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| B-0009106 | biography | Johannes Gerhardus Strijdom | 1893-1958 | – |
| B-0079038 | biography | Derek Andre Hanekom | 1953 | ✓ |
| B-0068770 | biography | Lucas ‘Masterpieces’ Moripe | – | – |
| B-0009251 | biography | Massabalala (Bonnie) Yengwa | 1923-1987 | ✓ |
| B-0068317 | biography | Vera Ponnen | 1915-1979 | ✓ |
| E-0095489 | event | Security officials report that levels of political violence have dropped significantly in SA | 19 Apr 2013 | ✓ |
| P-0066038 | place | Melville Koppies Nature Reserve, Judith Road, Johannesburg | 14 Jul 2011 | ✓ |
| B-0065415 | biography | Walter Ulyate Sisulu | 1912-2003 | – |
| B-0121589 | biography | Mary Sibande | 1982 | – |
| B-0141674 | biography | Moosa “Mosie” Moolla | 1934 | ✓ |
| B-0149517 | biography | Jacob “Dancing Shoes” Morake | 1955-1985 | ✓ |
| B-0149221 | biography | Petrus Nzima Nyawose | 1982 | ✓ |
| B-0150469 | biography | Sumboornam Pillay | 1948 | ✓ |
| B-0149952 | biography | Nontsikelelo June-Rose Cothoza | 1967-1988 | ✓ |
| B-0150170 | biography | Lillian Diedericks | 1925 | ✓ |
| B-0099923 | biography | Bisho Jarsa | – | – |
| B-0080352 | biography | Sedick Isaacs | 1939-2012 | ✓ |
| B-0121912 | biography | Ari Sitas | 1952 | ✓ |
| B-0122132 | biography | Wim Botha | 1974 | ✓ |
| B-0076354 | biography | Marius Schoon | 1937-1999 | ✓ |
| B-0068644 | biography | Ben Turok | 1927-2019 | ✓ |
| A-0059192 | article | The Freedom struggle: Political mobilisation in Port Elizabeth | 30 Mar 2011 | – |
| R-0123848 | archive | Goldblatt: I'm after a particular sense of stillness by Ivan Vladislavic, 27 September 2013 | 3 Aug 2017 | – |
| E-0097078 | event | Moroccan explorer, Ibn Battuta is born | 20 Feb 2014 | ✓ |
| R-0117747 | archive | Where to register? | 22 Feb 2016 | – |
| B-0098558 | biography | Haile Selassie I | 1892-1975 | ✓ |
| B-0007805 | biography | Baden Powell | 1857-1941 | – |
| B-0008712 | biography | Brett Murray | 1961 | ✓ |
| A-0065050 | article | Heritage and identity of Provinces | 28 May 2011 | – |
| B-0125655 | biography | Dag Hjalmar Agne Carl Hammarskjöld | 1905 | – |
BiographyJohannes Gerhardus Strijdom
Born on 14 July 1893, J G Strijdom served as Prime Minister of South Africa from 30 November 1954 to 24 August 1958. During the 1920s Strijdom practised law in…
BiographyDerek Andre Hanekom
Derek Andre Hanekom was born on 13th January 1953 in Cape Town, the son of an Afrikaner clerk, he graduated from Hoerskool Jan van Riebeeck in 1970 before…
BiographyLucas ‘Masterpieces’ Moripe
The Atteridgeville Super Stadium was renamed the Lucas 'Masterpieces' Moripe Stadium after the legendary Pretoria soccer player. This followed a meeting…
BiographyMassabalala (Bonnie) Yengwa
Massabalala Yengwa, was the son of the Zulu labourer who had been jailed during the African National Congress (ANC) anti-pass campaign of 1919. Yengwa was born…
BiographyVera Ponnen
Vera Ponnen (nee Vera Gwendoline Alberts) was born in 1915 in England. She came to South Africa in 1938 as a governess. The next year, she went to Johannesburg…
EventSecurity officials report that levels of political violence have dropped significantly in SA
… attacked. The violence continued countrywide and affected places like Boipatong, Bisho, to mention just a few. Some of …
PlaceMelville Koppies Nature Reserve, Judith Road, Johannesburg
… the 1850s, but the prospectors were looking in the wrong places. They expected the quartz veins to contain gold - … the 1850's, but the prospectors were…
BiographyWalter Ulyate Sisulu
Walter Ulyate Max Sisulu was born in the village of Qutubeni in the Engcobo district of the Transkei on 18 May 1912. Sisulu was born out of wedlock. His father…
BiographyMary Sibande
This biography was written by Artthrob in collaboration with SAHO. MODUS OPERANDI Mary Sibande - a sculptor, photographer, and visual artist based in…
BiographyMoosa “Mosie” Moolla
Moosa “Mosie” Moolla was born in the small, (then) western Transvaal town of Christiana on 12 June 1934 where his father ran a successful import-export…
BiographyJacob “Dancing Shoes” Morake
Jacob Morake was born on 8 December 1955, and grew up in Central Western Jabavu in Soweto near Johannesburg. He was 10 years old when, one bitterly cold night,…
BiographyPetrus Nzima Nyawose
In the 1970s, Petrus Nyawose worked as a bouncer at The Paradise, a popular nightclub in Durban. Nyawose spent most of his working hours at the offices of the…
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…
BiographyNontsikelelo June-Rose Cothoza
Nontsikelelo June-Rose Cothoza was born at King Edward Hospital, Umbilo, Durban, in June 1967. The second child of Zizile Cothoza, Nontsikelelo Cothoza, or…
BiographyLillian Diedericks
Lillian Diedericks was born in 1925 in the oldest part of New Brighton township, Red Location (near the railway line), in Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape. Her…
BiographyBisho Jarsa
Article by Sandra Rowoldt Shell, University of Cape Town. When Neville Alexander used to visit his maternal grandmother Bisho Jarsa as a boy, he never…
BiographySedick Isaacs
Sedick Isaacs was born in 1939 and grew up in the Bo-Kaap, Cape Town, Western Province (now Western Cape). He was the second eldest in a family of four…
BiographyAri Sitas
Ari Sitas (b.1952) is a creative socialist thinker, an activist and one of the key intellectuals of the post 1980s generation in South Africa. He is a…
BiographyWim Botha
Wim Botha is a contemporary artist working mainly in the mediums of sculpture and installation. He was born in Pretoria in 1974 and grew up in a suburban town…
BiographyMarius Schoon
Marius Schoon was born on 22 June 1937 in Johannesburg. He attended the University of Stellenbosch. Schoon moved to the University of Witwatersrand to continue…
BiographyBen Turok
Leading member of the South African Congress of Democrats (CoD). He was born in Latvia in 1927 and came with his family to South Africa in 1934. After…
The Freedom struggle: Political mobilisation in Port Elizabeth
… formed an explosive combination of elements that led to places in the Eastern Cape, like Port Elizabeth, to become a …
ArchiveGoldblatt: I'm after a particular sense of stillness by Ivan Vladislavic, 27 September 2013
… Do you follow particular routes or return to familiar places? Well, I return constantly to the Shell Ultracities … I think. One can make quite dramatic…
EventMoroccan explorer, Ibn Battuta is born
… a pilgrimage to Mecca. The trip would take him to several places throughout the Middle East and North and West Africa. … Experts have disputed his accounts…
ArchiveWhere to register?
… Salmon coloured background with black lettering. Lists of places to register with coloured artwork of different places. …
BiographyHaile Selassie I
Early years The 225th and last Ethiopian Emperor, Haile Selassie was born in Ethiopia in a region called Ejersa Gora on 23 July 1892. His birth name given…
BiographyBaden Powell
Baden Powell or BP was born Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden Powell was born on the 22 February 1857, the son of Professor Baden Powell, of Oxford University. His…
BiographyBrett Murray
Brett Murray was born in Pretoria in 1961. From 1985-1989 he studied at the Michaelis School at the University of Cape Town (UCT) where he obtained a Bachelor…
ArticleHeritage and identity of Provinces
… that the government did not have as much control over the places that were far away from Cape Town, so the farmers had … who became non-citizens of South…
BiographyDag Hjalmar Agne Carl Hammarskjöld
Dag Hjalmar Agne Carl Hammarskjöld was a Swedish citizen born 29th July, 1905 in Jönköping City, Southern Sweden. He was the youngest of the four sons of Agnes…