• A Writer’s Reframing
    of the Past

  • A Writer’s Reframing
    of the Past

History & Heritage

Food as Archive: Kerrievis/Pickled Fish

by Wendy Morris and Nadia Kamies In Taati Niilenge’s Walvis Bay: Our Story (2024) Nangula Shikujele remembers the 1960s in Kuisebmond when fish were plentiful

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

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
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

Disturbing the Stereotypes

Art goes beyond mere entertainment – it is an ancient way of expressing who we are and what we stand

Mind Your Language

In spite of dramatic constitutional changes, South Africans remain stuck in the apartheid ways of thinking and relating to each

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