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 …
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This semester I have been co-teaching two courses at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. The first is through the programme of English Studies and looks at the development of heritage resources, using the example of the KZN Literary Tourism project. We deal with the development of writers trails, the research and writing of the author profiles, …
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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 …
