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From: "Kammie" <>
Subject: [SoAfricaHistory] WEBSITE : Company Slaves at the Cape - Launch on December, 1, 2002
Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2002 19:48:24 +0200

Hi SA HISTORY List Participants

Launch of website : Company Slaves at the Cape - December, 1, 2002

The Social History Collections Division of the regional flagship, the IZIKO
Museums of Cape Town is launching the first pages of their institutional
website on Slave History at the Cape on 1 December 2002.

This corporate website is a joint digital project with several other
establishments such as South African Heritage Resources Agency, National
Library of South Africa [i.e. former South African Library branch] , the
Department of Cultural Affairs and Sport [of the Western Cape government]
and professional researchers such as the two University of Cape Town-based
academics, Prof Nigel WORDEN, a slave historian and Dr. Antonia MALAN, a
archeaologist.

The launch will take place in the SLAVE LODGE, at the corner of Wale
Street and Adderley Street, in the centre of Cape Town, near the
Parliamentary Building complex on Emancipation Day, December, 1st , 2002.

The launch of this institutional website will be followed by a short
programme to commemorate the emancipation of slaves on 1st of December,1834.

The SLAVE LODGE is the second oldest building in South Africa, presently
housing the South African Cultural History Museum, that displays the oldest
cultural history collection of artifacts in the country, at 49 Adderley
Street, near the entrance of the public Company Gardens, Cape Town.

Enquiries : Dr Helene VOLLGRAAF
Tel No : 27[0]21-464-1268
Fax No : 27[0]21-460-8202
Email :
Website : http://www.museums.org.za/sachm/

Related SACHM publication :
VOLLGRAAFF, Helene [1997] : "The Dutch East India Company's Slave Lodge at
the Cape", South African Cultural History Museum [SACHM] publication,
ISBN 1-875045-26-0, Cape Town, RSA

Portals for South African Museums :
A good way to stay in touch with other South African museums and what they
are doing, working on, and presenting to the culturally aware public at
large ....

Museums Online South Africa at http://www.museums.org.za

or

http://sunsite.wits.ac.za/mus/sa.htm

List of South African Museums, with links to those museums that have
corporate websites. The museums vary from large national 'declared' museums
to regional and smaller museums at municipal/district level.

Other impressive museum websites are:

Bo-Kaap Museum in the Malay Quarter reflects the cultural life of urban
enclave consisting of residents who are largely the descendents of former
19th century emancipated slaves at the Cape above the City lights.

The confluence and intermingling of Eastern and Western cultures brought by
African [from Mocambique, Mauritius, Madagascar, etc], Indian [from West
Coast of Malabar and the East Coast of Bengal i.e. Indo-Pak subcontinent]
and Batavian slaves [from Indonesia, and the other 'spice route' islands
across the Indian Ocean basin], early political exiles and VOC bandieten
[sentenced prisoners] from the Dutch East Indies [modern day Indonesia]
in the 17th Century, is most evident in the Bo-Kaap Museum,
a house - built in 1760 - furnished in the style of a typically 19th Century
Cape Muslim home, at 71 Wale Street, Bo-Kaap, Cape Town.
Contact : Curator , Nazeem LOWE
Tel No: (27[0]21) 24-3846
Fax No: (27[0]21) 461-9592
Email :
Web: http://www.museums.org.za/sachm/bh/

Genadendal [Valley of Grace] Museum complex - the first mission station in
South Africa - three hours drive, 30km from Caledon at the N2 on Route R406
, outside Cape Town.

Genadendal is the oldest Moravian mission village in Africa, with church
buildings and the first infant school in the rural areas dating back to the
1730's. The Genadendal Mission and Museum complex documents its history
and the legacy of its Moravian mission work.

Genadendal Tourism Bureau
Tel: (27-28) 251-8279
Fax: (27-28) 251-8196
Genadendal Mission Museum:
Tel : (27-[0]28) 251-8582/251-8291
Contact : Curator, Dr BALIE
website : http://www.museums.org.za/genadendal/
website : http://www.dorea.co.za/

Another strongly recommended South African 'Slavery at the Cape' related
website is :

http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Rhodes/1266/genetic.htm

or

http://www.geocities.com/sa_stamouers/mainE.htm

Kammie, RSA
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Cheers from Mogamat KAMEDIEN,Cape Town (i.e. "the Fairest Cape"), SOUTH
AFRICA
my email address :
my website address : "Slavery @ the Cape" = a Gateway to Colonial Slavery in
Dutch & British South Africa = http://batavia.rug.ac.be/slavery/
Alternative link :
http://www.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/hum211/timelines/htimeline3.htm
You are most welcome to view my South African Slavery-pages hosted by
B@tavia based at the "Centre for Sustainable Development/Third World
Studies", Univ. of Ghent, Belgium at http://batavia.rug.ac.be/

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