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Paper short abstract:

In this paper I will discuss the intellectual, legal and political issues raised by a black South African Christian woman in her eighties whose mother tongue is IsiZulu. SM leads a group of people who fight to get back the land they have been evicted from in the beginning of the 1970’s. Before the apartheid regime had collapsed, in 1987, SM in a visionary momentum, made a plea for restitution. Despite her diligence and hope in a democratic future, until now, she is waiting for the farm of her childhood, where she wants to be buried. SM and her fellows experience along this endless process raises political and conceptual questions on politics, gender, racism and religion.

Paper long abstract:

In this paper I will discuss the intellectual, legal and political issues raised by a black South African Christian woman in her eighties whose mother tongue is IsiZulu.

SM leads a group of people of her age who fight to get back the land they have been evicted from in the beginning of the 1970's.

Before the apartheid regime had collapsed, in 1987, SM in a visionary momentum, made a plea for restitution.

Despite her diligence and hope in a democratic future, until now, she is waiting for the farm of her childhood, where she wants to be buried.

The children of this nowadays middle-class woman don't agree their aged mother risks her life fighting against a violent white farmer, against a government that has failed them.

SM finds support among her fellows who still live in the township where they all have been relocated in the 1970's.

The still alive like SM are backing by their fellows who have passed away.

Living and dead fight against time together. In their cosmopolitical movement, gender, racial and religious issues are raised and weaved together in the process of continuously producing hope in a better future.