UCT's decision to honour the late Molly Blackburn by renaming the hall which currently houses the Nescafé, the Molly Blackburn Memorial Hall, attracted widespread media interest recently.The naming ceremony on July 8 was aired on SABC TV, and reports were published in newspaper around the country, including one or two newspaper editorials applauding the move on the part of UCT.Although Blackburn died in a car accident in 1985, an event many regarded with suspicion at the time, her memory is still very much alive in the South African consciousness. The university received further criticism for allowing the removal or concealment of certain artworks.“The 2016 investigation of the artwork task team found that 79.1% of the collection – the artwork that UCT obtained – was work produced by white artists,” said Pather.“The task team also found that, to a lesser extent, art by male artists dominated the collection. It was curated by Mandla Mbothwe.The ceremony took place to prepare the space for the rehanging of artwork.The selection of artworks for this space has been re-curated to celebrate the potential, resilience and future of both individuals and collectives.The opening of the Molly Blackburn exhibition space will take place on 12 April between 13:00 and 14:00. The performance was led by Lulamile Bongo Nikani, together with Nomakrestu Xakathugaga and Babalwa Makwetu. She was the daughter of Elgar Bellhouse who was at one time the chairperson of the Progressive Party (PP) in.In 1982 a Black Sash Advice Office opened in PE. Molly Blackburn was born in 1930. x��Wێ�6}7��T`��A��`��"��"�-��-׫h��CY�Z�D��a�g��j����^��E�޿�]�u�x)��ivS�u��:���+g���z[��j�����e7��d�32T����d�>ȴ����24��N8{�O��S��l��trO��G0�������t�4�l̅��YA#�-�|��)�K��*�[c�J�T��4����1�8�x o]���[�f���Ϸw�w In January, the same group pressured the university into dismantling an art exhibition that paid tribute to Molly Blackburn. stream endobj <> 3. If you walk down the main avenue of upper campus on a sunny afternoon, you find thousands of students, black and white – often together – doing what students do: dancing in the Molly Blackburn hall, studying in the library, sitting in groups on the plaza chatting, sometimes discussing politics or science, fretting over tests, loans and money, often holding hands and sometimes kissing. "It was while traveling with colleagues in the Eastern Cape, recording events under the state of emergency, and taking statements, that she was killed in a car accident in December 1985. July 22, 2018. She started to receive death threats and was arrested a couple of times.In 1985, while driving back to Port Elizabeth from Oudshoorn, Blackburn, her sister, Judy Chalmers and Diana (Di) Bishop, Brian Bishop were all involved in an accident. endobj

Cancel Unsubscribe. The spaces that we use, we don’t just use them to learn… we also feel them. Fire management has played a role in maintaining biodiversity and in the livelihoods of rural communities.TLC2020: tutors’ perspectives on emergency remote teaching.Tutors shared their experiences of emergency remote teaching and learning on day two of UCT’s virtual 2020 Teaching and Learning Conference.Preserving cultural heritage through state-of-the-art technology.UCT’s Zamani Project is hard at work producing authentic and accurate data to support heritage conservation experts and help preserve culturally sensitive sites.the University of Cape Town's terms of use. These included showcasing “the exquisite work” done by students and introducing the UCT community to the new works that the university has acquired, as well as the reopening of the exhibition space.Referring to the ongoing controversy that has swirled around art on campus in recent years, Pather said: “Most of the work [of the WOAC] after the issues of two years ago was about balancing and finding new ways to curate artworks that make our space a public space.”.Among the “issues” to which he alluded were the burning of artworks belonging to UCT during the 2016 “Shackville” protests and the subsequent criticism that was levelled at the university for displaying art that some found offensive. SAT, JUL 28, 2018. Her work in the 1980s in particular, served to bring into the public domain the dark dealings of the security forces, the full nature of which were only fully revealed during the Truth and Reconciliation Commission hearings after 1994.Blackburn was a member of the provincial legislature for the Progressive Federal Party in the 1980s, and a stalwart of the Black Sash.

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