Sue Williamson

The Last Supper at Manley Villa

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Naz Gool-Ebrahim, a fierce symbol of District Six’s resistance, died in 2005 in Belhar, far from the home she fought to keep. Forced from Manley Villa to a small flat in Gatesville, she never settled. In Sue Williamson’s 1981 photograph, Naz leans against the garden wall of her Rochester Road home, her gaze steady, as the surrounding destruction continues its slow, irrevocable claim. Years later, Williamson revisited this moment for the making of The Last Supper at Manley Villa, printing images unseen for decades. Among these is the eviction notice, the official hand that sealed the family’s fate. Returning in 2005, Williamson found only grass where the villa stood. The final shot, reduced in color, speaks of time's passage, the quiet erasure of a place that no longer exists.