Reviving history: Thabo Mbeki Foundation aims to restore Eastern Cape's 200-year-old Lovedale Press
The press, in Edikeni in the Eastern Cape , published the first Xhosa Bible and the works of many celebrated authors including AC Jordan.Now a project led by the Thabo Mbeki Foundation involving several Eastern Cape universities may revive the legendary publishing house.
Lovedale Press was established as a small printing press in 1823 by the Glasgow Missionary Society. It was destroyed twice during wars and the present press dates from 1861, according to Eastern Cape Department of Sports, Recreation, Arts and Culture spokesperson Andile Nduna told GroundUp his department had held several meetings with Ntaka."The Department has supported the institution by buying books for libraries in the Eastern Cape. The institution holds an important part of the literary heritage of the province."
Tebogo Shilakwe of the National Heritage Council said the situation of the Lovedale Press had been"a recurring emergency" for years but the council did not manage heritage sites. Bongani Kupe of the Thabo Mbeki Foundation told GroundUp that the foundation's aim was not merely to preserve Lovedale Press"as a relic of the past" but to"reimagine it as a vibrant institution equipped to meet the demands of the present and the future."
Kupe said along with the Eastern Cape universities the Foundation had started a fundraising process."This will include the settling of the debt with the landlord and finding a home for the Lovedale Press assets."
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