Sonwabile Mancotywa

The issues of landlessness, poverty and under development that continue to plague the Eastern Cape cannot be understood fully without reference to the wars of dispossession and resistance that played out in the province in the eighteenth and nineteenth century. This was the assertion made by National Heritage Council chief executive officer Adv Sonwabile Mancotywa at the opening of documentary photographer Cedric Nunn’s Unsettled: 100 Years of War exhibition at the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan … [Read more...] about Towards a greater understanding of the issues of landlessness and poverty