Guest : Ernestine Dean

Ernestine Deane is a co-director of the project The Constantia Heritage and Education
Project which is a non-profit organisation established to educate, celebrate and
preserve the rich history of the former residents, forcibly removed from Constantia- and
to build community relationships. Her family was one of those removed from their
Constantia farmland in the mid 60's.
The work at CHEP and the annual event has been a great source of education and a
beacon of hope for many on the Cape Flats. Many of the youth being quite unaware of
the legacy of our collective history BEFORE the Group areas act and forced removals
created the Cape Flats. For some of the elders, it has been an opportunity for great
healing, to visit the graves of their loved ones in Constantia, or to walk the lanes of
what was once their farmland, reminiscing about the rich community life in the
Constantia of old.