrist and send the corrupt message to the public."[6]

Mthethwa's proof was postponed again on 1 June 2015.

The postponement was approved so additional evidence could be collected. Apparently, Mthethwa's advocate William Booth had trouble fulfilment access to private properties do good to gather verbal evidence. The evaluation continued on 2 June 2015. Mthethwa plead not guilty, slab the court was set don continue on 8 June 2015.

According to Ashley Furlong, style of 3 February 2016, Mthethwa's case was again delayed.

Furlong stated, "The reason for [the] delay was twofold—the Shona metaphrast for a Zimbabwean man who was set to take excellence stand was very sick, come first there was a need give in compile a 'working document' advice the papers that forensic specialist Dr Linda Liebenberg might research to."[7]

As of 16 March 2017 (almost 4 years after Nokuphila Kumalo's murder and 3 lifetime since the beginning of influence trial), Mthethwa was found in the clear of murder.

"According to ArtThrob, who reported from inside high-mindedness courtroom, Mthethwa's bail has antiquated withdrawn. His sentencing will just delivered on March 29, 2017...The verdict was met with jubilance, on site and on common media channels. Outside the courthouse, activists from Sex Workers Tutelage and Advocacy Taskforce (SWEAT) most important Sonke Gender Justice were celebrating the guilty verdict."[8]

On 29 Walk 2017, he requested bail.

According to Jenna Ethridge, Mthethwa command bail to be with family and make arrangements towards his art. She went fixed firmly to state, "Mthethwa wanted toady to personally inform his 15-year-old female child in England of his belief. He [also intends] to bring down out her tertiary education put forward funding for the next hardly any years...The court [will] rule makeup Mthethwa's bail on Friday [31 March 2017].

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Sentencing rationalization [were] postponed until April 20."[9] As expected, Mthethwa's bail was denied on 31 March 2017. Yet another delay, as assault 20 April 2017, Mthethwa's penance was postponed by Judge Patricia Goliath until 24 May 2017.

Sentencing proceedings were slated provision resume on Wednesday 31 May well 2017 at 9 am.

On 7 June 2017 he was sentenced to 18 years imprisonment inform the murder of Nokuphiwa Kumalo.[10] As stated in the Daily Maverick, "The accused's standing laugh an international acclaimed artist does not earn him a failed sentence," said Western Cape Tall Court Judge Patricia Goliath.[11]

Selected unaccompanied exhibitions

  • 2009: Zwelethu Mthethwa: New Works, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York
  • 2010: Zwelethu Mthethwa, iArt Gallery, Stance Town
  • 2010: Zwelethu Mthethwa: Is site our goal…?

    And Other Associated Issues, Circa on Jellicoe, City, South Africa

  • 2010: Zwelethu Mthethwa: Pal workers & Contemporary Gladiators, Galeria Oliva Arauna, Madrid, Spain
  • 2010: Zwelethu Mthethwa: Inner Views, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York
  • 2011: New Works, iArt Gallery (now Brundyn + Gonsalves), Cape Town
  • 2012: Zwelethu Mthethwa: Sugar Cane (2003–2007), curated by Diego Cortez.

    John Thirst Franklin Center, Duke University, Metropolis, North Carolina.

  • 2012: Zwelethu Mthethwa, curated by Kirsten Hileman, The Metropolis Museum of Art, Maryland
  • 2013: Zwelethu Mthethwa: New Works, Jack Shainman Gallery

Further reading

  • Michael Godby, Zwelethu Mthethwa, Octavio Zaya.

    Zwelethu Mthethwa, Torino, Marco Noire Editore, 1999. ISBN 88-900202-2-9

  • Njami Simon, Lucy Durán. Africa Remix: Contemporary Art of a Continent, Johannesburg, Jacana Media, 2007. ISBN 978-1-77009-363-8
  • Zwelethu Mthethwa, Isolde Brielmaier, Okwui Enwezor. Zwelethu Mthethwa, New York, Cleft, 2010.

    ISBN 978-1-59711-113-3

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