As part of its public engagement initiatives the Local History Museums of eThekwini Municipality hosts a series of seminars and lectures every year, and the first of these is the annual Josiah Tshangana Gumede Lecture & Dialogue, which took place on 4 February 2016 at the Natural Science Research Centre.
Subsequent to an address by the then Premier of KwaZulu-Natal, Dr Zweli Mkhize, to the South African National Editors Forum during November 2012, opportunities for the repatriation and reburial of Nat Nakasa, journalist, activist and one of the great South Africans, began to surface.
Oral history serves a vital role in the context of local museums in South Africa.
The Local History Museums (LHM) ‘Passbook’ Competition aims primarily to promote appreciation of heritage through empathy and tolerance.
