Exploring architectural archives in recovery
Promoting public awareness of our rich architectural legacy at the University of Cape Town. The collections include the professional papers and project plans of 20th-century Cape Town architects.
Indoda Ebisithanda (“The Man who Loved Us”): The Reverend James Laing among the amaXhosa
The early missionaries, generally and generically, have had a pretty bad press in our country for many decades. There have of course, been well-known exceptions, the luminaries who did not fit the prescriptive box of categorisation: we...
A 104 year old publisher and the Khoesan of South Africa
I am a physical anthropologist with an interest in the peopling of southern Africa over the last ten thousand years or so. Most of my research has been on the bony remains of long dead people...
Unbanned: the Films South Africans Were Not Allowed to See
This exhibit coincides with World Press Freedom Day on 3 May 2019. World Press Freedom Day is intended to highlight issues of censorship, restraint, and oppression...
The Art of Paper Handling: Understanding the Skill of moving Paper Objects
Within an archive, library or museum, handling is a major consideration. Poor handling is a cause of damage and as such professional handling is almost an artform in itself in these institutions.
Listen to Apartheid South Africa's Banned Activists in Their Own Words
In 1951, the first banning order was imposed by the South African apartheid government. 1392 people were eventually banned under the Suppression of Communism Act 44 of 1950, which later had its name changed to the Internal Security Act 4...