I have walked passed this art work often, and only on a recent tour by Culture Connect did I learn about the true significance of this special space. From a distance, we see the image of a child's face, and only on closer inspection, multiple newspaper ads are revealed.

Our history reveals that between the years 1841 and 1921, 7000 "destitute children"were advertised in the Cape Government Gazette, and if they were not claimed by someone who was able to support them, they were indentured as labourers and distributed to a variety of farms.

I selected at random, one advert describing a boy of ten years old whose parents had died and if no relatives claimed responsibility for him, he would be apprenticed.