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978 1 77582 077 2 978 1 77582 199 1 2014
208 PAGES
ZAR R293.00 ZAR R273.00
Hostels, Homes, Museum
Memorialising migrant labour pasts in Lwandle, South Africa
N MURRAY & L WITZ
During the apartheid years in South Africa, hostels and compounds were built to house migrant labourers. One such hostel compound was Lwandle, some 40 kilometres outside Cape Town, laid out by town planners and engineers in the form of diagonal, parallel blocks of barracks around a central open space.
The lives of the labourers who lived there were regulated and policed through apartheid legislation. In 2000, one of these blocks was opened as a museum.
This book explores the museum’s makings, the creation of histories through the oral and the visual and the rehabilitation of structures for the museum, ending with the celebration - and discomfort - of the museum’s tenth birthday in 2010.
Richly illustrated throughout, the book includes two full colour visual essays by photographers Paul Grendon and Thulani Nxumalo, taken while working with the museum on projects of restoration and collection.
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Noëleen Murray is Director of the Wits City Institute and the A.W. Mellon Foundation Chair of Critical Architecture and Urbanism at the University of the Witwatersrand.
Leslie Witz is a Professor in the History Department at the University of the Western Cape.
SUITABLE FOR
General readers and scholars interested in social history, post-apartheid history, museums, tourism, migrancy, restoration architecture, community development, urban studies and design, public culture and space.
JUTA EDUCATION AND SOCIAL SCIENCES CATALOGUE | 2018/2019
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