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PlaceVredehoek
Vredehoek is a hillside neighbourhood at the base of Devil’s Peak. The stairways here were built in the early twentieth Century to connect homes to streets and…
ArchiveAddress on the Occasion of the 107th Anniversary of the ANC by Cyril Ramaphosa, Ohlange Institute, Ethkwini, 8 January 2019
… energies of our people in sports, arts, music, literature, film and dance. It has opened new frontiers in the world of …
ArchiveApartheid - a vigilant witness
… active in photography. Schadeberg is currently working is film and still on 1950s material. Goldblatt, who works … copy, every photograph that gets published…
BiographyJohn Langalibalele Dube
John Langalibalele Dube was born at Inanda Mission station of the American Zulu Mission (AZM) in Natal on 22 February 1871 to James and Elizabeth Dube. …
ArticleChanges in modern forms of communication
… Oskar Barnack developed a compact camera which used 35 mm film in 1913, after some improvements it entered the market …
ArticleThe development of Music in South Africa timeline 1600-2004
… South African apartheid. 1951 Willard Cele appeared in the film The Magic Garden, which spawned a legion of more …
Dumile Feni biography by Sophia Reuss
… Boson, Massachusetts. He completed a graduate degree in a film and television programme at New York University, and …
ArticleDecember 16 and the Construction of Afrikaner Nationalism
… years after the original incident. Preller produced a film, The Voortrekkers, in 1916. The script was published in …
How cases reach the Constitutional Court
How cases reach the Constitutional Court A case can reach the Constitutional Court in a variety of ways: as the result of an appeal from a judgment of the…
ArticleHistory Grade 10 - Topic 4 Source-based Questions
Transformations in southern Africa after 1750 Source Based Questions The following exercise has been taken from the 2012 History Grade 10 Exemplar. [1] …
ArticlePaper abstracts and biographies of speakers
… development. Nkululeko has also worked in the Film and TV industry as an actor, director and script … on two SAMA nominated albums by an artists who’s work,…
Address by President Nelson Mandela at the commemoration of the twentieth anniversary of Steve Biko’s death East London, 12 September 1997, South Africa
… and Richard Attenborough who will be remembered for the film on Biko, `Cry Freedom'. Another contributor is Peter …
ArticleGrade 11 - Apartheid South Africa 1940s to 1960s
The global pervasiveness of racism and segregation in the 1920s and 1930s During the 1920s and 1930s, there were discriminatory policies in different parts…
Damon – The Malabar Slave (Historic Alleys)
… this slave’s life to the life led by Tom Hanks in the film Castaway and try to imagine the hardships Damon endured. …
Address at The Official Opening of The Cape Town International Convention Centre, Cape Town, 28 June 2003
… Congress, the World Wind Energy Conference, the Digital Film Festival, the 9th Annual Investing in African Mining …
ArticleResponses in South Africa to the outbreak of WWI: The Afrikaner Response and the 1914 Rebellion
When the First World War broke out in August 1914, the British Government called upon the dominions in the British Empire to come to its assistance. The South…
EventLouis Hayward, South African–American Actor dies.
Louis Hayward was born in Johannesburg on 19 March 1909. He went to study in England where he met playwright Noel Coward who became his patron. He starred in a…
OSEO report on Allan Boesak
Office of Serious Economic Offences Report The Scandinavian donors got the Johannesburg legal firm, Bell, Dewar & Hall, to investigate. The ANC could not…
Polokwane an Overview
'Street soccer' game on a makeshift field, near Polokwane in the Limpopo Province. 2010. © Chris Ledowchowski The Limpopo Province was the scene of scores of…
BiographyLouis Botha
Louis Botha was born near Greytown in Natal in 1862. He was the son of Voortrekker parents and was brought up on a farm in the Free State, and was educated at…
ArchiveThe Snape Building Political Demonstration at the University of Cape Town in 1966 by Andrew M. Colman
… of subtlety called The Visit”. It alluded to an arthouse film about an embittered woman seeking revenge and the …
PlaceWindybrow, Pietersen Street, Parktown, Johannesburg
Kathy Munro Wednesday, July 26, 2017 - On Saturday 22nd July, a Johannesburg Heritage Foundation Blue Plaque was unveiled at Windybrow. 2017, saw the…
ArticleSouth Africa and the Olympic Games
… Games are best remembered as it was depicted in the film “Chariots of Fire. ” The film was produced in 1981. At the Games 3 092 athletes from …
BiographyAlfred Milner
Alfred Milner, a statesman and colonial administrator, became Governor of the Cape and High Commissioner of South Africa in 1897. He pushed the Transvaal…
BiographyChief Mangosuthu Gatsha Buthelezi
Chief Mangosuthu Gatsha Buthelezi, son of Princess Magogo Constance Zulu kaDinuzulu, King Solomon’s sister, and Inkosi Mathole Buthelezi, the King’s Prime…
Archaeology: A Way of Rediscovering the Past
How do we find out about the past? For recent events where there was personal involvement, memory can be relied on. To know about events earlier than this,…
Pledging to Debate History: Values and education
This article deals with values and education in South Africa, and more specifically the proposed 'pledge'. Please read the article and send us your comments on…
Africa’s photojournalists: The wars are not over by Greg Marinovich (Daily Maverick), 25 June 2013
… (read Ethiopia/Abyssinia) in the 1930’s. The latest film adaption of a book on photojournalists is The Bang Bang … did not allow him any choices, so he…
Grade 4 Term 2 Timeline: Mahatma Gandhi
1869 Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi is born in Porbandar, Gujarat, India 1883 Gandhi marries KasturbaiMakhanji in an arranged child marriage 1888 …
Nelson Mandela Correspondence regarding the families move to Brandfort
… J-B, nor will you be able to afford a TV set, see a decent film or go to a theatre or have a telephone. Nevertheless, …