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| P-0149936 | place | Lambert's Bay | 5 Feb 2020 | ✓ |
| P-0150441 | place | Fordsburg and the Oriental Plaza, Johannesburg | 9 Sep 2020 | ✓ |
| A-0152248 | article | Mangosuthu Buthelezi: the Zulu nationalist who left his mark on South Africa’s history | 11 Sep 2023 | ✓ |
| R-0149607 | archive | Notes on Letters from a Kindred Spirit: Ismail Mohamed by Roseinnes Phahle, August 2019 | 16 Sep 2019 | – |
| B-0125771 | biography | Hailu Mergia | 1946 | – |
| B-0007790 | biography | Nils Severin Andersen | 1897-1972 | ✓ |
| B-0067723 | biography | Dr Mathume Joseph “Joe” Phaahla | 1957 | ✓ |
| B-0097982 | biography | Ncumisa Chwayita Kondlo | 1958-2008 | ✓ |
| B-0096423 | biography | Jonathan Shapiro | 1958 | ✓ |
| B-0008401 | biography | Muziwenhlanhla Trevor Phila Makhoba | 1956-2003 | – |
| B-0008009 | biography | Leng Dixon | 1916-1968 | – |
| B-0009240 | biography | Clive Zamani Xaba | 1980 | – |
| B-0068268 | biography | Matthew Nkoana | 1930 | – |
| B-0008629 | biography | Molly Wolton | 1906-1947 | – |
| B-0008255 | biography | Jerry Dibanhlele Khumalo | 1922-1976 | ✓ |
| B-0008336 | biography | Jansie Lourens | – | ✓ |
| B-0008618 | biography | Dinah Molefe | 1927 | – |
| B-0008512 | biography | Eric Mbatha | 1948 | – |
| B-0008094 | biography | Peter Hans Paul Gastrow | 1947 | ✓ |
| B-0068650 | biography | Richard Ernest van der Ross | 1921 | – |
| B-0008852 | biography | Vincent Oliphant | 1954 | – |
| B-0008340 | biography | Kim Ludbrook | 1969 | – |
| B-0008177 | biography | Isaac Osier Horvitch | 1920 | – |
| B-0008560 | biography | Aleta Michaletos | 1952 | – |
| B-0080693 | biography | Zubeida “Juby” "Sharon Davis" Mayet | 1937-2019 | ✓ |
| B-0123071 | biography | Barend de Wet | 1956-2017 | – |
| B-0067753 | biography | Nozizwe Charlotte Madlala-Routledge | 1952 | ✓ |
| B-0008832 | biography | Cedric Nunn | 1957 | ✓ |
| B-0008277 | biography | Hamilton Kraai | – | ✓ |
| B-0008014 | biography | Rev. Joseph J Doke | – | – |
PlaceLambert's Bay
Welcome to the seafood hotspot of the West Coast! Lambert’s Bay is known as the Diamond of the West Coast and the crayfish mecca of South Africa. Called this…
PlaceFordsburg and the Oriental Plaza, Johannesburg
Named after Lewis Peter Ford of the Jeppe and Ford Estate Company, Fordsburg was built on the outskirts of the Johannesburg gold reef to house miners. The…
ArticleMangosuthu Buthelezi: the Zulu nationalist who left his mark on South Africa’s history
Mangosuthu Gatsha Buthelezi played a prominent role in South African politics for almost half a century. He was one of the last of a generation of black South…
ArchiveNotes on Letters from a Kindred Spirit: Ismail Mohamed by Roseinnes Phahle, August 2019
Preface I am hereby sharing some letters Ismail Mohamed wrote to me in 1980/81/87. But first I give a snapshot of his life, achievement and involvement in…
BiographyHailu Mergia
Born in Debre Birhan, Showa Province, Ethiopia, in 1946 to parents of Amhara and Oromo descent, Mergia grew up absorbing traditional Amhara, Tigrinya and Oromo…
BiographyNils Severin Andersen
Andersen came to SA when his mariner father settled at Saldahna Bay in 1911. In 1914 his family went to Durban, and he studied engineering. Family pressures…
BiographyDr Mathume Joseph “Joe” Phaahla
Mathume Joseph Phaahla was born on 11 July 1957 in Ga-Phaahla, Limpopo. Phaahla studied for a Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery at the University of…
BiographyNcumisa Chwayita Kondlo
Ncumisa Chwayita Kondlo grew up in the rural village of Peddie in the Eastern Cape. Kondlo was politically active from an early age. In her student days at…
BiographyJonathan Shapiro
Born in Cape Town in 1958 and also known as Zapiro. Could not imagine a career in cartooning, so studied architecture at University of Cape Town. Could not…
BiographyMuziwenhlanhla Trevor Phila Makhoba
Trevor Makhoba was born in Umkhumbane, Durban in 1956. His art is uniquely grounded in his experience of life and contemporary events in KwaZulu-Natal. He…
BiographyLeng Dixon
Leng Dixon was born in 1916 in Cape Town. He joined the New Group after his return from the Camberwell School of Art in London from 1937 to 1938 and a period…
BiographyClive Zamani Xaba
Clive Zamani Xaba was born in 1980, Durban. Xaba attended the Saturday morning art classes run by Pat Khoza at the Durban Art Gallery from 1995. In 2001 he…
BiographyMatthew Nkoana
Matthew Nkoana was born about 1930 in the rural northern Transvaal near Pietersburg. After completing elementary school he took a job selling newspapers. In…
BiographyMolly Wolton
Born Molly Selikowitz in Lithuania in 1906, she came to South Africa as an immigrant in 1919. Petite, excitable, forceful, and a brilliant public speaker,…
BiographyJerry Dibanhlele Khumalo
Born in 1922, Jerry Dibanhlele Khumalo was a clothing designer and cutter. He served prison sentences as a volunteer in the 1952 Defiance Campaign in Germiston…
BiographyJansie Lourens
After Barbara Hogan, Lourens was the next white woman to be convicted of treason after the Treason Trials. Lourens, and her fiancé Carl Niehaus, were found…
BiographyDinah Molefe
Dinah Molefe was born in 1927. Molefe worked as a potter at Rorke's Drift between 1969 and 1983. She learnt to make traditional pots at home, before she went…
BiographyEric Mbatha
Eric Mbatha was born in Soweto, 1948. He obtained training in art in 1971 at Evangelical Lutheran Art and Craft Centre at Rorke`s Drift. He had a longer…
BiographyPeter Hans Paul Gastrow
Gastrow became a politician shaped by the liberal politics of 1960s and 1970s South Africa. In 1971, his political views were strengthened by the forced…
BiographyRichard Ernest van der Ross
Richard Ernest Van der Ross was born in 1921, he studied at the University of Cape Town where he received M.A., B.Ed., and Ph.D. degrees. For some years he was…
BiographyVincent Oliphant
Vincent Oliphant was born on 8 April 1954 in Alicedale, a small Eastern Cape town close to Port Elizabeth. He completed his primary education at the Alicedale…
BiographyKim Ludbrook
Born on 9 June 1969, in Masvingo, Zimbabwe, Kim Ludbrook grew up in Kwa-Zulu Natal. After completing his national service he moved to England in 1990 and…
BiographyIsaac Osier Horvitch
Born in Cape Town in 1920. In the late 1930s while still at school he became an active member of the Communist Party, speaking at public meetings and selling…
BiographyAleta Michaletos
Aleta Michaletos was born in Pretoria in 1952. She earned her BFA in painting from the University of Pretoria in 1974. Since 1971 she has actively served on…
BiographyZubeida “Juby” "Sharon Davis" Mayet
Zubeida “Juby” "Sharon Davis" Mayet was born December 27,in 1937 in Fietas, Johannesburg, Transvaal (now Gauteng). Mayet began writing in the mid-1950s while…
BiographyBarend de Wet
Barend de Wet was born in Boksburg in 1956, and towards his untimely death had long become an emblematic figure of the artist, the possibilities of the…
Nozizwe Charlotte Madlala-Routledge
Nozizwe Charlotte Madlala-Routledge was born in KwaZulu-Natal on 29 June 1952. She attended Magog and Fairview Schools. Madlala-Routledge matriculated at the…
BiographyCedric Nunn
Cedric Nunn was born in Nongoma, Natal (KwaZulu-Natal) on 22 December 1957. He attended the Little Flower School in Ixopo, Natal (KwaZulu-Natal) and continued…
BiographyHamilton Kraai
Hamilton Kraai was born and educated at Peddie in the Cape, he went to work as a warehouse foreman in Johannesburg, where he joined the African National…
BiographyRev. Joseph J Doke
Reverend Doke Became acquainted with Gandhi during the plague outbreak in Johannesburg. He was the Minister of the Johannesburg Baptist Church. He offered to…