City Deep

The decline of Johannesburg Art Gallery remembered by the artist as it was in his childhood days is shown alongside the daily routine of zama-zamas, illegal gold miners of that city. The composer Nhlanhla Mahlangu's mournful soundtrack accompanied by the constant sound of zama-zamas digging has a prophetic feel of something terrible that is going to happen, reinforced by the billboard phrases: Wait for better gods…wait for better people…