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District Six Museum Annual Report 20 1 &1 8 91

District Six Museum Annual Report 20 1 &1 8 91

MUSEUM ANNUAL REPORT 20 1 &1 8 91

ONTENTS

C PG 1. DIRECTOR'S OVERVIEW 4

2. EDUCATION DEPARTMENT 14

3. EXHIBITIONS DEPARTMENT 22

4. COLLECTIONS, RESEARCH AND DOCUMENTATION DEPARTMENT 36

5. AUDITORS' REPORT 40

6. STAFF, STORYTELLERS, VOLUNTEERS, BOARD, PATRONS 43

7. VISITOR NUMBERS 44

Front cover: Kewpie at the Marie Antoinette Ball at the Ambassador Club, 1967 (Kewpie Collection, GALA). IRECTOR’S disciplinary and multi-modal, many of which D continued to push the boundaries of what museum programmes should look like. They have VERVIEW included partnership dialogues with Cornerstone Institute, One City Many Cultures, Community BONITA BENNETT Chest, the Prestwich Place Project Committee, O the Institute for the Healing of Memories, the Institute for Justice and Reconciliation, Friends As we approach our 25th year, can we claim of Cuba (FOCUS) and various other entities in to be at an age-appropriate place, based and around the city. It has included the monthly on 25 years of organisational life? How has Seven Steps club meetings, weekly Huiskombuis the Museum changed over the course of its sessions, the monthly Supper Clubs which have existence, and does it display the necessary become an entrenched part of the Museum level of maturity based on a life spanning a routine, and various youth engagements. The period starting in 1994 - the same year from range of educational encounters has expanded which we date the birth of our democracy? to include highly-customised programmes, the demand for which has increased substantially The past year has been a busy, action-packed during the year. one. We have felt variously energised, exhausted, exhilarated, inspired, overwhelmed, SOME MOMENTS OF FRUSTRATION together with a whole range of other emotions Restitution that could be expected from an organisation of In the midst of all the many positive outputs, our size and stature. We have also realised that we should not be blind to the ongoing troubles it is time for a deeper impact study to get a better which continue to beset a potentially restorative sense of where we are and how our presence and wonderful restitution process. Hundreds in the city is perceived and experienced on a of people cannot all be wrong in expressing larger scale. We will be looking towards finding their disappointment and even despair at the the resources to do that in the coming year. bad experiences that they have encountered on a number of levels. The Museum’s role over We have had a healthy mix of programmes time has changed in relation to ensuring that and activities that were intergenerational, inter- restitution is effected, but we need to reflect

4 11 February 1966 commemoration, lighting of candle of remembrance. Photographer: Paul Grendon 5 seriously on how we can support people more unclear. Despite that, we have continued to Robertson Trust and the Soudien-Hanmer family strongly in the process of rebuilding community, keep the community focus on the significance for their contributions. Marcel Golding has also winning back dignity as well as the declaration of the declaration, often having to quell the made an opportunity available to the Museum of District Six as a National Heritage Site dissatisfaction expressed about South African to be a beneficiary of a business opportunity (NHS) which is closely tied up in this. Claimants Heritage Resource Agency’s unresponsiveness through Geomer Investments, and we look continue to be frustrated at the lack of progress to this urgency. Newspaper articles, workshops forward to future income from this source and on their land claims. Several stakeholder groups and discussions particularly with Seven Steps we thank him for making this possible. have emerged in the community, with the aim members have been some of the ways in which of fast-tracking the process. In the midst of we have kept this alive. From time to time the challenges inherent in an different approaches, much confusion has been independent museum operating outside of the created amongst claimants, and the Museum SOME CONCERNS government heritage structures rears its head very has continued to be that contact point between Funding and long-term sustainability remain as strongly, and this challenge will be with us for a frustrated claimants and restitution processes. ongoing concerns. In addition to smaller project- long while, at least in the short- to medium-term. specific grants, our main funders for the past Several elderly claimants have died during the three years have been the Department of Rural The range of outputs that a small staff complement course of this year, making us even more aware Development and Land Reform and the National is called upon to perform, demands time and of the fragility of the returning community, and Lotteries Commission. As this comes to an end skills beyond the formal job descriptions which the possibility of embedding their memories of and with other funding proposals in the process were designed to promote core work. While the past becomes more and more distant. of being submitted, we find ourselves in a this can be enriching, and while it contributes similar position as many other non-governmental towards the day-to-day sustainability of the District Six as a National Heritage Site organisations in trying to navigate the timing gap Museum, its impact can be fatiguing in the For several years I have reported on the between grants. Fortunately the Museum has its long-term. A future version of the Museum delayed declaration of District Six as a National own income streams derived from rental income, should take into account the need to increase Heritage Site which continues to be high on entrance fees, venue hire as well as book and the human resource capacity which allows for our list of frustrations. This has been ongoing product sales. In addition, the Museum receives a clearer segregation of duties while still being for a number of years, and the way forward in small but regular donations from individuals. At permeable enough to foster inter-departmental terms of the required regulatory process remains this time we particularly acknowledge the Fred collaborations.

April 2018 19.04.18 20.04.18 26.04.18 27.04.18

FOCUS meeting with Supper Club: Koketso Sachane Blanche la Guma

Freedom Day (City of Workshop) 6 Opening: One Week of Womxn commemorative discussion. Clockwise l-r: Andile Moferefere, Bonita Bennett, Albie Sachs, Fatima Swartz, Blanche la Guma, Deirdré Jantjies, Fr. Michael Weeder; Albie Sachs; Marcus Solomons. Photographer: Paul Grendon

May 2018 10.05.18

03.05.18 09.05.18 STIAS- Wall Colloquium, Stellenbosch Gatesville Seniors Club, Suitcase Stories 10.05.18 Seven Steps Focus Group Meeting Post-symposium writing sessions 05.05.18 with Anton Fisher Workshop with D6 Reunion of Hearts organisation 7 MOMENTS TO CELEBRATE TRAVEL OPPORTUNITIES Following on months of community conversations These include: 1. I was invited to facilitate one session at a five-day about the need to correct the official maps of the • The collaboration with FOCUS in workshop in Berlin in October 2018, organised city which indicate District Six as “”, celebrating the life and contribution of Alex by CARMAH (Centre for the Anthropological the Museum submitted the formal application to La Guma, on what would have been his Study of Museums and Heritage) based the Committee on Geographical Place Names 94th birthday on 20 February 2019; at the University of Humboldt in Berlin and of the Provincial government, with overwhelming • Supporting the District Six Knitting Group TOPOI (a large research cluster on antiquity public responses in support of the campaign. An with their fundraising karaoke, hosted at and archaeology). The workshop was titled outcome is pending but it is highly unlikely that the the Homecoming Centre in July; On Common Grounds? Researching Public decision of the committee will not be a positive • Providing a supportive backdrop to the Engagements of Museums and Heritage Sites. one, given their understanding of the tangible as launch of a book produced by the writing 2. I presented a workshop provocation on the well as symbolic value of this move in the context collective, Disrupting Denial, at the issue of research and knowledge production of holistic restitution. The public support unlocked Homecoming Centre; for the “public good” at a Global Summit of during this time beyond that of District Sixers, was • Hosting focus group sessions with filmmaker Research Museums that took place in Berlin noteworthy. Anton Fisher, as he works towards in November 2018. It was jointly organised producing a short fiction film based on life by the Natural History Museum in Berlin, the Many of the positive project outcomes will be in District Six, as well as a full-length film at Leibniz Association, the Smithsonian Institute in detailed in the departmental reports. These a later stage; Washington, the Natural History Museum in include the conclusion of the Peninsula Maternity • Seven Steps members were hosted by London and the British Museum. Hospital Project, completion of the Kewpie Migrant Labour Museum on a 3. I participated in an information tour to Berlin and exhibition, a newly designed website, Seven visit to the area which included a guided Hamburg, organised by the Goethe Institute, Steps writing and poetry workshops, and a walking tour of Lwandle as well as of the aimed at strengthening the connections between number of dialogues on contemporary issues. Museum; German museums and museums in Sub-Saharan • The annual Emancipation Day Africa. This took place in November 2018. A number of collaborative events took place commemoration in partnership with 4. I made a presentation on Museums as during the course of the year and these will be Prestwich Place Project Committee, which places for social transformation at the Jewish reflected on the timeline. A few stand out for me. focused on the musical legacies of slavery. Museum in Berlin, in March 2019.

May 2018 31.05.18

11.05.18 Suitcase exhibition at the Castle – Slave Route Challenge 15.05.18 Screening of Skin at Museum by Cape Town Holocaust and Genocide Centre Supper Club: Ilze Wolff

8 Also in March, I was invited to participate in a symposium on Memory sites, memory paths towards the future in Istanbul, convened by one of our partner organisations, the Hrant Dink Foundation.

MOMENTS TO ANTICIPATE We are currently working on selections of the archive to be digitised and made available as an online archive through our new website and anticipate that this will be particularly welcomed, especially by those who are not able to physically visit the Museum and its archives.

We look forward to a wonderful celebration of 25 years of the Museum’s life, which will include a revamping of sections of the permanent exhibition, Digging Deeper. This will be a welcome and wonderful enhancement to the overall visitor experience.

To end of my report, let me relay the words of Steve Bantu : “History works through people 11 February 1966 commemoration, standing at the memorial cairn. and we availed ourselves to history to work Photographer: Paul Grendon through us.”

June 2018 04.06.18 07.06.18 16.06.18

PEP: Land, Liberty, Stories

Memorial: Youth Day Film Screening: ‘Salt River 07.06.18 Patience Lunika High, 1976’ Post-symposium discussion group 9 11 February 1966 commemoration. Photographer: Paul Grendon

28.05.18 June 2018 24.06.18 26.06.18

19.06.18 Langa Library strike down and storytellers’ at National workshop 23.06.18 Arts Festival Seven Steps outing: Lwandle Meeting with Ou Tuin Heritage Organisation Supper Club: Ryland Fisher from Paarl 10 July 2018

06.07.18 D6 Knitting Group fundraiser 06.07.18 at Homecoming Centre New storytellers’ orientation 10.07.18 Filmmaking workshops 15.07.18 07.07.18 with Maganthrie Pillay Cuban Luna Choir A Night at the Museum visits the Museum

11 12 Bloemhof Crusaders performing at the 11 February 1966 commemoration. Photographer: Paul Grendon

13 EDUCATION MANDY SANGER EPARTMENT Head of Education

IN MEMORIA: comes with the re-imagining of community. Patience Lunika (memorial on 7 June 2018) A memorial was held at the Museum’s D 2018 was the year we said an unexpected and Homecoming Centre in partnership with the sad farewell to Patience Lunika who started her Disabled People of (DBSA), her relationship with the Museum as a high school comrades in the social justice movement and learner through our partnership with PeaceJam her family. many years ago. Patience had grown into an inspirational youth and community leader who She had been born with osteogenesis commanded much respect, never daunted by imperfecta, a brittle bone disease, and the challenges she faced as a wheelchair- remained committed to also changing bound activist for peace, fighting against perceptions of what she called the “handi- , mobilising a diverse group of youth capable”, and what beauty is. Not held back to pursue local, national and international by anything, she studied fashion design and campaigns where learning made headlines. “My designs are inspired by together was always the challenges of the disabled, black and poor central. As a regular women. I want to break the mold and show participant in many not only that we are beautiful in our own way programmes, she but to celebrate our differences and diversity,” continues to be with (iol.co.za, 3 August 2017). Patience will be us in spirit and as particularly remembered for rocking up regularly an example of the with her loyal team of Salatiso Gunguluza and possibilities for Vivienne, her sister, for our annual midnight the re-imagination Emancipation Day walk through the city. of the self that

Suitcase Community Library installation with Susan Lewis, Jasmina Salie, Farahnaaz Gilfelleon and librarian from Hanover Park Library. Photographer: Paul Grendon 14 15 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES arts in strengthening communities and addressing was done through a partnership with students The year was bookended by my participation inequities that result from economic restructuring from the (UCT) and the in two international workshops that involved two and social upheavals while offering ways to voice South African Holocaust Centre. This generated elements of the education work we do at the unspeakable truths and foster resilience. Included valuable conversations about memory, erasure, : one, expressive art as a in this conference were visits to the District Six the hierarchy of suffering, Germany recognising powerful tool for learning and two, the politics of Museum with ex-residents including artist Lionel and paying reparations for the World War II urban planning and ”free” market economics in Davis, visits to the home and workshop spaces Holocaust, as well as the country’s struggle to segregation, exclusion and the erasure of memory. of the Handspring Theatre Company as well recognise the genocide in Africa. as a concluding performance at Amazinc in STIAS WALL colloquium abroad: Kayamandi, Stellenbosch. SUITCASE COMMUNITY LIBRARY PROJECT 30 April – 4 May 2018 Following on from the successful development I was invited to participate in the WALL colloquium Conflicting memories: of a series of suitcase memory boxes with Tina at the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Studies. 30 October – 3 November 2018 Smith (Head of Exhibitions), Kirstie Pietersen The colloquium was the second in a series on I participated in a colloquium in Berlin organised (pre-university intern) and Tazneem Wentzel, the arts and social transformation. Participants by the FHXB Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg Museum, Education Department worked with youth from included artists, activists and scholars from South a local history museum focusing on the borough five community libraries to launch exhibitions and Africa, Peru, Rwanda, Kenya and Canada. of Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg in Berlin, Germany. I facilitate conversations about , forced Dr Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela was one of the was part of a conversation, Fights around memory removals, inequality and racism. The exhibitions keynote speakers with Albie Sachs sharing his - from conflict to reconciliation - the Anti-Apartheid were also designed to recruit elders from these perspectives and personal experiences on the Movement in Cape Town, with historian Manuela communities to share their stories of Apartheid capacity of art to contribute to political and Bauche. This colloquium played out against the in recorded conversations with youth as part of social transformation. Basil Jones and Adrian history of a divided city (East and West Germany) our Tell Your Story to a “Born Free” blog. The Kohler of Handspring Puppet Company, and and also in the context of contemporary struggles following community libraries were involved: Jane Taylor of the University of the Western by immigrants and refugees to make a home in Crossroads, , Hanover Park, Langa Cape presented a roundtable discussion on Do Berlin. While in Berlin, I was introduced to the and Nyanga. District Six ex-residents Susan arts practices humanise and foster reciprocal Rosa Luxembourg Foundation programme on the Lewis, Mogamat Benjamin, Faranaaz Gilfelleon relations and empathy? We explored the role of 1904-1908 Herero and Nama Genocide. This and Jasmina Salie shared their stories, which

July 2018 26.07.18

25.07.18 District Six 24.07.18 Community 31.07.18 PEP: Bill Chafe Day Centre 28.07.18 CIEE dialogue: Nettie Douglass (Duke University) launch Junior Movie Club: Supper Club: Young Voices Speak on Black Panther Mandela’s legacy 16 were highlighted by various objects, photos and other tangible fragments collected and curated in a suitcase.

Youth involved in the oral history project were Ntsika Kuhlane, Siyabulela Lengisi, Sibabalwe Nongqunga, Geraldine Jacobs, Mthobeli Mantanga, Tamia Mackay, Madenia Tobias and De Seymour Lewis.

Elders who had their stories recorded were Bongani Maqungwana, Molotov Ngo, James Santi Kula, Nombuyiselo Dulazi, Tazana Rasmeni, Fundiswa Menzi, Thozamile Gxabela, Mlandeli Mbiko, Monica Ndamase, Butisa Mkunbuzo, Gcubutu Koketo, Sithile Mlanjeni, Chief Msuthwana, Chief Zanomthetho Ruba Gawulana, Chief Mfazwe, George Meyi, Nombuyiselo Nkonyane, Violet Gxilishe, Noel Settee, Audrey Wildman, and Achmat Kannemeyer.

OSCAR MPETHA KASI HISTORY ROOM PROJECT As part of our work with the Nyanga Heritage Forum we were able to connect with Oscar Mpetha High School where we facilitated a Suitcases developed by Jasmina Salie, Mogamat Benjamin, Farahnaaz Gilfelleon and Susan Lewis for the Suitcase Community Library project. Photographer: Paul Grendon

August 2018 30.08.18

13.08.18 25.08.18 Rojda Yildiz – Oscar Mpetha 04.08.18 intern from Hrant High School 28 August – Kewpie: Supper Club: Pat Fahrenfort and ‘Tell Your Story to a Born- Dink Foundation, Workshop introductory Rachmat Fakir Free’: photography and Turkey, arrives 18.08.18 workshop with Seven film review workshop Disrupting Denial Steps members Book Launch 17 series of oral history training workshops. Twelve address was given by granddaughter of Frederick opportunity to reflect on various sub-themes Grade 11 learners remained committed to the Douglass, Nettie Washington Douglass. The pertaining to the perceived and real loss of process and continued to develop the idea of dialogue included participants from various advocacy we have experienced in recent times. a Kasi History Room project where the story of social justice struggles in the city, namely Bo- The focus was on how activists, artists, students, South Africa’s history is told in an exhibition on Kaap anti-gentrification activists, Fees-must-fall researchers and writers - advocates of social the walls, doors and desks. They were assisted students, Reclaim the City, District Six Civic and justice and human dignity - deal with crucial by Coordinator Ayanda Mpono, Facilitator many more. issues such as identity, the role of NGOs, and Yusra Price, Education Assistant Aviwe Ndalana, the importance of documenting and sharing and interns Kirstie Pieters, Kelly-Lee Frieslaar, As part of the Kewpie exhibition public our stories. Noel Daniels, Cornerstone Institute Cleo Frieslaar, Ntsika Kuhlane, Siyabulela programme we concluded the fifth in a series Chief Executive Officer best summed it up: Lengisi, Sibabalwe Nongqunga, and Mthobeli of Art in Public Places programmes with “Reclaiming Agency 2018 is a deep reflection Mantanga. -based multimedia artist Andrew of who we are as a people, the journey we’ve Whisper-Tsafendas, who mentored youth in a travelled and the need to reclaim lost agency. Participants in this project were Asange site-specific wheat pasting art project over two We need to reinvest in agency as we seem Menzi, Nolwazi Mkwabane, Sive Matinyana, weeks. to have divested, making the championing Sakhumzi Mayongo, Siyanda Nkqayi, of causes someone else’s responsibility. How Ayabulela Mbotshelwa, Siyamthanda Lwana, Reclaiming Agency 2018 is an initiative of do we begin to reclaim lost spaces so that we Anele Kondlo, Lobohang Honono, Bulelani Bini, Cornerstone Institute in partnership with the can collectively create the world we want to be Sinethemba Lupuwana, and Tania Menzes. Desmond & Leah Tutu Legacy Foundation, the in?” The focus was on contemporary writing that Institute for Justice and Reconciliation, District reflected these themes through conversations, OTHER PARTNERSHIPS Six Museum, Guga S’Thebe, Community Chest, panel discussions, roundtables, talks, lectures, We jointly hosted an interactive and and Catholic Welfare and Development Athlone workshops, poetry readings and discussions. intergenerational dialogue with the Council on Cultural Hub. We brought together community- International Educational Exchange (CIEE),a non- based organisations and individuals, NGOs, INTERNSHIPS profit study abroad and intercultural exchange higher education institutions, artists, poets, It was the 12th year that we hosted interns organisation, and Frederick Douglass Global researchers, authors and social activists under from Duke University in the DukeEngage studies Fellowship students. At the dialogue, the keynote the theme of Reclaiming Agency. This was an abroad programme. Students spend roughly two

September 2018 15.09.18 20.09.18

21.09.18 Diversity Workshop, 01.09.18 GALA 22.09.18 D6M AGM Kewpie walkabout and panel discussion Kewpie Heritage Day workshops

Kewpie exhibition opening 18 Public artwork for Kewpie: Daughter of District Six exhibition. Photographer: Paul Grendon

27.09.18 October 2018 17.10.18

24.09.18 18.10.18 Kewpie Heritage Crossroads Oral Day walk through 26.09.18 History Project District Six ASRI Auwal Socio- Supper Club: Dougie Oakes Art In Public Places: Kewpie Economic Research wheat pasting Institute: ‘Race’ dialogue 19 months at the Museum, Sonke Gender Justice, us to the stories of female Kurdish human rights VISITOR ENGAGEMENT Women’s Legal Centre and South African Clothing fighters, many imprisoned in Turkey because of Visitor engagement programmes were enhanced and Textile Workers Union, engaged in various their struggle for self-determination. by the participation of more storytellers, youth research, education and workshop programmes. facilitators and the consolidation of our regular Tristan Malhotra and Olivia Pennoyer contributed HOLIDAY PROGRAMME – JUNE TO JULY 2019 partnerships with the UCT Global Citizenship toward various small departmental research This year’s holiday programme was a streamlined programme, CPUT Architecture and Design projects as well as our Night at the Museum version that was kicked off with a public students, CPUT Diversity Management students with primary school learners during the mid- programme to commemorate June 16 (Youth Day and the Raymond Ackerman Academy students. year school break. Youth interns coordinated by in South Africa). We screened the Anwar Omar All these programmes are intense one- or two- Yusra Price facilitated the two day programme film that featured the testimonies and accounts day programmes where students are required that took kids on a challenging learning journey of former Salt River High School teachers and to think about the impact of colonialism, racial- through Apartheid, racism, injustice, imagined students who participated in the student revolt capitalism, the , amongst other communities, and resistance, to the conclusion of for in 1976. For many in the segregation laws in the city, and the construction celebrating democracy with music, dance, visual world, June 16 has become synonymous with of race-based spaces, institutions, structures and art, drama, and photography, but not forgetting the uprising but Omar’s documentary cultures. They met and encountered versions the ongoing struggles we face about learning to sets out to contribute to correcting this historical of the recent past through the eyes of former live together with our differences while still facing account – the 1976 student uprising was a residents of District Six who took them on a inequality. The Junior Movie Club screened Black national uprising. Filmmaker, Maganthrie Pillay, memory journey through the site and Museum. Panther as part of the Resistance to Apartheid ran a five-day filmmaking workshop with youth Participants concluded their engagement with us session of the programme. from our community library oral history project as by presenting and addressing crucial issues of well as the Museum’s Young Curators. The youth gentrification, inequality, racism, public transport, Rojda Yildiz, a Kurdish human rights activist produced three short films based on a learning- dignified housing, and unemployment with the and student from Turkey, joined us in August by-doing methodology: Johnny Gomas through eventuality of reversing the legacies of Apartheid for two months as part of Beraberce Xchange the eyes of daughter Victoreen Gilbert (now as part of rethinking and re-imagining Cape Programme: Sites of Memory. In this role, she deceased and greatly missed); Bo-Kaap evictions Town as a city for people not races. volunteered for 20 hours per week and learned with Bilqees Baker; and A Nyanga Journey with about the work of the Museum. Rojda introduced Mlandeli Mbiko.

October 2018 27.10.18 November 2018

25.10.18 02.11.18 Supper Club: Lydia Centre Hobby Michael Weeder 30.10.18 and Crafts group 03.11.18 Seven Steps visit Huis Kombuis Oscar Mpetha High Workshop School exhibition on race opening Pop Up Bioscope: Lwandle 20 17.11.18 22.11.18 30.11.18

24.11.18 29.11.18 , Open Society Foundation Ward 49 workshop Social Justice Bioscope

Cedric Nunn exhibition Emancipation Day Walk Kewpie Walkabout opening 24.11.18 Emancipation Day creative workshop 21 E HIBITIONS X DEPARTMENT TINA SMITH Head of Exhibitions

Reflecting on this year’s achievements we are his camaraderie and for affording us the privilege encouraged by the successes and look forward of sharing in his story and curating this special to new projects, partnerships and the challenges exhibition. that lie ahead. KEWPIE: DAUGHTER OF DISTRICT SIX LIONEL DAVIS RETROSPECTIVE Another landmark exhibition at the Museum’s IN GRAHAMSTOWN Homecoming Centre followed soon after. It was an eventful year for the Exhibitions Kewpie: Daughter of District Six opened in Department, in which many achievements can September 2018 and proved to be another be celebrated. Following the opening of the highlight. We believed it to be one of the most much-acclaimed Lionel Davis Retrospective exceptional exhibition projects that the Museum Exhibition, Gathering Strands, in June 2017 at has seen since the Digging Deeper Exhibition the Iziko South African National Gallery, the opened in 2000. The keepers of the collection exhibition travelled to the Nationals Arts Festival associated with this exhibition, GALA (Gay and in Makhanda (Grahamstown) in July 2018. Lesbian Memory in Action), approached the The exhibition was nominated as a featured visual Museum to partner and co-curate this exhibition art exhibition at the Festival, which was installed project. at the Albany Museum. It was a fitting tribute to a living legend and was well- received by the The Kewpie Photographic Collection consists public especially the youth. 83-year old Lionel of approximately 700 photographic prints and Davis continues to be a tireless ambassador of negatives spanning the period between 1950 to the Museum and its work, and we salute him for the early 1980s. What makes it so special is

‘Salon Kewpie’ exhibition detail. Photographer: Paul Grendon 22 23 that it documents the private and social life of transformed their personas into the many Sowda Osman, Ismail ”Bolla” Buffkins, Kewpie and her friends working, performing, characters derived from their impressions drawn Stanford Adams, Sandra Dee, Ebrahim Faro, partying and relaxing at a range of locations from Kewpie’s extraordinary collection. A site- Mogamat Benjamin and the Seven Steps in District Six and beyond. More significantly, it specific art intervention curated by Burning members who contributed to the exhibition gives visibility to the little-known queer culture in Museum with participants from the District Six research programme at various levels. In the District while reinforcing our understandings Museum’s Young Curator’s project prepared addition, a huge thank you to the artists of the District as a close-knit community that a selection of images from the collection and Ayesha Price, Micah Chisholm, Heath Nash embraced diversity. It is an important resource signposted five locations on the memory route. and Jarrett Erasmus who facilitated the creative that can contribute to historical understandings workshops and site-specific art installations. of LGBTQI+ community’s lives under Apartheid. Ex-residents Mogamat Benjamin and Amelia A special acknowledgement to GALA, Keval Brinkhuis were the on-site storytellers, giving Harie, Genevieve Louw, Linda Chernis and the The curatorial process provided a multi- visitors to the exhibition a personal account of curatorial team of Jenny Marsden and Karin dimensional space for participatory memory Kewpie’s life. Tan. It has been an exceptional partnership and work to evolve. These included oral histories with journey. Also to Paul Grendon who has done Kewpie’s friends, family and former residents as Educational programmes were co-facilitated amazing photographic documentation of this well as site visits to various locations associated by the Museum and GALA, which included project, Graeme Arendse for his design input, with Kewpie’s life. creative workshops, a workshop on Diversity, Faizel van Oudsthoorn and his printing team at curators’ walk-throughs, and a closing event on XXL Solutions, and to the Lydia Williams Centre A memory route in honour of Kewpie’s life, Human Rights Day, 21 March 2019. of Memory for the workshop venue. Reclaiming with Pride, was developed for a Heritage Day Parade on 24 September A project of this magnitude cannot be realised HUISKOMBUIS 2018. In preparation, five creative workshops without the invested support and valued The District Six Huiskombuis Food and Memory facilitated by artists brought together ex- commitment of individuals, community and Cookbook went into its second print run in residents, members of Sistaazhood, Death partner organisations. We would like to extend June 2018. The overwhelming demand for the of Glitter, Diskotekah, youth and community our gratitude to Kewpie’s family and especially publication is a wonderful testament to its value. groups. The participants created colourfully his sister, Ursula Hansby, as well as Gordon We would like to thank Anita Nonneman for her designed flags, costumes and hats, and Adams, Sandra Fourie, Gasierodien Samuels, ongoing support and generosity to this project.

December 2018 08.12.18 January 2019 23.01.19

14.12.18 ‘From District 20.01.19 Six to No Man’s Butterfly Project Museum’s 24th birthday Land’ play by Visit and Site Jasmina Salie tour Community Chest, One City, Many Cultures, D6M Dialogue: Role of NGOs in an Election Year 24 Beside the regular workshops, Huiskombuis Faiqah Abrahams, a textile artist, facilitated of the District. Beautifully printed fabrics make up continues to be a hive of activity for the a scarf or doekie painting workshop. The a range of home and kitchenware products which participants. The Freedom Day Food and participants enjoyed the challenge of producing include aprons, table runners, tablemats, oven Heritage workshop, a partnership with the beautiful designs. As we congratulate the mittens, tote and stationery bags, cushion covers, Department of Arts and Culture, set the Huiskombuis participants for a fruitful year, it was and tea cloths amongst others. The shop has given scene for an interactive food and memory also a year marked with sadness when we had visibility to the product range and has stimulated “performance”. Huiskombuis members led to say our goodbyes to Vicky Gilbert, a vibrant conversations about the Museum’s memory work traditional recipe demonstrations alongside and spirited member of the project who passed and the further possibilities that design and memory storytelling. The workshop opened opportunities away in November 2018. has creatively opened. This project has been in to further nurture intergenerational pedagogical incubation and to see it finally come to fruition has exchange between youth and elders. We PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT been a remarkable journey. We want to express are particularly excited about the developing In November 2018, we introduced a product our appreciation to Andrew Lane who has been relationship we have with the CPUT (Cape range which had emerged from the Huiskombuis instrumental in delivering support around the back- Peninsula University of Technology) Surface project. Memory Threads is the tagline of the end work which offers employment especially to a Design students who, through the creative products, and a growing selection is available at network of women who run cut, make-up and trim guidance of Micah Chisholm, are exploring the Museum Shop. home industries on the . Their collective textile design and memory. In August 2018, service has been invaluable. Also to Micah we welcomed Nomathemba Ngoqo, a new These bespoke designs are developed through Chisholm for volunteering his creative design skills intern from the College of Cape Town to the a creative process enabling participants to pave and ideas. We are much indebted. Department. She forms part of our internal skills pathways to reflect, interpret and heal. Memories development programme and assists on the of place and belonging are central to triggering For the Department, these projects provided the Huiskombuis and product development projects. stories about cultural life and relationship to “home”. opportunity to intensify our memory methodology Nomathemba has brought a refreshing energy Fabric designs depict hand-drawn images such processes and assert the purposefulness of our to the Department which has already translated as kitchen utensils, spices, willow pattern shards heritage practice through exhibition making, into many creative endeavors. We are looking and doilies. Other images are sourced from the product development, intergenerational forward to seeing her progress during the rest Museum’s archive collection. They include iconic exchange and fostering partnerships. of her stay. images of Hanover Street and famous street signs

February 2019 11.02.19

02.02.19 09.02.19 16.02.19 Trudy Rushin guitar Seven Steps 11 Feb Oral History Project lessons begin workshop exhibition

11 February 1966 commemoration 05.02.19 Seven Steps Poetry and Drama workshops 25 Kewpie: Daughter of District Six exhibition detail. Photographer: Fayros Jaffer (GALA)

26 27 Kewpie themed workshops for Heritage Day at the Lydia Williams Centre for Memory. Photographer: Paul Grendon

28 Heritage Day walk commemorating Kewpie’s birthplace in Osborne Street, District Six. Photographer: Paul Grendon

29 Heritage Day celebrations. Clockwise: Keval Harie (Director, GALA), Ayanda Denge (trans activist), Miss Inappropriate. 30 Photographer: Paul Grendon Heritage Day celebrations. Clockwise: Miss Inappropriate; friends of Kewpie; Ursula Hansby (Kewpie’s sister) and Sandra Dee (Sandra Lentoor); Terry Fortune. Photographer: Paul Grendon. 31 Huiskombuis workshop participants. Back l-r: Isobel Smith, Marion Abrahams-Welsh, Jean Pretorius, Anna Schouw, Anita Nonneman (funder), Sheila Rolls, Marlene Ford, Sylvia Gangat, Milly Davids, Tina Smith (facilitator), Ruth Jeptha, Joyce Jonathan, Priscilla Ntlonze (museum assistant), Front l- r: Nomathemba Ngoqo, Rojda Yildiz (interns), Patience Watlington. Photographer: Paul Grendon.

32 Huiskombuis workshop participants model scarves made in a fabric-painting workshop facilitated by Faiqa Abrahams. Photographer: Paul Grendon. 33 Women’s Day launch of Huiskombuis ‘Memory Threads’ product range; Huiskombuis workshop process. Photographer: Paul Grendon

34 35 COLLECTIONS, RESEARCH AND OCUMENTATION CHRISCHENÉ JULIUS DEPARTMENT DHead of Collections, Research and Documentation

The Collections, Research and Documentation and planning sessions about the Museum’s Department’s focus moves between core methodology. This process has reminded us of archival work, supporting Museum projects, and the need to focus on creating archival systems managing archival project work. In 2018/19 that facilitates clear and easy access. the focus has largely been on the first two areas, allowing us to build a firm foundation for creating As part of our focus on creating efficient systems, access to the different communities we engage Dean Jates, the Museum’s Sound Archivist, has with across these areas. ensured that procedures around the accessioning and storage of AV material are made more explicit ARCHIVAL SYSTEMS AND PROCEDURES through our procedural manual. In addition, With the departure of Heather Jackson, Wilton having taken full inventory of equipment used for Schereka took up the role of Collections Assistant events, projects and archival work, our Technical and his focus has been on creating a master list Assistant, Ivor Solomons, has introduced a more of all our audio-visual and audio material. This systematic way of working. The Sound Archive is has required digging deeper into this formative on a secure footing with committed staff who are collection by listening and detailing content, ensuring that no “tape” is left behind! which has resulted in a master list that details our research around music, other areas of forced In order to ensure that any procedures or lists removals, as well as recordings of discussions we create can speak to more universal archival

Kewpie Collections Workshop. Photographer: Paul Grendon. 36 37 systems, we began to familiarise ourselves with The video installation for the Peninsula Maternity the screening was a discussion led by musician Dublin Core terminology and have introduced Hospital Memory Project was completed and music educator, Ncebakazi Mnukwana. this system of archival descriptions into our work. in time for the opening of the new District Six This is the first step in standardising descriptions, Community Day Centre in July 2018. The video The theme of our Emancipation Day walk centred and toward creating a comprehensive database is currently playing in the waiting area of the on how the diverse cultures and influences during for our collection. Chanté Groenewald, a student new day hospital and features interviews with the period of slavery, including earlier indigenous employed on a casual basis, has provided midwives and project participants, as well as the musical expressions, have contributed to what additional support throughout the year. rich archive of images that can be found in the we today consider a Cape music tradition. The Museum’s collection. Midwives Marina Brinkhuis, energy of planning the event was met only by the PROJECT WORK AND SUPPORT Patience Watlington, Harriet Arendse, Georgina spirit of participation and commitment by speakers A former District Six resident Jasmina Salie’s focus Blaauw and Dr Mike Wright represented project and performers who lend their creativity to the on coordinating and conducting interviews for participants at the opening. However, Marina programme. This year we were supported by Boeta our Oral History Campaign continued. Seven and another beloved project member, Rachel Gee (Graeme Arendse), Jason Jacobs, Deirdré additional interviews featuring Gordon Adams, Lakay, have passed away since then. We Jantjies Karnival Assosiasie, Bo- Gasierodien Samuels, Sowda Osman, Ismail remember their contribution with great fondness Kaap residents, Toni Stuart, Diana Ferrus, Krystal “Bolla” Buffkins, Stanford Adams, Sandra Dee, and respect. Block and Babalwa Makwethu, Seven Steps Ebrahim Faro and Mogamat Benjamin were Members, and Dean Michael Weeder. Prestwich added to our collection, as well as images from In October, the Sound Archive hosted another Place Project Committee continued to be the their personal archives. This research fed into round of Pop-Up Bioscopes. These were long-term partner on this project. Thank you to St the planned exhibition about Kewpie (see the scheduled for community spaces in Valhalla George’s Cathedral and their staff for providing a Exhibitions Department report) and as a result Park, Elsies River and Lwandle. Unfortunately, welcoming and warm space in which to conclude we have developed a comprehensive catalogue due to escalating gang violence in Valhalla Park the programme. A special thanks goes to Eddie of existing and new LGBTQI+ material in the and Elsies River, the first two screenings were Esau, the Cathedral verger. Museum’s collection. In addition, the department cancelled. In Lwandle we were hosted by the supported the Kewpie exhibition by editing and Lwandle Migrant Labour Museum and screened Qanita Lilla provided research and writing support producing the AV installation for the exhibition the documentary Mama Goema: The Cape around the restitution process, in preparation for and assisting with a technical sound installation. Town Beat in Five Movements (2011). Following updating the Digging Deeper exhibition.

February 2019 20.02.19

19.02.19 21.02.19 27.02.19 Community Chest, Museum Night Sites of Conscience African One City, Many Regional Meeting Cultures, D6M Dialogue: the South Africa we all want Launch of Alex la Guma to live in Commemorative Year 38 In April, I undertook a Graduate School of History Fellowship at the University of Basel in University-based scholars remain the largest group Switzerland. The focus of the fellowship was a accessing the archive for material. While we seminar presentation on the evolution of memory have tried to balance this access with the ethics and nostalgia in the Museum’s methodology. In of working with such a sensitive collection, it is addition, I conducted workshops on public and becoming increasingly clear that we need to review oral history with students. I was hosted by the our approach and determine who access is for. Centre for African Studies at the University. As we move forward into the next year, our REQUESTS focus remains on understanding how digital The following requests were received in the archiving will impact on the resources for and past year. care of the Museum’s collections. There is much potential in providing online access to images Request type No. and documents. In meeting this potential we will University-based scholars 37 be tested on how we define access and promote School 3 critical engagement with the District Six archive. Independent/Family researchers 18 Media/Marketing 9 Galleries/Museums/Heritage/ 14 Human Rights organisations/ Non-governmental organisations Total 81

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14.03.19 21.03.19 Community Chest, One City, Many Cultures Hrant Dink and District Six Museum Dialogue Series: The conference, South Africa We All Want To Live In (Paarl) Istanbul

Human Rights Day, Farewell to Kewpie Supper Club: Kharnita Mohamed exhibition 39 1. District Six Museum Foundation (Registration number T2939/94) UDITORS Summary Financial Statements for the year ended 31 March 2019 Summary Statement of Financial Position as at 31 March 2019 A 2019 2018 R R Assets Current Assets EPORT Inventories 195,287 135,855 R Trade and other receivables 41,180 103,250 Operating lease asset 47,619 47,619 Cash and Cash equivalents 1,837,968 787,741 1. Summary Statement of 2,122,054 1,074,465 Financial Position Non-Current Assets Property, plant and equipment 192,311 229,025 Investment property on the cost model 11,564,420 11,564,420 Intangible assets 3,880 5,213 2. Summary Statement of Operating lease asset 6 - 480,159 527,778 Changes in Equity 12,240,776 12,326,436 Total Assets 14,362,830 13,400,901 3. Summary Statement of Equity and Liabilities Liabilities Current Liabilities Comprehensive Income Trade and other payables 192,365 331,242 Deferred Income 3,106,675 1,089,641 3,299,040 1,420,883 4. Summary Statement of Equity Grant from donor 100 100 Cash Flows Accumulated surplus 11,063,690 11,979,918 11,063,790 11,980,018 Total Equity and Liabilities 14,362,830 13,400,901

2. District Six Museum Foundation (Registration number T2939/94) Summary Financial Statements for the year ended 31 March 2019 Summary Statement of Changes in 2019 Equity

Grant from donor Accumulated surplus Total Equity RR R

Balance at 01 April 2017 100 11,793,121 11,793,221 Surplus for the year - 186,797 186,797 Other com[prehensive income - Total comprehensive income for the year - 186,797 186,797 Balance at 01 April 2018 100 11,979,918 11,980,018 (Deficit)/surplus for the year - -916,228 -916,228 Other comprehensive income - - - Total comprehensive deficit for the year - -916,228 -916,228 Balance at 31 March 2019 100 11,063,690 11,063,790 40 3. District Six Museum Foundation (Registration number94) T2939/94) Summary Financial Statements for the year ended 31 2019 March 2019

Summary Statement of Comprehensive Income 2019 2018 R R

Revenue 3,546,996 3,782,607 Cost of sales -315,875 -545,769 Gross Surplus 3,231,121 3,236,838 Donation Income 3,574,939 3,415,783 Operating expenses -7,754,970 -7,411,348 Other Income - 865,495 Operating (deficit) surplus -948,910 106,768 Finance Income 32,682 80,029 (Deficit)/surplus before taxation -916,228 186,797 Taxation - (Deficit)/surplus for the year -916,228 186,797 Other comprehensive income - Total comprehensive income (loss) for the year -916,228 186,797

4. District Six Museum Foundation (Registration number94) T2939/94) Summary Financial Statements for the year ended 31 2019March 2019 Summary Statement of Cash Flows 2019 2018 R R

Cash flows from operating activities Cash (used in) generated from operations 1,001,295 -2,691,600 Finance Income 32,682 80,029 Net cash from (used in) operating activities 1,033,977 -2,611,571

Cash flows from investing activities Purchase of property, plant and equipment -31,363 -140,205 Operating lease incentive received - -2,075 Movement in shares -6 - Operating lease incentive received 47,619 47,619 Net cash from (used in) investing activities 16,250 -94,661

Net increase/(decrease) in cash and cash equivalents 1,050,227 -2,706,232 Opening balance of cash and cash equivalents 787,741 3,493,973 Cash and cash equivalents at the end of the year 1,837,968 787,741

BASIS OF PREPARATION The summary financial statements are prepared in accordance with criteria developed by management. Under management’s established ith criteria devent’s es criteria, management discloses the summary statement of financial position, summary statement of comprehensive income, statement of cash flows and other information which management determines are relevant. These summary financial statements are derived from the audited financial statements of District Six Museum Foundation for the year ended 31 March 2019, which were prepared in accordance with International Financial Reporting Standard for Small and Medium-sized Entities. 41 Museum staff, interns and Seven Steps members visit Lwandle Migrant Labour Museum.

42 TAFF S storytellers, volunteers, board, patrons:

Staff Board of trustees Bonita Bennett Director Judge Siraj Desai Chairperson Nicky Ewers Operations Manager Nomvula Dlamini Deputy chairperson Chrischené Julius Collections Manager Nazier Banderker Nwabisa Moshenyane Finance Manager Ms Simone le Grange Mandy Sanger Education Manager Mr Terence Parker Tina Smith Exhibitions Manager Mr Fred Robertson Chantal Delilie Reception & bookings Thobeka Hobe Front of house reception Honorary members Dean Jates Sound Archivist Ruth Cookson Frank McDillon Exhibitions & general maintenance Anwah Nagiah Peggy Delport Amina Parker Museum attendant Mathokoza Nhlapo Terence Fredericks Noor Ebrahim Education officer André Odendaal Sidney Kannemeyer Joe Schaffers Education officer Crain Soudien Lucien le Grange Ivor Solomons Technical assistant Les van Breda Lalou Meltzer

Contract and casual staff Patrons Micah Chisholm Matthew Nissen Bishop Peter Storey Samantha Frantz Priscilla Ntlonze Emeritus Archbishop Paul Grendon Yusra Price Chanté Groenewald Wilton Schereka Ayanda Mpono Andile Weeder Volunteers Nomathemba Ngoqo Gloria Wilson Shamila Rahim Jasmina Salie Nadine Christians Zahra Hendricks Storytellers Aboubarker Brown Farahnaaz Gilfilleon Ruth Jeftha Mogamat Benjamin Susan Lewis Jasmina Salie

43 ISITOR V SELF-GUIDED NUMBER VISITS S 69,700

TOUR OPERATORS, ORGANISATIONS AND CORPORATES 3746

SA PENSIONERS & NON-PAYING COMPS GUIDED VISITS 136 7,705 SA UNIVERSITIES INTERNATIONAL 999 SCHOOLS 386

INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITIES SA SCHOOLS 1768 670 44 WORKSHOPS COMMEMORATIONS 1053 1001

OTHER VISITOR ENGAGEMENT 3,067

PUBLIC EVENTS AT THE OFFSITE PUBLIC MUSEUM EVENTS 858 155 45 Heritage Day commemoration. Public artwork on the corner of Nelson Street and Sir Lowry Road. Photographer: Paul Grendon Back cover photograph: Sowda Osman (Kewpie’s mascot) and Kewpie at the Marie Antoinette Ball at the Ambassador Club, 1967 (Kewpie Collection, GALA)

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