This year marks the 60th anniversary of the South African Freedom Charter. This milestone will be celebrated at a public dialogue that is hosted by the National Heritage Council (NHC) and Ditsong Museums of South Africa on 25 June 2015 in Pretoria. The panel of...
Advocate Sonwabile Mancotywa, CEO National Heritage Council Presented at the Solomon Mahlangu Memorial Lecture, Nkonkobe Municipality Fort Beaufort Town Hall, 23 June 2015 Programme Director, Honoured Guests, Ladies and Gentlemen, Comrades and Friends, on behalf of the National Heritage Council (NHC), I would like to thank you for...
The University of Stellenbosch has taken a bold step to remove the commemorative plaque honouring the former South Africa’s apartheid Prime Minister, H F Verwoerd from the campus’ Accounting and Statistics building on 27 May 2015. This visual symbol was not a unifying reflection of...
We have learned with disappointment about the Gauteng High Court ruling in favour of the Federation of Governing Bodies of SA Schools (FEDSAS) that single medium schools may continue because the School Governing Bodies have the legislative right to decide on the language use in...
AH! Zwelonke! The National Heritage Council congratulated the AmaXhosa king, Mpendulo Zwelonke Sigcau, whose coronation took place at Nqadu Great Place on 15 May 2015. The President of South Africa, Jacob Zuma attended the ceremony together with many other royals. This was a historic occasion. According to...
The National Heritage Council calls for nominations for the appointment of 5 members to serve on the Heritage Funding Committee. Nominations of individuals within the heritage sector with the following expertise will be considered: funding/grant making knowledge, curatorship, languages, research, publications, project and financial management,...
by Adv. Sonwabile Mancotywa CEO, National Heritage Council The recent controversy over the removal of the statue of Cecil John Rhodes at the University of Cape Town and the subsequent attacks on several other colonial-era statues, as well as the polarised public opinion this has generated, is deeply...
Language use in official engagements has become an exciting area since the 1994 dawn of democracy in South Africa. This matter has actually started to rear its fragility during the drafting of the revered Constitution of the country. The challenge of the equitable use of...
By Sonwabile Mancotywa This article was published by Daily Dispatch on 18 March 2015 “That man is still there in the Eastern Cape. He doesn’t want to return home,” the late Minister Collins Chabane would often reply when I enquired about his brother, Pat Chabane. That was the...
It is sad for the heritage and culture sector to lose yet another activist in a space of less than two weeks. The multi-award winning radio presenter and a promoter of traditional music, Saba “Zawu Zawu” Mbixane, could not be resuscitated 17 days after was...
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