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The Truth about Tengenenge Sculpture Community: the village Bloemfield wanted to keep in the Dark Ages

Tom Bloemfield is eulogized for having ‘persuaded’ his farm workers to, “try their hand at sculpture” purely for altruistic reasons; out of concern for their livelihoods and after he became aware of a huge deposit of black serpentine (rock) situated on a hill on his farm. This, however, is a fallacy. His farm workers were already sculpting part-time on their own. It is their initiative that lit…