The Castle of Good Hope in Cape Town has paid tribute to unsung struggle stalwarts to mark Heritage Day.

They include those who fought against armed colonial oppression.

Many tribes took up arms against Dutch and British colonialists in the 1870s.

A member of the Klipfontein Aboriginal Royal Kingdom, Adrian Manual says today marks the rebirth of the Khoisan, not just Heritage Day.

Today is not Heritage Day because it’s in the calendar of South Africa celebrating diversity in unity with so many indigenous people we have, but today we celebrate the rebirth of the Khoisan people. For that few years we’ve gotten so much traction after hundreds of years of injustice.

We have come through slavery, apartheid, yet the Khoisan people the, aboriginal people of South Africa have been left behind, we have pleaded with government.”

We must embrace a radical perspective shift within our museums, one that reimagines these institutions so they may effectively respond to the sensibilities, aspirations, and challenges of the 21st century and beyond.

This is a call to decolonise our museums, to Africanise them… pic.twitter.com/BLgSrGpxnQ

— Paul Mashatile🇿🇦 (@PMashatile) September 24, 2025