MEMBERS OF THE SAMA-KZN COMMITTEE

Chairperson:     Pam Mc Fadden - Talana Museum.

 

Curator of Talana Museum since the beginning of 1983. Responsible for fund raising for all capital development; marketing and promotion; research, development and exhibits of museum; development of archival and record systems for the museum; function planning and execution.  Taught high school history for 5 years ( 1988-1982).  Qualifications BA(History, Economics) (Hons - history) HDE.  Published  books - 4 on military history; co-author on book of military Battlefields of SA; researched and ghost author on book on history of the Mines Rescue Services of SA. Published numerous brochures, articles in magazines, newspapers, journals and promotional CD’s. Interviewed for a number of international television and radio documentaries.  Founder of the KZN Battlefields Route, registered military history tour guide for 30 years, trained tour guides for Satour for 14 years. Served on provincial committee to plan Anglo Boer War centenary. Presented numerous papers at museum conferences and represented South Africa at the International Battlefields Trust and presented paper and workshops.  

Hobbies: reading, travelling, interior décor.

 

 

Vice-Chairperson:    Sandile Miya - KwaZulu-Natal Museum.

 

Sandile Miya was born in KwaDambuza and grew up in Imbali township in Pietermaritzburg.

He is a Librarian and Archivist by profession. He took up Library and Information studies, from the University of Natal, because he had a passion for the preservation of documented heritage objects. He entered the Museum fraternity as an Assistant Librarian at the KwaZulu-Natal Museum (then Natal Museum) in February 2000 and worked his way up to the Deputy Director position by 2006, a position he still occupies.

As a Librarian, Sandile has over the years actively participated in LIASA, an association for professionals in the Library and Information sector, a similar organization to SAMA. He last served as the Treasury of the KZN Midlands branch.

 

Treasurer:     Henriette Ridley - Maritzburg College School Museum & Archives.

 

In 1983 I joined the KZN Provincial Museum Service as researcher.  I had previously worked at the SA Cultural History Museum in Cape Town, now IZIKO. In 1985 I became the first Liaison Officer at Museum Service, which involved regular contact with the affiliated museums of KZN and also organising training courses for curators. In 1996 I was appointed as Deputy Director at the Voortrekker Museum. I took early retirement at the end of July 2009.  At present I am working on a part-time basis at Maritzburg College, a high school for boys in Pietermaritzburg, where I am organising the museum and archive on a professional footing. A new museum exhibition is being planned for the 150th anniversary of the School in 2013.  I have been a member of SAMA since 1981. I have served on the SAMA National Council for two terms and been a member of the SAMA KZN Committee on and off over the past 18 years.

 

Secretary:   Magda Erasmus - Macrorie House Museum.

 

Qualified teacher and taught for 16 years in Durban at Werda High & Werda Senior Primary School.  Left teaching as an HOD and Subject Head of Maths & History when my husband was transferred to Camperdown.  Was employed as Head of the Education Department at the Voortrekker/Msunduzi Museum for 12 years.  Currently employed as the Education & Marketing Officer at Macrorie House Museum.

Field of expertise:  Education & Public Programmes.

Hobbies:  Reading, interior design and I am a Weight Watchers Group Leader in Pietermaritzburg.

 

Training:   Sian Theron - Comrades House Museum

 

I am a UKZN alumni having majored in History and Classical Civilization and then going on to do an honours year in Class Civ. After starting an MA in Class Civ I decided I would rather like to get into museum work and got a Library and Information Sciences Diploma to get me closer to this end. I spent a few months gaining experience as a volunteer at the Alan Paton Struggle Archive and eventually ended up in my current position as museum curator of the Ultimate Human Race – The Comrades Marathon. As the only staff member in the museum my duties vary across the spectrum of museum related tasks as well as additional race-related responsibilities that form part of my job. Working for the Comrades Marathon has been inspirational and is infused with an ever present energy which I hope to bring to the KZN committee, being given the training portfolio to administer is something rather different from my usual work but as Comrades has taught me - I learn fast!

 

Training:   Sakhile Maphumulo - Ncome Museum

 

I was born in August 25, 1978. I grew up in a place called Camperdown in Pietermaritzburg, where I completed my primary and high school education in 1996. In the year 2000, I enrolled for National Diploma in Tourism Management at Technikon Natal (DUT), a course that i completed in 2002. Like any other course, I needed to do an internship to qualify for graduation on following year. That’s when my museum career started.  In October 2002, I joined Voortrekker Museum in Pietermaritzburg as a student doing in-service training and I’ve never looked back from there. I was supposed to stay with the museum two months, but because of my performance, I was given a casual job. I remained at the museum until 2005 when I was employed by the KZN Department of Education as a Senior Admin Officer. I served the Department of Education for four years between 20005 and 20009. On May 2009, I was employed by Msunduzi /Ncome Museums as an Education Officer, stationed at Ncome Museum where I’m currently working.  

 

Marketing:   Linda Ireland - KwaZulu-Natal Museum

 

Have a Senior Teacher's diploma (1970) and a BA Degree (UNISA 2007)

I have worked at the KwaZulu Natal Musuem since 1993 (18 years).  I am the Collections /Preservation officer  in the Department of Human Sciences, where I care for the collections, deal with the new acquisitions, loans, and asset recording. I also facilitate research and collection care with particular interest in paper, textile and objects conservation.

 

As a Member of both SAMA and SAPCON I have been involved with hosting and presenting workshops on the general care of collections, integrated pest and crisis management. I also present workshops on aspects of wood, textile and paper conservation.  At present I am also tutoring five students for the CAM course.

 

Newsletter:   Vivienne Garside - Vukani Museum.

 

Paid for my training as a Speech and Drama teacher by working in travelling libraries in the 1960s (Yep. That old.) and zoomed around the Eastern Cape and Griqualand in a 13 ton bus. Did some informal art history by attending my sister’s lectures, acted and taught.  Then travelled all over the place on my husband’s coattails until I ended up at the Zululand Historical Museum in 1975 and was bitten by the museum bug.  Travelled all over a bit more, managing projects and hospitals and stuff, teaching, acting, journalism and fundraising and was happy to land at Vukani Museum in 2005 after I was widowed.  Having a lifelong passion for handwork, art and African cultures (and Eshowe), this is my reward for a life spent chasing other people’s rainbows.  I also teach English to reluctant teenagers and keen prisoners, and read anything I can get my hands on.  And listen to classical music.  And garden. And write lurid novels.  And study for the CAM course.