A couple of weeks ago I went down to the Highway Africa conference in Cape Town, which was excellent. The theme of the conference was African Media and Global Sustainability Challenge and sessions looked at citizen journalism, Internet security, media innovation and the use of social media in the newsroom. Apart from the fascinating seminars I …
Category Archives: Platform and Resource Development
Shembe Heritage Sites
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 …
South Coast Writers Trail
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 …
Libraries and games – a paradigm shift
A couple of weeks back we helped the Ulwazi Programme put on a display for a Library Week event held for eThekwini Municipality schoolchildren. As part of the display, we had a big-screen TV playing oral history interviews we had done over the past few years, as well as a few computers where the schoolchildren …