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 [...]
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Online games … in isiZulu
We recently completed a fun project which is getting a fair bit of attention. Together with Skillpod, we produced a series of online games in isiZulu for the Ulwazi Programme. The aims of the games are to get children and people not used to computers to start using the internet and engage with them in [...]
Managing documents with Omeka
Earlier on in the year we started a project which involves digitizing and making available online a large number of newspaper clippings. We had originally looked at Greenstone for the collections management software but it seemed too clunky for what we needed. Likewise Drupal wasn’t ideal as it needed a fair bit of customization in [...]
Mewa Ramgobin interview
Betsie Greyling interviews author, activist and politician Mewa Ramgobin at the Phoenix Settlement as part of the oral history component of the Ulwazi Programme. He provided insight into the ‘forgotten’ history of the 1960s and 1970s at the Settlement, where people like Steve Biko, Alan Paton and Rick Turner congregated at work parties to discuss [...]