“…The practice of building community-university partnership relationships is not an easy task in the South African context in which structural racism demarcates the spatial divide between the 'privileged' and the 'marginalised Black' population. Invariably, the mistrust that accompanies the racial divide permeates interaction within the university, and within and between communities, students and academics (Hornby & Maistry, 2022). It is important to note that the interaction between the participants in this case study was cordial and may be attributed to the considerable work undertaken by participants with each other as part of the doctoral investigation.…”