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EventSWAPO attacks SAP
The South African Police Force (SAP) stationed in the Caprivi Strip, bordering Zambia, suffered casualties in clashes with 'terrorists'. South West African…
ArticleNelspruit an Overview
Until the coming of democracy, Nelspruit was a small town that functioned mainly as a hub of transport for agricultural products that were transported to…
BiographyNomadhlangala Cosy Europa Ndabezitha
Nomadhlangala Cosy Europa Ndabezitha was born on 22 September 1953 in Durban, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal) to Madhlangala Dukuza Ndabezitha and Ntombinkulu Bhengu…
Hunter-Gatherers in Southern Africa
… a different way of life. In the 1950s, several thousand San people were still hunting large game with poisoned arrows … sections of the traditional hunting…
Jan Ellis, SA actor, is born in Belville, Cape.
Jan Stephanus de Villiers (Jan Orrelis), SA composer and organist, dies in Paarl, Western Cape.
PlaceVan Reenen's Pass, KwaZulu Natal
Named after the little Town of Van Reenen, which seems to stand guard at the top of this majestic Pass which winds its way through the Drakensberg Mountains…
Three people are injured on the railway line in Maitland, Cape Town, in what can be considered SA’s first serious motorcar acci
BiographyFranklin Kaye Kendall
Kendall was an architect whose interests led him to join SASA as both artist and administrator. Born in Melbourne, Australia, 1870. He was educated at King\'s…
BiographyElizabeth Drake
Elizabeth Drake was born in 1866 in Rochester, Kent, England. Her naturalistic renderings of landscape and architectural subjects in watercolour were much…
ArchiveAn even chance for future SA?
ArchiveElizabeth van der Heyden by Allison Drew
This article was made possible with the support of the British Academy Elizabeth van der Heyden, known as Betty or sometimes Liz, was born on 8 December…
BiographyMarion Gill
Marion Gill was born in 1879, United Kingdom. She lived in SA from 1924 to 1957. She first studied at the Slade School of Art, London, and at the Art School in…
ArticleFinding out about hunter-gatherers and herders
… for most of the last 100 000 years. In southern Africa the San people, who arrived thousands of years ago, are an … cultures and special ways of living and…
BiographyJohn Xavier Merriman
John Xavier Merriman was a politician, businessman, and the last Prime Minister of the Cape Colony before the four provinces became the Union of South Africa…
ADDRESS BY PRESIDENT NELSON MANDELA AT THE SA FREEDOM DAY CELEBRATIONS Upington, 27 April 1997
… die samekoms van Griekwa en Tswana;Khoikhoi en Afrikaner;San en Xhosa;Keurling, Blanke, Indier en African. Dwarsoor … the strands of Griqua and Tswana…
EventJan Carel Juta (52), father of the publishing industry in SA, dies in Chiswick, London
Jan Carel Juta was a South African business man born in Holland in 1824. He sailed to the Cape in South Africa in 1853 where he soon established the company…
Abraham, son of Jan van Riebeeck, is born. He is the second White baby to be born in the fort De Goede Hoop at the Cape.
BiographyAllerley Glossop
Allerley Glossop was born in Twickenham, England,1872. She came to SA in 1900 after the demise of the Sphinx Studio in London, where she had taught. She farmed…
The oldest forms of human communication
… includes interesting ideas for games in the classroom. San hunter-gatherers and the Khoi-Khoi herder For many years … exploration of ideas, people and events…
ArchiveReview article - How Can Man Die Better...Sobukwe and Apartheid, by Benjamin Pogrund
A page from the original Journal of Jan Van Riebeeck_1-7 October 1657_Cape Archives
Harvesting of the first wheat planted at the Cape by Jan van Riebeeck.
Susanna Wilhelmina Celliers, daughter of ‘Jan Volksstem’, sister of poet Jan F.E. Celliers and first wife of sculptor Anton van
Susanna Wilhelmina Celliers, daughter of ‘Jan Volksstem’, sister of poet Jan F.E. Celliers and first wife of sculptor Anton van
BiographyConstance Greaves
Constance Helen Greaves was born in Brighton, Sussex, England 1882. She was renowned for her work in a field now seen as peculiar to the colonial period. This…
ArticleOral tradition and indigenous knowledge
… dances. Oral traditions include medical practices. In the San, Black and Afrikaans traditions, people knew how to treat … or wounds from what their elders…
BiographyAdam Small
Professor Adam Small was born on 21 December 1936 in Wellington, Cape Province (now Western Cape) to a mother of Muslim Indian heritage and a slave descendant…
BiographyDr. Walter Benson Rubusana
Walter Benson Rubusana was born on 21 February 1858 at Mnandi in the Somerset East district of the then Cape Colony. His father was a senior councillor …
BiographyAlbert Dlomo
Dlomo joined the African National Congress (ANC) at Chesterville in Durban just before it was banned in 1960. He then went underground and embarked on a…