​The Stellenbosch University Museum invites you to a discussion on: Auto/biography, history and memory in South Africa

Presenters

Dr Sibongiseni Mkhize

Dr Mhkize holds a PhD in history from the University of the Witwatersrand. His area of interest is the twentieth-century history of KwaZulu-Natal, with a particular focus on biographical studies and political mobilisation in the Natal midlands during the 1950s and the 1980s. He is the author of Principle and Pragmatism in the Liberation Struggle: A Political Biography of Selby Msimang, which was published in 2019. He has also authored and co-authored research papers on arts, culture and heritage in South Africa, as well as on the evolution of traditional leadership in the eThekwini Municipality. He is the former head of the Msunduzi and Ncome Museums, the Robben Island Museum and the Market Theatre Foundation, and is currently the Chief Executive Officer of the South African State Theatre.

Dr Bongani Ndhlovu

Dr Ndhlovu has a PhD in history from the University of the Western Cape. He is the Executive Director: Core Functions at Iziko Museums of South Africa and has more than two decades of experience in the heritage sector. In this sector, he has worked, among others, for the KZN Museum Service, the Voortrekker Museum (now the Msunduzi Museum), the Ncome Museum, and the Transvaal Museum (now the Ditsong Museum of Natural History). He has served on the boards of ICOM-SA, ICMAH, SAMA, the Talana Museum, Tourism Dundee, Vryheid Tourism and Nquthu Tourism. Ndhlovu's academic interest is history, heritage and auto/biographical narratives. His latest publications include two separate chapters he co-authored in an edited book, Public History, Heritage and Culture in South Africa: The Struggle Continues.

Dr Mxolisi Dlamuka 

Dr Dlamuka has worked in museums and the heritage sector for the past 20 years as a collections manager, researcher, curator, advisor and heritage practitioner. He holds a PhD in history from the University of the Western Cape. His research interests focus on the production of Harry Gwala's political biography, liberation narratives and the production of histories during the late-nineteenth- and twentieth-century Natal and Zululand. He is a former Chief Executive Officer of Heritage Western Cape and is now based in Pietermaritzburg, where he is the CEO of the KwaZulu-Natal Amafa and Research Institute.

Moderator

Dr Geraldine Frieslaar 

Curator of Research, Dialogue and Social.

Date: Thursday, 7 April 2022

Time: 15:00 – 16:00 (SAST)

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