As South Africa makes the move towards digital heritage with the development of the recent draft National Policy on the Digitisation of Heritage Resources, a number of questions and possibilities come to the fore. One that I would like to explore here is the democratising potential of new digital technologies and what it means for [...]

We are working with the Ulwazi Programme, in co-operation with the Goethe-Insitut South Africa, to run a  pilot Schools Project.  Taking place over the next two terms at school’s in KwaMashu and Umlazi, the Ulwazi Programme will teach skills in ICT and historical research to participating students. The Ulwazi school’s project will run at township [...]

We have been working with the Centre for Critical Research on Race and Identity for the past few months, digitizing (with the help of DISA) their archive of news-clippings, to make them available online in an easy to use and searchable database.  We are happy to announce that a Beta version of the website is [...]

Niall and Ulwazi project leader Betsie Greyling presented a poster at the The Third International m-libraries Conference (http://www.usq.edu.au/m-libraries) in Brisbane, Australia recently.  The poster outlined the Ulwazi Programme’s plans for developing a system to collect indigenous knowledge via mobiles phones in the eThekwini Municipality. View the poster … Read the abstract …

We’ve recently launched the South Coast Writers Trail, developed with KZN Literary Tourism, designed by Disturbance and funded by the National Arts Council.  The trail includes writers such as Michael Cawood Green, Es’kia Mphahlele, Mazisi Kunene, Daphne Rooke and the editors of Voorslag (Roy Campbell, William Plomer and Laurens van der Post). Stops on the [...]