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Full list- A history of Apartheid in South Africa
- Stephen Bantu Biko
- Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela
- Hector Pieterson
- Navanethem (Navi) Pillay
- Pass Laws and Sharpeville Massacre
- Mosiuoa Gerard Patrick "Terror" Lekota
- The turbulent 1950s - Women as defiant activists
- The Black Sash: A History of Transformation
- Khotso Seatlholo
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EventMass funeral for the victims of Bisho massacre
EventCharles Darwin and the HMS Beagle reached the Galapagos Islands
EventProtest against gender- based violence throughout South Africa
EventSharpeville Deputy Mayor killed
EventAnti-apartheid activist Sister Bernard Ncube dies
EventGill Marcus is born
ArticleDecember 16, the reflection of a changing South African heritage
EventSA poet and artist Wopko Jensma is born
EventPort Natal is renamed Durban in honour of Sir Benjamin D’Urban, governor of the Cape Colony from 1834 - 1837
PlaceNiger
PlaceSão Tomé and Príncipe
ArchiveOne of the organisers of the 1956 Women's March Lilian Ngoyi
ArchiveA young victim of the atrocities committed by Belgium in the Congo stands next to a missionary
EventThe second Anglo-Boer war, also known as the South African war, breaks out
ArticleFanakalo: the language of mining culture
ArchiveRiot police play a game of soccer with youths in Nyanga on 27 August 1976
ArchiveA certificate of slavery for an infant named Sophie
ArticleThe Early History of Rugby in South Africa
ArchiveRiot police attempt to block the way of workers leaving a May Day meeting at Khotso House
ArchiveA family sits outside the front door of their District Six home
ArticleRemembering the Battle of Adwa
ArticlePrehistory of the Cape Town area
ArticleKingdom of Kongo 1390–1914
Event