#ProjectKnowYourHeritage

Project #knowyourheritage is a pilot project conceptualized and produced by the South African Heritage Resources Agency (SAHRA Media Productions). The aim of this project is to exhibit our nationally protected heritage resources in a much more tangible setting, allowing viewers to connect with the content, spaces, objects and people.
The San rock painting site of Game Pass Shelter in the Kamberg Nature Reserve, within the Southern Maloti-Drakensberg World Heritage Site, is one of the most extensive painted panels in South Africa. A wide variety of painted figures adorn the shelter walls, including many eland and human figures, as well as numerous therianthropic figures which are interpreted to depict the embodied esoteric experiences and of indigenous knowledge systems of indigenous societies. Within the environmental and cultural context in which the Game Pass Shelter is located in KwaZulu Natal (KZN), the embodied spiritual experience is understood and known as "Idlozi" (spirit-medium/therapy) experience, among other interpretations.
The Rock Paintings at Game Pass Shelter offer an opportunity to acknowledge the spiritual depth and social complexity of South African rock art that reinforces the significant links between tangible and intangible heritage that resonates with local communities, in particular, who continue to incorporate sites, such as Game Pass Shelter, into their living heritage, ancestral historical identity and cultural practices.
For more information about our heritage sites visit our website:
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