At this auction, the Sunday Times will sell an NFT for a photograph that forms part of a set dating from the 1960s, taken in District Six, Cape Town. Residents of this neighbourhood were forcibly removed in the 1970s by the apartheid government.
These photographs were rediscovered in 1984 at the Sunday Times’s Cape Town offices. They are believed to have been taken by one or more Sunday Times photographers in the 1960s, though they remain uncredited, and were included in a District Six Museum exhibition in the 1990s.
The buyer at the November auction will acquire the NFT for one of these District Six images along with a second photograph that can be converted into an NFT too.
Some of the proceeds of the Sunday Times auction will go to a charitable cause.
Other highlights of the November 11 auction include:
- Liliesleaf Museum, the heritage site, selling an NFT of a secret “bullet pen” given by the Russians to OR Tambo;
- Black Rock Rhino Conservation selling the first-ever rhino-horn NFT, with all proceeds going to rhino conservation;
- rock star Arno Carstens of the Springbok Nude Girls selling his first-ever fine art NFT;
- Cape sculptor Marco Oliver selling a physical installation of his “face” sculptures, which have become ubiquitous in many high-end Cape Town hotels; and
- Bryan Habana selling an NFT for a meet and greet and time on the golf course with him.
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