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The main aim of this study was to explore visual art as learning platform to negotiate social and cultural meanings and inform understanding of the self. The study took the form of an interpretive qualitative case study at Taung Junior Secondary…

The research questioned what a comparative analysis of the semiotic landscapes of the Stellenbosch Village Museum and the Kayamandi Creative District House Museum reveal about the broader historical and sociocultural contexts wherein each exist, with…

This study investigated the potential historical and sociolinguistic roles of the Cape vernacular Afrikaans, or Kaaps, within post-colonial contemporary South Africa. It explored notions surrounding the agency of the marginalised Cape vernacular…

Dice is played on a wooden board balanced on a milk crate. The game is played on a green mat featuring six symbols found on each side of the dice: the crown, spade, clover, diamond, heart and anchor. The game is played with three dice that are shaken…

Heart of Kayamandi was born from the FoodPods franchise started by Heart Capital, and is now a growing agricultural hub that helps small-scale entrepreneurs make a livelihood from the sale of fresh, organic vegetables in the community.

In…

Love2Give is an NGO based in Kayamandi that runs a food gardening programme as part of its activities.

Its food garden is tended by women from the township, who often have come from the Eastern Cape with knowledge of subsistence farming, but with…

The Reconciliation Lunch was started in Karin Viviers’s home in Kayamandi. It is a weekly meal that is shared between people of different races, cultures and backgrounds, and aims to facilitate understanding and tolerance.

Currently held at the…

Loyiso, also known as Roots in Kayamandi, has managed several successful food businesses in the township.

His first venture was a small chisa nyama stall, where meat is cooked on an open fire, which his cousin subsequently took over. In 2004, he…

Tembie runs a small takeaway food business close to the taxi rank in Kayamandi.

She learned how to cook traditional Xhosa food from her mother while growing up in the Eastern Cape. She sells amagwinya (also known as vetkoek) in the mornings, and…

Journal article published in Curator: The Museum Journal in October 2017. See original link here: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/cura.12222/full