The artists at the Centre were the first in the village to be re-connected to their ancestral identity. They grew up in the township or on farms with the name “Bushman” as a pejorative term, and accepted their apartheid designation as “coloured”. Afrikaans, the language of the invaders, was the only language they knew. But through the museum, the wider community are finding and proudly identifying with their origins as Bushmen.
