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Timeline of South African Football Coaches from 1992 – 2022
Article
Mar 17, 2023

Timeline of South African Football Coaches from 1992 – 2022

Jeff Butler (1992) The Englishman was earmarked as Bafana Bafana's first coach, but a discrepancy with his coaching q...

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Nov 20, 2020

History of Photography in South Africa

A survey of the history of photography in South Africa reveals, broadly, three important eras, colonisation, repression ...

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Natal Workers’ Theatre in the 1980s
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Apr 16, 2020

Natal Workers’ Theatre in the 1980s

Introduction Starting in the late 1970’s and reaching its height in the 1980’s, the South African province of Natal (...

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Timeline of State Action Against the Press in the 1960s
Article
Apr 02, 2020

Timeline of State Action Against the Press in the 1960s

1960 Mar- Norman Phillips of the Toronto Star was detained 3 and '/2 days for trying to cable a story about a police ...

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Debating Stellenbosch University’s Language Policy
Article
Apr 01, 2020

Debating Stellenbosch University’s Language Policy

In March 2015 students at the University of Cape Town (UCT)  (Western Cape) launched a student movement, namely #Rh...

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Ghallywood: An Evolution of Ghana’s Film Industry
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Mar 12, 2020

Ghallywood: An Evolution of Ghana’s Film Industry

Early Beginnings of the African Film Industry: During the British colonial rule over Kenya, Uganda, Northern Rhodes...

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Gayle: The Language of Apartheid South Africa’s Gay Underground
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Jan 15, 2020

Gayle: The Language of Apartheid South Africa’s Gay Underground

The socio-political landscape of Apartheid South Africa was a challenging one for members of the LGBTQI+ community. Unde...

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The Natal Workers Theatre Movement Timeline
Article
Dec 19, 2019

The Natal Workers Theatre Movement Timeline

Acronyms BAWU, Black and Allied Workers Union COSAS, Congress of South African Students COSATU, Congress of South...

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Timeline of South African photographic books and exhibitions 1958 - 2003
Article
Oct 07, 2019

Timeline of South African photographic books and exhibitions 1958 - 2003

Timeline 1958 The photographer, Peter Magubane, is the first black South African to win the Press Photo of th...

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Workshop ‘71
Article
Feb 15, 2019

Workshop ‘71

Theatre Workshop ‘71 was a theatre training workshop that was founded in 1971 by the South African Institute for Race Re...

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Sona Patterns - Revisiting the Contributions of the People in Sub-Saharan Africa to Modern Mathematics
Article
Sep 07, 2018

Sona Patterns - Revisiting the Contributions of the People in Sub-Saharan Africa to Modern Mathematics

To many, modern mathematics and Africa are not synonymous. Open any school mathematics book and the role of African scho...

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New Africa Theatre Project
Article
Jul 05, 2018

New Africa Theatre Project

The New Africa Theatre Association (NATA), founded in 1987 by Mavis Taylor the head of University of Cape Town Drama Dep...

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The Daily Dispatch
Article
Feb 02, 2018

The Daily Dispatch

Together with the Rand Daily Mail, the Daily Dispatch was one of the loudest mouthpieces for mainstream liberal critique...

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Arts and Cultural Development Network (ACDN)
Article
Nov 20, 2017

Arts and Cultural Development Network (ACDN)

The Arts and Cultural Development Network (ACDN) was founded in 1991 as an initiative to influence government policy at ...

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Placing the film “Inxeba – The Wound” in Historical Review
Article
Sep 21, 2017

Placing the film “Inxeba – The Wound” in Historical Review

Story Synopsis Inxeba is essentially an intersectional story about three Xhosa men that is told in the setting of the...

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