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What if the earth could remember what we have forgotten?
In a moving piece, “Pula e ntle”, Thandiwe Gaobepe explores grief, memory, and the hidden voices held within landscapes. Through Naledi’s journey, caves, fossils, and ancient places become more than remnants of the past, they become living archives waiting to be heard.
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Antarctic Drift: Southern Africa's Heritage of Ice

Explore Southern Africa’s connections to Antarctica through art, writing, memory, landscape and Indigenous knowledge.

Curated by Dr Sikho Siyotula-Siegemund, the exhibition brings together 14 artists and writers, including two of our FicSci 03 sea_ice writers Campbell Meas and Senna-Marie Bosman and Mehita Iqani who joined the writer in residence programme on the SA Agulhas II in 2025.

The opening event on the 21st of August will feature a live performance by Campbell Meas and Senna-Marie Bosman, an introduction to the Antarctic Artists and Writers Programme (AWP) Pilot by Professor Charne Lavery, and a poetry reading by Professor Mehita Iqani from her chapbook Standby. The evening concludes with the official opening of the exhibition, followed by drinks and exhibition viewing.

View the exhibition from Friday, the 21st of August till the 18th of September at Gallery 2-1, University of Pretoria, Hatfield Campus, University Road entrance, next to the Visual Arts Building.

RSVP is required for campus access, email [email protected] with your name, contact number, and email address.

What if the past returned in a form we could no longer recognise? 💭
In a gripping story, “1988”, Buntu Makhedama blends horror and speculative fiction to explore survival, loss, and humanity’s relationship with disease and transformation. Follow Maria’s journey through a world reshaped by the mysterious Limu outbreak and the creatures it creates.
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What happens when humanity is no longer the centre of the story? 🤔
In a visionary piece, “The World of Aftertime”, Cheri Hugo imagines a future beyond human dominance, where rocks, water, and landscapes hold memories of everything that came before. Enter a world where Earth is not something to be saved, but something to be listened to.
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What will the future find when it looks back at us? 🪞
In “Caved”, Tayla Paige reimagines caves as portals through time, exploring evolution, extinction, and the traces humanity may leave behind. Blending speculative fiction with geological imagination, the piece asks what stories our fossils will tell future generations.
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What if the Earth wrote its own history? 🌍
In “Missing; Links”, Mehita Iqani explores deep time, evolution, and the mysteries preserved within the fossil record. Through a poetic conversation between science and imagination, the piece considers what rocks, bones, and ancient traces reveal about who we are and where we come from.
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How much history can a single stone hold? 🪨
In “spasie/space”, Engela Duvenage explores caves, fossils, and deep time through a poetic reflection on geology, humanity, and the traces we leave behind. From ancient landscapes to modern scientific discovery, the piece reveals the connections between rock, memory, and the stories waiting beneath the surface.
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What stories are buried beneath our feet? 🤔
In “The Earth Remembers”, Bonolo Llale reflects on the Earth as a living archive, one that holds the traces of ancient lives, shifting landscapes, and forgotten histories. Through soil, bones, water, and stone, the piece explores how the planet preserves what humanity leaves behind.
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What if the Earth could remember what we forgot?

In “The Archive Stone”, Joy Persis Lupiya explores the mysteries hidden within rock,
where geology, technology, and ancient memories collide. When scientists uncover a
limestone fragment carrying an impossible message, they are forced to question what
the Earth has been preserving all along.

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What remains when grief, memory, and love move between worlds?
In “In Barzagh”, Gaireyah Fredericks follows Geoff, a young boy navigating loss, family, and the unfinished conversations left behind by a father’s absence. Through moments of tenderness, humour, and the mysterious spaces between life and memory, the story explores what it means to carry those we have lost with us.
Read Geoff’s journey by freely downloading - https://ow.ly/imny50ZzJZ1