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Two Rivers Urban Park Heritage Project

To create a memory archive reflecting the relationship between the land known as the Two Rivers Urban Park and the indigenous and local communities. This collection within the archive is part of the wider endevours to correct the social narrative distorted by the colonial, apartheid, and capitalist agendas while building a database of orally transmitted knowledge and living memory showcasing the integral relationship between communities which were displaced through these disruptive mechanisms. The Two Rivers Urban Park Project is contextualised within the greater preservation strategy of the confluence area of Liesbeek River and Black River, with its tributary Salt River. The land is the site of active contestation. On the one side is a movement to strengthen its heritage status and on the other side is a development plan by the Liesbeek Leisure Property Trust with the Amazon Development Company as the main tenant on the site.

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eng To create a memory archive reflecting the relationship between the land known as the Two Rivers Urban Park and the indigenous and local communities. This collection within the archive is part of the wider endevours to correct the social narrative distorted by the colonial, apartheid, and capitalist agendas while building a database of orally transmitted knowledge and living memory showcasing the integral relationship between communities which were displaced through these disruptive mechanisms.

The Two Rivers Urban Park Project is contextualised within the greater preservation strategy of the confluence area of Liesbeek River and Black River, with its tributary Salt River. The land is the site of active contestation. On the one side is a movement to strengthen its heritage status and on the other side is a development plan by the Liesbeek Leisure Property Trust with the Amazon Development Company as the main tenant on the site.