part of no part

“Awakening on Friday morning, June 20, 1913, the South African native found himself, not actually a slave, but a pariah in the land of his birth.” Fast forward to 2018 in a post-Apartheid South Africa, where the land question remains seemingly a critical issue for the rulers of the territory.  Only this time the aim is to reverse the injustice that launched millions of broken souls into the South African social psyche. With an election approaching and the ruling party under serious challenge by a population growing increasingly impatient on the delivery of the promised “better future for all”, the governing party ramped up its political rhetoric on the land question and launched a broad and sweeping public engagement process.  The process often appears as a kind of Land TRC, where long suffering victims are afforded a platform to let off steam but where justice will remain a promise for the distant future. The distant future is unfortunately not a luxury t...