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10 Dec, 4 tweets, 2 min read

#DYK the core function of the Education and Public Programmes Department is to offer multimodal programmes by utilizing the collections, objects, stories, exhibitions, commemorative days and other resources that are inclusive, encourage participation, promote awareness,...

enhance knowledge and understanding, foster respect of human rights and contribute to social cohesion and human dignity?
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The programme's aims and objectives are to encourage life-long learning for our diverse audiences, foster social cohesion and nation-building through intra and inter-generational dialogues...

and promote Iziko its collections by "bringing the museum" to communities who are otherwise unable to pay a visit to our museums.
#EPP
#MobileMuseum
#MuseumFromHome
#LockdownLearning
#LockdownLessons
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For the oppressed in South Africa, freedom songs were a weapon in the struggle against colonial conquest and apartheid, and are part of the collective memory of the struggle against apartheid.
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Freedom songs tell the story of the people, organizations, events, ideologies, beliefs, hopes, dreams and emotions that were part of the struggle for freedom.

Many singers and bands added their voices to the struggle through their music, and jazz, rock, reggae, hip hop and other musical genres played an important role in the struggle for freedom.
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9 Dec

'China renamed Rosa – From childhood sold five times'

The life of China, called by at least three names and sold five times, illustrates how impossible it was for a slave to hold onto even the most basic unit of identity. China of Singaracolla was sold into slavery as a child.

Six years later, ‘China, renamed Rosa’ was sold for 18 pagados, to a VOC sailor, Hendrik Hillman. A month after this, now recorded as ‘Rosa’, she was sold at a 100 percent profit to a Dutch ship’s captain, Cornelius Bosch.

He set sail five months later on the Bovenkerker Polder bound for Cape Town and took her with him.
The final record of sale was in 1775, when China was 16 or 17; she was bought by the most senior clergyman of the Cape, Johannes Serrurier.

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8 Dec

'Matereality', curated by Andrea Lewis, unpacks how artists have used materials, whether directly or indirectly, to raise questions about larger societal concerns.

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The exhibition depicts, among many realities, climate and environmental issues, consumerism, technology, globalisation, xenophobia, migration, religion, beauty, gender, sexuality, and politics.

In an increasingly digitised world, honouring the materiality and physicality of a work is also a return to the tangible and real.

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'Magdalena van Batavia – Bought the freedom of her daughters'
Sometimes the only way for a slave mother to save her children was to free herself and then buy her own children. In 1740, Magdalena van Batavia bought and signed for her daughter’s freedom in front of seven witnesses.

However, this was not enough to guarantee freedom for Mengis and Elizabeth, her children.
Magdalena died before the sale had become a formal manumission request, leaving her daughters still officially slaves.

The original sale document of 21 October, 1740 shows that one of the seven witnesses had the same surname as Mengis and Elizabeth’s deceased owner, Schalkwijk.

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