New Ways – New Hope
In June our museum curator, Magdalena Lukas, visited the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology to consult with staff about co-curating an exhibition at the !Khwa ttu San Heritage Centre,...
Restoring balance with the Green Team
Before !Khwa ttu the land on which the Heritage Centre is built was disturbed by many years of intensive agriculture which transformed the natural vegetation and resulted in a great...
Food From Our Ancestors Project
Funded by: Department of Economic Development and Tourism (DEDAT) During 2020 we received funding from the Department of Economic Development and Tourism (DEDAT) - Tourism Product Development Fund (TPDF) to...
We share what Heritage means to us at !Khwa ttu
During September, Heritage Month, we asked ourselves the question "What does Heritage mean to me?" "To be among people every day and share my culture with them make me...
Temporary Exhibition at !Khwa ttu on Margaret Courtney-Clarke’s Work
August 2021. For the next couple of months we are hosting a Temporary Exhibition in our Encounters Building. It comprises photographs of Margaret Courtney-Clarke, curated by Virginia McKenny who talks...
The lions are walking: Kalahari Bushman wisdom in Covid times
In 2016 Danish hygge became something of a Scandic buzzword around the world*. Recently we have been introduced to a different Scandic buzzword, one perhaps a little less buzzy but...
Fabulous friends
"I first met the actress Jolene Martin before lockdown this year. I immediately recognised her because I follow the soapie she acts in. From the beginning we clicked, we felt...
I belong to this identity
When we were small, my father, Jan van der Westhuizen, took us along when he went to the Kalahari dunes to collect medicine from the pharmacy of nature. He told...
