For the first time in South Africa’s history mother tongue speakers of our official indigenous languages can learn about all aspects of their culture and history, in their mother tongue, as told and recorded by their ancestors in the 1930s and 1950s. These writings...
Ancestral Voices Amazwi ooKhokho / Mantšu a Bagologolo / Marito a Vakokwana / Mantswe a Baholoholo / Maipfi a Vhomakhulukuku / Amazwi oKhokho / Mantswe a Bagologolo The most important Heritage preservation project currently underway in South Africa. In partnership...
We have described Ancestral Voices as the largest and most important heritage project of its kind currently underway in South Africa. How can this claim be justified? Until now most of South Africa’s history, seen from the perspective of indigenous language mother...
891 Indigenous Language Writings by 187 Authors These documents, written between 1930 and 1950 by mother tongue speakers of our indigenous languages are an entirely unique way of finding out about the past. At the time they were written, isiNdebele and Siswati were...
Heritage Month Readathon Our Story: Siege of Mafeking This siege took place at the beginning of what was then known as the Anglo-Boer war. For a long time it was considered a ‘white man’s war’, but was not, because it affected everyone who lived in South Africa,...
891 Ancestral Writings in Indigenous Languages discovered by Heritage Publishers The Ancestral Voices project and campaign is a partnership between South African Heritage Publishers and the Special Collections Unit of the Department of Library Services, University of...
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