Making Freedom

Freedom-making was both the clarion call and practice of the enslaved and the colonized. Archives have ignored or erased these practices. Yet, these practices open up different ways for us to live today. They open our imagination about possibilities of living.

In April 2022, farmworkers from the Western Cape led a protest march in Cape Town, to advocate for better working conditions and land reforms to ensure more equitable access to ownership. This protest was part of a longer wave of demonstrations, which also included the 2012 Western Cape Farmworkers' Strike led mainly by female farm workers and supported by the Rural Women's Assembly of South Africa. The 2012 Strike marked the first time in the history of the Western Cape that farmworkers engaged in radical mass activity.