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In the aftermath of the Sharpeville Massacre in 1960, then African National Congress deputy president Oliver Reginald Tambo embarked on a “mission in exile” to garner international support for the South African liberation movement.

Daily, we at Refugee Social Services in Durban come face-to-face with the particular challenges and dangers inherent in a refugee’s journey to the country of refuge (in this case South Africa).

Solange Knowles’s latest album gives voice to Black frustration, pain and aspirations.  A Seat at the Table symbolises what every activist yearns for – to be heard, to be seen and to participate in every sphere of society as a right-carrying citizen. It is therefore fitting that Knowles – known to her fans as Solange – is bringing her transformative music and energy to Constitution Hill, a true example of a decolonised space and where art, justice and activism intersect. Her music and Constitution Hill will make for a magical combination. 

Solange will be performing at the Afropunk festival at Constitution Hill on 30 and 31 December 2017.

Constitution Hill has won a 2017 South African Museums Association Speaker and Publications award for its website.

In honour of Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu’s role as one of the architects of our constitutional democracy, a 9m-high monument called the Arch for Arch – made up of 14 strands representing each chapter of the Constitution and each line of the Constitution’s Preamble – was unveiled in Cape Town on Tutu’s 86^th birthday, on 7 October 2017.

On Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu’s 86^th birthday – 7 October – a slim-limbed wooden arch commemorating South Africa’s Constitution will be officially unveiled in his honour in Cape Town.