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| B-0007862 | biography | Reverend Allan Aubrey Boesak | 1945 | – |
| B-0149227 | biography | Mlungiseleli Velaphi | 1967-1988 | ✓ |
| B-0008627 | biography | Ernest Sedumedi Moloto | 1916-1984 | – |
| B-0008062 | biography | Dumile Feni | 1942-1991 | – |
| P-0123932 | place | The Owl House | 15 Aug 2017 | ✓ |
| U-0098306 | event | Land Reform and Traditional Leadership in South Africa | 17 Sep 2014 | – |
| P-0065736 | place | Castle of Good Hope, Castle Street- Cape Town | 14 Jul 2011 | ✓ |
| E-0149115 | event | Congo administration is handed to the Belgian government | 22 Aug 2019 | – |
| P-0150933 | place | Bokoni, Mpumalanga | 27 May 2021 | ✓ |
| B-0121056 | biography | Muntu Myeza | 1950-1990 | – |
| B-0121675 | biography | Isaiah Mdliwamafa Shembe | Approx 1870s-1935 | – |
| B-0007944 | biography | Martha Helena Cillie | 1866-1966 | ✓ |
| B-0068314 | biography | Pauline Podbrey | – | – |
| B-0008849 | biography | Kate O’Regan | 1957 | ✓ |
| B-0068096 | biography | Florence Mophosho | 1921-1985 | ✓ |
| B-0008127 | biography | Rev. Aldin Grout | 1803-1894 | – |
| B-0008647 | biography | Murphy Morobe | 1956 | – |
| B-0008307 | biography | Leonard (Len) Lee-Warden | 1913-1998 | ✓ |
| B-0068245 | biography | Lillian Masediba Ngoyi | 1911-1980 | ✓ |
| B-0149250 | biography | Smash Moweng | – | ✓ |
| B-0149416 | biography | William Mothipa (Willie) Madisha | – | ✓ |
| B-0150021 | biography | Zindziswa “Zindzi” Nobutho Mandela | 1960-2020 | ✓ |
| P-0141557 | place | Shipwreck Trail, Eastern Cape | 6 Aug 2019 | ✓ |
| P-0153016 | place | Kalahari Desert | 3 Jul 2025 | ✓ |
| B-0070720 | biography | Sefako Mapogo Makgatho | 1861-1951 | ✓ |
| B-0007770 | biography | Raymond Ackerman | 1931 | – |
| B-0123392 | biography | Johannes Henricus Brand | 1823-1888 | ✓ |
| B-0066513 | biography | King Cetshwayo | 1826-1884 | ✓ |
| B-0007768 | biography | Elizabeth Adriana (Nanna) Abrahams | 1925-2009 | ✓ |
| B-0007857 | biography | Advocate George Bizos | 1927-2020 | ✓ |
BiographyReverend Allan Aubrey Boesak
Allan Aubury Boesak was born at Kakamas, Northern Cape, one of eight children. His father, a schoolteacher, died when Boesak was six years old. He was raised…
BiographyMlungiseleli Velaphi
Mlungiseleli Velaphi (MK name Mzimkulu Goduka) was born in Mdantsane, Eastern Cape in 1967 was a United Democratic Front (UDF) member. He left South Africa in…
BiographyErnest Sedumedi Moloto
Ernest Sedumedi Moloto was the son of peasant farmers. He received his primary education at Moruleng and Mabieskraal, both in the Rustenburg district. In 1931…
BiographyDumile Feni
Zwelidumile Geelboi Mgxaji Mslaba “Dumile” Feni was born on 21 May 1942 in Worcester, Western Cape. His mother died when he was only five or six years old and…
PlaceThe Owl House
… that fill up the Camel Yard and the relief sculptures that cover the House. After her death in 1976, the Owl House fell …
Land Reform and Traditional Leadership in South Africa
… South Africa’s largest land claim ever, which is said to cover all of the land in the province of KwaZulu-Natal that …
PlaceCastle of Good Hope, Castle Street- Cape Town
… is one of a number of fortifications subsequently added to cover approaches to the Bay . This did not prevent the …
EventCongo administration is handed to the Belgian government
From the beginning of colonialism in the 1880s following the 'scramble for Africa', Congo had been regarded as King Leopold II's personal fiefdom. Leopold's…
PlaceBokoni, Mpumalanga
… as well as sections of stone-walling breaking the grass cover. Endless stone circles, set in bewildering mazes and linked by long stone passages, cover the…
BiographyMuntu Myeza
Muntu Myeza was born on 3 December 1950 to Jacob and Julia Myeza in Natal where he also did his early education. Myeza attended part of his senior high school…
BiographyIsaiah Mdliwamafa Shembe
Isaiah Shembe was born at Ntabamhlophe near Escourt in the Drakensberg region (near Giants Castle). His forefathers had settled there to escape the regiments…
BiographyMartha Helena Cillie
Martha Helena Cillié was born on 22 April 1866 in Wellington (SA). She was the daughter of Charl Daniel Cillié and his wife, Martha Helena Marais. She came…
BiographyPauline Podbrey
Pauline Podbrey was born as Pauline Podbrez in Lithuania. She arrived with her family in Durban in 1933 at the age of eleven, although her father had come to…
BiographyKate O’Regan
Kate O’Regan was born in Liverpool, England. She grew up in Cape Town. She obtained her B.A. from the University of Cape Town in 1978 and her LL.B. (cum laude)…
BiographyFlorence Mophosho
Florence Mophosho was born in 1921 Alexander Township, Johannesburg. She was the first of the three children. Florence's mother was a qualified teacher, but…
BiographyRev. Aldin Grout
Aldin Grout was born on 2 September 1803 in Pelham, Massachusetts in the United States. In 1830 Grout graduated from Amherst College and continued to study in…
BiographyMurphy Morobe
Morobe was born on 2 October 1956 in Soweto. When he was young he spent a lot of time with his uncle, a Minister in the African Methodist Episcopal Church, and…
BiographyLeonard (Len) Lee-Warden
Leonard (Len) Lee-Warden was born in 1913. A linotype operator, he came to South Africa in 1936 from England after serving a five year apprenticeship in London…
BiographyLillian Masediba Ngoyi
Lillian Masediba Ngoyi was born in Pretoria in 1911 to a family of six children, and obtained her primary schooling in Kilnerton. She later enrolled for a…
BiographySmash Moweng
Smash Moweng, from Evaton Township, Vereeniging District, Transvaal [now Gauteng] was described as yet another “ringleader” (of the Evaton bus boycott) who was…
BiographyWilliam Mothipa (Willie) Madisha
Willie Madisha grew up in the Atteridgeville Township of Pretoria. He completed his high school education in Attridgeville and then studied to become a teacher…
BiographyZindziswa “Zindzi” Nobutho Mandela
Zindziswa “Zindzi” Nobutho Mandela was born on 23 December 1960 in Soweto to South African struggle icons Nelson Mandela and Winnie Madikizela-Mandela. It…
PlaceShipwreck Trail, Eastern Cape
ABOUT SHIPWRECK HIKING TRAIL Start: Port Alfred Finish: Fish River Mouth near East London Duration: 69 km over five days Fitness: moderate Our tip: a six…
PlaceKalahari Desert
Kalahari Desert is basically, a large basin like Plain in the interior Plateau of Southern Africa. It occupies almost all of Botswana, the eastern third of…
BiographySefako Mapogo Makgatho
Sefako Mapogo Makgatho was born at GaMphahlele, in the Pietersburg district in Transvaal (now Limpopo province) in 1861. He was the son of Chief Kgorutlhe…
BiographyRaymond Ackerman
Please note: This biography is a modified extract from the following source: Bell, P. (1999) “Raymond Ackerman” from They Shaped our Century: The Most…
BiographyJohannes Henricus Brand
Johannes Henricus Brand was the president of the Orange Free State, one of two Boer republics formed after the Boers left the Cape Colony in the Great Trek. He…
BiographyKing Cetshwayo
King Cetshwayo’s place of birth was his father’s (Mpande) kraal of Mlambongwenya, near Eshowe. He was born in 1826, a very troubled period in the history of…
BiographyElizabeth Adriana (Nanna) Abrahams
Liz Adriana Abrahams (nee Joseph) was born on 19 September 1925 in Paarl, in the Western Cape. She was born into a large family of 8 children, and attended a…
BiographyAdvocate George Bizos
George Bizos was born in 1927 in Vasilitsi, near Koroni in the south of Greece. During World War II, when the Germans occupied Greece in 1941, the young Bizos…