Ciraj Rassool
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History heritage museums auto/biography curatorship collections Cape Town District Six restitution deobjectification ancestral remains UWC Historian
Cape Town
Joined June 2012
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Don’t miss your chance to read the new Cambridge element, Race, Genetics, History, by Alexandra P. Alberda, Njabulo Chipangura, Lara Choksey, Jerome de Groot and Maya Sharma! Free access available until 1 December at https://t.co/V9FBaALUcJ
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Acclaimed writer, Zoë Wicomb would have turned 77 yesterday. Her life was celebrated at the #NobelinAfrica2025 Nobel Symposium in Literature held at STIAS recently. See 👇🏽 https://t.co/KGacfcbTFT
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The return of our ancestors’ sacred human remains 🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿
The Honourable Minister of Sport, Arts and Culture, Gayton Mckenzie, will lead the official handover of six ancestral remains at the University of Glasgow’s Hunterian Museum. The event marks the repatriation of Khoe and San ancestral remains from Scotland to South Africa. The
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The Honourable Minister of Sport, Arts and Culture, Gayton Mckenzie, will lead the official handover of six ancestral remains at the University of Glasgow’s Hunterian Museum. The event marks the repatriation of Khoe and San ancestral remains from Scotland to South Africa. The
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PhD grant ‘Beyond Restitution’ in Universitat de Barcelona PhD grant associated with the project "Beyond Restitution: Appropriation, Replication, Life, and Exhibition of Colonial Objects in Latin America" in Barcelona. Focus: Colonised countries. https://t.co/GE0Q3LIYOS?
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PhD grant associated with the project "Beyond Restitution: Appropriation, Replication, Life, and Exhibition of Colonial Objects in Latin America" in Barcelona. Focus: Colonised countries.
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Today 16:00–17:30 (UK). Stream opens 15:50 Professor Tracy Ireland on Everyday Aesthetics in Place & Memory Join online https://t.co/6V8S3yPoiv
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@DrMBotha @SingaporeAir @AerLingus These airlines should be shamed into providing a replacement with NO DELAY. Publicity could make them do so. RT please everyone. Comments please @AerLingus and @SingaporeAir
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Very sad to learn about your passing, dear Stompie. I will always be grateful to you and your mates from the band Workforce that played at the Village Pub in Maitland in the 1980s. You guys were so kind to let me and other laaitie musos from Woodstock jam with you 💐💐
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‘He lived a full life’: Jazz legend Stompie Manana dies at 89
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Jazz musician Stompie Manana died on Friday, 29 August, at the age of 89, surrounded by his family.
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I hate how Philippi is described as “outside Cape Town” but Gordon’s Bay, Durbanville or Hout Bay are never given the same description.
An 18-year-old man has been arrested for allegedly trying to rob three Democratic Alliance Members of Parliament in Philippi outside Cape Town on Tuesday. https://t.co/FzwKQpGMJk
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Professor Tracy Ireland Everyday Aesthetics in Place and Memory: an alternative economy of heritage abundance Room D1, Pathfoot Building, University of Stirling Wednesday September 10, 4.00-5.30pm Please register here to attend in person or online https://t.co/HRQtZ7Di8v
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This Centre for the Sciences of Place and Memory seminar is held jointly with the University of Stirling Centre for Environment, Heritage and Policy. Emeritus Professor Tracy Ireland will examine the...
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?Fossil finds in Morocco have revealed that anatomically modern humans emerged at least 300,000 years ago? What was the first human species? | Live Science
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Modern humans emerged roughly 300,000 years ago, but our genus Homo is much older. So what's the oldest human species on record?
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I recently came across a political biography of H Selby Msimang (1886-1982) written by Dr Sibongiseni M Mkhize.
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The African Union has joined the call to replace the outdated 16th-century Mercator map which distorts Africa’s true size, with the Equal Earth projection, a map that shows the continent as it really is: vast, powerful, and central to our world. #CorrectTheMap 💬 “It might seem
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South African group Joy perform Paradise Road live on BBC TV, c 1980's. Joy was a South African female vocal group who had a chart-topping hit in South Africa with Paradise Road. The record spent 9 weeks at No. 1 spot.
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I can’t fully express how I feel reading this report as a Black employee of UofEdinburgh. But I feel the weight of this history in the present. Everyday. I can only express gratitude right now for everyone who led this project for years. https://t.co/yduzsEpCmH
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Exclusive: Investigation finds one of Britain’s oldest and most prestigious universities benefited from transatlantic slavery and was haven for white supremacist theories
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Apply | UWC Lecturer, Historical Studies, UWC Closing Date: 10/08/2025
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Full article: Introduction: is the human past a history of colonialism?
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This introduction sets out the rationale for this collection of papers by exploring the question what and how does colonialism from within Africa look like, and can it be compared to other forms? I...
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"One way to confront the colonial legacy is for indigenous people to be able to tell our own stories." -Professor Dolly Kikon Indian tribes visit UK museum to bring home ancestors' remains
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Tribes from the Indian state of Nagaland have held talks at a museum in Britain to secure the return of ancestral remains taken during the colonial era and put on display for decades.
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