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EventPresley Chweneyagae, star of the Oscar winning movie Tsotsi, is arrested for fraud in Pretoria
… Chweneyagae, who portrayed a gangster in Gavin Hood's film Tsotsi, pleaded guilty to a charge of fraud when he … and Tyrese Gibson. The movie won an Oscar…
ArticleMusic and culture as forms of resistance
… raincoats with slits at the back. At the time of the film's release, all the tsotsis wore their raincoats, sniffed … Beloved Country , starring Sydney…
BiographyErnst Heinrich Daniël Arndt
Arndt, the youngest son of Reverend Johannes Arndt and Luise Pauline Grutzner was born in Bloemfontein on 27 May 1899. He started his education at the Infants’…
People Against Gangsterism and Drugs
… Gool, a photographer at the scene, captured the killing on film and had to go into hiding for fear of attacks from …
BiographyReverend Zaccheus Richard Mahabane
Zaccheus Richard Mahabane was born in Thaba Nchu, Orange Free State (now Free Stae Province), on 15 August 1881. His parents were Christians and prosperous…
BiographyThomas Patrick Murray
Thomas Patrick Murray was the eldest of the three sons of Patrick Murray, a boiler-maker and trade unionist, and his wife, Florence Mabel Essex. After…
BiographyMosima Gabriel (Tokyo) Sexwale
Tokyo Sexwale was born in Orlando West, Johannesburg as the third of six children of Godlieve and Frank Sexwale. He grew up amid the turmoil of the Black…
BiographyMoses Mauane Kotane
Moses Mauane Kotane was born at Tamposstad in the Rustenburg district of the western Transvaal on 9th of August in 1905, Kotane came from a devoutly Christian…
BiographySatyandranath “Mac” Maharaj
Mac Maharaj was born on the 22 April 1935, the fourth of the eight children of Mr and Mrs NR Maharaj of Newcastle, Natal. He matriculated at St Oswald's School…
EventShaun Thomson*, world surfing title winner, is born in Durban
… This 'tuberiding' was captured in Bill Delaney's film Free Ride. Thomson went on to win the world title in … all time, and is now a keynote speaker, author,…
BiographyOliver Tambo
Early years Oliver Reginald Kaizana Tambo (more popularly known as Oliver Tambo or OR) was born in the village of Kantilla, Bizana, in the Mpondoland …
BiographyLex Mpati
Lex Mpati was born in Durban. His maternal grandparents were from the Fort Beaufort, Eastern Cape, and this is where his parents sent him when he was a baby…
EventSA author, Nadine Gordimer, is born
… collaborating with her son Hugo Cassirer on the television film Choosing Justice: Allan Boesak. Godimer was responsible for the script of the 1989 BBC film,…
This doccie about a SA photographer is worth the watch by Garreth Van Niekerk (channel24), 28 May 2017
… Goldblatt’s contemporary, in an interview for the film. Kentridge captures the experience of the Goldblatt … being removed from the University of Cape Town –…
BiographyNontsizi (Cizama, Imbongikazi yakwaCizama) Mgqwetho
Virtually nothing is known about the life of the first and only major female poet to write in Xhosa, apart from what is revealed in her writings, almost all of…
BiographyFholisani Sydney Mufamadi
Sydney Mufamadi was born on 28 February 1959 in Alexandra Township, Johannesburg. Mufamadi is the eldest of the four children of Masindi and Reuben, who are…
BiographyPenny Siopis
This biography was written by SAHO in collaboration with Artthrob Modus Operandi Penny Siopis is foremost a painter, although she frequently works with video…
ArchiveStatement fron Anant Singh on the 30th Anniversary of Nelson Mandela's Release from Prison
… momentous engagement I have ever had. My career in the film industry was catalysed by the call Madiba and the ANC … call, I made A PLACE OF WEEPING the…
Special Screening of Wat Was Hie? Followed by an engaging discussion with filmmaker Luke De Kock
… Cammisa Create. Wat Was Hie? is a powerful site-specific film that retraces South Africa’s complex histories of … our understanding of South Africa’s layered…
ArchiveParty tonite
… Notice of a party. Venue - Ezitits Haleni. Extra video film. …
ArchiveBesetztes Palastina
… of red, green and white wire. Notice of a documentary film by Vanessa Redgrave Productions. …
BiographyKobera Manual
Aunty Kobera Manual of Ocean View died at the age of 98 on Wednesday 27 July 2016. In 2009 I interviewed her at her home in Ocean View, when she shared some…
ArchiveSupport Ivan Toms
… Toms. Conscientious Objector. Artwork of a black and white film across poster. …
ArchiveChile: i dont take your name in vain
… Committee for Human Rights poster. Notice of a documentary film organised in London. Artwork of two people holding up a …
BiographyCharles Nupen
Charles Nupen was born on 19 June 1950 in Durban. After starting a medical degree at the University of Natal, he switched to studying for a Bachelor of Arts…
BiographyNorman Stewart Middleton
Norman Stewart Middleton was born in January 1921, in Sophiatown, Johannesburg, Transvaal (now Gauteng) and moved to Pietermaritzburg, Natal (now kwaZulu-Natal…
BiographyZephania ‘Zeph’ Lekoane Mothopeng
Zephania ‘Zeph’ Lekoane Mothopeng, was born on 10 September 1913, in the Orange Free State (now Free State) near the town of Vrede. Shortly after his birth,…
ArticleArts and Cultural Organisations
… Federated Union of Black Artists Arts Centre (1978) Film and Allied Workers Organisation (FAWO) Ikapa Arts Trust …
BiographyStephanie Kemp
Stephanie Kemp was born in the Karoo in 1941 and grew up with her two sisters in Malmesbury in the Swartland. The town was dominated by the Dutch Reformed…
BiographyBongani Mnguni
Bongani Mnguni was a South African photographer and photojournalist who dedicated his life to exposing the brutality of the apartheid system. Mnguni was…