Notes

This work is among Pemba’s most imaginative works which he painted after reading in the newspaper how the Gamtoos River near Port Elizabeth came down in flood carrying with it the dead bodies of both animals and people.
Jacqueline Nolte in her essay Sources and Style in the Oil Paintings of George Milwa Mnwaluza Pemba published in the South African National Gallery’s 1996 catalogue of a retrospective exhibition on Pemba describes the work as Pemba’s ultimate commitment to imaginative production rather than to historical production…”

Exhibited

The South African National Gallery, Cape Town, George Pemba Retrospective Exibition, 1996, catlogue number 123

Literature

Huddleston, Sarah. (1996) George Pemba: Against All Odds, Johannesburg: Jonathan Ball Publishers. Illustrated in colour on page 153.