Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Epigraph iii
3. Contents v
4. Preface ix
5. Introduction xi
6. Acronyms xix
7. Editors’ note xxi
8. Prologue 1
9. PART ONE: DRAFT ONE OF THE MAKING OF THE ROBBEN ISLAND MUSEUM
10. 1. The liberation struggle as incubator for RIM 11
11. 2. UWC’s Mayibuye Centre: The conceptual base for RIM 19
12. 3. Lobbying and planning: A new South African museums and heritage sector, 1990–1994 28
13. 4. Defining the vision: ‘The triumph of the human spirit’ 37
14. 5. The mandate: Cabinet’s decision on the future of the island, 1994–1996 43
15. 6. Throwing open the prison doors, 1 January 1997 49
16. 7. Official launch of RIM by Nelson Mandela, 24 September 1997 62
17. 8. Consolidation, commemoration, celebration: On the way to UNESCO World Heritage Site status, 1998–2000 66
18. 9. Putting in place building blocks for the future 78
19. 10. A dirty tricks campaign unfolds, 2001 90
20. 11. The pressure on RIM intensifies 97
21. 12. The rupture, July 2002 102
22. 13. Downward spiral of an institution and its vision 111
23. PART TWO: FOUNDATIONS FOR PERMANENCY
24. 14. Narrative design and memory-making as healing modality: The ethos of early RIM education and public programming 125
25. 15. Creating a new generation of heritage and museum leaders: The inception of the Robben Island Training Programme 135
26. 16. From Mayibuye Centre to the UWC/Robben Island Mayibuye Archives 150
27. 17. Signature in the city: Building the Nelson Mandela Gateway Building 161
28. 18. Preparing for South Africa’s first UNESCO World Heritage Site 167
29. 19. Challenges in preventative conservation: Artefacts as a means of triggering memory and a process of healing 177
30. 20. Conservation management planning and Robben Island’s layered history 182
31. 21. Conserving the island’s environment 187
32. 22. An ex-political prisoner’s memories of living and working on Robben Island 195
33. 23. Building a new community on the island: The Robben Island Village Association 201
34. 24. Making the intangible tangible: The first tour guides and the social memory of Robben Island 209
35. 25. Appeasing the ancestors: Art and culture as a way of giving meaning to RIM 214
36. PART THREE: EXHIBITIONS AND MEMORY-MAKING PROCESS IN A SACRED SPACE
37. 26. Memories of working in RIM’s first Exhibitions Unit, 1999–2008 219
38. 27. Participation in progress: The story of Robben Island Museum’s Ex-Political Prisoner reference groups 233
39. 28. Research Unit experiences in memorialising and archiving Robben Island prisoner memories through oral history 243
40. 29. Journey to Sithebe village: In search of the first political prisoners in Robben Island Maximum Security Prison 250
41. 30. Restoring dignity to the 12 Robben Island prisoners buried as paupers in Stikland Cemetery by the apartheid regime 257
42. 31. The making and demise of the Nelson Mandela Gateway exhibition, 2001–2010 269
43. PART FOUR: VOICES AND DEBATES FROM WITHIN
44. 32. The saint of the struggle: RIM and the debate about deconstructing the Mandela myth 283
45. 33. Pan Africanist and Black Consciousness perspectives: Beneath the surface of the Robben Island Museum images 300
46. 34. The role of Robben Island Museum in the transformation of South Africa’s cultural landscape after apartheid 309
47. 35. See the seagulls fly: Twenty years on – a message to my daughter 325
48. PART FIVE: CURIOUS COINCIDENCES
49. 36. Fast forward from RIM rupture to state capture 335
50. 37. Mr K and the replica of his cell 353
51. Appendix 358
52. Endnotes 361
53. Select bibliography 387
54. About the contributors 399
55. Index 408