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THE KRAKADOUW

The Krakadouw Trust is an established non profit making organisation (Trust number 1739/2001) that has gained experience developing community training programmes, creating sustainable small businesses and building links with other organisations. Its finances are professionally audited, its objectives endorsed by the Cederberg Municipality and its logistics supported by the University of Cape Town. The development of the Living Landscape Project is undertaken by the Krakadouw Trust under the leadership of John Parkington, Professor of Archaeology at the University of Cape Town. Trustees are Val West, Crain Soudien, Jacob Klaase and John Parkington. The Patron of the Living Landscape Project is Professor Njabulo Ndebele, vice chancellor of the University of Cape Town.

MEET THE PEOPLE

John Parkington is Professor of Archaeology at UCT and has been working in the Clanwilliam area since 1968. He has been recording rock art, excavating in shelters and caves and digging coastal shell middens in order to understand the lives of the precolonial inhabitants of the Western Cape. He is working through the Living Landscape Project to bring the results of this work into school curricula and museum displays.
Contact: email - John.Parkington@uct.ac.za

Lindie Melle is a former art teacher and a practising artist living in Clanwilliam.
Contact: email - chap@lando.co.za Telephone: (027) 482-1911

Tracy Prosalendis is a maker of books and a craftsperson who works in leather and paper.
Contact: email - petetracy@yebo.co.za

Cecilene Muller is a postgraduate student in archaeology with a strong interest in youth education. For her honours thesis she studied the use of a medicinal plant in the Clanwilliam area and for her master's she reconstructed past diets using stable isotopes.
Contact: email - sagan99@age.uct.ac.za

Nirdev Desai describes himself as a archaeometallurgist and teacher.

Roseline Carolus first joined the project to participate in the intensive CLLP training programme. She remains with the project in Clanwilliam and is employed by UCT.

Eric Geya was a former CLLP trainee and has since joined the project as grounds man and gardener.

Peter van Reenen is actively involved in the CLLP teaching programme after participating in the trainee course.

Londoloza Ndzima has come out of the CLLP taining programme having specialized as a rock art guide and crafter.

Liezel Hoffman now works as the CLLP receptionist having gained a wide-range of skills garnered during her participation in the CLLP training programme.