william kentridge is versatile, hard—hitting and his talents span many different genres. but how has south africa's violent and racist past influenced his work as a white artist? william kentridge injohannesburgome to hardtalk. zeinab, thank you very much and welcome to the studio in johannesburg. you were born injohannesburg in 1955, the son of two prominent anti—apartheid lawyers, wow did growing up lawyers, how did growing up under apartheid affect you? i think because my parents were both very much aware of and involved in legal questions around the anti—apartheid struggle, from a young age i was aware of how unnatural south africa was. there was always a slight disjunction between myself and say, other people in the class whose parents took it as a natural... remember all white school, all white children, assumed that apartheid was part of the natural order. so, from a very young age, both in terms of things that were said at the dinner table, and in terms of the people who came to the house, i was aware of the unnaturalness of south african society. your parents were very anti—apartheid although they weren't members of the anc but they represented people like nelson mandela, desmond tut