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BiographyAlpheus Madaba Madiba
… faded ,Madiba and others formed Sebatakgomo, a rural, Pedi-centre organization.It focused on opposition to the Bantu …
BiographyFiroz Cachalia
… Dewar and Hall for two years and as a researcher in the Centre for Applied Legal Studies in the early 1990s. He is …
BiographyHalton Cheadle
… of the High Court. He also was the Deputy Director of the Centre for Applied Legal Studies at Wits. Cheadle is …
Insurrections I,II and III: Music as Ancient as the Future by Samuel Hove
… got close to the stuff they dished out at the Homecoming Centre of District Six. Their “Storming”, billed as a loose … raga forms, the Tagore modulations,…
Artist Bill Ainslie is born
… Ainslie, South African artist and founder of several art training projects, was born in Bedford, Eastern Cape as a … keenly aware of the damage Apartheid…
PlaceFunda Community College
… which was donated by the Urban Foundation and IBM. The centre was initially directed by art educator and activist Steven Sack. Charles Nkosi , who … 1986 and…
EventRuben Xulu is born
… He exhibited in 1965 and 1978 in the Bantu Inter Faith Art Exhibition and Mariannhill Art Centre, Natal. He passed away in 1985. Source: Sack, S. …
Prehistory of the Nelspruit area
… show that Badfontein settlements emphasized the centre/side axis of the Central Cattle Pattern ( see … Bulletin 53: 57-62. Maggs, T.M. 1995. Neglected rock…
BiographyDiana Mary Mitchell
… led her to be one of the founding members of the liberal Centre Party (CP). [xvi] Voting poster for 1974 elections …
BiographyManiben Sita
… sat outside the polling station at the Laudium Civic Centre dressed in black. She was a silent sentinel, a …
BiographyDavid Wilcox Bopape
… . The founding meeting was held at the Bantu Men's Social Centre in Eloff Street, Johannesburg, and was attended by a …
BiographyJeremy Vearey
… the island included rugby and soccer, he played lock and centre half respectively. Vearey was released from Robben …
BiographyDorothy Cleminshaw
Dorothy Cleminshaw (nee Mullany) was born in Cape Town on the 15th of September 1922. She went to Ellersie College in Sea Point and matriculated with a full…
BiographyRobert Anthony Basil Waterwitch
Robert ‘Robbie’ Anthony Basil Waterwitch was born on 15 July 1969 and grew up in Athlone, a suburb of Cape Town located on the Cape Flats. Remembered as a…
EventGeorge Msimang, artist, is born
… born on 26 October 1948 in Durban. Msimang's interest in art began at school although art was not offered as a subject. He left Lamontville High … after…
SAAAH: “Reception / Perception”
… from the author to the reader, or the production of art to its reception. Reception/perception problematises issues surrounding the discipline of art history…
BiographyJeanette Carlson
Jeanette Levinson Carlson was born on 21 June 1929, in Muizenberg, Cape Town, Western Province (now Western Cape Province). She was the youngest of Israel and…
PlaceCasa Labia,198 Main Road, Muizenberg
… bears the name Casa Labia and is a restaurant, conference centre and music venue. The house was built by skilled … artisans and houses part of the Labia…
EventCecil Edwin Frans Skotnes is born in East London, Eastern Cape
… He also attended classes at what was called Wits Technical Art School in Johannesburg. Skotnes served in the South … On his return to South Africa he joined…
BiographySimon van der Stel
… she continued to send furnishings and various works of art to fit out the Governor's Residence at Groot Constantia. …
EventSA artist, Dumisani Mabaso is born
… was born in Soweto. From childhood until 1974 he received art education at the Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA) in Dube, and also for 2 years…
ArticleGrade 6 - Term 2: Explorers from Europe find southern Africa
… was at its height it was the largest and most important centre of trade in the southern Africa. In other parts of the … It involved the development and…
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…
EventSA artist, Lionel Davis, is born
… empower South Africans of all races by introducing them to art, theatre and dance. Davis took his first formal art classes with CAP, and continued his art…
PlaceGroote Schuur High School
… in the Vredenhof residence, presently the Frank Joubert Art and Design Centre in the leafy suburb of Newlands. The school started … the school’s classrooms…
ArticlePre-colonial history of Southern Africa
… public at the Iziko Museum in Cape Town and the Origins Centre in Johannesburg. Later Stone Age By 25,000 years ago … modern in other ways. Uniquely human…
BiographyMotlotlehi – His Majesty King Constantine Bereng Seeiso Moshoeshoe II of Lesotho
His Majesty, King Constantine Bereng Seeiso Moshoeshoe II was born on 2 May 1938, in the Village of Salang in the Mountain District of Mokhotlong in the…
Decolonising African Museums - What does it mean?
… The Centre for Indian Studies in Africa (CISA) presents a talk … by Emery Patrick Effiboley, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Centre for the Creative Arts of…
EventBhekisani Manyoni, artist, is born in Greytown
… near Rorke's Drift, where he attended the Rorke's Drift Art School. After attending Rorke's Drift for his primary … mentored by Leon de Smit, a Belgian-born…
BiographyMorgan Gonaseelan Naidoo
… attend a swimming meeting at the David Landau Community Centre, in Asherville, Durban ( in the early sixties) and …