It’s been a very busy couple of months for the Denis Hurley Centre! In June the centre was host to the 2019 Street Store, organised in collaboration with Grace Family Church. More than 120 volunteers took part in the event which saw just over 1000 homeless people visit the store where they could ‘shop’ for clothes, … Read more
This past Tuesday, Edwin Cameron appeared for the last time as a judge of the Constitutional Court, the highest court in South Africa. This final sitting of Justice Cameron ends an esteemed and much respected legal career which has seen him challenge the status quo, standing up for the rights of minorities and oppressed. Having … Read more
Namuhla, iNingizimu Afrika izilele ukudlula emhlabeni kwesishoshovu sepolitiki, neqhawe lomzabalazo, uAhmed Mohamed Kathrada. Ngesikhathi ethula inkulumo kwi SAFM wabuzwa ukuthi angathanda ukukhunjulwa kanjani? Waphendula wathi, ‘Njengomuntu ozamile ukuba nomthelela. Sazama.’ Uma ubheka udaba lwaleqhawe kusobala ukuthi uAhmed Kathrada kuningi akwenza kunokuzama. Baziwa kakhulu ngo ‘Uncle Kathy’, impokophelo yakhe yabonakala esemncane – eneminyaka eyi 12 waba … Read more
If you’re old enough to remember the original A-Team, you’ll likely also have a clear memory of the massive tanks that would roll up and down South African streets in times of unrest during the apartheid years. But while the A-Team were members of a fictitious US Special Army Force, the men driving the armored … Read more
Anthony Wilson-Prangley, a lecturer from the Gordon Institute of Business Science at Pretoria University recently brought two groups of learners through to Durban to experience our Liberation Heritage Route. Below is a recount of their visit as told from the perspective of Anthony: Here we are, in an area of Durban that I don’t know … Read more
Ngesonto elidlule sibhale ngodaba lodonga oludala oluhlukanisa ijele – Durban Central Prison Boundary Wall. Kuleliviki sibheka olunye udonga nelinye ijele eAddingon Beach, ePoint kunodonga olwaziwa nge ‘Prisoner of War’ olwakhiwa ngamadoda ayeboshwe ngesikhathi sempi kaBhambatha ngo 1906. Iminyaka eyalandela i- Anglo-Boer War abaqashi esifundazweni seNatali babhekana nesikhathi esinzima sokuthola abantu ababezosebenza emapulazini ngenxa ngenxa yokwanda … Read more