The Siyazama Project has been very busy over the past decade and more. The following are just some of the activities it’s been involved with:

• Illustrated in the New York Times. The project took part in the Brandeis University USA exhibition curated by Pam Allara in ‘Coexistence: Contemporary Cultural Production in South Africa.
• Lobolile Ximba, expert traditional craftswomen, won R30, 000 in August 2003 at the Brett Kebble Art Awards with her beaded crucifix which illustrates how women are being crucified to AIDS.
• Beauty Ndlovu, expert traditional craftswomen, won an award at the FNB Vita Crafts in 2003 with her Animal Tower which depicts how caring for animals can alleviate the opportunistic manifestations of HIV/AIDS.
• The Project held an exhibition of its collection of beaded dolls and tableaus at ‘MoDA’ Museum of Domestic Design and Architecture at Middlesex University, London in January 2003. Bonangani Ximba of Muden, Msinga, attended on behalf of the rural women.
• The project exhibited at ‘No Name Fever: AIDS in the Age of Globalization’ a large international exhibition of art and AIDS in Gothenburg, Sweden in 2005. During this time a further collection was created for the Canadian Museum of Civilization, Quebec.
• Exhibited at the 2nd South African AIDS Conference 2005 in Durban.
• Siyazama Project was on exhibition for over one year at Michigan State University Museum in East Lansing, Michigan between 2006/7. Kate presented papers and presentations at this showing. Prof. Marsha MacDowell and Prof. Kurt Dewhurst, Museum curators and directors, have together with Kate recently completed a book on the project. Marit Dewhurst joined them in this venture.
• In 2007/8 the Siyazama Project became the catalyst for a England and Africa Partnership (EAP) between the Universities of Durban University of Technology, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda and the University of Northumbria, Newcastle in the UK. In this project the methodologies within the project were trialed in rural Uganda. This team project resulted in the third Design, Health and Community Colloquium (International) in Newcastle, U.K in 2008. The first two Colloquiums were held in South Africa at the DUT.
• In December 2008 Kate gave a presentation on the Siyazama Project at the NYC School of Visual Arts.
• In 2009 the Siyazama Project began a new + exciting venture with Konstfack Art + Design School in Stockholm, Sweden, with art curators Renee Padt and Ikko Yokoyama. Working together with an all-female designer group called FRONT, the Siyazama Project craftswomen will now be creating crafts which are intentioned to be marketed at international high level design outlets. This project is aimed to catapult Siyazama Project crafts into a whole new genre of upscale marketing. Milan here we come!