This research looks at notions of intergenerational transfer of trauma and Black experiences of the police dog in the age of the Anthropocene: how apartheid police violence, understood through the dog, unearths new layers of relationalities between Black South Africans and dogs as non-human species of animals.
Picture: "Black demonstrators cower from a police dog at Gugulethu township near Cape Town on 12 August 1976", from South African History Online www.sahistory.org.za
Researcher
mpho a. ndaba is a writer and documentary filmmaker. mpho holds a BA degree in International Relations (IR) and Media Studies (2016), from the University of the Witwatersrand (WITS); an Honours degree (2017) in Development Studies from the University of Cape Town (UCT); a masters degree in sociology from WITS (2021); and a Mphil in Environmental Humanities South, from UCT (2022). In 2018 mpho was listed in the Mail & Guardian Top 200 Young South Africans, in the Environment category. And received the Open Society Foundations Scholarship in 2019. Ndaba produced and hosted Free Media, Free Minds for Cape Town TV (2018); and produced Generation Change for Al Jazeera (2021), and founded Changing the Lense SA (CTLSA) (2018), a multidisciplinary and collaborative platform on black queer and climate stories.