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A rugged, evil-looking vehicle, made to carry military personnel, is supported on thin stainless steel legs sprouting from a crushed pile of junk. It is a cyberpunk fetish referring to the archetypal war machines used by the security forces in South Africa. [Figures 99] Its cold mechanical, calculated presence is amplified by the absence of personnel. Conceptually, the high-tech parts of the hand weapons could have been salvaged from the wreckages of these machines left behind on post-apocalyptic battlefields. [Figure 100]

Cyberpunk and new Gothic sources such as Batman and Judge Dredd influenced the design of the vehicle. [Figures 101] The cowhide wheel-covers are derived from materials used in African fetishes. Consequently they are intended to transform the sculpture into a fetish, simultaneously hailing and mocking the brute power of the immense military machine.