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S.A shipwrecks and the National Heritage Resources Act
The National Heritage Resources Act , no. 25 of 1999, aimed to introduce an interactive and integrated system to manage and preserve national heritage…
BiographyMatthew Goniwe
Matthew Goniwe was born on 27 December 1947 in Lingelihle Township on the outskirts of Cradock in the Eastern Cape. His parents David and Elizabeth were farm…
ArchiveSane Nationalists?
ArchiveA Sad Tale
ArchiveI saw China
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ArchiveSal Minute
Minutes of a meeting between a South African delegation and a United States delegation to discuss the situation in Mozambique and Angola - overview of…
ArchiveA man died
EventSAP fighting in Zimbabwe
It was officially disclosed that the South African Police (SAP) were in Rhodesia (later renamed Zimbabwe) actively helping in the fight against Nationalist…
BiographyHarry Heinz Schwarz
Harry Schwarz (born Heinz Schwarz) was born in Cologne, Germany (Weimar Republic) on 13 May 1924. Growing up in a Jewish family, Schwarz witnessed the rise of…
BiographySumboornam Pillay
Sumboornam (Sam) Pillay, who later became known as Sam Moodley, was born in 1948*. She grew up in the multi-cultural community of Dundee, Northern Natal (now…
Port Elizabeth an Overview
The first formal settlement of the Algoa Bay region took place in 1776 when a number of farms were allocated to local Dutch graziers. In 1799 the British…
ArticleAn Introduction to Sophiatown
In 1899, an investor named Herman Tobiansky envisaged a pleasant white suburb that could be developed on a site to the West of Johannesburg. It was some way…
List of SA magazines
Pretoria/Tshwane an Overview
BiographyEve Hall
Eve Hall was born on 20 March 1937 in Paris, France, to a Jewish father and a German mother. When the Second World War broke out, her father was on a visit to…
SA closes its consulate in Wellington after the New Zealand prime minister cuts diplomatic ties because of SA’s racial segregat
BiographyOprah Winfrey
Daughter of Vernon Winfrey by Vernita Lee (May 2, 1935 - November 22, 2018), a former maid. She was raised as the daughter of Vernon Winfrey, a coal miner,…
BiographyGreg Marinovich
The first pictures Marinovich took of a news event were of Archbishop Desmond Tutu when he led a church service in downtown Johannesburg in 1985 to protest the…
BiographyMatlakana Philemon Tefu
Philemon Matlakana Tefu was born in 1940 and grew up in the township of Riversdale in Pretoria. In 1954 his family was forcibly removed from the area to…
BiographySaleem Badat
Dr Saleem Badat holds Bachelors and Honours degrees in the Social Sciences from the University of KwaZulu-Natal, a Certificate in Higher Education and Science…
The roots of African nationalism and Pan Africanism (under construction)
Explain the concepts African nationalism and Pan-Africanism (under construction)
PlaceDan Pienaar, suburb of Bloemfontein
Dan Pienaar is a tranquil, upmarket suburb in Bloemfontein - regarded as one of the safest suburbs in the country! It is an excellent place to raise one’s…
BiographyGovindasamy Krishnasamy Thambi Naidoo
Govindasamy Krishnasamy Thambi Naidoo*was born of indentured stock in 1875 in Mauritius. His family, originally from Mattur, state of Madras, in Tamil Nadu…
EventNuclear Test Ban Treaty signed
Representatives of the United States, the Soviet Union, and Great Britain sign a Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, which prohibited the testing of nuclear weapons in…
BiographyCharles W H Kohler
As the driving force behind the creation of the Ko-operatieve Wijn-bouwers Vereniging van Zuid-Afrika, Beperkt (The Co-operative Wine Growers' Association of…
BiographyWilliam Cock
In 1849, Cape Town lived up to its reputation for giving visiting vessels a rousing reception. But this was a reception with a difference; it was in fact a…