• A Writer’s Reframing
    of the Past

  • A Writer’s Reframing
    of the Past

History & Heritage

Straining Against the Archives

A gathering was recently held in Cape Town to read my essay, Unpick, Restitch: Doilies, Medorahs and Labouring Plants. The essay is the first in

Seeing the Other as Human

When I turned 50, I decided that it was time to equip myself with the tools necessary to write the stories of where we come

Perennials are ever-blooming, relevant people of all ages who know what’s happening in the world, stay current with technology and have friends of all ages. We get involved, stay curious, mentor others, and are passionate, compassionate, creative, confident, collaborative, global-minded risk takers.

Gina Pell

Perennials are ever-blooming, relevant people of all ages who know what’s happening in the world, stay current with technology and have friends of all ages. We get involved, stay curious, mentor others, and are passionate, compassionate, creative, confident, collaborative, global-minded risk takers.

Gina Pell

Slavery & Apartheid

Starting Conversations

I was recently the guest author at the Woman Zone Book Club and I am enjoying the conversations that Off-Centre

Memorial wall for the enslaved people who lived on the Solms-Dealta farm, Franschoek

Echoes of Slavery

By:  Prof Siona O’Connell, Critical African Studies Project, UP Dr Nadia Kamies, Post-Doc Dept Historical & Heritage Studies, UP The

Projects

From Signal Hill to the Kamiesberg

This is a journey of understanding, from Signal Hill, in Cape Town, where the voices of our enslaved and exiled …

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Fieldguides for a Preternaturalist

deep histories fragile memories is an artistic research cluster based at LUCA School of Arts, Brussels. It aims to bring …

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Towards Freedom

The Slave Church, Cape Town (2018) The Slave Church in Long Street, Cape Town, is the oldest existing mission building …

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Our Forefathers Built this Church. Vertel! Vertel!

The Old Mission Church, Montagu (2019) Montagu Museum encompasses Joubert House, The Art and Culture Centre and the Old Mission …

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Retitled: Slavery and Freedom

Blettermanhuis, Stellenbosch (2019) Hendrik Lodewyk Bletterman became the landdrost of Stellenbosch in 1785, the last magistrate to be appointed by …

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