Mar
10
Google has announced a R8.6 million grant to the Nelson Mandela Centre for Memory that will help to preserve and give unprecedented digital access to thousands of archival documents, photographs and audio-visual materials about the life and times of Madiba. Google’s grant will help in expanding the online Mandela archive and make it available [...]
Jul
26
On Friday, I attended ‘Suspect Reconciliation’, a seminar held in Cape Town, at which critically acclaimed Chilean-American author and human rights activist, Ariel Dorfman, discussed the project of national reconciliation with four new-generation South African authors. Dorfman lauded the young writers’ bravery in writing freely and honestly. The discussion turned to the recent Protection of [...]
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