Digital Heritage, e-Citizenship, Community Engagement

We have an ongoing relationship with the University of KwaZulu-Natal, of which we are both alumni. We encourage anyone in the KZN or Durban area to attend this one day event, which based on the programme (downloadable HERE), should prove very interesting. UKZN Special Collections (Alan Paton Centre and Struggle Archives, Campbell Collections, Gandhi-Luthuli Documentation [...]

We recently attended the Highway Africa conference, running concurrently to the Pan African Conference on Access to Information. From the UNESCO Communication and Information newsletter: Around 220 delegates from diverse sectors gathered together in Cape Town, South Africa, from 17 to 19 September 2011 in a meeting that gave way to the signature of the [...]

We’re presenting at a conference on Heritage and Socio-economic Development from 21-22 September 2011 at the Apartheid Museum in Johannesburg.  There are some interesting speakers and I think it will be a worthwhile event. Click here to view the programme ….

I read with particular interest that certain Shembe sites in Inanda are now heritage landmarks as the Shembe and Inanda have featured in a fair bit of my work. My Master’s dissertation focussed on the functions of dreams and visions in the Shembe Church at Inanda, we have been working on a mapping prototype for [...]

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 [...]