She is a renowned play-activist, who draws from research on children’s play as well as everyday observation to explain the politics of human occupation within the context of rapid social change, and to raise occupational consciousness. Her own research takes an intergenerational approach, and negates the adult-child binary often prevalent within the study of play. Recent research that Dr Ramugondo has supervised at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels says a lot about the state of play in the Western Cape.