I work on the impacts of development on heritage sites, ancestral graves in particular. My work investigates cases of exhumations and reburials because of extractive industries in South Africa, which has now been published as a monograph. I have interest on indigenous politics in South Africa and different parts of the world.

Esterhuysen, A. B., & Skosana, D. (2026) ‘Abaphansi bayakhuluma (Ancestors are speaking): A study of grave violations in South Africa’, Human Remains and Violence: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 12(1), 22–40.

Skosana. D. (2021) ‘Grave matters: dispossession and the desecration of ancestral graves by mining corporations in South Africa’, Journal of Contemporary African Studies, 40:1, 1-16.

Skosana. D, (2021) ‘Mining, graves sites and dispossession in Mpumalanga’’, in W. Beinart, R. Kingwill & G. Capps (eds) Land, Law and Chiefs in Rural South Africa: Contested Histories and Current Struggles, Johannesburg: Wits University Press, 104-120.