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Written by Mbulelo Vizikhungo Mzamane
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Friday, 12 February 2010 |
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Dennis Vincent Brutus, human rights activist,
poet and academic, was born in Salisbury (Harare), Southern Rhodesia
(Zimbabwe), on 28 November, 1924. He was raised and educated in South
Africa.
He studied at the University of Fort
Hare, where he learnt his politics and from where he graduated with
a BA in 1947, and at the University of the Witwatersrand.
In the 1950s Brutus taught at a high
school for mixed-race children in Port Elizabeth.
He joined an organisation called the
Anti-Coloured Affairs Department (Anti-CAD), formed in the 1950s to
campaign against the Coloured Affairs Department, which was a divide-and-rule
ploy to keep mixed-race people from making common cause with Africans
against the government.
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Written by Njabulo S Ndebele
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Friday, 12 February 2010 |
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I am deeply honoured to have been invited to participate in this memorial service which has brought us together to remember and to reflect on the life of Dennis Brutus, poet, activist, South African, and world citizen who died peacefully in his sleep in Cape Town on December 26, 2009.
Dennis
Brutus has influenced many of us in here in multiple ways. I owe much
to him as a creative writer, as an academic, and for what it means to
participate actively in public life at home and abroad. It is because of the extensive impact of his life that this memorial service is an act of solidarity I feel privileged to be part of.
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Written by ESAACH Webmaster
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Wednesday, 03 February 2010 |
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ESAACH project members Prof Graham Stewart and Niall McNulty will be presenting a paper at the upcoming Art and Social Justice Conference
based on their work with the Encyclopaedia of South Africa Art, Culture
and Heritage. The title of the paper is “Tribe of colours – reclaiming
identity via the Web” and the abstract is below.
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Written by ESAACH Webmaster
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Monday, 11 January 2010 |
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KZN Literary Tourism, one of ESAACH's partner organisations, has recently launched the Inanda, Ntuzuma, KwaMashu (INK) Writers Trail, in conjunction with the eThekwini Municipality. The trail includes important cultural and historical sites such
as the Phoenix Settlement, Ohlange Institute and Inanda Seminary and
writers such as Mandla Langa, Sita Gandhi, Angelina Sithebe, Ellen
Kuzwayo and Mewa Ramgobin.
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Written by ESAACH Webmaster
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Tuesday, 27 October 2009 |
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Dr Michael Wessels has compiled a list of Southern African books. Take a look at http://wiki.esaach.org.za/index.php?title=Southern_African_Book_List and register an account on our wiki to submit any others you feel should be included on the list.
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Written by ESAACH Webmaster
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Thursday, 22 October 2009 |
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The Aussies seem to do a lot of research into the Creative
Industries and produce some excellent resource material, with a lot of
what they produce applicable for South African projects. From their
Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts:
Australia's
collecting institutions vary and include large government funded
agencies, as well as small volunteer run community organisations.
However, they share common objectives of collecting, researching,
preserving, and exhibiting cultural material from Australia and around
the world.
They also share a concern that their collections are
acquired in a manner that meets the highest standards of legal, ethical
and professional practice. These guidelines are intended to assist
cultural institutions within established legal and ethical frameworks.
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