Africa

Little Lions Head, Mt. Above Llandudno

Little Lions head is nestled in between Llandudno, Sandy Bay and Hout Bay and is basically a smaller version of Lions He...

Battle of Muizenburg Monument, Muizenburg

Given the turmoil in Europe and the importance of the Cape sea-route to India the British Government sent a fleet of sev...

Posthuys

Posthuys is considered of the earliest buildings along the False Bay Coastline and was built in the late 1600's as a loo...

Yokohama, Muizenburg

On Muizenberg Main Road, you’ll find a historical house called “Yokohama”, it was constructed in 1906 out of paper maché...

Pass Laws in South Africa

The Pass Laws was a system used to control the movement of Black, Indian and Coloured people in South Africa. The pass s...

Mandela and De Klerk economic debate pre - 27 April 1994

Slavery and the Slave Trade in the Indian Ocean by Vijayalakshmi Teelock and Abdul Sheriff

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Student walkouts have changed history before. In South Africa, one helped end apartheid by DeNeen L. Brown (The Washington Post), 14 March 2018

Hector Pieterson, a 12-year-old South African boy, was one of the first students to die. On June 16, 1976, more than 10...

Remembering French Investments In Apartheid South Africa, 17 December 2013

With politicians showing unusual agreement among themselves and media focused on the "global" tribute to Nelson Mandela,...

A brief history of South Africa’s response to AIDS by N P Simelela, March 2014

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SANTU MOFOKENG “Chasing Shadows” 2011

KwaMhlanga

KwaMhlanga is a town in Mpumalanga near Pretoria and is the spiritual home of the Ndebele tribe that settled here in the...

Krugersdorp

Falling under the municipality known as Mogale City, Krugersdorp was essentially a mining town, regarded as the industri...

Knysna, Garden Route- Western Province

The name Knysna has appeared in various spellings since about the 1770's. It was ‘Nysna’ in one of the earliest letters ...

Kenilworth

Kenilworth lies flanked by the Constantia Winelands and popular Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens, between the suburbs of C...