Commerce, culture and heritage mix in rather strange and sometimes unsettling ways in South Africa, especially when the struggle for freedom is commemorated.
- Lecturer Department of African Studies and Linguistics, University of Cape Town
Many South Africans have a strong personal relationship with Nelson Mandela. The planned auction felt like a transgression of the moral boundary of familial respect.
An exhibition in Berlin, called “Letters of Stone”, shows that there is more to memory than words and ideas.
September is celebrated as heritage month in South Africa. How to get it right? A revisit to a national newspaper’s decade-old, ambitious project is a good yardstick to use.
When it comes to valuable African fossils, much is at stake. They often unearth disputed ways of debating archaeology as a science of ‘discovery’.
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