INVITATION TO FORUM AND EXHIBITION OPENING

The Local History Museums, in association with the Italian Consulate, Durban is hosting an exhibition entitled “Frontiere Borders Fronteras” on 05 February 2004 at Kwa Muhle Museum at 5.30 for 6.00 pm. The exhibition, a photographic exposition of migration and refugee movement around the world was devised by Giuseppe Lanzi, who is the Director of the Scalabrini Development Agency in Cape Town. The organisation, part of an international Scalabrini network,  provides, inter alia,  a multi-faceted, skills-based service to refugee communities. Giuseppe Lanzi's exhibition provides valuable and penetrating insights into a world-wide phenomenom: the displacement and disappropriation of large numbers of people around the world.

 Appropriately, the exhibition will be installed at  Kwa Muhle Museum - which as the Native Affairs Department implemented the Durban System, the first incarnation of urban racial segregation, which arose from the need to control and monitor the African migrant population, who were crossing the city's borders as labourers.

 We consider this an opportune moment to engage the issues that affect refugees at local level. To this end a forum, entitled Transcending Borders: A Forum for Inclusion and Understanding of Durban’s Migrant Population will be held at Kwa Muhle Museum at 10.30 also on 05 February. Mr Lanzi will be present for discussion. We hope that you and your colleagues, as well as members of Durban’s refugee community will be able to participate and contribute to the discussion. Please find provisional programme:

Transcending Borders
 A discussion forum for inclusion and understanding of Durban's
migrant population