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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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Written by ESAACH Webmaster
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Wednesday, 07 October 2009 |
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 It might seem outrageously trite to suggest that reading Mandla Langa’s fifth book, The Lost Colours of the Chameleon,
was akin to meeting the 14th Dalai Lama of Tibet, but having had the
privilege of both experiences, I unashamedly defend it. It is also
tempting to attach a swatch of “-ists” to this accomplished South
African author - lyricist, activist, humanist – but while they are
appropriate to Langa’s genius, these, among others, are precisely the
tangled pretensions his tale seeks to unpick.
Other
reviews of the book have outlined its triumph as an allegorical satire,
based on intense research and set in the post-colonial quagmire of a
developing democracy on Bangula, a fictional Indian Ocean island. Its
parallels with the South African experience are obvious: social anguish
wrought by unrelenting poverty and disease, racial discord,
institutional neglect, wastefulness, greed and denialism, and a
prophetic vision of governance by death squad as both a remedy and a
railcar for rampant crime and political anarchy.
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Written by ESAACH Webmaster
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Monday, 21 September 2009 |
Heritage Month represents an opportunity for South Africans to celebrate their rich and diverse cultural heritage, says Deputy Minister of Arts and Culture, Paul Mashatile.
Mashatile said on Thursday South Africans should use the month to create a stage for the African community to unite, celebrate and preserve Africa's indigenous cultures through traditional dance, music and crafts.
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