A recent project aimed at highlighting the issue of homelessness in South Africa has seen the Denis Hurley Centre team up with the Daily Maverick and Story Sessions to present Homeless 101. Intended to be an ‘introduction’ to the topic of homelessness as a social issue, the project pairs photographic portraits with stories of homeless … Read more
On Friday the 15th December 1989 Doreen Mgoduka woke up to discover that her husband, Glen, hadn’t returned from a meeting he had gone to the previous evening. Ordinarily Doreen’s morning ritual involved her sitting down to watch the breakfast news show, but that Friday, with her husband on her mind, she skipped the news. … Read more
There are few voices as recognisable or powerful as that of the late former statesman, Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela. So, in 2008, when Mandela made a plea whilst addressing the crowds at his 90th birthday celebrations in Hyde Park, the world took notice: It is time for new hands to lift the burdens. It is in … Read more
Durban’s Liberation Heritage Route forms part of the larger national project, the Resistance and Liberation Heritage Route (RLHR). The RLHR is administered by the National Heritage Council, an agency of the Department of Arts and Culture. In 2012, the National Heritage Council launched the Golden Shield Heritage Awards as a means of acknowledging those individuals … Read more
Earlier this month the Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality launched the book, A Walk Through Our Past. The coffee table book, which features Nelson Mandela on its cover, highlights important events in our country’s history from the year 1800 through to the dawn of democracy in 1994 and was published as part of the municipality’s Liberation … Read more
The late Archbishop Denis Hurley, after whom the Denis Hurley Centre was named, spent his life fighting for the human rights of all individuals, regardless, of race, culture or creed, but it was the poorest of the poor, who most needed his assistance. Now 25 years after the advent of South Africa’s hard-won democracy there … Read more