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About Clinton de Menezes
Clinton de Menezes (1970 - 2013)
Brief overview:
Clinton (43), well known South African artist, living in Kenya, was shot dead at his friends house in Waterfall Avenue, Westville, Durban. De Menezes was shot in the chest as he attempted to stop the thee attackers from entering the house of Simon and Amanda Malpas where he was visiting with his daughter and wife.
Brief Biography:
- Other Victims/Family
- De Menezes’ wife Nicola and their daughter, Eva, now live in London. They are still traumatised and couldn’t return to South Africa for the trial.
- De Menezes’ father, Mark and mother, Norma Wilson, stepmother, Yvonne de Menezes and sister, Jacqui du Randt were Wednesday in the gallery of the Durban High Court listening to the testimony of De Menezes’ friend, Simon Malpas.
- Graham Payne, told the court that he and his wife had been forced to sell the house in which they had lived for 33 years in a bid to achieve a sense of security.
- Funeral/Memorial
- The Street/Suburb
- The Region (Land disputes, other incidents etc.)
- Before the De Menezes shooting, the trio broke into the home of Graham and Barbara Payne, shooting Payne in the hip on the night of December 13, 2013.
- On December 29, 2013 they broke into the home of Gail Hamilton.
Attack Details:
- Date and time of attack
- Weapons
- 9mm pistol
- Items Stolen
- Investigative officer/SAPS Case No:
- Torture, Gratuitous violence
- Indications of Hate Crime? Threats etc.
Perpetrator details:
- Number and Descriptions
- Arrests
- Ntokozo Langa, a metered taxi driver who has turned State witness, was hired to fetch the three from Clermont, drop them in Westville and fetch them after they had committed the crimes
- Name/s and age/s of Perpetrator/s
- Siyabonga China Khoza (25), Lungani Tevin Ngidi (23) and Bongani Makhatini (28)
- Country of origin of Perpetrator/s
- Trial/Conviction
- Khoza, who has a previous conviction for robbery, sat laughing in the dock while other victims testified, and was admonished by Judge Esther Steyn
- In March 2014, Ngidi and Khoza were convicted of robbery with aggravating circumstances, attempted murder, murder, and housebreaking.
- In the Durban High Court in July 2015, Judge Ester Steyn sentenced, Siyabonga China Khoza, Lungani Tevin Ngidi and Bongani Makhatini to life imprisonment. Fisto Alimasi (26) from DRC, was sentenced to six years imprisonment for receiving the stolen goods.
Additional Biographical Information:
De Menezes had lived in London and was living in Kenya at the time of his death. According to Jacqui Durandt, his sister, he had planned to return to South Africa after living in Kenya for three years and that he wanted to live in Westville.
Clinton was born in Johannesburg, South Africa in 1970. He graduated with a Masters Degree in Fine art from the Durban Institute of Technology in 2004.
De Menezes has lectured in painting, drawing and history of art. He successfully co-founded the Art and Sculpture Studio at Chestnut Road Studios and ArtSpace Durban, coordinating and facilitating painting and drawing classes for adult learners. He was the curator of The Cupboard Gallery and on the exhibitions committee for Durban’s acclaimed Red Eye Art Collective. In 2004 De Menezes founded Alchemy Studios, a company established to fabricate artwork for private and public spaces.
Clinton De Menezes was a multi-disciplinary artist working in a range of mediums that include installation, painting, drawing and photography. Growing up in the industrialised and mined landscapes of South Africa much of his work was informed by the aesthetic, the history and the changing socio-political attitudes towards the South African landscape and its visual representation.
In 2007 he relocated to the United Kingdom to actively market Alchemy Studios and pursue his career in Fine art. Since his relocation De Menezes had expanded his visual and conceptual terrain to include research in Topology and in the notions of displacement, migration, ecology, identity and mortality. In 2010 he was invited to install his signature work Procession (Exodus) in the Contemporary Galleries of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York on long-term loan. In 2011 he was selected as a finalist in the LICC arts awards and won the tender for a major commission for the new offices of PricewaterhouseCoopers in More London designed by Norman Forster.
De Menezes has work in public, private and corporate collections internationally. His work was displayed in galleries in New York and London and his death made international headlines.
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Clinton de Menezes's Timeline
| 1970 |
1970
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Johannesburg, GP, South Africa
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| 2013 |
December 31, 2013
Age 43
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Durban, KZN, South Africa
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