Introduction: Engaging with public art in South Africa, 1999-2015 / Kim Miller and Brenda Schmahmann
Part 1: Negotiating difficult histories
A Janus-like juncture: reconciling past and present at the Voortrekker Monument and Freedom Park / Elizabeth Rankin
A thinking stone and some pink presidents: negotiating Afrikaner nationalist monuments at the University of the Free State / Brenda Schmahmann
The mirror and the square-old ideological conflicts in motion: Church Square slavery memorial / Gavin Younge
Part 2: Defining and redefining heroes
Public art as political crucible: Andries Botha's Shaka and contested symbols of Zulu masculinity and culture in KwaZulu-Natal / Liese van der Watt
Mandela's walk and Biko's ghosts: public art and the politics of memory in Port Elizabeth's city center / Naomi Roux
Commemorating Solomon Mahlangu: the making and unmaking of a "struggle" icon / Gary Baines
Part 3: Erasures and ruins
The pain of memory and the violence of erasure: real and figural displays of female authority in the public sphere / Kim Miller
Transgressive touch: ruination, public feeling and the Sunday Times Heritage Project / Duane Jethro
Part 4: Ephemeral projects
Public art, troubling tropes: an unsettling intervention in Cape Town / Shannen Hill
Unsettling ambivalences and ambiguities in Mary Sibande's Long Live the Dead Queen public art project / Leora Farber
Unsanctioned: the inner-city interventions of Julie Lovelace / Karen von Veh
Rage against the state: political funerals and queer visual activism in post-apartheid South Africa / Kylie Thomas
Telltale signs: unsanctioned graffiti interventions in post-apartheid Johannesburg / Matthew Ryan Smith.