Griffiths Mxenge Lifesize Bronze Sculpture

GRIFFITHS MXENGE - LIFESIZE BRONZE SCULPTURE

Griffiths Mxenge

The Process

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Lifesize Clay

Griffiths Mxenge was a physically llarge man. We decided to depict him in the typical raised fist stancethat made him appear even larger. As an activist, a lawyer as well as a community leader he fought against the unjust society that he found himself in.

Mould

The images shows a typical silicon rubber mould ready to be divided before being covered in it's fibre-glass jacket

Bronze & Patina

Unfortunately there are no finished bronze images yet - to be updated a.s.a.p.

Brief history

Griffiths Mxenge, (27 February 1935 – 19 November 1981) was a South African anti-apartheid activist.

Trained as a lawyer, he was assassinated by the apartheid secret police in 1981.

He was a member of the African National Congress (ANC). He was sent to Robben Island in 1966 because of his political activities. He was murdered by the Apartheid government agents led by Dirk Coetzee in Umlazi township south of Durban. He had multiple stab wounds and his body was found near the soccer field in Umlazi. He was married to Victoria Mxenge, who was later also assassinated.

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