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May 13, 2025

Omar Badsha – Political Activist and Cultural Worker

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Apr 30, 2025

Reggie Williams

Apartheid was a programme established by the white dominated National Party (NP) in 1948 to consolidate the process of r...

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Afrikaans community, 1883-1899
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Apr 26, 2025

Afrikaans community, 1883-1899

 As the demand for African land and labour spiralled, conflict was heightened as white Afrikaans farmers tightened ...

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Apr 10, 2025

Centurion, Gauteng

The suburb of Lyttelton was one of the original suburbs that made up the old Verwoerdburg. Lyttelton was granted City Co...

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Apr 09, 2025

Transvaal Province

The Transvaal is a historical region and former Province of South Africa, located North of the Vaal River, that existed ...

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Apr 04, 2025

Hilton College an Independent Boy's Boarding School

The land was part of 'Ongegund', a farm belonging to a Johanna Grobbelaar, which had been purchased by her late husband ...

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Mar 27, 2025

Pietermaritzburg Botanical Gardens

On 3 March 1874, the Pietermaritzburg Botanical Garden was founded. It was run by the newly formed Pietermaritzburg Bota...

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Mar 23, 2025

Valley of a Thousand Hills

The Thousand Hills experience is to KwaZulu-Natal what the Garden Route is to the Cape. It is an area of great peace and...

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Mar 21, 2025

Msunduzi River

The Msunduzi River is well known for hosting the start of The Dusi Canoe Marathon. This is a canoe paddle race, that cov...

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Mar 17, 2025

Piet Retief now officially known as eMkhondo

Piet Retief was one of the leaders of the Boers during the Great Trek in the 1830's. The Boers were mostly descendants o...

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Mar 07, 2025

Helderberg, Somerset West

The district takes its name from the mountain of the same name, which is Afrikaans for "clear mountain", referring to th...

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Mar 07, 2025

Heidelberg, Gauteng

The Ueckermann family features prominently in the history of Heidelberg, Gauteng. Heinrich Julius Friedrich Christian Ue...

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Mar 03, 2025

University of Pretoria Museums

The University of Pretoria Museums manages, conserves, curates, and interprets adiversity of museum collections and...

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Feb 24, 2025

Faure Marine Drive and Clarens Drive, Gordon's bay

Faure Marine Drive, which eventually becomes Clarence Drive, is a stretch of scenic coastal road leading to Gordon’s Bay...

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Feb 05, 2025

West Coast District Municipality, Heuningvlei

Heuningvlei is one of fourteen outpost villages of the Moravian Mission Church at Wupperthal. Twenty five families are c...

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