Featured Research: Justice & Society

Gallery

Looking back in time - An Impossible Return

Data – in multiple forms – informs stories, and stories shape the things we study. In this case, the acclaimed late South African sculptor David Brown helped UP academic and filmmaker Dr Siona O’Connell reshape one of her studies of forced removals.

Infographic

What was the impact of the forced removals in Harfield Village?

At a 2015 meeting with O'Connell, Brown shared photographs he had taken when he was a student at the Michaelis School of Fine Art at the University of Cape Town. The pictures (illustrated in this article), were taken in the 1970s and show members of a community living in Harfield Village, in Cape Town's southern suburbs.

Stories

Heritage: Finding your way back home after being 'uitgesmyt'

The story centres on the coloured community in Elandskloof, in the picturesque Cederberg region of the Western Cape. The community was forcibly and violently removed from this area in 1962 when, as a result of the Group Areas Act of 1950,

Video

Documentary: 'An impossible return'

Data in multiple forms informs stories, and stories shape the things we study. In this case, the acclaimed late South African sculptor David Brown helped UP academic and filmmaker Dr Siona O'Connell reshape one of her studies of forced removals.

Video

Documentary: Uitgesmyt (Cast Out)

Uitgesmyt - cast out - is a documentary by Dr Siona O'Connell which tells the story of the first land restitution case in South Africa.

Lecture

‘Can International law address the most pressing concerns of society? In search of solidarity’

Our society is facing a myriad of challenges, many of which have been exacerbated and highlighted by the recent COVID-19 pandemic. These include, among many others, the scourge of poverty, and environmental issues such as anthropogenic climate change. Academic literature has observed that the rise in populism has eroded the ability of international law to play a positive role in addressing many...