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The University of Cape Town's Special Collections comprises internationally-renowned Africana, archives and other research resources.

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ICA Members Join the “Emergency Response for Documentary Heritage” Training! The “Emergency Response for Documentary Heritage” workshop is currently taking place in Pretoria, South Africa from 11 to 15 November 2024. This important regional training, aimed at professionals from…

ICArchiv's tweet image. ICA Members Join the “Emergency Response for Documentary Heritage” Training!

The “Emergency Response for Documentary Heritage” workshop is currently taking place in Pretoria, South Africa from 11 to 15 November 2024. This important regional training, aimed at professionals from…
ICArchiv's tweet image. ICA Members Join the “Emergency Response for Documentary Heritage” Training!

The “Emergency Response for Documentary Heritage” workshop is currently taking place in Pretoria, South Africa from 11 to 15 November 2024. This important regional training, aimed at professionals from…

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Join the society and support HIPSAs proud tradition "to publish meticulously edited original sources on Southern African history, which were inaccessible to the average South African." hipsa.org.za/join-the-socie…


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The AGM and launch of HIPSAs 2024 volume took place at Protea BookStore Claremont last week. Members were treated to insights by Hudson descendant and book editor, Edward Hudson. Contact HIPSA and order your copy now. hipsa.org.za/contact/

HiPSA1918's tweet image. The AGM and launch of HIPSAs 2024 volume took place  at Protea BookStore Claremont last week. 
Members were treated to insights by Hudson descendant and book editor, Edward Hudson.

Contact HIPSA and order your copy now. hipsa.org.za/contact/
HiPSA1918's tweet image. The AGM and launch of HIPSAs 2024 volume took place  at Protea BookStore Claremont last week. 
Members were treated to insights by Hudson descendant and book editor, Edward Hudson.

Contact HIPSA and order your copy now. hipsa.org.za/contact/
HiPSA1918's tweet image. The AGM and launch of HIPSAs 2024 volume took place  at Protea BookStore Claremont last week. 
Members were treated to insights by Hudson descendant and book editor, Edward Hudson.

Contact HIPSA and order your copy now. hipsa.org.za/contact/
HiPSA1918's tweet image. The AGM and launch of HIPSAs 2024 volume took place  at Protea BookStore Claremont last week. 
Members were treated to insights by Hudson descendant and book editor, Edward Hudson.

Contact HIPSA and order your copy now. hipsa.org.za/contact/

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The Department of Historical and Heritage Studies at the University of Pretoria invites you to a hybrid seminar on “Reflections on Teaching South African History” This webinar seeks to build on discussions initiated by the South African Historical Journal’s July 2023 webinar…

SAHistSoc's tweet image. The Department of Historical and Heritage Studies at the University of Pretoria invites you to a hybrid seminar on 

“Reflections on Teaching South African History”

This webinar seeks to build on discussions initiated by the South African Historical Journal’s July 2023 webinar…

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UCTL Special Collections is celebrating the beginning of Spring and Heritage Month with a feature on the successful salvage and recovery of thirteen renowned botanical water colour paintings by Arabella Roupell after the Jagger Library fire. Read more: bit.ly/4eja8Oj

UCTLibrary's tweet image. UCTL Special Collections is celebrating the beginning of Spring and Heritage Month with a feature on the successful salvage and recovery of thirteen renowned botanical water colour paintings by Arabella Roupell after the Jagger Library fire.  Read more: bit.ly/4eja8Oj
UCTLibrary's tweet image. UCTL Special Collections is celebrating the beginning of Spring and Heritage Month with a feature on the successful salvage and recovery of thirteen renowned botanical water colour paintings by Arabella Roupell after the Jagger Library fire.  Read more: bit.ly/4eja8Oj

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To mark International Literacy Day and SA National Book Week, Thundeza Mafungwa, Senior Librarian, wrote a piece highlighting UCTL Special Collections' commitment to showcasing multilingualism in celebration of our nation's cultural and social diversity: bit.ly/4d0ITqm


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Join us virtually on the 4th of September at 12pm SAST, for the third Ibali Indaba, where we launch of the showcase site for the ǂKhomani | Hugh Brody Archive. Join us for a conversation with some of the key developers of the site. Register here: bit.ly/3Xkq1Ow


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#TodayInHistory 25 August 1855 "Move on in the morning; and in the afternoon pass the place where we shot the lechwes, and later on reach the place where we had stopped for our midday rest on the way up. Slept here, much plagued by mosquitoes." - Johan August Wahlberg #HiPSA


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"A few days ago I received a letter from Prof. Mansvelt in which the opinion was expressed that we could perhaps do more for education in this country by establishing a good teachers’ training school instead of spreading our efforts on smaller schools." - M.T. Steyn #HiPSA [3/3]


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#TodayInHistory 22 August 1899 "A great friend of ours from England Mr John Hobson arrived here yesterday. … He has come out to study the South African question & write on it." - Olive Schreiner -> Isie Smuts #HiPSA #OliveSchreiner #JHHobson


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The Digital Scholar Series continues on 28 August with a look at how you can use spreadsheets to tidy up your data. We will explore some of the possibilities available to you through the use of tools, formulae and basic logical operators. Register here: bit.ly/4cDkbfA


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#TodayInHistory 21 August 1893 "I entirely agree with what you say in your last letter about Merriman. It is exactly what I have been trying to convince our friends of … pointing out to them over-and-over again that [1/2]


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Merriman is a man who is erratic out of mere exuberance of intellectual vitality. But [?] place him in a position of responsibility or, as you say, load him with the cares of Government, and he becomes a different being." - James Rose Innes #HiPSA #JXMerriman #CapeColony [2/2]


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#TodayInHistory 20 August 1849 "When, after walking all day, Wilhelm lagging dreadfully in the rear (which he continued to do during the rest of the journey), we arrived at another farm kept by a Hottentot, who is partly bailiff, partly partner, [1/2]


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I asked for a night’s lodging, but was for the first time refused. His house was full, why had I no horse? Even senderlings (missionaries) went in wagons. Was it likely that I, if I were a Leerar, a regular minister, should walk?" - N.J. Merriman #HiPSA #Khoekhoe #missionaries


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#TodayInHistory 14 August 1932 "To me it seems that Botha cut himself from taking any active part in the Afrikaans culture movement, by reason of the stand which he took as conciliator. As conciliator he was neither Boer nor Briton, a position I am sure he felt deeply, [1/2]


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but which he adopted of set purpose & with a foreknowledge of the isolation in which it would leave him." - Alan Paton -> J.H. Hofmeyr #HiPSA #Hofmeyr #JHHofmeyr #Botha #LouisBotha #conciliation #Afrikanernationalism [2/2]


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UCT recently commemorated a significant milestone: the 80th anniversary of the WH Bell Music Library on Thursday, 1 August. The WH Bell Music Library, established in 1943, has been a cornerstone of music education and research at UCT. Read more: qr.link/ivtoWc

UCT_news's tweet image. UCT recently commemorated a significant milestone: the 80th anniversary of the WH Bell Music Library on Thursday, 1 August. The WH Bell Music Library, established in 1943, has been a cornerstone of music education and research at UCT. Read more: qr.link/ivtoWc

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The Vincent Kolbe Knowledge Commons is named in memory of Vincent Kolbe (1933-2010), who advocated for libraries being marketplaces for ideas and cultural centres. Learn more about this visionary in his own words here: bit.ly/3SMmbuI and here: bit.ly/4dxoslA

UCTLibrary's tweet image. The Vincent Kolbe Knowledge Commons is named in memory of Vincent Kolbe (1933-2010), who advocated for libraries being marketplaces for ideas and cultural centres. Learn more about this visionary in his own words here: bit.ly/3SMmbuI and here: bit.ly/4dxoslA

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