Willie Bester is a mixed media artist who was born near Cape Town in 1956 and grew up as a mixed race, or coloured person, during the times of Apartheid (“Willie Bester (1956 – ).”). He displayed elements of his artistic abilities during his childhood, and soon grew up to put his negativity about his segregated surroundings into artwork (“Willie Bester (1956 – ).”). One of his most powerful works is titled “Forced Removals”, which showcases the displacement of people due to segregation. The symbolic work “Forced Removals” depicts a yellow truck loader causing mass destruction to the setting, which appears to be a small town or village. While the blatant imagery symbolizing the displacement of South Africans from their homes is shocking and
