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| B-0068663 | biography | Eric Miller | 1955 | ✓ |
| A-0016836 | article | A Society for the “Advancement of Art” | 22 Mar 2011 | – |
| B-0099749 | biography | Jomo Kenyatta | – | ✓ |
| E-0012915 | event | Electricity cut off in Tumahole township | 16 Mar 2011 | ✓ |
| U-0097128 | event | Conference: African Indigenous Knowledge Systems | 25 Feb 2014 | – |
| E-0080976 | event | Anton Hammerl, South African photographer, is killed in Libya | 28 Mar 2012 | ✓ |
| A-0082431 | article | Poqo in the Western Cape and Transkei in the early 1960s | 26 Apr 2012 | – |
| B-0009017 | biography | Pixley ka Isaka Seme | 1881-1951 | ✓ |
| B-0009114 | biography | Charles Robberts (Blackie) Swart | 1894-1982 | – |
| B-0065346 | biography | Professor Fatima Meer | 1928-2010 | – |
| A-0120643 | article | University of Witwatersrand Student Protests 2015 Timeline | 14 Mar 2016 | – |
| B-0008215 | biography | Zweledinga Pallo Jordan | 1942 | ✓ |
| B-0008012 | biography | Christopher Ndodebandla Dlamini | 1944-2009 | ✓ |
| B-0121724 | biography | Jo Ractliffe | 1961 | ✓ |
| P-0149890 | place | Macfarlan, Village in the Eastern Cape | 24 Jan 2020 | ✓ |
| A-0081678 | article | Dr Alfred Bitini Xuma Timeline 1893-1998 | 11 Apr 2012 | – |
| B-0007896 | biography | Zola Budd | 1966 | ✓ |
| B-0007790 | biography | Nils Severin Andersen | 1897-1972 | ✓ |
| B-0008559 | biography | Nokugcina Elsie Mhlophe | 1958 | ✓ |
| B-0008235 | biography | Dorothy Moss Kay | 1886-1964 | – |
| B-0008080 | biography | Pierre Jacy Fourie | 1943-1980 | ✓ |
| B-0068445 | biography | Errol T. Shanley | 1911-2002 | – |
| B-0009027 | biography | Joseph 'Headman' Shabalala | 1941-2020 | ✓ |
| B-0009234 | biography | George Matthias Winkles | 1875-1928 | – |
| B-0096630 | biography | Lebo Mathosa | 1977-2006 | ✓ |
| B-0068108 | biography | King Moshoeshoe I | 1786-1870 | ✓ |
| B-0094552 | biography | Anderson Khumani Ganyile | 1935 | – |
| B-0121912 | biography | Ari Sitas | 1952 | ✓ |
| B-0008439 | biography | Thomas Mtobi Mapikela | 1869-1945 | ✓ |
| B-0007991 | biography | Amina Desai | 1920-2009 | ✓ |
BiographyEric Miller
Eric Miller was born 19th of May 1955 in Cape Town. He grew up in Johannesburg. After graduating with a BA (Hons) in psychology from UNISA in 1981 he entered…
A Society for the “Advancement of Art”
Hayden Proud, Curator of Historical Collections of Painting and Sculpture, Iziko Museums of Cape Town Some years ago, a small body of artists clubbed together…
BiographyJomo Kenyatta
Jomo Kenyatta was born Kamau to parents Moigoi and Wamboi ”” his father was the chief of a small agricultural village in Gatundu Division, Kiambu District ””…
EventElectricity cut off in Tumahole township
… with less than 10% of water, which was not enough to cover their daily basic needs. Tumahole residents responded …
Conference: African Indigenous Knowledge Systems
… The conference will cover the following topics: v Towards the Commercialization …
EventAnton Hammerl, South African photographer, is killed in Libya
… loyalists have known Anton's fate all along and chose to cover it up." Hammerl’s frontline “brother”, Unai Aranzadi, …
ArticlePoqo in the Western Cape and Transkei in the early 1960s
… Berger, a shop owner in Paarl. Wearing balaclavas to cover their faces, the men entered the shop just before … Tshweni’s men charged and were shot at. The…
BiographyPixley ka Isaka Seme
Pixley Seme was born on 1 October 1881 in Natal, the son of Isaka Sarah (nee Mseleku) Seme. Little is documented of his early life as a primary school pupil…
BiographyCharles Robberts (Blackie) Swart
Charles Robberts (Blackie) Swart was born on 5 December 1894 in Morgenzon, Winburg district. He was the son of Hermanus Bernardus Swart and Aletta Catharina…
BiographyProfessor Fatima Meer
Fatima Meer was born in Grey Street, Durban on 12 August 1928, the daughter of Moosa Meer and Rachel Farrel and the second born of their nine children. Her…
ArticleUniversity of Witwatersrand Student Protests 2015 Timeline
… 15 November Nompendulo Mkatshwa announced to appear on the cover of Destiny magazine. This causes tensions amongst some … begins trending on Twitter…
BiographyZweledinga Pallo Jordan
Pallo Zweledinga Jordan was born on 22 May 1942 in B Location, Kroonstad, in the Orange Free State. His father, Dr Archibald Campbell Jordan, was an African…
BiographyChristopher Ndodebandla Dlamini
Chris Dlamini was born in Benoni, Transvaal, on 10 October 1944, one of the five children of Anna and Gilbert Dlamini, a worker in an electro-planting factory…
BiographyJo Ractliffe
This biography was written by SAHO in collaboration with Artthrob MODUS OPERANDI Jo Ractliffe is a documentary photographer who captures the traces of…
PlaceMacfarlan, Village in the Eastern Cape
Their ancestors were settled in these Villages after the War of 1850, by the colonial authorities. The starvation and hardship caused by the cattle-killing…
ArticleDr Alfred Bitini Xuma Timeline 1893-1998
… Chicago’s Methodist Book Concern to try and earn enough to cover further studies. To boost his academic qualifications, … Welfare Trust to award the ANC with…
BiographyZola Budd
Zola Budd was born on 26 May 1966 in Bloemfontein, Free State, South Africa. Budd burst into national prominence in 1983. In 1984 she gained international…
BiographyNils Severin Andersen
Andersen came to SA when his mariner father settled at Saldahna Bay in 1911. In 1914 his family went to Durban, and he studied engineering. Family pressures…
BiographyNokugcina Elsie Mhlophe
Nokugcina Elsie Mhlophe known as Gcina Mhlophe was born on 24 October 1958 in KwaZulu- Natal, South Africa. She has been writing and performing on stage and…
BiographyDorothy Moss Kay
Dorothy Moss Kay was born in Greystones, County Wicklow, Ireland, 1886. Kay (nee Elvery) studied at the Royal Hibernian Academy in Dublin. She came to SA in…
BiographyPierre Jacy Fourie
Pierre Jacy Fourie was born on 26 June 1943 in Malvern, Johannesburg. He was the first recorded White boxer to fight against a Black opponent in South Africa…
BiographyErrol T. Shanley
Errol Shanley was born in Durban in April 1911, the son of Arthur Stanley, who was born in London of Irish parents and Anna Else Bernhardt born in Hamburg…
BiographyJoseph 'Headman' Shabalala
Joseph Bhekizizwe Shabalala was born on 28 August in 1941 and town of Ladysmith (eMnambithi district) in the Kwazulu-natal region was a member of the…
BiographyGeorge Matthias Winkles
George Matthias Winkles was born in Birmingham, England, 1859. Winkles came to SA in 1889 to help a widowed sister stranded on the Kimberley diggings. He never…
BiographyLebo Mathosa
Lebo Mathosa was born in Daveyton in the East Rand. She began singing at the age of seven in the local church choir. The Mathosa family moved to Johannesburg…
BiographyKing Moshoeshoe I
Also known as Moshesh, Mosheshwe or Mshweshwe. His name was allegedly changed from Lepoqo after a successful raid in which he had sheared the beards of his…
BiographyAnderson Khumani Ganyile
Anderson Khumani “Dan” Ganyile’s was born in 1935 in Bizana District, Transkei (now Eastern Cape). He attended St John’s School in Umtata and then Lovedale…
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…
BiographyThomas Mtobi Mapikela
Thomas Mtobi Mapikela born in 12th of November 1869,in the Eastern Cape, he trained as a carpenter in Grahamstown and later established a successful business…
BiographyAmina Desai
When her husband, Suliman Mohammed Desai, a Transvaal Indian Congress activist died in 1969, Amina Desai took over the running of his business.Political…