On the 14th of April this year, I attended the Repatriation Handover Ceremony at the Iziko South African Museum. The purpose of the ceremony was to hand over the last Zimbabwe Bird, along with ancestral remains, to the people of Zimbabwe. Three of the Zimbabwe Birds, photographed around 1891 (Wikipedia) This return was prompted by an instruction
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Johannesburg from the Riverbanks: Navigating the Jukskei is an ambitious and timely contribution to Johannesburg studies. Bringing together twenty-one chapters by twenty-six contributors, the volume emerged largely from the 2023 Riparian Urbanism project and seeks to reposition the Jukskei River
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Founded in 1933, the AME Church is a major landmark in Alexandra. The church served as a place of refuge during the uprising of the 1970s and 1980s, and was used as a voting station in the 1994 elections.