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PlaceMLR-cannon, Middle North Battery, Simonstown
… 12H00 (Freedom Day) 08 May 12H00 (International Museum Day) 16 June 12H00 (Youth Day) 18 July …
PlaceKhomani Cultural Landscape
… Cultural and Botanical Landscape , Robben Island Museum , iSimangaliso Wetland Park and the Cape Floral Region …
PlaceDonkerhoek
… when travelling out of Town or to visit the Sammy Marks Museum. (Sammy Marks had arrived in South Africa with a case … in the country.) The Willem Prinsloo…
Address by President Mandela on Heritage Day Robben Island, 24 September 1997
… should be developed as a National monument and National Museum, it set in motion its redevelopment as a cultural and … that was Apartheid South Africa. May…
PlacePaarl
… language on the slopes of Paarl Mountain , the Language Museum and the Afrikaans Language Route through Dal Josaphat … on the slopes of Paarl Mountain and…
EventDr Chris Barnard performs the world’s first human heart transplant
… Groote Schuur Hospital has set up the ‘Heart of Cape Town Museum’ which honours those who played a leading role in the … Cape Town (2011). ‘Groote Schuur…
ArticleMedu Art Ensemble
… unchanging monument to an individual's genius, hung on a museum wall. That stereotype of visual art grows out of … were not expected to stay on the walls,…
PlacePosthuys
… the building in the early 1980s and it was reopened as a museum. This single storeyed stone and thatch dwelling is a … - call 021 788 5951 to pre-book. It…
Biographical Introduction
… Durban, the Natal Society of Arts (NSA) and the Durban Art Museum. Between 1980 and 1985 the UZ Department of … South African art' was first exhibited at the…
ArticleBloemfontein Timeline 1824-2010
… during the Basotho war of 1865-1866. 1877 The National Museum is established in the former First Raadsaal. The …
PlaceKweneng, District of Botswana
… rock paintings in Manyana village and Kgosi Sechele I Museum are the major attractions in the district. As of 2011, …
EventProf. James Smith, who identified the first coelacanth found in South Africa, is born
… by Marjorie Courtney-Latimer who worked at the East London museum. After she sent a sketch of the strange looking fish …
PlaceUitenhage, officially renamed Kariega
… from the 1800's in their original form. The Old Drostdy Museum built in 1809 is now the home of the Uitenhage Africana Museum . It is the ideal setting…
The Johannesburg Biennale by Bisi Silva (Artnet), 1998
… by Cuban curator Gerardo Mosquera (now working at the New Museum in New York). In spite of its beautiful installation … and new technologies. Located on the…
Photography David Goldblatt by Sean Jacobs, 1 September 2009
… of David Goldblatt,” currently on view at New York’s New Museum through October 1. Highlights from the review: … …
PlaceBoys High School, Pretoria
… on 26 May 1978. National Cultural History and Open Air Museum, Pretoria. Pretoria Boys High School, also known as …
EventSouth African artist, Gerard Sekoto, dies
… be the first picture painted by a black artist to enter a museum collection. In 1942, Sekoto moved to District Six, …
EventDr Robert Broom is born
… the position of assistant palaeontologist at the Transvaal Museum in Pretoria. It was there that he began to search for …
EventNamibian artist, John Ndevasia Muafangejo, dies
… (1969), the São Paulo Biennale (1971), and the Brooklyn Museum (1976). British art critic Edward Lucie-Smith …
PlaceBoksburg, the Witwatersrand
… St Michaels and All Angels Anglican Church, Hechter-Shuiz Museum, and a few gold mines. Other places of interest in …
PlaceObservatory
… to the Historic McClean Telescope and the observatory museum, as well as the observatory Building. 'the weather is … hospital, and today you can visit The…
PlaceNxuba (formerly known as Cradock)
… its traditional Karoo lamb dishes , the Great Fish River Museum, and the historic Tuishuise & Victoria Manor , which … and convenient for public business"…
PlaceMthatha, Eastern Cape- previously known as Umtata
… The greatest attraction of Umtata is the Nelson Mandela Museum in the Bhunga Building in Owen Street. The modern Museum displays a substantial variety of…
Apartheid’s Twisted Dream: David Goldblatt’s South Africa by Joseph Lelyveld, 2 July 2010
… for the stirring experience that awaits you at the Jewish Museum where a copious exhibition of his black-and-white …
PlaceEmpangeni
… and impala, and a number of picnic spots. Empangeni’s museum is worth a visit to track the history of early sugar …
PlaceJansenville, Eastern Cape
… of a Hill, just outside Jansenville Built in 1901, and the Museum Building, a fabulously preserved Art Deco Home, is …
PlaceKamastone and Bulhoek
… Bulhoek. Preserved in a small glass case in the Amathole Museum in King William's Town , a homemade sword stands as …
The Dutch and the Khoisan
… The Khoikhoi as depicted by Samuell Daniell (Africana-Museum). Source: www.mieliestronk.com/ khoisan.html Shortly …
PlaceWinterton, Kwa Zulu-Natal
… the most spectacular of the Drakensberg! The Winterton Museum on Church Street has a display on the History of … the Marianne Church ruins, there is also the…
PlaceAgulhas National Park
… You could also visit the Cape Agulhas Lighthouse and Museum in Agulhas. The Cape Agulhas Lighthouse Museum was opened in 1994 and is the only one of its kind…