Ndjaka Mtsetwene is a doctoral student at the University of Lucerne. She is a Junior Research fellow at the Insitute Cultures of the Alps in Altdorf Switzerland, affiliate of the Centre of African Studies in Basel and Visiting Researcher at the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research at Wits University in Johannesburg, South Africa. She is currently conducting her research on forced resettlements in South Africa and their impact on human-natural environment relations during apartheid. She is focusing on the former homeland Gazankulu created in the context of 19^th century Swiss missionary history and the subsequent involvement of Swiss missionaries in apartheid Land politics.  In order to conduct this study, she is analysing oral history collected by the late historian Patrick Harries and students of history at the University of Cape Town between 1979-1987. Her analytical lens is landscape perception: a combination of land use and landscape imagination (the cultural, spiritual, and political histories of landscape) in the aftermath of resettlement. With this analysis, Ndjaka aims to illustrate the underlying logics of apartheid and how they fit into the broader struggle over natural resources in South African history. This expands the project`s general relevance beyond the bilateral framework across Switzerland and South Africa into the broader framework of  rurality, development, and globalisation.