2025 South Africa BA Crisis Project Workshop

In June 2025, the Crisis Representation Project Team (University of Sheffield, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, University of the Western Cape, and University of Cambridge) attended the ‘2025 South Africa BA Crisis Project Workshop’ hosted at CHR University of Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa. This workshop brought together core team members and NGOs for site visits, thematic analysis, collaborative writing, and planning outputs, focusing on themes that came out of the stories created in 2024 and interviews. The team had the opportunity to visit Equal Education in Khayelitsha and Project90 by 2030 in Manenberg.

The workshop ended with a short film output. The short film was created by residents living in low-income communities in Cape Town and Johannesburg (South Africa), and Cali and Buenaventura (Colombia). The project supported 40 residents across both countries to create 19 diverse stories reflecting their real life crises. The film showcases four stories: two about state absence and violence, and two about experiences and challenges of young people in relation to family life. See related publications.

 

The project is a British Academy-funded research aiming to understand and compare crisis representations and responses in four cities across two countries:

• South Africa: Cape Town and Johannesburg
  Colombia: Cali and Buenaventura

 

Organisation and Communities Visited

Equal Education

Project90 by 2030

Qandu-Qandu, Khayelitsha

Manenberg

 

Participants

Fiona Anciano, University of the Western Cape

Babongile Bidla, University of the Western Cape

Charlotte Lemanski, University of Cambridge

Melanie Lombard, Sheffield of University

Carlos Andrés Tobar, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana Cali

Vanessa Concha, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana Cali

Adriel Ruíz Galván, CORMEPAZ, Buenaventura

Makanatsa Ziyambi, Equal Education South African 

Natalie McAskill, Project90 by 2030