GEORGE NEWS - The Nelson Mandela University George Campus is having an open dialogue on the history or historic context of the Southern Cape Region.
It takes place next week Wednesday at 17:00 at the Lecture Theatre on campus. The discussion will be led by an excellent panel of historians, such as Professor Denver Webb, an historian and heritage practitioner at the university.
Webb is also the deputy chairperson of the National Heritage Council's panel of heritage experts.
The panel includes a number of local historians, including former school principal Jeremy van Wyk, who now is the manager of Potskerf Indigenous Knowledge and Heritage Research Centre responsible for research on Khoi cultural heritage of the Southern Cape. Sydney Opperman, former educator, politician, pastoral minister and spiritual teacher, will share his view on the key role every population group must play.
He spent six years working as a member of the Western Cape Geographical Names Council. Ronny Nyuka, a history and political sciences graduate, is another member of the panel.
He is based at the CP Nel Museum in Oudtshoorn as a museum human scientist for the Department of Culture, Arts and Sport.
The public is welcome to attend and join the discussion.
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