There were more than three million men who passed through Durban on their way to the battlefront and there are few among them, who will ever forget the sight of a motherly figure in white, standing alone on the quayside, her arms outstretched towards them, singing familiar songs like “Land of Hope and Glory” and “It’s a long way to Tippereray.”
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.
Oral history serves a vital role in the context of local museums in South Africa.
