The British empire brought the practice of commons enclosure to Africa to claim land. Its effects continue today at sites like the Liesbeek River in Cape Town.
Graffiti artist Falko Starr finishes a mural in the Cape Flats area of Cape Town.
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Elizabeth Sawchuk, Stony Brook University (The State University of New York) and Jennifer Midori Miller, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History
A survey of San ostrich eggshell beads - a common find at archaeological sites - paints a bigger picture of hunter-gatherers, herders and shifting cultural tradition.
When the University of Cape Town discovered skeletons in its archive that had been unethically obtained and used, they set about restoring justice to the bones and the community they came from.