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ArticlePre-colonial history of Southern Africa
… In southern Africa these people were the ancestors of the San (or Bushmen) . San rock art has a well-earned reputation for aesthetic … text recorded in the…
BiographyIsmail Jacob Mohamed
Professor Ismail Jacob (Josef) Mohamed was born on 27 July 1930 in Barkley East, Eastern Cape. His parents divorced before he was five years old. His mother,…
Ebrahim Badsha
Ebrahim Badsha was born on 13 March 1931, in Durban, Natal (now KwaZulu Natal). Badsha was one of the pioneer Black artists in Natal. He grew up in a large…
BiographySekgopela Mashile
Sekgopela Mashile supported his older brother’s, Matsiketsane Mashile, recognition as a Chief and voiced opposition to the manner in which tribal authorities…
NASCOC says Unban COSAS: Ban apartheid education
Offset litho; black; NASCOC says; Unban COSAS; Ban apartheid education 1979-1985
Vastenaktie: om het recht van de zwaksten
Red, white, grey and black poster. Artwork of a homeless man drinking from a bowl. Netherlands fundraising poster.
Noise at work can make you deaf
Maroon and white poster. Artwork of a man using a pneumatic drill. Three languages. Issued by the Health Information Centre.
BiographyTsepo Tiisetso Letlaka
Tsepo Tiisetso Letlaka was born in 1925 in the Transkei,Cofimvaba, where his parents were both teachers, he studied at St. John's College, Healdtown, Roma, and…
BiographyPaul Ramadiba Mokgathle
In 1956, Paul Ramadiba Mokgathle, a senior headman at Linokana Reserve (Zeerust), Marico District, Transvaal [now North West Province]came into conflict with…
Letter from Ian Phillips to Chris Hani
Handwritten letter from Ian Phillips to Chris Hani regarding issues around political prisoners, political trials and acts committed before and after the…
BiographyStephen Bantu Biko
IntroductionStephen (Steve) Bantu Biko was a popular voice of Black liberation in South Africa between the mid 1960s and his death in police detention in 1977…
Tributes paid to a Man of the people
Joseph Mavi the man who led 10,000 Johannesburg municipal workers in a strike for higher pay, was buried on June 26, the 27th anniversary of the Freedom…
EventSecurity police arrest SSRC leader Dan Montsitsi
Almost a year after the June 16 Soweto Student Uprising, Security Police announced the arrest of Soweto Students' Representative Council (SSRC) leader Dan…
EventW. E. B. Du Bois (95), writer, scholar, intellectual, Pan
William Edward Burghardt Du Bois was a giant among African American activists. He was a key founder of the NAACP, the largest and oldest civil rights…
The Dutch and the Khoisan
… that relations with the local population of Khoi and San remain positive as the Dutch had to barter with them for … and uninhabited parts of the area and…
The Bafana Bafana, SA soccer team, loses 0-4 against Nigeria in an away game.
The Bafana Bafana, SA soccer team, wins 1-0 against Madagascar in an away game.
The Bafana Bafana, SA soccer team, loses 1-4 against Zimbabwe in an away match.
The Bafana Bafana, SA soccer team, loses 1-2 against France in an away game.
Bafana Bafana, the SA soccer team, wins 1-0 against Malawi in an away game.
The Bafana Bafana, SA soccer team, loses 1-2 against England in an away game.
Bafana Bafana, the SA soccer team, loses 0-2 against Argentina in an away game.
The governments of SA and Mozambique sign an agreement on natural gas trade.
Bafana Bafana, the SA soccer team, loses 0-2 against Congo in an away game.
The Bafana Bafana, SA soccer team, loses 0-3 against Germany in an away game.
The Bafana Bafana, SA soccer team, wins 2-0 against Botswana in an away game.
The SA flag is hoisted on Marion Island after an agreement with Britain.
Government orders the slaughter of 30 000 ostriches in an effort to contain an outbreak of bird flu in SA.
SA signs an agreement with the USA regarding co-operation in the development, building, installation and operation of an integr
EventDr. Jan Bouws, Dutch composer, is born
On 28 July 1902 Jan Bouws was born in Purmerend, Holland. He trained in Musicology at the University of Amsterdam and on completion of his studies became a…