Travel writer Robert Macfarlane writes about death roads, or “ghost roads”—old paths that converge at medieval cemeteries. Historically, walking these paths meant engaging in a traditional ritual, in which a deceased family or community member was carried to his or her grave. (Macfarlane, 2013: 13-14) In this presentation I find inspiration in the idea of following these pre-modern Dutch death roads that the ancestors walked while carrying their loved ones, even if their translation into the Cape Town context is a fraught and complicated one. I reflect on walking routes in Cape Town loaded with intense emotions and memories related to colonial pasts and presents. During the presentation I go on a walking tour which is in fact a journey through the trenches of post-apartheid heritage. According to decolonial archaeologist Alejandro Haber, it is a battlefield where one “either inhabits the hegemonic time, [ . . . ] enjoy[ing] the little or big market success”, or inhabits “a counter-time” (Haber, 2015).