ABSTRACT
Art therapy in South Africa has emerged from a place of political violence. The ‘New South Africa’ is in the process of reconstruction and transformation. From 1948 to April 1994 apartheid was in force in South Africa. The Afrikaans minority ruled the African majority through a policy of ‘divide and rule’. South Africa was run as a dictatorship where any opposition to government policy or implementation was punished with death, torture, banning, detention and confiscation. Artists, writers, poets, actors and musicians were banned from telling their stories in words or images. This is the context into which I was born, and have lived most of my life.
