Three stories brought to you by The Archival Platform, an innovative new approach to archives, memory, history and archival-related information and advocacy in South Africa, based at the University of Cape Town. All three stories are related to Southern African heritage sites:
The Nelson Mandela Museum in Mthata (formerly Umtata), in South Africa’s Eastern Cape has “opened a new exhibition that will form the centrepiece of the museum’s celebration of the life and times of Nelson Mandela.”
A new Contract Labour and Apartheid Museum (yes, the perhaps unfortunate acronym will be CLAM) will be opening in Walvis Bay in Namibia sometime in the (hopefully) not-so-distant future.
Finally, and perhaps tragically, Robben Island appears to be under threat. From rabbits. Or, dare I say it, wascally wabbits.