Posted on 19 June 2010 by Ulwazi Web Editor
The first Soccer Clubs in Durban were founded in the early 1880’s and by 1886 four Indian soccer clubs were in existence. In 1903 a South African Indian Football Association was founded.
As the African workforce expanded, so also did football in the African locations, as well as among Africans at their leading (mostly mission) schools.
Among the first African clubs were Wild Zebras at the Ohlange Institute, Shooting Stars at Adams College and Natal Cannons at the Inanda Seminary.
Posted on 19 May 2010 by Ulwazi Web Editor
The Ulwazi Programme featured in the ITWeb Brainstorm magazine’s special feature on priorities in the public sector. The article also looked at the eThekwini Municipality’s smart city strategy and its Smart Exchange initiative.
Posted on 13 May 2010 by Betsie
The Ulwazi Programme (along with the libraries’ CyberZone initiative) was officially launched on Wednesday, 5th May 2010 at the KwaMashu Library in Durban. Programme leader Betsie Greyling provided a presentation on both programmes along with information on the new e-library services.
Guy Redman (Deputy Head Libraries & Heritage at the eThekwini Municipality), Jacquie Subban (Head of the Geographic Information and Policy at the eThekwini Municipality) and Logie Naidoo (Deputy Mayor of the eThekwini Municipality) all spoke about the eThekwini Municipality’s SmartCity programme and how Ulwazi now forms a key component of this. Representatives from local, provincial and national government were in attendance, along with with journalists, library staff and pupils from KwaMashu schools.
More photographs up on our Flickr group.
Posted on 30 March 2010 by Ulwazi Web Editor
The Ulwazi Programme is the subject of University of Cape Town doctoral candidate Grant McNulty’s research, abstract below. We wish him well with his project.
ABSTRACT
In post-apartheid South Africa, the African National Congress (ANC) government’s efforts to create a new national identity, a more inclusive heritage and to address past imbalances have contributed significantly to the reshaping of the South African heritage landscape, entailing the revision and restructuring of old museums, heritage sites and memory institutions. These political and institutional changes have also generated new sites. The focus of my research is one such site, the Ulwazi Programme (UP), an online archival initiative that has been set up by the Ethekwini (Durban) Municipal Library to provide opportunities for communities actively to record and share their contemporary history and culture.
Posted on 03 March 2010 by Ulwazi Web Editor
Project leader Betsie Greyling has been conducting some excellent research into and preservation of materials relating to the life of Anton Lembede, the first president of the ANC Youth League who was born in Umbumbulu. She has conducted interviews with family members and digitized documents and photographs. These are available on the Ulwazi Community Memory, divided into the following sections:
