Last night in New York, Columbia University’s Center for African Educaton, and the African Studies Working Group presented a screening of the film A Light on a Hill: A Tour of the Constitutional Court of South Africa, which presents Justice Albie Sachs’ popular tour of the Court building, detailing its historical significance, architecture, and the [...]

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David Krut Publishing (DKP) and the Constitutional Court extend an invitation to you to explore the Court and its art collection, and visit the DKP bookstore on Constitution Square. In honour of the Court DKP has published Light On a Hill: The Building of the Constitutional Court of South Africa, and the soon to be [...]

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Mapping Memory: Former Prisoners Tell their Stories is a project of Constitution Hill- the heritage precinct built around the Number Four prison complex and is now the home of Constitutional Court. The project brought back former prisoners who were held in the Women’s Jail and Number Four and created the opportunity for them to give material form to their memories made fragile by the passage of time.

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Author: Lauren Segal, Clive van den Berg and Churchill Madikida, English, Anthology, Soft cover, 230x190mm, 136 pp, full colour illustrations, ISBN: 978 0620 368193,
Price: (ZA)R 180.00

Thursday 10 May, The Taxi Art Education Programme had a magnificent time with the children from the Ridge School and Sibonile School in the No 4 Lekgotla Space at Constitutional Hill. The TAEP team shared with the youth how easy it is to communicate while having fun, getting dirty, being creative and learning new things about yourself and others around you.

A more indepth account of the day will follow soon with many more pictures of the creative communication clay party.

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David Krut Publishing invites you to the Cape Town launch of ‘Light on a Hill: Building the Constitutional Court of South Africa.’ The first Cape Town showing of a documentary film on the Court, will take place at the launch and Justice Albie Sachs and Bronwyn Law-Viljoen will be present to sign books.

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David Krut Publishing (DKP) is proud to announce the opening of the new David Krut Arts Bookstore at the Constitutional Court. November 2006 saw the launch of David Krut Publishing’s latest book Light on a Hill – Building the Constitutional Court of South Africa. The launch event, held at the Constitutional Court with all the [...]

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When the new Constitutional Court of South Africa was officially opened in 2004 it caused a stir in the legal and architectural fraternities. It was built on the site of the notorious Old Fort Prison that had once held Mahatma Gandhi and Nelson Mandela and was an unlikely building for a court.

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The David Krut team set out for the constitutional court in Braamfontein, Johannesburg. The team consisted of David Krut (publisher), Adele (graphic artist) Bronwyn (editor), Cara (publicist), Nicolette (copywriter) and Bazukile (junior writer).

The objective of the trip was to finalise the book cover and to strategies how to market the book Light on a hill: Building the Constitutional Court of South Africa which deals with the architectural aspects of the building and the story behind the design.

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