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A project driven by the University of Cape Town and Rhodes University is making South Africa's history available in indigenous languages on a digital platform – creating an accessible historical reference that reflects our multicultural society.
A collaborative project to make Southern African history accessible has been undertaken by Rhodes University and the University of Cape Town (UCT).
-THANDISIZWE MGUDLWA In celebration of a distinct African hero, Chief Falo Mgudlwa and our Royal Family, and in the spirit of Black History Month, which is February, it's important to remember and share our history to be build our society Through reflecting on the story of this African family, the…
References The Brenthurst Library To Whom It May Concern I am the Head Librarian/Manager of The Brenthurst Library in Johannesburg, a privately-owned research library holding collections of books, pamphlets, manuscripts, artworks and photographic materials. In 2016 the library collaborated with the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam on a project to digitise records relating to Robert Jacob Gordon, the last Dutch military commander at the Cape. The library holds a substantial archive of manuscript material, and artworks and maps were in The Netherlands, so the Rijksmuseum wished to set up a website comb...
The Kenyan author Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o wrote in 1986 in Decolonising the Mind that, “Language carries culture, and culture carries, particularly through orature and literature, the entire body of values by which we come to perceive ourselves and our place in the world… Language is thus inseparable from ourselves as a community of human beings with a specific form and character, a specific history, a specific relationship to the world.” In South Africa, the role of language has always been a powerful one. In 1976, the Soweto Uprising was sparked by the forced imposition of Afrikaans as...