“When you leave a place that you love so much, it takes time for the heart to forget”.

Ten years ago, Zimbili Kamanga fled the spiralling daily horrors of ethnic and political violence around her Depot home, on the outskirts of Bhambayi (where Gandhi formulated his response of passive resistance).

Bhambayi, a decade later, has become a vibrant district where government housing schemes promise to build a bright future for its residents. But the impact of the bloodshed has run deep, and Aunt Zimbili finds it difficult to overcome her fear of the district’s history. Revealing the comfort people still place in the powers of Zulu traditions, Ikhaya seeks to place the memories of pain and terror in the past, where they belong, while the struggle for a future continues.