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Jun 14, 2017

Dance For All (DFA)

Established in 1991, Dance For All (DFA) is a non-profit dance organisation, originally known as Ballet for All. DFA was...

Place
Jun 14, 2017

Lovedale Missionary School

The missionary school where so many Black intellectuals of the 19th and early 20th century—from Tiyo Soga to Thabo Mbeki...

Article
Jun 13, 2017

Insurrections: The Storming

September 2015, District Six Homecoming Centre, Cape Town. Performance Curated by: Sumangala Damodaran, Tina Schouw an...

Place
Jun 12, 2017

The Wits School of Arts and Arts Museum

The Museum is one of Johannesburg's premier Tourist Attractions, along with the Apartheid Museum and Constitution Hill. ...

Place
Jun 12, 2017

Wits School of Arts (WSOA)

The Wits School of Arts (WSOA) is ranked as one of the top interdisciplinary school of arts in South Africa according to...

Archive
Jun 12, 2017

Freedom for Namibia by Toivo Herman Ja Toivo (1968)

By 1968 the freedom struggle for Namibia was a two year old guerilla war against South African control of the region. Th...

Biography
Jun 09, 2017

Esmé Berman

Esmé Berman, a Jewish South African art historian, author and researcher, was born in 1929. She enrolled at the Universi...

Article
Jun 06, 2017

The Heritage Museum at Villa Zain by Joline Young

“People who come here say how alive this place is. They say they actually feel the vibration of the rich history t...

Place
Jun 06, 2017

Nederlandse Hervormde Kerkgebou, Pretoria

The ‘Nederduitsch Hervormde' congregation was founded on 8 and 9 September 1855 in Pretoria. It was one of the independe...

Article
Jun 06, 2017

Federation of South African Cultural Organisations (FOSACO)

The Federation of South African Cultural Organisations (FOSACO) was initiated in 1990 at a consultative conference held ...

Place
Jun 06, 2017

The Dakawa Arts and Crafts Centre

The Dakawa Arts and Crafts Centre, a skills training project based in Grahamstown, Eastern Cape is involved in community...

Place
Jun 05, 2017

Dock House, Victoria and Alfred Waterfront-Cape Town

Provisional protection of a monument- Dockhouse No. 1 and No. 2, off Portswood Road, Portswood Ridge, Victoria and Alfre...

Article
Jun 02, 2017

Settler Colonialism and Afrikaner Nationalism

The rise of Afrikaner Nationalism like Capitalism and African Nationalism profoundly shaped the history of the country, ...

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Jun 01, 2017

Dumile Struggle and Repression by Grosvenor Gallery

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May 31, 2017

“In my stride”: a life-history of Alie Fataar, teacher by Yunus Omar

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