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16 March 2011

There is a series of surviving rock paintings, apparently they have faded over the years and are not as vivid as the way the community members remember them to be when they were young boys. They also admit that young boys tend to paint over to the original paintings in an attempt to create their own art.


The community does see potential for interest in these paintings, mainly amongst academics (historians, archaeologists), scholars and overseas tourists, passionate about history.

In reality: It is very difficult to get to these falls; it involves danger and requires physical fitness and a daring nature. The community thus reckons there’ll only be a few people who would get to see this reserved history.

Secondly, these rocks are being eroded by waters and paintings washed away by rains, they are concerned that if this project takes a while longer to kick-off, that there’ll be very little to nothing to show of the san paintings.


Another potential is that of documenting this history and doing more research on the movements of the abathwa in this region and the times they lived here. This would throw interesting light on the bathwa lineage in this region. Litha Ludidi suggests that most village names in Qumbu, including the name ‘Qumbu’ itself are possibly influenced by the bathwa dialect and that with research; one could archive more information on the history of this area