Cape Town residents calling for the protection of historical burial sites.
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Symbolic protest action by the Bo-Kaap residents against gentrification has highlighted how public action can help protect Islamic heritage and other historical burial sites in the Western Cape.
This includes the Black River Interest Group recently launching a petition against the development of land and the exhumation of 3000 human remains of people who were buried at the Black River Heritage Cemetery 200 years ago.
For more on this, VOC's Burning Issue host, Yazeed Kamaldien; spoke to local historian, Mogamat Kammie Kamedien; a trustee of the Tana Baru Trust and lecturer at the University of Cape Town School of architecture and anthropology, Saadiq Toffa and members of the Black River Interest Group, Basil Coetzee and Caroline Jamal.
This includes the Black River Interest Group recently launching a petition against the development of land and the exhumation of 3000 human remains of people who were buried at the Black River Heritage Cemetery 200 years ago.
For more on this, VOC's Burning Issue host, Yazeed Kamaldien; spoke to local historian, Mogamat Kammie Kamedien; a trustee of the Tana Baru Trust and lecturer at the University of Cape Town School of architecture and anthropology, Saadiq Toffa and members of the Black River Interest Group, Basil Coetzee and Caroline Jamal.
