Apartheid – 2 Sides 2 Everything: Recent Episodes
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Every year on 21 February, the day before my birthday, I post on Facebook about the tragic story of the SS Mendi that sank on this day in 1917 in the channel between Britain and France killing 647 men, mostly members of the South African Native Labour Corps (SANLC). The Mendi carried five officers, 17 […]
The Durban Botanical Gardens was established in 1849 and is the oldest botanical garden in Africa. The Botanic Gardens curates major collections such as cycads, palms and orchids and, in the true tradition of botanic gardens, is several gardens within one. The Durban Botanic Gardens Trust runs the Botanical Gardens. The Trust is an independent […]
This contribution is the last of four posts detailing incidents within two weeks, which impacted on my life. In it, I will deal with an advert for the Apartheid Museum produced by the agency TBWA Hunt Lascaris, which was subsequently found to contain fake clips attributed to Donald Trump and Hendrik Verwoerd. The advert won […]