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May 29, 2017

Imvaba Arts Association

Established in Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape, in 1986, Imvaba Arts Association worked closely with artists in New Brighto...

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May 29, 2017

Funda Community College

Funda Community College was founded in 1984 in Soweto, Gauteng with the support of private sector funding and built on l...

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May 29, 2017

Memorandum of the Symposium/Festival of South African Arts - Gaborone, 5-9 July 1982

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May 26, 2017

The Afrikaner Bond

The Origins of the Afrikaner Bond The Afrikaner Bond, an Afrikaner political organisation that was effectively the firs...

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May 26, 2017

The Afrikaanse Handelsinsituut

The Afrikaanse Handelsinsituut (AHI – in English the Afrikaans Commercial Institute) was formed during WWII to cre...

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May 26, 2017

Nicholaas Frederic de Waal

Born in Rotterdam in 1853, De Waal was the son of a banker who received a commercial education in Brussels and studied l...

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May 26, 2017

Joseph Chamberlain

Joseph Chamberlain was a British statesman, a colonial administrator and politician who went from being a radical, almos...

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May 26, 2017

Ceres, Western Cape Winelands

It was named after the Roman goddess of Agriculture, Ceres, a name which is fitting as the valley in which the Town is s...

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May 25, 2017

The Boerenvereenigingen: precursor to the Afrikaner Bond

In the 1870s a series of farming associations emerged in the Cape, both in the west and in the east. While both English ...

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May 25, 2017

A history of Volkskas and the Absa Banking group

Volkskas was one of the four largest banking conglomerates in South Africa, and one of the three biggest Afrikaner monop...

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May 25, 2017

Johannes Henricus Brand

Johannes Henricus Brand was the president of the Orange Free State, one of two Boer republics formed after the Boers lef...

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May 25, 2017

The Genootskap vir Regte Afrikaners/Fellowship of True Afrikaners

The Genootskap vir Regte Afrikaners (the GRA, the Fellowship of True Afrikaners) was launched in Paarl, Western Cape on ...

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May 25, 2017

Gordon Sprigg

Gordon Sprigg (1830-1913) was a British colonial administrator and Prime Minister of the Cape Colony in four separate te...

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May 25, 2017

India’s African Sufis - Demystified! by Blanche Michael

From the hypnotic effects of the circular motions of the spiritual dancing of whirling dervishes to the mesmerising qaww...

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Artist Proof Studio
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May 25, 2017

Artist Proof Studio

Artist Proof Studio (APS) offers a three-year printmaking-training program to diverse young people from across South Afr...

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