Among the highlights of the year was the La Trobe Lecture, delived by Desmond Tutu, Archbishop of Cape Town and Primate of the Provence of Southern Africa, and the visit by Arthur Chaskalson, SC, National Director of the Legal Resources Centre, Johannesburg.

The Institute, in conjunction with South African Legal Services, organised a dinner address by Arthur Chaskalson, National Director of the Johannesburg Legal Resources Centre. Richard MacGarvie, Governor of Victoria, gave the welcome.

Professor Vladimir Tikhomirov, Head of External Relations of the Russian Board of Trade and former Director of Southern African Studies of the Institute for African Studies of the USSR/ Russian Academy of Sciences, was Scholar in Residence at the Institute during the First Semester of 1993.

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Seminars

• Prof. Vladimir Tikhomirov, former Director of Southern African Studies, Institute for African Studies, USSR/Russian Academy of Sciences, "Soviet Policy toward Southern Africa"
• Professor Ian Phimister, History Department, University of Cape Town, "Lashers and leviathan: the 1954 Wankie Colliery Strike".
• Professor John Barnes, ANU and formerly Research officer at the Rhodes-Livingston Institute, "Reflections on Ethnographic Research

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Distinguished visitors:

• Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Archbishop of Cape Town and Primate of the Provence of Southern Africa.

Arthur Chaskalson, SC, National Director of the Legal Resources Centre, Johannesburg

Professor Vladimir Tikhomirov, Head of External Relations of the Russian Board of Trade and former Director of Southern African Studies of the Institute for African Studies of the USSR/ Russian Academy of Sciences

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Gifts and Donations:

Professor John Barnes, formerly Research officer with the Rhodes-Livingstone Institute, Zambia, presented yhe Institute with a valuable collection of private papers and ethnographic field records.

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Documentation of African Artefacts in the Antipodes

With additional funding from the Research Committee of the Faculty of Humanities, La Trobe University, Dr Dorward undertook surveys of the African holdings of the National Gallery of Queensland, the Anthrologogy Museum of the University of Queensland and the Material Culture Unit at James Cook University in Townsville. Tentative steps were also taken to extend the African Artefacts Documentation Project to include New Zealand.

 

Antipodean museums worked closely in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, often acquiring materials from common collectors. Consequently, collections were frequently fragmented over a number of institutions.

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Other activities:

In January, the Director visited South Africa and held discussions with various members of the Economic Policy Unit of the African National Congress, the South African press and academics.

Dr Dorward was a principal speaker at the Department of Continuing Education, University of New England, on South Africa, in February. He also served as an adviser to the "African Alive" Campaign organized by the Non-Government Agencies to raise public awareness of positive developments in Africa, and on the Victorian Committee of Australians for Democracy in South Africa.

The Institute also organized a visiting placement in Central Administration for a trainee under the South African Training Program, Mrs. Amina Jacobs, executive secretary to the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cape Town.

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Dr David Dorward, Director
African Research Institute
e-mail < D.Dorward@latrobe.edu.au >