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Grave matters: dispossession and the desecration of ancestral graves by mining corporations in South Africa
Journal of Contemporary African Studies Pub Date : 2021-06-26 , DOI: 10.1080/02589001.2021.1926937
Dineo Skosana 1
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ABSTRACT

Dispossession is characteristically associated with the period of colonialism and apartheid in South Africa. Consequently, not much consideration is given to how the previously marginalised continue to be dispossessed in their everyday lives by coal mining activities in the current political dispensation. This article reframes dispossession as a perpetual post-apartheid experience in African communities. In this paper, dispossession does not only encompass events of deprivation, and the loss of land and property, but also covers the loss of the incorporeal. The relocation of African ancestral graves in Tweefontein (Ogies) is discussed as an aspect of dispossession. The politics surrounding household relocations and grave exhumations illustrates how communities not only lose the material; land and tombs, but also lose their intangible possessions; ancestral connection, identity, heritage and belonging because of mining.



中文翻译:

坟墓问题:南非矿业公司对祖坟的剥夺和亵渎

摘要

剥夺的特征与南非的殖民主义和种族隔离时期有关。因此,在当前的政治体制下,以前被边缘化的人如何在日常生活中继续被煤矿活动剥夺,没有太多考虑。本文将剥夺重新定义为非洲社区永久的后种族隔离体验。在本文中,剥夺不仅包括剥夺、土地和财产的损失,还包括无形体的损失。Tweefontein (Ogies) 的非洲祖坟的搬迁作为剥夺的一个方面进行了讨论。围绕家庭搬迁和坟墓挖掘的政治说明了社区不仅失去了物质;土地和墓葬,也失去了无形的财产;

更新日期:2021-06-26
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