Our coastlines and oceans are haunted by legacies of colonial and apartheid rule which have fashioned exclusions, dispossessions, and violent forms of epistemicide (cultural genocide) of indigenous coastal residents for generations now. Artisanal and small-scale fishers have had to navigate ongoing dislocation from their ancestral waters and coastal territories ever since the arrival of colonial dominion and further reinforced under subsequent racist spatial and development planning and conservation policies of the Group Areas
