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Performing Artist and Land Activist, Masello Motana has taken the fight for land in South Africa to new artistic levels. Her dramatic depictions of key historical moments in the dispossession of blacks from their land is profound and artistically captivating.   

In this interview with Something Nice with Dinano, Masello vividly paints the cruelty of colonialism in Africa and the history of land dispossession in South Africa, from an Artists perspective. Masello Motana is an actress,singer and street performer in South Africa who is not afraid to challenge the status quo through her art.  

One of her recent works, The Three Beheaded Kings focuses on the murder of Kings, Hintsa, Bambatha and Luka Jantjie. She held a demonstration outside a public hearing where South Africa was embarking on land hearings on the proposed changes to Section 25 of the South African constitution.   

The proposed changes seek to give government the powers to expropriate land without compensation (EWC).   Motana also did a dramatic interpretation of a "court case" where Luka Jantjie was tried for refusing to move from his ancestral land.  

In this conversation, Motana also looks at some of the laws that cemented the fate of black people as they were forcefully removed from their spaces.  

The conversation on land is important in Africa as the continent continues to deal with the effects of colonialism stemming from the removal of many native African people from their homes.   

Recently in Namibia, the German government has committed to pay reparations for the brutal genocide of the Herero and Nama people in the southern African country. 

South Africa and Namibia have a lot in common on the issue of land dispossession as the two were previously ruled by the notorious apartheid regime of South Africa.