The story that brought us here Our new, democratic government has had almost no success of reversing apartheids’ spatial legacy. The township of Macassar is inhabited by so-called coloured people of mixed-race origin, only 5km from the closest economic hub. However, surrounded and cut off by a national highway, ammunitions factory, sand mine and wetland, […]
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Between me and you there lies so much. There are misunderstandings, emotions, experiences and stories; histories and opinions, reasons and reasonings. If only that was all. In the case of South Africa, these personal bits of evidence of our existence are still today defined by railway lines, rivers, sewerage plants, mines, industrial areas, highways and
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Iipelisi. Iziphazamisi. Tang. Pliers. No matter the language, the tool we use to cut a wire fence remains the same. You take a pair of pliers; you take care to hold the tension of the wire when you cut so it doesn’t swing back and cut your face; you cut; you cross the boundary. As
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