Golden Rhino of Mapungubwe
The famous golden rhino is one of the many artifacts discovered at Mapungubwe. Photo by Scott Ramsay.
Paul Grendon images
This is a collection of images and murals taken over many years.
Carol Moses
Carol Moses was born on 7 April 1968 in Oudtshoorn, Western Cape, one of seven siblings. She grew up on a farm outside Oudtshoorn. Moses was a struggle activist who stood up for the people of the Karoo.
President Cyril Ramaphosa appears before protesters against gender- based violence in South Africa
On 5 September 2019, students from different institutions went to parliament to protest against gender-based violence and demanded to see the president. Thousands of protesters, including students, activists, politicians and academics called for the death sentence to be reinstated for those who commit violence against women. They demanded to see President Cyril Ramaphosa.
Protest against gender- based violence throughout South Africa
On 4 September 2019, people gathered outside parliament in Cape Town to address gender- based violence in South Africa. They carried posters on which was written ‘Asphelelanga kushot’ uNene, translated as “We are not complete, we are short of Nene”. The protest was triggered by rape incidents, including one of a 19-year-old first year student, Uyinene Mrwetyana from the University of Cape Town. who was raped and killed by a man in a Cape Town Post Office.
Ebrahim Badsha
Ebrahim Badsha was born on 13 March 1931, in Durban, Natal (now KwaZulu Natal). Badsha was one of the pioneer Black artists in Natal. He grew up in a large Gujarati Muslim home. His father, Ismail Essop Badsha, came to the colony of Natal with his elder sister and her husband as their son in the late 1890s. His mother immigrated to Natal with her two sons in 1917 and settled in Durban.
Adelaine Florence Hain
Anti-apartheid activist Adelaine Hain who was successively jailed, banned and exiled to Britain in Pretoria in the early 1960s died peacefully o
