On 1 December 1834, the enslaved people of the Cape were legally freed. To commemorate this day, the annual Emancipation Day “Walk in the Night” will once again take place on the eve of this jubilant day with celebrations and a public picnic running into the...
19 – 21 October 2017 ‘’It is the storyteller who makes us who we are, who creates history. The storyteller creates the memory that the survivors must have – otherwise their surviving would have no meaning.’’ (Chinua Achebe) Storytelling has always been at the...
Zelda Benjamin is this month’s Supper Club guest at the Museum’s Supper Club on Thursday 31 August. In an oral history interview conducted by the Museum’s sound archive several years ago, Ms Benjamin recalls how she first became aware of her love of...
phefumla (breathe!) is a travelling exhibition of the artwork produced during the inaugural Open Forum residency at Stellenbosch University in October 2016. The artwork included in the exhibition is a combination of sculpture, photography, sound installation and...
