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Department of Arts and Culture 2009-2010 Annual Report
Read the DAC’s Annual Report, View the presentation of the Annual Report to the Portfolio Committee or listen to the audio recording.
Mugabe bill to stifle access to info!
A bill to be submitted to the Zimbabwean parliament will allow authorities to block access to official documents.
Grass Roots: African Origins of an American Art
This exhbition, on view at the National Museum of American Art in Washington, USA, looks at baskets as ‘containers of memory’.
Intergovernmental Committee for the Safekeeping of the Intangible Cultural Heritage meets in Nairobi
Forty seven new elements were added to the list and four placed on the list in danger!
Declaration of the Civil Society Conference
Thousands of people gathered in Boksburg in late October to rebuild a strong mass democratic movement which will work with the people and government to address social problems.
Universal Declaration on Archives
Adopted by the International Council on Archives, 17 September 2010.
Whistleblowing in South Africa
Speech by the Public Protector, Advocate Thuli Madonsela to the Open Democracy Advice Centre conference, 17 November 2010
Clean up our newsrooms fast
Robert Brand explains why now, more than ever we need a good press.
What’s up at the Department of Arts and Culture
The Department of Arts and Culture has been in the news recently, for all the wrong reasons!
The Visual History Archive
The Archival Platform in conversation with Craig Matthew of the Visual Histroy Archive about an innovative product which intergrates mapping technologies, audiovisual, textual and photographic documents.
The Right2Know march on parliament
The Archival Platform joined the march and reports back!
Book review: Material Journeys: Collecting African and oceanic Art, 1945 - 2000
This book reflects the recent awakening of interest in the history of collecting and the lives and artistic concerns of individual collectors.
The Archival Platform interacts with delegates to the SAMA and OHASA conferences
The Archival Platform has been on the road this month.
When does self-regulation degenerate into self-censorship
Read the speech by Professor Kader Asmal to mark SANEF’s Commemoration of Black Wednesday at the University of the Witwatersrand, October 19 2010
