Premiering our new film

We marked South African Heritage Day 2020 premiere of the film These are our Stories. A 27-minute film about the museum, made by Nana Dankwa and Jeni Couzyn with the Bushman Heritage Museum’s First People Artists. The film is based on the indigenous people of South Africa, the |Xam Bushmen. A group of “coloured” people in the Karoo village of Nieu Bethesda, in the Eastern Cape, who were mixed-race descendants of the |Xam, had completely lost their culture, language and identity during the genocide of the Bushmen in the colonial invasion. Through making art, and studying |Xam mythology at the Bushman Heritage Museum they were able to reconnect with their ancestral roots and recover from loss of identity and social deprivation. Watch it here [link].