Annelize Kotze

Annelize Kotze is a Social History Curator at the Iziko Museums of South Africa and has a Master’s degree in Archaeology from the University of Cape Town (UCT), focusing on cultural identity of Khoe, San and Coloured women in the Western and Northern Cape. She is a member of the A/Xarra Restorative Justice Forum in the Centre for Africa Studies (CAS), at UCT where she sits on the Language, Human Remains, and Women’s Commissions. Annelize currently holds the title of President of the Commonwealth Association of Museums (CAM) and is the Chairperson of the Western Cape Division of South Africa Museums Association (SAMA).
She is a huge advocate for decolonising museum spaces, the most important of which is the reburial and return of ancestral remains as well as objects from communities still in museums, and having previously marginalised and silenced communities, given a voice in spaces where they were misrepresented. This is done through having positive and meaningful engagement with communities and for museums. She is a huge advocate for decolonising museum spaces, the most important of which is the reburial and return of ancestral remains as well as objects from communities still in museums, and having previously marginalised and silenced communities, given a voice in spaces where they were misrepresented. This is done through having positive and meaningful engagement with communities and for museums.