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Memoirs of Life in South Africa. English 162: Literature and Place (A Queens College Study Abroad Course). Cape Town’s Castle. View of Cape Town from Upper UCT Campus. Building in Cape Town. Cape Town Signal Hill. Cape Town / Signal Hill. View from Cape Town’s Castle. Cape Town Children Playing. Iziko Museum, Cape Town. From Amr Ouadid’s Camera. Professor Larissa Swedell (Anthropology) at Chapman’s Peak. Stephanie Jean-Baptiste, Merzela Casimir, and Talisa Feliciano at Chapman’s Peak. At the IZIKO Museum.
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Restoring Hostel 33: Hostel 33's restoration in considered alongside other debates over modern architecture's heritage worthiness in Cape Town
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Friday, May 7, 2010. Hostel 33's restoration in considered alongside other debates over modern architecture's heritage worthiness in Cape Town. Image from an article published by Noeleen Murray in the Cape Times OpEd section, p11, Friday 7 May 2010. Text from the article:. City structures still reflect the social divide. Noëleen Murray is an architect and academic, currently a Fellow at the Centre for Humanities Research at UWC). Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). On the 1 May 2000 Sandile Dikeni, ex-Lw...
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Restoring Hostel 33: Contracting locally
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Tuesday, May 18, 2010. One of the key objectives of the Hostel33 Restoration Project has been to identify and make use of local contractors in the building and exhibition processes. At the outset of the project the Museum embarked on a programme of identifying local companies with appropriate skills for the projects needs. It was decided that local companies and individuals from Lwandle. Whose thirty years experience in building and his sensitive approach seemed to be ideally suited for the works. Relate...
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Restoring Hostel 33: March 2010
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Tuesday, March 16, 2010. Experts visit Hostel 33. On Saturday 12 March 2010 William Martinson (an East London based heritage architect with extensive knowledge of hostels in the Johannesburg area); Jerry Rogers (an ex Managing Director of a major construction company and a quantity surveyor who has worked extensively in projects in Khayelitsha); and Laura Davies (a fourth year architectural student from London) visited Hostel 33 along with staff from the Museum. Photograph by Noeleen Murray. There was ge...
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Restoring Hostel 33: Message from LMLM's first Curator Bongani Mgijima on the occasion of the Lwandle Museum's 10th birthday.
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Thursday, May 20, 2010. Message from LMLM's first Curator Bongani Mgijima on the occasion of the Lwandle Museum's 10th birthday. On the 1 May 2010, Bonagni Mgijima, Lwandle Museum's first curator, was unable to attend the celebrations, but sent through a letter of support for the Museum's restoration project and continued existence. Leslie Witz read extracts from his letter at the 10th Birthday Party. Of the museum over the years and for his vision and involvement in founding the museum. I would have lik...
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Restoring Hostel 33: Using oral histories to curate lives in Hostel 33
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Friday, May 14, 2010. Using oral histories to curate lives in Hostel 33. 8216;Digging Deeper than the eye approves’. On 16 April 2010 students from the African Programme in Museum and Heritage Studies at UWC and fellows of the Centre for Humanities Research visited the museum to analyse how oral histories are being curated and to discuss how the guides in the new tours to restored Hostel 33 might make use of oral histories. Labels: post by Leslie Witz: Visit by students and Fellows from UWC. The Lwandle ...
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Blog 11-TRC Testimony
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Memoirs of Life in South Africa. English 162: Literature and Place (A Queens College Study Abroad Course). Larr; Blog 10- The use of humor. January 28th, 2012 by Talisa Feliciano · No Comments. The testimony I chose is by Joyce Marubini. From the Women’s Hearings section. Joyce Marubini was arrested along with 5 other women. All of those arrested were part of a youth organization that. A lot of the basic issues with translation that are discussed in. There Was This Goat. Yes, they said they wanted to sho...
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Blog #13
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Memoirs of Life in South Africa. English 162: Literature and Place (A Queens College Study Abroad Course). Larr; Blog #12. January 29th, 2012 by mikestrianese · 1 Comment. Write about something you learned in Cape Town. Suggestion: Use images or video. Is it truly different in Africa? I doubt it. The world is a giant mirror and people see in others what they project outward themselves. Noor Ebrahim, the author of Noor’s Story: My Life in District Six. Than the others in my class? One Comment so far ↓.
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