The sculpture represents a mother and child made out of steel material.
The theme borrows from a typical day at the taxi rank which gets abuzz every morning with commuters shuttling to various destinations.
The artwork was commissioned as part of the Metro Mall Project in 2009, and was constructed at the Funda Community College in Diepkloof, Soweto, by the three artists (Tshidiso Makhetha, Simon Mthimkulu, and Ezekiel Budeli), who were also lecturers at Funda Centre at the time . The artwork took six months to complete, and was hoisted and mounted at the corner of Bree and West Street (now Lilian Ngoy Street, and Ntemi Piliso Street), Johannesburg.
Steel welded sculpture of mother, at 2.3m, with arm wrapped around child who stands around 1.6m.
The sculpture represents a mother and child made out of steel material.
The theme borrows from a typical day at the taxi rank which gets abuzz every morning with commuters shuttling to various destinations.
The artwork was commissioned as part of the Metro Mall Project in 2009, and was constructed at the Funda Community College in Diepkloof, Soweto, by the three artists (Tshidiso Makhetha, Simon Mthimkulu, and Ezekiel Budeli), who were also lecturers at Funda Centre at the time . The artwork took six months to complete, and was hoisted and mounted at the corner of Bree and West Street (now Lilian Ngoy Street, and Ntemi Piliso Street), Johannesburg.
A culmination of research gathered over many years, the Online Johannesburg Heritage Register is being launched on Nelson Mandela Day 18 July 2025.
Among the many heritage sites featured is Chancellor House, the downtown offices of Mandela and Tambo Attorneys in the 1950s. After having been vacant and shuttered for more than a decade, this iconic building is being revived and brought to life once again as offices for the Community Development Department, which oversees the City’s Arts, Culture & Heritage Services.
