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 …
Category Archives: Research
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 …
The Number in my Pocket: the Power of Mobile Technology for the Exchange of Indigenous Knowledge
Niall McNulty and Ulwazi project leader Betsie Greyling presented a poster at the The Third International m-libraries Conference (https://www.usq.edu.au/m-libraries) in Brisbane, Australia recently. The poster outlined the Ulwazi Programme’s plans for developing a system to collect indigenous knowledge via mobiles phones in the eThekwini Municipality. View the poster … Read the abstract …
Potential for digital heritage
I recently published a blog post on the Archival Platform on the democratising potential of new digital technologies. This was in part a response to the recent workshop on the draft National Policy on the Digitisation of Heritage Resources. The draft policy focuses on institutional issues relating to the digitisation of heritage resources. While these …