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Our first priest arrived in South Africa in 1934 and was stationed at Inchanga. Ntshongweni was one of the 15 outstations he visited on horseback because that was the only means of transport to those various outstations, around the outskirts of the Valley of Thousand Hills. Before he came here Fr Pfister visited some of these places, and had gathered converts who held their services in Mr & Mrs Khwela’s home.

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Ulwazi Memory

The Indigenous Knowledge database is located under the tab Ulwazi Memory. It includes information under the broad categories of Environment, History and Culture.

Welcome to Ulwazi!

Digital information and communication technologies have revolutionised the ways in which knowledge and technical know-how travel around the world. The extent to which information requirements are met by the Internet throughout the world is reflected in the high usage statistics from developed countries. The global trend of using the Internet for preservation and dissemination of information causes a dilemma for the African information community. African local content on the Web is very low, putting Africa at a major disadvantage in the current knowledge economy.

The Ulwazi programme has been established to bridge this gap for the local communities around Durban. The programme is based on a model whereby online indigenous knowledge resources are established as an integral part of local Public Library and Information Services. Web 2.0 technologies are used to create a collaborative online local indigenous knowledge database. Community participation ensures the collecting, recording, preserving and sharing of local knowledge, while the library focuses on custodianship of the information resource, providing database management, training and support.