The Challenges of Peacebuilding Due to the Exclusion of Farming Community in the TRC in South Africa: The Case of Ntabamnyama

Abstract

This research investigates developments in Ntabamnyama, beginning in the 19th century. The Ntabamnyama had their land forcibly  taken from them by White settlers and this generated intense conflict. The occupation by White settlers was without treaty or payment,  which effectively denied indigenous people's prior occupation of and connection to the land. This has been a major issue for the Truth  and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), which never passed through Ntabamnyama. The concept of Mfecane, disruption of boundaries and governance, which already existed before 1820, is affirmed by the theoretical framework used in this piece of work, which discounts  ownership through discovery using the telanulius by recognising the history of the people before the one told by white men in South  Africa and their collaborators in the country. The conclusion arrived at is that absolute peace can be restored if what was stolen from  Ntabamnyama Indigenous Community can be restored, their land, rivers, mountains and skies with their stars.