The Memories of Inanda oral history interviews are now available online at the Ulwazi Channel on Youtube. These include interviews with Lulu Dube, Baba Zondi, Ela Gandhi and others. Production support provided by Vuleka Productions.
Mwelela Cele interviews Ela Gandhi as part of the Memories of Inanda documentary, produced for the eThekwini Municipality’s Ulwazi Programme. Ela discusses her grandfather Mahatma Gandhi, the Phoenix Settlement and her work as an activist and politician.
Ela Gandhi (born July 1, 1940), granddaughter of Mahatma Gandhi is a peace activist and was a Member of Parliament in South Africa from 1994-2004, where she aligned with the African National Congress (ANC) party representing the Phoenix area of Inanda in the KwaZulu Natal province. Her parliamentary committee assignments included the Welfare, and Public Enterprises committees as well as the ad-hoc committee on Surrogate Motherhood. She was an alternate member of the Justice Committee and served on Theme Committee 5 on Judiciary and Legal Systems.
Shot at the the Durban University of Technology in April 2010
I recently attended the Archive and Everyday Life Conference held by the Department of English and Cultural Studies at the McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. The programme comprised a vast array of multidisciplinary papers relating to a broad concept of archive. Archivists, theorists, literature scholars, anthropologists and filmmakers from Canada, the United Kingdom, America, Australia and South Africa converged to participate in diverse panels. These included colonial, gay, lesbian and queer archives and counter narratives, as well as the archive and art, materiality, memory, new media, violence, geography and photography, to name but a few.
With a colleague from UCT, I participated in the “Colonialist Archives and Counter Narratives” panel. Continue reading “Archive and Everyday Life Conference”
Mwelela Cele interviews Lulu Dube as part of the Memories of Inanda documentary, produced for the eThekwini Municipality’s Ulwazi Programme. Lulu discusses her father John Langalibalele Dube, the founding president of the African National Congress and life in Inanda.
John Dube (1871 – 1946) was a South African essayist, philosopher, educator, politician, publisher, editor, novelist and poet. He was the founding president of the African National Congress
Shot at the Dube family home in Inanda in April 2010.
