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Although there have been significant strides to transform the demographics of archive and museum personnel, develop new museums and heritage institutions and heritage training initiatives in post-apartheid South Africa, the Eurocentric model of the archive, museum and heritage sector has largely remained intact. Despite the euphoria around the transformation of heritage in the beginnings of post-apartheid South Africa, it can be argued that the transformation of heritage institutions has been superficial and cosmetic with the ideological foundation of the colonial archive and museum, as well as Eurocentric modalities of heritage education remaining solid, largely unmoved, and under continuing challenge. This is the thrust of this book which reflects on the transformation of archives, and museum and heritage education in South Africa and argues for meaningful transformation of the sector through a decolonisation from its Eurocentric mooring.

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Dr Geraldine Frieslaar is the Curator of Research, Dialogue and Social Justice at Stellenbosch University Museum at Stellenbosch University, where she focuses on the museum collections and the development of content, the development and facilitation of academic seminars and the development of new collections and exhibitions on the themes of social justice. Frieslaar has experience working in museums, archives, the academic environment and civil society. From 2017 to 2021, she held the position of Director of the South African History Archive (SAHA). Dr Olusegun Morakinyo is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Philosophy, Stellenbosch University, South Africa.

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