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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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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 purpose of this study was to celebrate, bring awareness of and further educate Stellenbosch University students who participated in this study regarding the history of Charlotte Maxeke. The study topic was chosen to discover the different ways in…

To facilitate the visitor’s imaging of each house and period, all of the houses of the Stellenbosch Village Museum are equipped with a docent who is dressed in a period-specific costume. The docents all wear bonnets and long dresses – often with…