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EventThomas William Bowler, prolific painter at the Cape, is born
… and Natal as well as landscapes. Bowler began teaching art to children to supplement his income and subsequently opened his own art school in 1861. He took…
PlaceBo-Kaap, Cape Town
… in the Cape. Houses are a mix of Cape Dutch and Georgian Architecture . The choice of colour is said to be attributed …
PlaceKroondal, Rustenburg
… The largely German-speaking town has a distinctly Teutonic architecture and cultural atmosphere. In 1880, a German by …
PlaceRiverside Mosque and Mausoleum, Umgeni, Durban
… known as the Buland Darwaza and reminiscent of the Moghul Architecture in India, began in the early 1920’s and was …
Daily reflections by Virginia MacKenny, September 2002
… for such a venture, apart from locating some books on SA art in Meschac Gaba's library which is part of his Contemporary African Art Museum where I spot a…
ArchiveStaffrider Vol.2 No.2 Apr-May 1979
… Poems by: Sibusiso Damoyi,Mmaphuti wa Mailula Zamani Art Association (Dobsonville) Poems by: Maswabi a'Legwale,Batlang wa Pule, Soweto Art Association …
ArchiveStaffrider Vol.4 No.4 Mar 1982
… Bra Luke Sophiatown by Miriam Tlali; Society and Art, Toward Patriotic Art by Mpikayipheli; Staffrider Profile Drum: The Inside …
EventSA artist Mmakgoba Sebidi is born
… and teaching pottery and clay sculpture at the Katlehong Art Centre in Germiston and in Alexandra. She sold many of her paintings at the art fair, Artists…
PlacePlettenberg Bay, Garden Route
The Town of Plettenberg Bay lies almost on the border of the Western and Eastern Cape. "Built on the hillside, most of the Town is on a steep slope leading…
PlaceThulamela, an Archaeological Site
At sites such as Thulamela, in the North of the Kruger National Park. Here traces of ancient traders are still being found which proves Man to have been here…
ArchiveStaffrider Vol.3 No.4 Dec-Jan 1980
… THE GHETTO The Last Train from Faraday by Miriam Tlali, ART AND SOCIETY Committed Art — Where Is It? by Joyce Ozynski and Andy Mason. …
PlaceDullstroom, Mpumalanga in the Emalaheni Municipality District
… throughout the Village, from the picturesque pointed stone Architecture, Historic Monuments such as the Stone Church in … shops set in the Town’s wonderful…
ArchiveEmily Hobhouse - Beloved Traitor by Elsabe Brits(The Heritage Portal), 14 September 2016
… Munro is an Honorary Associate Professor in the School of Architecture and Planning at the University of the … interests cover Africana, Johannesburg history…
I will not Compromise About my Work: David Goldblatt on Artistic Freedom, Censorship, and Moving His Archive Out of South Africa by Robin Scher ( ArtsNews.com), 2017
… photographer to ever exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, announced that he would be moving both the … toward the end of 2015 the university…
PlaceRondebosch Fountain, Main Road, Rondebosch.
… is very sad. We are very lucky to have that Historical Architecture in that area. It makes a City interesting above …
PlaceLibya
… example of a traditional settlement. Its domestic architecture is characterized by a vertical division of …
ArchiveStaffrider Vol.7 No.1 1988
… A.W. Oliphant. Essays: Gerard Sekoto: A Perspective on his Art by Barbara Lindop; Socialist Explorations in South Africa … Staffrider; Oral Poetry by Mafika…
ArchiveStaffrider Vol.4 No.2 Jul-Aug 1981
… Joel; Modderdam, Death of a Shanty Town by Andrew Silk; Art and Society, Art is not neutral ‘Whom does it serve?’ by Dikobe WaMogale …
SAHO Milestones
… November - SISA Imperial Ghetto was launched at the Durban Art Gallery in Durban SISA SERIES edited by Abebe Zegeye … the Africa to Africa Cultural Exchange…
PlaceGallery 101
… founded Gallery 101 to showcase modern South African art. The original location was next to the Head Office of … as Fabian Peake & Phyllida Barlow (shown…
EventSA Artist, Father Frans Claerhout, is born
… instruction in painting, his charming style appealed to art lovers and investors alike and he held his first solo … that forgeries were printed and sold as…
Durban an Overview
… 1902. The Durban Museum was established in 1887, while an Art Gallery followed in 1899. During the 1920s the city began …
PlaceGoodman Gallery
… practices under Apartheid law, in which Black artists and art viewers were not permitted into the country’s major art museums that served the dictates of the…
ArchiveDavid Goldblatt photographie les zones grises sud-africaines by Le Monde, 15 June 2017
… A la frontalité, le solitaire préfère l’oblique. Prenez l’architecture. Chaque bâtiment, chaque édifice public ou …
PlaceTokai Manor House, Tokai Road, Tokai.
… Stoep is raised, a feature not seen normaly in Cape-Dutch Architecture . The Eksteen family liked a good party and …
PlaceDutch Reformed Church, Buitenkant Street, Cape Town
… A beautiful example of late 19th-century Victorian architecture, with its complex's facades and detail work! The …
PlaceWits School of Arts (WSOA)
… Braamfontein, Johannesburg. The University introduced the Art faculty in 1923 after they moved premises from Eloff … and Television, Music, Theatre and…
PlaceThe Bag Factory
… by artist, curator and teacher David Koloane and British art collector and philanthropist Robert Loder, who saw a need … to connect artists to the local and…
PlaceGroote Schuur High School
… in the Vredenhof residence, presently the Frank Joubert Art and Design Centre in the leafy suburb of Newlands. The … the school’s classrooms are equipped…
PlaceSkukuza Airport, Mpumalanga
Prior to the commencement of scheduled flights to Skukuza Airport on 2 June 2014, the Airport Runway was repaired and resurfaced. Work to rehabilitate the…