Power, Politics, and Performances of Longing in Kat River

This paper examines how a physical interview-journey with a descendant of an 1829–30 Bastard settler of the Kat River Settlement in the Eastern Cape, South Africa, can offer insights into historical phenomena such as generational dispossession and resistance, as well as current issues, as the interviewee and his people again face the possibility of losing their land under current land redistribution.