Dance on the Red Brown Earth

It is 2015 Three film students at a Cape Town university, Vuka, Nandi and Java, receive an assignment to produce a film on landownership in South Africa Their studies are however interrupted when they become involved in activism aimed at achieving fee free decolonized higher education When the university closes down amid the protest, they travel to Vuka's grandmother's farm in the Eastern Cape to pursue their research on his family history They gradually uncover his ancestral history, and learn that one of Vuka's ancestors was a Dutch girl, Hatta, whose own family was killed after a cattle raid in the early 19 th century She was then raised by Nomsa, one of Vuka's ancestors.