The Vasco da Gama memorial clock was manufactured by Walter Macfarlane & Co’s Saracen Foundry in Glasgow, Scotland, in cast iron to a design selected from their catalogue, and is one of only three surviving examples in the world today.
The Museums and Galleries History Group (MGHG) was founded in 2002 when a group of British academics and curatorial staff hosted a symposium at the National Gallery in London, entitled, ‘Museums and their Histories’.
The Minister of Tourism, the Honourable Mr. Derek Hanekom, visited the newly established Mpumalanga Heritage Centre and proceeded to Phoenix Settlement and J. L. Dube Heritage Centre at Inanda on the 08th October 2016.
EThekwini Council approved the temporary relocation of the Lady in White statue from T-jetty next to Transnet Offices to the Port Natal Maritime Museum.
During the first half of 2016 visitors to KwaMuhle Museum were confronted with the perhaps-troubling sight of large holes dug in the verandah of the building, and clouds of dust billowing from various doors and windows.
When the proposal to create KwaMuhle Museum was drafted by a committee of academics and activists in 1991, a central element of the new museum they envisioned was a permanent exhibition on the Durban System.
Originally called the Zulu Dawn, the NCS Challenger is famous for the voyage embarked upon by Anthony Steward who at the age of 27 became the first man to circumnavigate the world in an open craft less than 20ft in length.
Meeting & Program for February 2016 Archbishop Denis Hurley was born in November 1915 and many events to celebrate the birth of this…
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.
