The “old Malay camp” dates back to the South African Republican period when the Kruger government established the area in 1893/4 for a predominantly Coloured and Malay community. When the neighbouring ‘Coolie Location’ was evacuated and subsequently burnt to the ground in 1904 (ostensibly in response to the outbreak of bubonic plague) many displaced Indian…
Author: ilagardien
A Personal Website
This is my personal website, where I will host some of my writing and photography, and links to works published elsewhere. You will find, on these pages, posts about my family heritage, which is a project I am developing with the help of family members. I will clearly refer to “family heritage,” so if you…
Family Heritage First Draft Lines
As of today, I can place online only two confirmed Lagardien family lines. My own, and that of Anwar Lagardien. I will, for now, use ours as the “baseline” from which to work. They are just a start, and they are the only ones that I can confirm, to this stage. I need to know…
Family Heritage: Introduction
I am attempting to weave together a family heritage story. It is both an attempt at tracing the lineage of my own family (Lagardien, Abrahams and Harley) and situating it in the origins and history of the Cape Malays. With this project I am not trying to contest, or defend, promote or perpetuate exclusivist ethnic…
An Introduction to the Indian Ocean Slave Trade
By Karen Williams When many people think of slavery, they think of the translatlantic trade that took place between Africa, the Americas and the Caribbean. The legacy of enslavement in the Americas (particularly in the United States) is known globally through the cultural and political impact of African-American iconography, films, history and references in popular…
The Cruelty of Deliberate Forgetting
I am posting this edited version of a talk I gave, three years after it was published in the Mail & Guardian. It was not a paid assignment. I am placing it here as a type of community service/outreach/ The 1980s — represented in the exhibition Between States of Emergency: Photographers in Action 1985-1990 — were a…
Anton Lubowski Memorial Lecture
I was a panelist on the 2020 Anton Lebowski Memorial Lecture hosted by Stellenbosch University on 12 September. This year’s theme was on Social Justice. Below is the video. Please leave comments if you wish.
Check out my vlogs on the Video Page
This week I piloted a new vlog. It was initially intended to be a podcast, but I don’t have the equipment, nor the skills to edit audio. So, I pulled together my two favourite sports analysis (they really are brilliant), Lithemba Diale and Akhona Mashaya. The video is okay, the sound is a bit dodgy…
Verona Comet
