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ArchiveStop met die plundering van die natuurlijke hulpbronnen van Namibie
Multicoloured poster, with black lettering. Artwork of the head of a miner with a miner's hat on.
Cyril Ramaphosa: Can ‘Mr Nice’ Be A Decisive President? Some say he lacks decisiveness, also in pursuit of his own interests by Liesl Pretorius (Huff Post), 21 August 2017
At first, James Motlatsi was wary of Cyril Ramaphosa. He wasn't sure if the young lawyer, who grew up in Soweto, was genuine when he wanted to organise the…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: Pre-1500
… 000 BP Dated rock paintings reveal that Ancestors of the San hunter-gatherers are widely distributed in Southern … Africa (agriculture) 2200 BP It is…
BiographyDorothy Nomazotsho Zihlangu
Dorothy Nomazotsho Zihlangu was born in 1920 at Dyamala Village in Alice in the Eastern province (now Eastern Cape). She received her Standard Six primary…
EventTribute to Joost van der Westhuizen
A public memorial service was held by the state to commemorate the Rugby legend Joost van der Westhuizen, at Loftus Versfeld in Pretoria. After a long battle…
Francis Zaccharius Santiago Peregrino
Francis Zaccharius Santiago Peregrino was a journalist and public intellectual who, in the early 1900s, challenged notions of Black racial inferiority in the…
ArticleTimeline of Land Dispossession and Segregation in South Africa 1800-1899
… fought, seized and occupied land while dispossessing Khoi, San and African communities in the process. This opened up …
SA signs an aviation security agreement with the government of the USA.
SA signs an aviation security agreement with the government of the USA.
SA signs an agreement with Zambia on the establishment of representative offices.
ArchiveMines say no to farmlands 1977 - 1981
ArchiveManifesto of the Pan Afrcanist Congress of Azania
ArchiveBiography of Lawrence Ndzanga by Sean Willson
This article forms part of the SAHO and Southern Methodist University partnership project
EventNUSAS President Ian Robertson is banned
The President of the National Union of South Africa Students (NUSAS), Ian Robertson, receives a banning order under the Suppression of Communism Act of 1950…
BiographyRaymond (Ray) Chikapa Enock Phiri
Raymond Chikapa (Ray) Phiri was born in 1947 in Nelspruit (present-day Mbombela) in Eastern Transvaal (now Mpumalanga). He grew up with a passion for music,…
BiographyLeo Marquard
Leopold ‘Leo’ Marquard was born on 15 June 1897 in Winburg in the Orange Free State. His father was Reverend J. J. T. Marquard of the Dutch Reformed Church and…
The Cape Northern Frontier
… The San © www.safrica.info In the late 17th and early 18th … at the Cape Colony only had contact with the Khoikhoi and San peoples. The Dutch farmers moved…
BiographyPaul Stopforth
“Drawing is one way of articulating my relationship to the world.” Paul Stopforth is a painter and graphic artist who works in oil, gouache, ink, charcoal,…
BiographyHeidi Holland
Heidi Holland was born on 6 October 1947 in Johannesburg, South Africa, the daughter of a British father and a Swiss mother. When she was three years old, the…
ArchiveSolvents in Paint Can Make You Sick
A2 litho poster red and black on white; graphic of worker spraying paint; Text: Solvents in Paint can make you sick; What can be done about dangerous solvents…
BiographyDavid Patrick Russell
Born in the late 1930s, Bishop David Patrick Russell became involved in the struggle against apartheid from an early age. He did his first degree at the…
EventVan Riebeeck lands at the Cape
On 24 December 1651, accompanied by his wife and son, Jan van Riebeeck set off from Texel in The Netherlands for the Cape of Good Hope. Van Riebeeck had signed…
BiographyKing Faku ka Ngqungqushe
King Faku ka Ngqungqushe was born around 1780 at the Qawukeni Great Palace near a small town called Lusikisiki in the Mpondoland region, which is in the north…