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DISTRICT SIX MUSEUM Annual Report 2013/14 Table of Contents

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1. From the Chairperson 3

2. Director’s Overview 5

3. The Changing Face of Land Restitution 7

4. Projects Overview 8

5. Programmes Overview 12

6. General 16

7. Auditors’ Report 18

8. Statement of Comprehensive Income 20

9. Statement of Financial Position 21

10. Visitor Numbers 22

11. Funders, Staff, Storytellers, Board of Trustees, 22 Honorary Members, Patrons

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District Six Museum @District6Museum Cover photograph: ©Paul Grendon DISTRICT SIx MuSeuM ANNuAL RePORT 2013/14

April May

29th - Museum PEP discussion with African Centre for Cities (UCT) on ‘D6 on the Fringe’

27th-28th - D6M-CLASI imagiNATION workshop with 6th - Routes of Memory archaeology high school youth on the values workshop with UCT postgrad students of the Constitution and the anti- struggle 27th - Freedom Day walk with ex-residents 2013 through ‘The Fringe’ 25th - Africay Day programme at the Children’s Art Centre

From the Chairperson Ciraj Rassool, Chairperson of the Board of Trustees

The politics of memory in District Six

ThE lAST TwElvE MonThS ‘District Six’ has emerged that limits and promoting an understanding have been very challenging for the its application to restitution land and of the past in District Six is rightly Museum and for District Six itself. infrastructure within a broader area celebrated around the world for its Shortages in core funding continue that is still referred to by its apartheid originality and creativity. to pose challenges for its efforts in name of . The only reason collections management, memory work that direction signs from Searle Street On behalf of the Board and Staff of and site interpretation, notwithstanding point drivers to ‘District Six’ and the District Six Museum, I urgently a renewed commitment by the not ‘Zonnebloem’ is because these call upon the South African Heritage Museum to the ‘Hands on District Six’ changes were made by artist Haroon Resources Agency to immediately framework. District Six itself remains Gunn-Salie as part of an art installation. carry through its promise to finalise subject to urban planning regimes and the national heritage site declaration projects of infrastructure development As these developments threaten the of District Six. I also call upon the that continue to divide and balkanise the possibility of restoring coherence Department of Arts and Culture severely traumatised landscape. With and integrity to District Six as a to carry out its promise made in the South African Heritage Resources landscape of heritage, it is important Parliament in 2014 to support the Agency having failed to declare District to salute the work undertaken by staff work of the District Six Museum. I also Six a national heritage site as decided under these adverse conditions. In call upon the people of Cape Town and by its council in 2006, the area has exhibitions, collections, research and to continue to support continued to experience inappropriate education, sterling work continues the District Six Museum and to build infrastructure development in an to be conducted by the Museum’s its sustainability. These are necessary unprotected heritage landscape. talented and committed staff, as more steps in the quest to restore the former residents are mobilised into integrity of the traumatised landscape Amid divisive, gentrifying city planning the work of the museum through the of District Six and to counteract the initiatives, such as ‘The Fringe’ (which Seven Steps Club and the Huis Kombuis destruction of memory. Let this begin was eventually thrown into the dustbin) project. The inscriptive memorial with the immediate, formal dumping and encroaching infrastructure work of the Museum continues to be of the apartheid name ‘Zonnebloem’ development by the District Six campus highlights of the “Hands on District and the official renaming of the area as of the university of Six” programme. The Museum’s District Six, as it once was, and always Technology (CPuT), a meaning of work of remembering, conserving will be for the people of Cape Town. The last organised gathering at the Hanover Street cairn, 2013. A CPUT student residence now limits access.

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June July

28th - D6M-CLASI ConCamp with high school learners. 1st - Good Hope FM broadcast with Human rights moot court competition Archbishop Emeritus

13th - African Tale of the Mother City 13th - Launch of Insurrections CD with exhibition launch UWC and SAHO 28th - Fabrication of the Peter Clarke gate 4th - Winter Bioscope launch: Robben 11th - Winter Bioscope screening: 2013 for the entrance at the Homecoming Centre World Design Capital nomination: District Island - Our University. - Forced Removals Six Heritage Routes and Vacant Possessions

Director’s Overview Bonita Bennett

ThE 2013 – 2014 pERIoD and storytelling, developing a book commitments have been made, and has witnessed some growth in the proposal for which a sponsor has been we continue to try to do what we number of programmatic highlights found. We happily and anxiously await can to facilitate the translation from and partnership initiatives. The its final production. The Constitutional commitment into cash. Fundraising Homecoming Centre’s place in the life Literacy and Service Initiative (CLASI) and self-generated income have and mission of the Museum’s work, have been wonderful partners in featured very high on our agenda complementing the visitor experiences sharing resources for an engaging once again, as will be gleaned from in the permanent exhibition space youth programme which has become our statement of income. Trying to and on the vacant and evolving site, is entrenched through an annual intake of hold on to the UNESCO definition of incrementally being strengthened. new young people for the course. what museums should be: “non-profit- making, permanent institutions in the The Seven Steps ex-residents’ club At the same time we have been able service of society and its development, has continued to expand in number to concentrate on developing ways and open to the public, which acquire, and programmes continue to be to enhance the visitor experience in conserve, research, communicate and Discussion on forced removals with Seven Steps members, 2014. Desmond Sheik from Sophiatown joined us via Skype and editors of stimulating and informative, constantly the Museum space. This has included exhibit, for purposes of study, education the book Experiencing Sophiatown, Karie Morgan and David Thelen, were present. affirming the valuable role that the storytelling workshops to assist ex- and enjoyment, material evidence ex-resident community of District resident storytellers to refine their of people and their environment”, Six plays in the life and work of the stories so that they would be age and continues to be hard. We have been Museum. The youth programme context-appropriate, and providing largely dependent on self-generated supported by the National Heritage a larger menu of options to visitors. income, individual donations, project Council developed a wonderful Site walks and different ‘District Six funding and in-kind support from exhibition, grown from casting their encounters’ have proven to be very many: Marsh Insurance Brokers, youthful eyes on our archive, engaging popular. Matching capacity-building Domino Digital, Ogilvy & Mather, with sites identified as significant in with this institutional growth has been and PWC being among the largest of District Six, and gathering stories from more than taxing. these during the past financial year. members of the former community We look forward to a year in which of the District. “Routes of Memory” These are just some of the features we are able to unlock some secure evolved from this process. The Huis which have characterised the past year. operational support so as to ease the Kombuis food and memory project, However, we have not resolved our monthly cash-flow burden. Routes of Memory youth pose with Duke University students, 2013. Through with support from the National Arts financial challenges. Secure funding the DukEngage programme the university has placed interns with the has not yet been received although 31 March 2014 Museum for the past seven years. Council has continued their research

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July August

6th - Researcher Hayley Hayes-Roberts’ farewell 7th - Lintsomi Zase District 18th - Winter Bioscope 22nd - Farewell for DukEngage interns Kerry Six – a performance art piece screening: Notice to Brown and Brandon Nesfield by Primrose Mrwebi Quit 31st - Winter Bioscope screening: Village Under the Forest with director Mark Kaplan and historian Heidi Grunebaum

19th - A Night at the Museum with Children’s 9th - Routes of Memory research with learners Resource Centre and Umbon’Omhle for D6

2013 primary school learners

The Changing Face of Land Restitution

whEn IT STARTED as a the exhibition before it moved onto period and serves to mobilise all memory project in the late 1980s, one other provinces, and accompanying the those who wish to claim under the of the key drives behind the Museum exhibition was the news that cabinet new amended bill. Amongst many was that of land restitution. Some of would submit a Restitution of Land other groups who have sought to the earliest meetings between activists Rights Amendment Bill - which would claim District Six, are those who self- and ex-residents centred on the idea of reopen the land claims process for identify as Khoisan, and claim District return to District Six – both physically those who missed the 31 December Six as ancestral land. and through memory. Keeping the land 1998 cutoff date. District Six after destruction, 1980s (Photograph: Heritage Resource Centre) vacant was meant to support both By the end of December 2013, 139 impulses. ultimately the Museum has The implications of the bill are homes out of 2 400 projected homes based its work with young people, manifold. For those District Sixers were occupied. While the urgency to District Sixers and Capetonians on who have registered and received deliver homes is clear, working with supporting land restitution as an act of their claim numbers before 1998 memory amidst the frustration and justice and return, but when the scar – the challenges remain the same: anxiety felt by many ex-residents has starts to heal – as new homes and ensuring a dignified return to District proven to be a formidable challenge. ex-residents re-occupy the site – will Six through the efficient delivery of The Museum has emerged as one of restitution be complete? Will District homes so that our elders return many stakeholders in the restitution Six be made whole? before it’s too late; and also ensuring process, and in not being directly that communication between all responsible for the delivery of homes, The commemoration of the 1913 stakeholders remains clear and has had to ask itself, ‘does memory Native’s Land Act in this year set the constant. A number of role-players matter’? While we have always tone for a series of public discussions have emerged to support this asserted commemorative rituals, acts about the loss of land experienced by ongoing process. A Reference Group and markers as part of keeping the the majority of South Africans through that represents the claimant body memory of District Six alive – the this Act. A major exhibition by the was established in 2012 by DRDLR as gains of the past twenty years are in Department of Rural Development a direct channel for communication danger of being marginalised. Memory and Land Reform (DRDLR) was between the claimant body and the matters - because in the collective hosted at the Cape Town Convention national department. The District Six sharing of the stories and values of Centre. Seven Steps members and Working Committee was established District Six, lies the real possibility of young programme participants visited with the reopening of the lodgment reconstituting community. District Six, 2013 (Photograph: Bruce Sutherland, )

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September October

10th - Open Book Festival 24th - Noah and Ikamva Labantu Heritage - Walking in the Footsteps Day programme at the Homecoming Centre of with Bonita 15th - TCOE Rural Bennett and Shaun Viljoen Women’s Assembly at the Homecoming Centre

19th - Sedick Isaacs 21st - A Night at the Museum memorial with family and with Children’s Resource former Centre and Umbon’Omhle for political prisoners D6 primary school learners 24th - Exhibition opening. Going and 19th - Launch of two exhibitions by youth: Routes Coming Back: photographs of 1950s of Memory and Displacement – from dark past 2013 Cape Town to bright future!

Projects Overview

Going and coming back: photographs of 1950s Cape Town About four years ago, the Museum was approached by Darren Newbury, currently the Professor of Photography at Brighton university, to host the exhibition, Going and Coming back: photographs of 1950s Cape Town by Bryan Heseltine. As this was a rare find of 1950s photographs depicting life in Cape Town communities such as Langa, Nyanga, Windermere, Bo Kaap and District Six, we immediately responded with great enthusiasm. The exhibition opened in the Museum’s Homecoming Centre on Heritage Day, 24 September 2013 and remained open until February 2014. It received enormous interest from local scholars, visitors, school groups and ex-residents. Alongside this, an educational programme was developed to deepen the dialogue on Exhibition walk through with curator Darren Newbury, Homecoming Centre gallery Last Huis Kombuis storytelling session at the Hanover Street site Watermelon stories and rituals with Huis Kombuis the subject and bring awareness to other before the construction of a CPUT student residence participant Patience Watlington sites of forced removals. The programme consisted of two exhibition walk- throughs with the curator and a seminar of Fine Art, uCT). The panel considered exhibition content. Photographers huis Kombuis to incubate new design ideas through legacies of the past into a contemporary, discussion held in conjunction with the questions raised by the exhibition in the and visitors journeyed from District It has been an exciting journey for the the exchange of stories told by elderly inter-generational space. History Department of the university of context of the new photographic histories Six through Windermere, Factreton, Huis Kombuis team since its initial women (mainly ex-residents of District This process has given rise to an the (uWC). that are emerging in South Africa and the Nyanga and Vanguard Drive - finally launch in 2006. The Huis Kombuis Six) and to impart skills like sewing, ambitious project namely, a District Six The panel discussion was chaired by implications of the redisplay of historical ending in Langa. Guga S’Thebe and Reminiscent Craft and Design Workshop embroidery and appliqué. Recipe Story Book. The idea was given Prof. Patricia Hayes (History Department, collections to present-day audiences. As the Langa Pass Office brought the series has managed to sustain itself The stories were skillfully translated further impetus through generous uWC) and included Associate Prof. Sean well as reflecting on the documentaryreality of forced removals and the for nine years and continues to be a and designed into functional kitchenware seed funding and has since become Field (), Dr. insight the Heseltine collection provides geography of Cape Town’s divided city space of creative inspiration. Over the products. This has also opened up the focus of an in-depth research Noëleen Murray (Centre for Humanities into the mechanics of apartheid forced into sharper focus. past year the National Arts Council dialogues and collaborative opportunities programme which started in June 2014. Research, uWC), Prof. Darren Newbury removals and its legacy. In 2015 the exhibition will be has supported a series of workshops with young designers to explore the The publication and exhibition will be (university of Brighton) and Senior A special site tour and brochure travelling to various museums and which was completed at the end of possibilities of producing a new District launched in 2015. Lecturer, Rael Salley (Michaelis School were developed in response to the community centres around the country. February, providing a creative platform Six iconography that will bring to life the

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October November

28th - Restoring Humanity programme and train journey from 26th - Museum AGM Cape Town to , with community youth facilitators 30th - Al Jazeera broadcast from 26th - The Book launch: the Museum: The Elders on ethical Blacks of Cape Town by 18th - Launch of storytelling leadership, hosted by Redi Tlhabi workshops to develop new Carol Davids 27th - Word N Sound Poetry Festival tour narratives at the Homecoming Centre

31st - First Supper Club featuring storyteller Edgar Whitley 23rd - Visual literacy and writing workshop with youth, focussing on the Heseltine exhibition 2013

Projects Overview

The Two Rivers project The tool kit is the accomplishment Routes of Memory tools and questions to identify ways to After an extensive research period the of months of research, materials Routes of Memory was an archival represent stories and to interrogate Two Rivers educational project was development and design work. It has project involving six youth in the how history is told. finally completed in March 2014.opened We up various pedagogical avenues research and conceptualisation of Participants developed varied and are extremely pleased with the end- to creatively involve educators, learners memorial sites for District Six. using creative approaches to memorialisation product, namely a tool kit for learners and museum practitioners in their oral histories and various archives in District six, showcasing plans for and teachers conducting research into approach to the story of apartheid they imagined memorials for five memorial gardens, performances and forced removals along the Black and forced removals, and has done so sites: City Mission, Buitenkant Street theatre spaces, spaces for reflection Liesbeeck Rivers in Cape Town. through a critical and multifocal lens. Methodist Church, Kent Street area, and window displays. As part of their The educational toolkit was primarily Beinkinstadt and the Stakesby Lewis exhibition opening their ideas were developed for Grade 9 learners and Hostel. Through their own creative presented in a small brochure. teachers. Its main focus is on discovering energy, they reimagined District Six for A final joint visual framework the forgotten histories of apartheid both a younger and older generation. was chosen to represent their ideas forced removals in other areas of Cape During the course of the year, and experiences to District Sixers Town, outside of the well known narrative participants were introduced to the and a broader public. This framework of District Six. It attempts to engage various forms through which history drew inspiration from wheat pasting young people and their understanding and heritage is produced. Workshops techniques used by the Burning of the democratic landscape in relation focused on various aspects of Museum collective to talk about Retseresetsoe Mapheelle presenting his mid-project report on the Methodist Church, District Six to how ordinary communities’ human memorialisation, but throughout the public spaces and displacement. under rights were violated through the unjust focus centred on different forms of the guidance of Tazneem Wentzel, system of apartheid. storytelling. a member of the collective, young The content of the kit is in a folder Learners set off to explore the city participants brought together archival that consists of maps, images, excerpts and locate monuments, museums and information, personal reflection and from oral histories and task sheets which sites (some which they passed every composed their own wheat paste have been organised around the various day, and others which they never knew installation. The end result was a sites of forced removal namely: Protea existed) in order to think about how reflection on the loss of District Village, Newlands, Claremont, Harfield meaning is created. They questioned Six, its ongoing meaning, but also Village, Mowbray and . how stories/heritage is represented in new interpretations by a younger Included in the kit is a CD with our national museums and exhibitions, generation of Capetonians. additional research material from the and also looked at contemporary art Project participants: Chad Crowley, Museum’s archive and links to various practices such as street art and grafitti. Abongile Booi, Retseresetsoe websites. During site walks in District Six where Mapheelle, Chadwyn Mathews, Malusi Cover of the Two Rivers The tool kit will be launched in learners were tangibly confronted Mbidlana and Asanda Mgaba. educational folder toolkit early 2015. with both the absence and presence The project was funded by the of the area, they developed a set of National Heritage Council.

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December February

1st - A Walk in the Night . Expressive 10th - Museum’s birthday arts programme with community and museum partners

Restoring Humanity and Action Support Centre youth from Johannesburg arrive back in Cape Town for Sites of Memory workshops 4th - Chantal Loial’s performance of Black 9th - Paul Hanmer birthday performance for 2014 2013 Venus in tribute to Sara Baartman D6M’s Crain Soudien and Lyn Hanmer

Programmes Overview

The District Six Junior Youth Club: Re-imagining Carnival In celebration of Africa Day on 25 May the Museum and the Children’s Art Centre on the Zonnebloem estate collaborated on a re-launch of the District Six Junior Youth Club - a project for senior primary school learners from schools in District Six to connect curators in our Routes of Memory project with the memories and heritage of to facilitate two Night at the Museum the area. This club was first started events for primary school learners. in the late 1990s with Linda Fortune, The 2013 learning journey consisted an ex-resident of District Six, and was of the following three programmes inspired by the Museum’s partnership weaved together during the year, with with Malmö Museums, Sweden. youth developing relationships across This collaboration included a series apartheid group area boundaries that of workshops using the klopse kamer still exist today, despite almost 20 years concept and culminated in a mini- of democracy: festival on Africa Day at the Children’s Africa Day mini-festival: reimagining carnival with the Children’s Art Centre, 25 May 2013 Art Centre. The children prepared imaginATIon workshop, short performances, created art, music, 26 - 27 April 2013 poetry, dance and designed costumes Performance by Emile Jansen and the Mixed Mense crew: This programme introduced 30 Grade while they re-imagined carnival as imagiNATION workshop, 27-28th April 2013 10 and 11 school youth, over two days, inclusive of a wider African culture. to human rights issues highlighted in These workshops/klopse kamers Chapel Street and Walmer Primary to work with high school youth at our constitution. We created the space took place on Friday afternoons and on Schools participated in the project the Homecoming Centre on three for them to interpret issues like racism, Saturday mornings. The general focus with youth from umbon’Omhle youth programmes. Our collaboration with xenophobia, access to housing and was on celebrating our diversity as organisation in Langa. CLASI aims to expose youth to the poverty using expressive arts. It provided Capetonians, South Africans and Africans. socio-historic context in which the the first opportunity for law students We would like to thank our Belgian The Young Curator’s project South African Constitution exists from the universities of the Western intern, Karen Vankier-Desaeger for co- 2013 along with developing a broader set of Cape, Cape Town and Stellenbosch to ordinating this project with such passion This project is a parallel one to our long knowledge, creative and participatory work with creative interpretations of and sensitivity to the memory of District running Heritage Ambassador, expressive skills in our learners. During the year human rights law. expressive artists Six. The facilitators of the klopse kamers Arts and Anti-racism Ambassador CLASI youth learnt about the Museum involved included visual artist Garth were: Micah Chisholm (Design); edgar projects. In 2013 we partnered for the and many became participating learners erasmus and conscious hip hop poetry Whitley (Drama); Victoria Mapontsa second year with the Constitutional in the Ambassador programme, where and dance group Mixed Mense with ‘I’m an African’ workshop with District Six primary school learners (Dance). Learners from Holy Cross, Literacy and Service initiative (CLASI) they collaborated with the young veteran community activist emile Jansen.

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February February March

11th - Commemoration 27th - ‘Experiencing Sophiatown’ of the Group Areas discussion with Seven Steps members and Declaration and tribute editors of the book to Peter Clarke. Launch of 24th - CPUT and Aalto Homecoming Centre gate University exhibition launch: Shaping a Shared World

2014 4th - Huis Kombuis memory craft 12th - Book launch: Lest We Forget by Yousuf ‘Joe’ Rassool embroidery cloth

Programmes Overview

The mid-year school holiday explore various sites of memory in the ConCamp two cities to help them to understand From 28 June, 30 youth from CLASI the continuities and discontinuities of the schools got together at a non-residential past, it’s relevance to youth growing up in ‘camp’ at the Homecoming Centre with a world shaped by the past but struggling law students from uCT and Stellenbosch to break free and reimagine themselves in university. They prepared for a series of a more humane way. Youth were required moot courts that pitted the legacies of to diarise their journey, document their the 1913 Native Land Act, the Group own journey and participate in both Areas Act, and other relevant apartheid individual and collective reflection laws, against the laws enshrined in the sessions. In Johannesburg we were joined South African Constitution, which aims by 5 young community facilitators in to protect all South African citizens. programmes run by Action Support Participants examined how gentrification Centre, and who then joined us on the perpetuates many of the inequalities train journey back to Cape Town. Most created by unjust laws like the 1913 Land sites were visited using public transport. Act. The influx of people into Cape Town Sites visited in Gauteng: Cradle of and the spread of informal settlements Humankind and Maropeng; Apartheid have made visible the poor record of Museum; Constitution Hill; Workers’ service delivery to the poor in our society, The mid-year school holiday ConCamp with CLASI and law students Poster for Young Curator’s 2013 Exhibition with CLASI Museum; Freedom Park and Hector raising further questions about the Pieterson Memorial Precinct. efficiency of the celebrated South AfricanLaw students from the universities Land Act: racism, sexuality and land rights, the constitution and social justice. traditional, modern, experimental, male Sites visited in Cape Town: The Slave constitution to reverse the legacies of of Stellenbosch and Cape Town were rights. The 10 -12 day exhibition design Visitors were asked to visit the ‘Dark and female. Lodge; ; Church colonial and apartheid legal frameworks. co-facilitators for imagiNATION and and public programme learning journey Room’ with a blindfold and engage with Young Curators 2013: Fatima Mahdi, Square; ; Prestwich As part of the ‘Focus on the Past’ strand ConCamp: Andrew McPherson, Kelly spread over 8 weeks, culminated in an an installation by youth to encounter their Sharné Morris, Tracy Ntshili, Zanele Place; Migrant Labour Museum of the camp, learners visited the national Kowalski, Georgie Mackenzie, Nadia exhibition titled, Displacement: from dark own disorientation, disconnectedness and Mdudi, Sibabalo Ntshili, Chanté and District Six Museum. government’s exhibition on the 1913 Land Daniels, Nina Braude, Lameez Majiet past to bright future. fear of uncertainty as a way to experience Groenewald and Yagya Mahdi. In 2015 youth will complete Act at the Cape Town Convention Centre and Astrid Gravenor The Young Curators created a visual empathy with marginalised groups in a publication that will serve as a with the task of mapping the legacies of and experiential journey for visitors and society. Youth also created a ‘shop front of Sites of Memory - travelogue and sites of memory guide legal frameworks that brought about land Displacement: from dark past invited them to insert their ‘voice’ into diversity’ with mannequins dressed up to Restoring humanity to encourage youth from marginalised dispossession. to bright future the exhibition on contentious human represent their own stories of individual In December 2013 we embarked on communities to raise funds, use public Duke university student interns, Seven learners from the CLASI schools rights issues by contributing to Facebook, and group cultural development. The a train journey from Cape Town to transport and cheap accommodation to Brandon Nesfield and Kerry Browntook up the challenge to co-create Instagram and Pinterest ‘talking tables’. The group consisted of youth who identifiedJohannesburg with 10 young community travel from Cape Town to Johannesburg: were producers of the daily camp an exhibition illuminating three social aim of the exhibition was to encourage themselves as multiple combinations of facilitators in the ‘Restoring Humanity’ as an act of encountering the past, newsletter and also assisted with other justice issues covered by the constitution people to gather their thoughts and Somalian, South African, xhosa, African, programme of the Institute of Healing understanding the present and making aspects of the programme. in the centenary year of the 1913 Native expand their way of thinking about human Muslim, Christian, Capetonian, funky, hip, of Memories. The idea was for youth to sense of possibilities for the future.

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General

The Seven Steps Members’ Club: The story of the ‘Bits and Pieces’ will find its way into some Friends of the District Six Museum reconstructing lives from bits and pieces other writing. For now I would like to just reflect on this as Bonita Bennett a metaphoric way of thinking about the engagement with Members of the public can support the Museum along four former residents of District Six through the Seven Steps levels annually, with benefits associated with each level: It was at a gathering of the Seven Steps club of former members’ club. residents in February 2010 that I first heard aboutklopse the • Level 1: R500 group called the ‘Bits and Pieces’, apparently also known as The experience of being immersed in a fertile ground of new • Level 2: R1000 the ‘Odds and ends’. even though I had spent so much time in knowledge is extremely enriching, both on the level of acquiring • Level 3: R5000 conversation with ex-residents about many things District Six new bits and pieces at every gathering, but also being part of • Level 4: R 10 000 over the years, and regard myself as a keen and avid listener, deriving meaning and significance from such remembrances. this reference did not ring a bell and I concluded that it was The programme has provided a structured mechanism through an obscure memory of a single person. How wrong I was! On another level, the coming together of the bits and pieces which members of the public can channel their support for As others overheard my questioning about this group, the as represented by the Seven Steps members so aptly describes the Museum. floodgates of memory were opened as the vibrancythe ofthe significance of the gatherings: the pieces of stories when ‘Bits and Pieces’ was recalled. heard and read together form a new whole. Contact Nicky Ewers at [email protected]

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VISITOR NUMBERS APRIL MAY JUNE JULY AUG SEP OCT NOV DEC JAN FEB MAR TOTAL This is the monthly breakdown of fee-paying visitors for the 2013 2013 2013 2013 2013 2013 2013 2013 2013 2014 2014 2014 2013/2014 financial year. It does not include school students, non- paying ex-residents and South 3,306 2,606 2,471 2,593 4,521 3,618 4,457 4,903 3,443 4,825 4,427 3,984 41,080 African pensioners.

Schools, colleges and study abroad programmes: 6,112 TOTAL Other organisations: 7,114 13,226

Funders Board of Trustees National Heritage Council We received in-kind contributions from: Ciraj Rassool (Chair) City of Cape Town PricewaterhouseCoopers Gilbert Lawrence (Deputy) National Arts Council City of Cape Town Nombulelo Mkefa HCI Foundation Marsh Insurance Jean September Provincial Government of the Western Cape Domino Digital Shaun Viljoen Chevron Ogilvy & Mather Alison Lazarus Grand West Heritage Foundation Siraj Desai Anita Nonneman Bulelwa Basse Nazier Banderker Olwethu Majodina Staff Bonita Bennett Director Nicky ewers PA to Director honorary members Mandy Sanger Head: education Ruth Cookson Tina Smith Head: exhibitions Peggy Delport Chrischené Julius Head: Collections, Research and Documentation Terence Fredericks Noor Ebrahim Education officer Lucien le Grange Joe Schaffers Education officer Lalou Meltzer Shafiek Boonzaaier Exhibitions and general maintenance officer Crain Soudien edith Bulana Museum assistant Les van Breda Thobeka Hobe Front of house officer Revina Gwayi Coffee shop assistant Ismail Noordien Part-time finance manager Brian van Rooyen Part-time accounts clerk patrons Ms Bishop Peter Storey Ex-resident storytellers emeritus Archbishop Desmond Tutu Mr Aboubarker Brown Ruth Jeftha Vivienne Sebastian

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