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PlaceGallery 101
… founded Gallery 101 to showcase modern South African art. The original location was next to the Head Office of the Progressive Federal Party in the Rand…
ArticleThe Market Photo Workshop
… and identity within a contemporary understanding of art and photography as well as in the social context of South … from different areas of the country. It…
The Pioneers
… a new educated elite began exploring western approaches to art. What they had in common was an historical connection … illiteracy. (2) Hence the pioneers of…
ArticleSouthern Methodist University Partnership Project - 2012 submissions
… attends Southern Methodist University studying history and art history and hopes to work in a museum or auction house. … As a Creative Writing major who also…
Article2016 in Review
… recipient of the FT/ OppenheimerFunds Emerging Voices 2016 Art Award OCTOBER - 6th: Second annual Mafika Gwala Lecture … by Gambia doing the same on the 25th…
PlaceKliptown Museum
… the Freedom Charter through photographs, news clippings, art, song and narration. Artefacts from those people who … Dedication next to the upmarket Soweto…
EventPretoria is proposed as the new capital of ZAR
… Post- apartheid Pretoria turned a new leaf and became a centre for change when President Nelson Mandela was … for its political history which has…
The Hunter-Gatherers of Southern Africa: Summary
… tools made from stones, animal bones and wood. THE ROCK ART OF THE SAN PEOPLE: Painted by the shaman after a very … or other antelope) that are special to…
BiographyMagasvarie Govender
… Govender, University of Durban-Westville Documentation Centre, Oral History Project-‘Voices of Resistance’, …
Imvaba Arts Association
… exhibited at the Grahamstown Festival (1990 and 1991), the Art from South Africa exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in Oxford (1990) as part of a greater…
PlacePretoria High School for Girls, Park Street
… to the school, with the construction of new classrooms, an Art room, a Library, a Domestic Science Centre and several laboratories. In 1966 the annual play ……
EventSouth African historian Charles van Onselen is born.
… both nationally and internationally. He chose to centre his already well documented research on the social, … on criminology.[ii] Certainly van Onselen has…
ArticleAfrican Heritage Sites
… of the Island of Mero (Meroë, Sudan) The site was the centre of the Kingdom of Kush, a major force active from the … in plants and seed dispersal by insects…
PlaceDan Pienaar, suburb of Bloemfontein
… the whole family to enjoy. These include the Oliewenhuis Art Museum, movie theatres, lovely restaurants, excellent … Dan Pienaar vicinity are the ever…
PlaceBantu Dramatic Society, Johannesburg
… development. It was housed at the Bantu Men’s Social Centre, a club for educated Bantu men, and became a space for … Bantu playwrights to develop African…
BiographyAbdul Samad Minty
… and is the Vice-Convener of the Council of the South Centre, Geneva. …
BiographyRuth Naomi Leon
… in establishing a Black and migrant women’s documentation centre called Flamboyant in1985, running until 1990. The …
PlaceRoodepoort Museum
… Set in the Roodepoort Civic Centre on Christiaan de Wet Road, the Roodepoort Museum … collection of Local Ceramics. Other items of note include; Art Deco…
BiographyHenry Burton
… been arrested for not having a pass while walking in the centre of Kimberley. Burton won the case which led to a …
BiographyChief Hendrik ‘Hennie’ van Wyk
… – and the concerns of many of his contemporaries – centre on the recognition of land and language rights, which …
ArticleFinding out about hunter-gatherers and herders
… rocks. It is hard to say why they created these works of art, but today the paintings tell us more about these ancient … and arrows: http://newhistory.co.za…
A New Date For the Founding of the South African Society of Artists, and it’s Second Annual Exhibition of 1898
… this confusion is needed. Esme Berman's first edition of Art and Artists of South Africa (1969) gave 1902 as SASA's … Gutsche's discovery in her revised…
BiographyDimitri Tsafendas
… Heinrich Kreipe. As the ex-partisans taught him the art of bomb-making, Tsafendas pondered the possibility of …
PlaceIrish House, Polokwane Museum
… Right in the centre of the city of Polokwane is Irish House, a Victorian … pottery, woodwork, weaving, ceramic, glasswork, rock art, cast iron.. It also has…
PlaceSt George’s Grammar School, 1 Queen Victoria Street, Cape Town
… Estate. In 1984, the Graham Dods Audio-visual and Resource Centre was opened, together with the Squash Court. The year … which also Houses the School…
ArticleThe role of gender in Ndebele architecture
… preclude painted decoration. The origins of their wall art appear to lie with the Pedi, a neighbouring group whose … plain grey background. Although Ndebele…
BiographyPetros Sipho Sibusiso Mkhize (Mkize)
… Prison has been renamed Kgosi Mampuru II Correctional Centre, after a 19th-century Pedi king who resisted colonial …
PlaceDitsong Museum of Natural History
… through the ages, called ‘reach for the stars’, and a rock art exhibition, known as the ‘rainbow collection’. The museum is regarded as a centre for living…
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…
Term 1:THE HUNTER GATHERERS OF SOUTHERN AFRICA
… AND RELGION SAN FOOD SAN CLOTHING SAN MEDICINE SAN ROCK ART THE KHOI KHOI – HEARDERS OF SOUHTERN AFRICA WHO ARE THE … beads, shell ornaments, the bow and…