DISTRICT SIX MUSEUM Annual Report 2016/17 Table of Contents

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1. From the Chairperson 3

2. Director’s Overview 4

3. Education Department 8

4. Exhibitions Department 12

5. Collections, Research and Documentation Department 16

6. Seven Steps Membership Club 19

7. Friends of the Museum 20

8. Make a Donation 20

9. Auditors’ Report 21

10. Statement of Comprehensive Income 22

11. Statement of Financial Position 23

12. Funders, Staff, Board of Trustees, Honorary Members, 24 Patrons, Volunteers and Storytellers

13. Visitor numbers 24

District Six Museum District Six Museum Homecoming Centre To support the declaration of District 25A Buitenkant Street 15A Buitenkant Street Six as a National Heritage Site visit , 8001 Cape Town, 8001 change.org and search for District Six Museum. P.O. Box 10178 [email protected] Caledon Square www.districtsix.co.za Cover photograph: Jac De Villiers 7905 Blog: https://d6whatson.wordpress.com Design and Layout: Graeme Arendse ([email protected] / 0825370827) Tel: 021 466 7200 District Six Museum Fax: 021 466 7210 @District6Museum ©District Six Museum 2013 District Six Museum Annual Report 2016/17

April May June

7th - Supper Club with Mervyn Africa 27th - Ibrahim Khalil Shuhaib 16th - Youth Day. ‘Tell Your Story 19th - Seven Steps drama Quartet to Born Free’ and IHOM ‘God has and storytelling workshops many names’ exhibition launch 28th - Workshop with Chapel Street area youth 30th - Huis Kombuis Koe’siester tea, 23rd - ‘Tell Your Story to Born Free’ Albert Suidoosterfees 30th - Supper Club with 2016 Johanneson Comic Book education programme. Interview with Quinton Fortune’s Parents

From the Chairperson Judge Siraj Desai

It is a privilege to succeed Ciraj Rassool and his many illustrious predecessors as chair of this board. It is a tribute to their leadership that the institution has acquired a significant place amongst museums in the city and internationally.

The museum remains not only a physical record of the decimation of an entire community but also seeks, and successfully so, to keep alive the values and ethos of District Six which sought to obliterate.

The continuing success of the museum is also due to the effective leadership provided by Ms B Bennet and the rest of our staff. Working with them is an exciting prospect and I look forward to doing so in the coming months.

The restitution process in District Six has been tortuously slow and if not speeded up it will be discredited. What concerns me greatly are the private developments which encroach upon District Six land. In order to avoid this we must continue to lobby the relevant authorities for the land to be declared a heritage site.

I thank the rest of the board for their unstinting support. Photographer: Paul Grendon Photographer: Zainab Williams, 11 February 1966 commemoration, 2017

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July July

26th - Difficult Dialogues with CPUT, Transformation and Memorialisation in District Six

11th - ‘Tell Your Story to a Born Free’ Winter School

2016 9th - A Night at the Museum, ‘From Apartheid to Democracy’ 20th - Holy Cross Catholic Church 100th anniversary celebration

Director’s Overview Bonita Bennett

2016 marked 50 years since style’ from the Museum rafters have come at a more opportune District Six was declared a ‘whites adding contemporary voices to the time (at the end of 2015). Without only’ area in 1966. To be exact, 11 exhibition. In addition, an online this funding the Museum would have February 2016 marked 50 years to petition calls on people from remote had a much reduced version of its the day when the proclamation was places to add their names to the call commemorative programme and issued, and the commemoration for the declaration. subsequent public activities. linked to the day set the tone for the Museum’s programmes in the Linked to the luggage motif, suitcases Particularly in the past five years or months that followed. with personal memorabilia from so, we have been acutely aware of former residents have been added keeping the main exhibition – Digging The National Heritage Site (NHS) into the Museum space, providing Deeper – fresh and refreshed. The campaign was and continues to visitors with a glimpse into some of exhibition itself has, understandably, be a major focus. Having been the bits and pieces that might have been showing signs of fatigue, and provisionally declared as a NHS as been packed into family suitcases the Museum has also struggled far back as 2006, this provisional had they had the opportunity to to find a dynamic mechanism in declaration lapsed two years later do so in a more considered way as the space to provide updates as and for a number of reasons it has they were being forcibly evicted. As to what developments are taking been difficult to get the authorities part of an ongoing process, these place particularly with regards to

back on board to reinstate the suitcases are meant to find their restitution and redevelopment. This Paul Grendon Photographer: declaration. The past period has way into different public places such is still a major challenge, but we have been one of recommitment to this as libraries, and are also used as been able to address some of the which was very well-received and Ahmed Timol had committed suicide important process, and if anything, storytelling apparatus in education information gaps with the support provoked much discussion. while imprisoned under apartheid. the 50 year commemoration programmes. of the Ministry for Federal Affairs of presented itself as a reaffirmation by North-Rhine Westphalia, facilitated As part of our Human Rights month Ten years ago the Cape Cultural many, that this was indeed a cause The Ogilvy Cape Town team have by Dennis Goldberg. The revamped programme in 2017, we were Collective started off as a small worth campaigning for with as much been instrumental in conceptualising exterior of the Museum is one of the pleased to receive the exhibition group of committed and enthusiastic energy as we could collectively this campaign together with Museum results flowing from this support, being travelled by the Timol Family cultural activists and artists muster. staff. We have been extremely and interior texts and video updates Foundation and the performing in the Museum space. grateful for their support which has have also been possible because of Foundation, titled A Quest for Justice. Ten years later they have become an Personal pledge forms designed come to at no cost. their contribution. By acting as the Cape Town host of important cultural institution in the as luggage tags presented at the this exhibition, the Museum expressed city, and the Museum was pleased Museum’s front of house desk invite Funding from the Department The Museum was proud to host its support for the truth-seeking to host their ten-year celebration visitors to sign their support for the of Rural Development and Land acclaimed young filmmaker Nadine campaign embarked on by the family event at its premises. NHS campaign. Once documented, Reform, and from the National Cloete at a screening of her first who are calling for the reopening of these have been strung up ‘strikkie- Lotteries Commission, could not documentary filmAction Kommandant, the inquest which concluded that continued on pg 6

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August September September

9th - Women’s Day 6th - Seven Steps 13th - Art in Public meeting with CPUT Places workshop 17th - Elsies River Library Deputy Vice Chancellor presentation 25th - Supper Club with Nadine Cloete 24th - Heritage Day

27th - AGM with speaker Elise Fernandez, screening of Action 3rd - Peninsula Maternity Hospital Kommandant 14th - Hard Ground / Print Exchange Memory Project workshops 29th - Supper Club with Marlene le Roux 27th - Diep River Heritage workshops

2016 Committee anniversary meeting

Director’s Overview

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During the past year we experimented museum’s policy on human with introducing a weekly jazz remains hosted by ; programme at the Museum’s • Participated in a discussion with Homecoming Centre. Known as Constantia claimants to discuss ‘Monday Jazz Jams’ and the brainchild ways in which support could be of musician and staffer Joe Schaffers, given to the memory aspect of it provided a wonderful platform their work; for young and older musicians to • Participated in a strategic jam together. However, we need to discussion session with CDRA apply our minds to develop a more (Community Development sustainable model if it is to continue Resources Agency); and we have called it to a halt for • Gave input on a panel at a now. While it lasted it was wonderful conference on ‘Creating an - thanks to Joe and the Alvin Dyers inclusive and outreaching Trio made up of Alvin, Roy Davids migration museum’ in Malmö, and Valentino Europa. Sweden.

As will be evident from the reports of One of the personal highlights of my the departmental managers, we have year was being granted sabbatical collectively put our energies into leave to take up a semester various knowledge-making processes fellowship at Columbia University and platforms, and into strengthening in New York. I will be forever collaborations and partnerships. grateful to the board of trustees In addition to what is reflected in who supported my application, various parts of this annual report, and to my colleagues who held the these are some of the forums that I fort so stoically, to fill the gap that have participated in: I left for just under four months. I • Delivered a lecture at UCT also need to express my gratitude Masters class on Conservation of to my sponsors, the Robert Bosch the Built Environment; Foundation and the Institute for the • Gave a talk at UCT’s African Study of Human Rights at Columbia Centre for Cities, ‘Study Space’ University. The opportunity to be international workshop series; immersed in a place of scholarship • Delivered a lecture at UCT’s together with other human ‘Local Issues in Curatorship’ rights practitioners, and without programme located at Michaelis; operational responsibilities was a • Chaired a session at a symposium rare moment of refreshment that I to develop an international will forever cherish. Paul Grendon Photographer: Commemorative performance of 11 February 1966

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October November November

4th - Usakos exhibition launch, Room Gallery, 23rd - SAERA conference on Reimagining Education, 29th - Palestinian Embassy film Cape Town screening, Five Broken Cameras 8th - District Six Print Exchange exhibition launch

10th - Ndifuna Ukwazi Urban Land Justice Colloquium

23rd - Re[as]sisting Narratives 26th - District Six Huis Kombuis 2016 27th - Supper Club with Alvin Dyers Quartet exhibition launch Food & Memory Cookbook launch

Education Department Mandy Sanger

“The art of living… is neither careless drifting on the one hand nor fearful clinging to the past on the other. It consists in being sensitive to each moment, in regarding it as utterly new and unique, in having the mind open and wholly receptive.” – Alan Watts

In addition to focusing on in the background Six, we have found a way to work with its set goals for the 2016-17 period and then post these to support the lecturers and students at a classroom the education department was able #D6NationalHeritageSite campaign. level. We ran six day-long Re-imagining to develop new partnerships and the City workshops with first year deepen existing ones. We have been This year the number of ex-resident Diversity Management students who able to explore a critical pedagogy storytellers engaged in customised had to conceptualise community approach to working with visitors and programmes has increased significantly. projects to address the legacies of have been able to respond creatively This has been an invaluable resource apartheid spatial segregation and to the growing number of requests for schools embarking on modules or inequality. Students were also tasked for customised programmes. Our projects which include oral histories with group projects to produce digital improved booking system provides of people who experienced apartheid. stories. A smaller group of Architecture more options for visitors at the point These storytellers have been drawn from and Design students participated in a of booking and makes it possible for the Seven Steps Membership Club which two-day orientation programme. Both Photograph courtesyPhotograph of District Six Museum us to match different types of visitors includes participants of the Huis Kombuis these engagements were broadened Art in Public Places workshop participants, Heritage Day to user-specific programmes. This has food and memory project. Through out into a Difficult Dialogue series resulted in more diversification with these platforms, former District Six of talks on transformation and an increasing number of schools and residents are exposed to opportunities memorialisation in District Six. They to document apartheid stories as part on board to document many of these experience of religion during apartheid. universities requesting customised for excavating their own memories of addressed key issues linked to what it of the “Tell your story to a ‘born free’” programmes. One element of this The exhibition formed part of our programmes where they spend more place and time. Building on the diversity would mean for CPUT to change from project. This will contribute towards project was extended into a partnership Youth Day programme that included time at the Museum, so as to participate of the current cohort of storytellers its original apartheid conception to an the development of a blog and other with the Institute for the Healing of intergenerational discussions and a talk in activities beyond the regular tours. continues to be a key concern. institution that supports the project online media productions. A few Memories (IHOM) that culminated in an by Duke University History professor These could include introductory for restitution and return. local university students joined the exhibition titled God Has Many Names Bill Chafe, who drew comparisons workshops, intergenerational Despite contestations between the Museum’s internship programme at that was adapted for installation at the between the United States civil rights conversations, interviews or site CPUT ( University of Learning journeys with youth during different times during the year: Malusi Homecoming Centre after its initial and South African anti-apartheid youth walks with ex-residents. Visitors are Technology) administration’s building this year involved recruiting former Mbidlana, Retseresetsoe Mapheelle run at the Iziko Museum’s Annexe. The struggles. encouraged to take selfies at important development and the Museum’s Young Curators and Heritage and Jordan Pieters. A young filmmaker adaptation included the production of site markers or with landmarks like memorialisation intentions for District Ambassador programme participants from District Six, Deidré Jantjies, came short films by ‘born frees’ of people’s continued on pg 10

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December January February

5th - Archbishop of 3rd - Art of Comics workshops 7th - Street sign making 10 - Museum’s 22nd birthday Canterbury visits the 1st - Emancipation Day ‘A Walk in the Night’ 31st - HK Cookbook presentation to Anita 11th - 11 February 2016 2017 Museum Nonneman 1966 commemoration

Education Department

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Two programmes for primary school learners which formed the bulk of our Junior Youth Club activities were presented under the banner of A Night at the Museum. The July one focused on the transition ‘From Apartheid to Democracy’ and the November one which coincided with Emancipation Day focused on the transformation ‘From Slavery to Emancipation’. The Junior Youth Club programme has now expanded to include a partnership with the Encounters Documentary Film Festival. It has resulted in the formation of a Junior Movie Club that was launched in March 2017 with the local film, Felix. The Movie Club aims to instil a love for watching and discussing films in the tradition of the old bioscope experience. Storytelling with Solly Ariefdien and Jasmina Salie Local interns and volunteers, in partnership with DukEngage (a As part of reflecting on the education Research Association (SAERA) programme of Duke University in work of the Museum, I participated in conference, Cape Town; North Carolina, USA) produced a a number of local and international • Hrant Dink Foundation’s Curating four-day Winter Holiday programme conferences, lectures and discussion Memory: Dealing with the Past where approximately 60 youth programmes: through Museums in Europe and participated in a food and memory • A session on the geography of , Istanbul, Turkey. workshop led by the participants apartheid as part of Cornerstone of the Huis Kombuis project; a College’s new History curriculum, All these provided useful platforms photography and memory workshop Cape Town; to reconnect with allies like Karen and a poetry, sound and memory • Mapping of Spectral Traces VIII: The Till (Maynooth University) Mindy workshop. These all resulted in the Place of the Wound international Thompson Fullilove (Columbia final day showcase of productions. conference, Maynooth University, University and The New School, The most significant element was Ireland; New York) and Lebogang Marishane the participation of a diverse group • UNISA and Stellenbosch University (Constitution Hill), while forging new of youth from communities still panel discussion on District Six at relationships to deepen our work separated along old apartheid lines. the annual South African Education with memory and social justice. courtesyPhotographs of District Six Museum Clockwise l-r: Winter School food and story demonstrations by Huis Kombuis participants, Art in Public Places workshops and God Has Many Names exhibition launch

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March

23rd - Mr Table Tennis film screening

25th - D6M/Encounters Junior Movie Youth Club 23rd - Renaming of UCT: Vincent 29th - A Quest for Justice, Ahmed Timol 2017 Kolbe Knowledge Commons exhibition opening

Exhibitions Department Tina Smith

This has been a productive The launch occasion was greeted Gathering Strands, Lionel Davis year for the department. The two with much celebration and attended retrospective exhibition major project deliverables were by approximately 300 guests. It was Over the last two years the Museum has the completion and launch of the a moving tribute to the participants’ been in conversation with Lionel Davis District Six Huis Kombuis Food and efforts and skills, and re-affirmed the to curate a retrospective exhibition Memory Cookbook and secondly, important role that the Museum plays of his life and artwork. The Museum the development of a research and in facilitating processes of memory entered into a collaborative partnership curatorial design plan for the Lionel work and knowledge making. with ASAI (Africa South Arts Initiative) Davis retrospective exhibition. and Iziko Museums to jointly facilitate Quivertree Publications provided various components of the exhibition. Alongside these, the department promotional coverage and a provided support to the Museum’s countrywide distribution network. The Museum sought financial support to public education programmes The book is available in most lead the curatorial research, exhibition which included the Huis Kombuis bookstores, online sites and also the design and production as well the food story demonstrations during Museum’s bookshop, where it has development of educational material. the Winter School and comic been popular with both local and ASAI took on the responsibility of illustration workshops with youth. international visitors. The project producing the exhibition catalogue. Iziko Partnership exhibitions included has opened opportunities for growth Museums have committed curatorial Usakos: Photographs Beyond the Ruins; such as storytelling food tours; and educational support and will also District Six Print Exchange and Re[as] and producing handmade kitchen host the exhibition at the South African sisting Narratives presented by Framer and homeware products derived National Gallery. Framed. from the Museum’s archive and ex- residents’ stories, to be retailed in Lionel Davis is no stranger to the District Six Huis Kombuis Food the Museum’s shop and possibly Museum. His association has been a long and Memory Cookbook other outlets. standing one: as an artist, as a District The highlight of the year was the Six ex-resident, an ex-political prisoner, a Paul Grendon Photographer: launch of the District Six Huis Kombuis To all our participants and cultural activist, mentor, storyteller, donor District Six Huis Kombuis Food & Memory Cookbook launch Food and Memory Cookbook in contributors who travelled this and later, a member of the Museum’s November 2016. After four years of journey with us, your collective board of trustees. The idea of bringing intense incubation and preparation, contribution has been an invaluable this richly layered narrative together in a seeing the first proof print coming resource. We are especially indebted retrospective art exhibition has been an ‘hot’ off the press was an exciting to Anita Nonneman for her exceptional undertaking for the Museum. moment. The project’s multi-year generosity and her insightful support vision was being realised. in making this vision a reality. continued on pg 14

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Exhibitions Department...

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Lionel’s profile has been well- Department at CPUT, in partnership recorded in South African art with the Museum, this exhibition circles, and his contributions as an showcased 50 artists’ prints around artist and art educator in building the theme ‘Remembering 60 000 alternative organisations such as the Forced Goodbyes.’ These exquisitely Community Arts Project, Vakalisa, and printed artworks were exchanged the Thupelo Workshop have been amongst the 50 participating artists, much celebrated. However, he is in beautiful handmade boxes. A pop- less known as a practicing artist and up printmaking studio was set up at in his own right has not been given the Homecoming Centre for two worthy recognition. The Museum saw weeks with master printer, Jonathan the need to reconnect with Lionel’s Comerford from the Hard Ground biography as an important heritage Print Studio assisting participating resource and a ‘site’ to creatively re- artists with printing and production. think how the legacy of District Six Both the pop-up printing studio and can be re-imagined and memorialised the exhibition proved to be hugely Photograph courtesyPhotograph of District Six Museum Paul Grendon Photographer: in a broader context. Lionel Davis at Home. Usakos: Photographs Beyond the Ruins, UWC Library successful collaborations. It brought about a spirited reconnection with The opening of the exhibition will artists that had previous associations coincide with Lionel’s 81st birthday was developed with the Museum in of July 2017. Its final destination is football player, Albert ‘Hurry, Hurry’ The District Six Print Exchange and with the Museum in past years and on 21 June 2017 at the Iziko South collaboration with Graeme Arendse Namibia in August 2017 where it Johanneson who was the first black Re[as]sisting Narratives exhibitions presented the possibility for future African National Gallery, and will run and Paul Grendon. will be handed back to the Museums South African to play in an FA Cup ran concurrently and both exhibitions collaborations. until the end of September 2017. Association of Namibia for their Final in 1965. It formed part of provided viewers with rich insights The exhibition has travelled to permanent education programme. the Museum’s intergenerational into contemporary issues around Re[as]sisting Narratives exhibition Partnership project various institutions countrywide. educational programme “Tell your memory, trauma, gender, race, The Museum hosted Re[as]sisting and programmes It opened at the UWC Library in Albert Johanneson Comic Book Story to a ‘born free’” workshop in displacement and spatiality. Narratives, presented by Framer Usakos: Photographs Beyond August and moved to the Room The Albert Johanneson Comic Book was April 2016. It inspired three comic Framed (a platform for arts and the Ruins Gallery in Johannesburg (November launched in March 2016. This project book illustration workshops with District Six Print culture based in Amsterdam) and Usakos: Photographs Beyond the Ruins - December 2016). Thereafter it is a continuation of the partnership youth groups and illustrators in Exchange exhibition curated by Chandra Frank. The opened in February and ran until July travelled to the Ditsong National between Football Unites and Racism December 2016 and March 2017. Commemorating the 50th year since exhibition explored lingering legacies 2016 at the Museum’s Homecoming Museum of Cultural History in Divides in Sheffield, England and the the declaration of District Six as a of colonialism between South Africa Centre. A travelling exhibition Pretoria (February - June 2017). British Council, Cape Town. It was Exhibitions at ‘whites only’ group area in 1966, a and the by engaging initiated by the Museums Association forged during the Kick it Out: Racism the Homecoming Centre District Six Print Exchange exhibition was contemporary artists from both of Namibia and the University of Basel, Currently it is on display at the Divides & Football Unites exhibition Between November and December opened in November 2016.Curated countries. The exhibition opened in Switzerland, the conceptual design Camoês- Centro Cultural Portugês, at the Homecoming Centre in 2010. 2016 the Homecoming Centre was by Peneria George, a printmaker November and remained in place and public education programme Maputo, Mozambique until the end The comic pays tribute to former transformed into a thriving gallery. and lecturer in the Surface Design until December 2016.

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Collections, Research and Documentation Department Chrischené Julius

The Collections, Research and Greshoff Photographic Workshops, Centre of Memory in Chapel Street Documentation department grew April and May 2017 (formerly St Philip’s School and where by two people in the past year. Dean Three photographic workshops were the Community Arts Project was Jates joined as the Sound Archivist held with a group of ex-residents based), with artists and a group of in March 2017 and Heather Jackson, who, independently of the Museum enthusiastic and dedicated District who volunteered in the department and together with Martin Greshoff, Sixers and former Peninsula staff. since June 2016, was employed are writing up their life histories to They created a series of artworks fulltime in February 2017. Additional accompany a book showcasing the to reflect the history of the hospital, staffing has positively impacted on the photographic work of Jan Greshoff its importance to the District Six care afforded to collections, access – a photographer who donated 800 community and to enhance the vision for researchers as well as support for prints to the Museum in its early of the new Community Health Centre. Museum projects. years. The process was incredibly rewarding: participants embraced their creativity, The year was characterised by the Peninsula Maternity Hospital embarked on a process of storytelling following projects and programmes: Memory Project, through art and showed great support September 2016 – March 2017 for each other. The project was Site documentation of District Six The Peninsula Maternity Hospital in funded by the Department of Rural The Museum commissioned District Six operated for 71 years Development and Land Reform as Paul Grendon Photographer: Peninsula Maternity Hospital Memory Project workshop photographer Paul Grendon to and provided a service to mothers all well as the Departments of Health document the District Six site as over the Cape Peninsula. It ‘survived’ and Transport and Public Works. part of its ongoing focus on the the forced removals until 1992, when Davids, Riedewaan Eksteen, Farahnaaz Emancipation Day This public march through the City site as a space of restitution. Over it officially closed its doors. In 2015 Project team: Quanita Adams, Gary Gilfelleon, Awatief Hassan-Parker, 2017 saw the 10th anniversary of the is accompanied by performances by a number of years Grendon has the existing building was demolished Frier, Paul Grendon, Mo Hassan, Belinda Jackson, Saadia Kamish, Emancipation Day march which is theatre groups, musicians and poets. developed an extensive body of work to make way for a new Community Ayesha Price, Terry-Jo Thorne, Jeffrey Keshwa, Mymoena Kreysler, held on the evening of 30 November While the 2017 march was organised that speaks to the many layers of Health Centre and the Museum was Donovan Ward, Garth Warely Rachel Lakey, Susan Lewis, Nisa into the morning of 1 December. by the Museum and its partner the people, institutions and activities that asked to facilitate a memorialisation Mammon, Zaidah Mohamed, Karen Emancipation Day is generally Prestwich Place Project Committee, characterise the site. The current process that spoke to the many- Participants: Lizel Abrahams, Harriet Moore, Washiela Mosaval, Nadeema celebrated on 1 December in South in previous years the event has seen commission feeds into this focus, layered histories of the Peninsula, as Arendse, Solly Ariefdien, Annie Bam, Oostendorp, Helene Sables, Jasmina Africa, but the historical record a coalition of partners come to the with emphasis on the third phase of it became known. From September Georgina Blaauw, Amelia Brinkhuis, Salie, Daphne Samba-Kabassidi, Ynes tells us that the enslaved people of fore to commemorate this day. redevelopment currently underway 2016 we ran a number of creative Marina Brinkhuis, Ravaughn Brinkhuis, Samba-Kabassidi, Monica Sutherland, the Cape celebrated the evening for the restitution process. workshops at the Lydia Williams Angeline Cloete, Joyce Cloete, Milly Patience Watlington, Dr Mike Wright. before with music and bonfires. continued on pg 18

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Collections, Research and Documentation Department Seven Steps Membership Club

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In 2017 we were happy to have the following performers with us along the route: Malika Ndlovu and Garth Erasmus, Toni Stuart, eMzantsi Drummers, trumpeters Marcel Adams and Stigue Nel, Tina Schouw, Diana Ferrus, the Western Cape Street Bands Association and the Karnival Assosiasie. Massacre de Mueda, a Mozambican mapiko group that draws on histories of slavery and colonialism, performed at . The march started at Quarry, travelled past Prestwich Memorial and Greenmarket Square and ended at Church Square. Paul Grendon Photographer: Peninsula Maternity Hospital Memory Project workshop Talks and presentations Requests Donations I was fortunate to present at the We attended to the following The following 19 people donated following workshops and conferences requests for information and access images, documents and memorabilia in the course of the year: to the archive: to the archive. Some of the items

• African Coalition Workshop at were entered into the collection courtesyPhotograph of District Six Museum Seven Steps Heritage Day commemoration Maison des’Esclaves, Goreé Island, Request Type No. during this period, but may have been Senegal University based scholars 30 received by the Museum in earlier This honorary club of former vary from being storytelling and Seven Steps members have been the • ICOM-SA International Museum years. The majority of material was residents from District Six and other reminiscence sessions, opportunities main participants in projects such as Day Workshop on Museums and Schools 1 donated in 2016. A heartfelt thanks areas of displacement in and around for oral history interviews, fact- Huis Kombuis, the Peninsula Maternity Cape Town, continue to be the life- checking and information-gathering, Hospital (PMH) memory project, “Tell Cultural Landscapes, Cape Town Filmmakers 4 to all those who have contributed • Memorialising Displacement valuable keepsakes to our growing blood of the Museum’s work and ideas generation, memorialisation your story to a ‘born-free’”, and the workshop hosted by the Independent/Family researchers 28 collection: energy. It is the body from which discussions and debates about more recent suitcase and storytelling many project participants are drawn. contemporary issues. Sessions have projects. In the past year they have University of Missouri- St Louis Media / Marketing 18 Marion Abrahams-Welsh, Charles and Washington University, St Ahlgren, Solly Ariefdien, Bernard The club consists of just on 800 been variously sad and focused initiated drama workshops, writing Louis, USA Galleries/Museums/Heritage and 15 Campbell, Alice Combrinck, Sybil Dennis, members to date and has a slow but on tragedy and loss, but mostly down their stories in preparation for • Restitution Conference organised Human Rights Organisations/ Marlene Ford, Marianne Gordon, Rose steady growth each year. positively reflective and inspiring. a reminiscence theatre production. NGOs by the Restitution Foundation, Grant, M E Hoefsloot, Ebrahim Ismail, In the context of the Museum, this They have also been the main Cape Town Internal 4 Raymond Levitt, Insaf Majiet, S Marra, Seven Steps gather once a month. is the platform where the much advocates of the National Heritage • Cornerstone College Festival of Jasmina Salie, Roderic Samuweli, Johan The last Tuesday of each month is the celebrated ‘spirit of District Six’ has Site declaration project being led by Total 100 Learning, Cape Town van Lill, D K Williams, Ernest Worley day set aside for the meetings, which been kept alive! the Museum.

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Auditors’ Report Auditors’ Report

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VISITOR NUMBERS This is the monthly breakdown APRIL MAY JUNE JULY AUG SEP OCT NOV DEC JAN FEB MAR TOTAL of visitors for the 2016/17 financial year. It does not include 2016 2016 2016 2016 2016 2016 2016 2016 2016 2017 2017 2017 people attending open day and other public programmes at the Museum, nor project or 4,175 4,435 3,995 5,687 4,296 5,226 5,148 7,167 5,475 6,645 6,184 5,165 63,436* workshop attendees.

* International visitors: 52,335 Local visitors: 11,101

Funders Board of Trustees Department of Rural Development and Land Reform Judge Siraj Desai Chair National Lotteries Commission Ms Nomvula Dlamini Deputy Chair Anita Nonneman Mr Nazier Banderker British Council Mr Terence Parker Rhine Westphalia Ms Bulelwa Basse

Staff Patrons Bonita Bennett Director Bishop Peter Storey Chrischené Julius Head: Collections, Research and Documentation Emeritus Archbishop Desmond Tutu Nwabisa Moshenyane Head: Finance Mandy Sanger Head: Education Tina Smith Head: Exhibitions Honorary Members Nicky Ewers PA to Director Ruth Cookson Zahra Hendricks Administrator / reception / bookings Peggy Delport Thobeka Hobe Front of house Terence Fredericks Revina Gwayi General assistant Lucien le Grange Edith Bulana Attendant /cleaner Lalou Meltzer Dean Jates Sound Archivist Anwah Nagiah Noor Ebrahim Education officer Crain Soudien Joe Schaffers Education officer Les van Breda Frank McDillon Maintenance District Six storytellers Contract staff Casual staff Solly Ariefdien Heather Jackson Priscilla Ntlonze Aboubarker Brown Terry-Jo Thorne Geraldine Lakay Farahnaaz Gilfelleon Ayesha Price Norman van der Vindt Ruth Jeftha Donovan Ward Gloria Wilson Susan Lewis Gary Frier Andile Weeder Jasmina Salie Paul Grendon Paul Hendricks Volunteers Alex Abrahams Shamila Rahim Aime Soudien Nadine Christians

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District Six redevelopment process

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District Six redevelopment process

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