Indalo Yethu: Our livelihoods. Our nature. Our heritage.
RSVP
Date: Wednesday, 27 August 2025
Time: 14:00-17:00
Venue: Library Auditorium, University of the Western Cape, Bellville
South Africa boasts its renowned biodiversity worldwide. UNESCO World Heritage Sites of iSimangaliso Wetland Park and Mapungubwe Cultural Landscape, as well as the Cape Floristic Region are touted as conservation oases open for tourism. But communities in these areas are systematically pushed away from their homes to make way for wildlife, fences and protection for tourists.
Classical tourism systems ignore social and spatial justice in their attempts to “protect the environment”, and are created without input from people who have lived in and taken care of these areas over generations. In their fight to keep their homes, black people lose their land, their traditional practices, and sometimes their lives. But that does not stop them from creating beautiful spaces to live in and taking care of the environment with their ancestral knowledge.
With stories from the people who build in the face of brutality and researchers from UWC’s Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), this documentary shows what it means to fight for your land and the unique approaches to research that straddle ethnography and activism to ensure these communities’ resistance, resilience and rich heritages are at their strongest.
PLAAS’s first public screening of this documentary will take place at the University of the Western Cape, as part of the Faculty of Economic and Management Science’s eighth annual women’s month event, 30 years, 30 voices: Women reshaping South Africa’s future.
RSVP for the screening of PLAAS’s new documentary, Indalo Yethu, followed by a discussion.
Date: Wednesday, 27 August 2025
Time: 14:00-17:00
Venue: Library Auditorium, University of the Western Cape, Bellville
Panel discussants:
- Claudine Jones – Mannenberg
- Malany Meyer – Lavender Hill
- Judah Chaga – Khayelisha
- Russel Williams – Macassar
- Professor Moenieba Isaacs – chair
