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PlaceCeres, Western Cape Winelands
Ceres is the Administrative centre and largest Town of the Witzenberg Local Municipality in the Western Cape Province of South Africa. Ceres serves as a…
PlaceSouth African State Theatre
The South African State Theatre was built by Performing Arts department of the Provincial Council of the Transvaal.[i] Botha, Lötter and Partners as well as…
David Goldblatt: Structures of Dominion & Democracy (Artthrob), 31 March 2015, Durban, Kwazulu Natal, South Africa
For five decades Goldblatt has travelled South Africa photographing sites weighted with historical narrative: monuments, as well as private, religious and…
David Goldblatt by Jean Dykstra, 11 September 2011
In a videotaped interview with David Goldblatt that is included in his current exhibition at the Jewish Museum, the South African photographer ponders how it…
PlaceStanger, now officially known as KwaDukuza
Stanger was founded in 1872 and was named after the first Surveyor-General of the then Colony of Natal, William Stanger. KwaDukuza which incorporates the Town…
Side By Side: The Autobiography of Helen Joseph
Helen Joseph is one of the most well-known South African women to campaign against apartheid. Her autobiography is being published on her 81st birthday and is…
ArchiveA Place In The City - The Rand On The Eve Of Apartheid by Luli Callinicos
Introduction Tomorrow awaits you, long way to walk. It’s no use talking, to gold-propped ears When the National Party won the 1948 election, white…
SASO Newsletter, 1970 - 1976
By the late 1960s many black students increasingly began to feel the frustration and disillusionment similar to that which had led to the Fort Hare SRC to…
EventAKA, the Prince of South African hip hop is born
Kiernan Jarryd Forbes, popularly known by his stage name AKA was born in Cape Town on 28 January 1988.[1] He started out his hip hop career as part of a group…
PlaceGroote Kerk, Pretoria
The Dutch Reformed Kerk, Pretoria was established in 1854, when it separated from the Rustenburg congregation. The site where the first church was built would…
PlaceRooipoort Nature Reserve, Kimberley
Situated roughly 70 kilometers West of the town of Kimberley in the Northern Cape Province of South Africa prime plains for game hunting. Rooipoort is a…
PlaceCarmel, George
In 1721 the farm Langverwacht was allocated to Jean le Roux, a Huguenot settler. After a post office was opened on the site during the latter half of 1905, it…
PlaceUtrecht
In 1900 British troops occupied Utrecht during South African War of 1899 - 1902 as their headquarters. The British were wary of having to camp in high altitude…
PlaceOpera House, Port Elizabeth
This building, designed in a late Renaissance style based broadly upon the Doric order, was erected in 1891 under the direction of GW Smith, a prominent Port…
EventBritain refuses Uganda’s request for independence
Uganda is an east African country that had a number of kingdoms as well as political institutions by the 1800's. The interior was penetrated by Arab slave…
EventMercenaries from South Africa led by Colonel “Mad Mike” Hoare, attempt an unsuccessful coup in Seychelles
The armed mercenaries entered the Seychelles disguised as a beer-drinking tourist party, "The Ancient Order of Froth-Blowers." Hoare's objective was to return…
PlaceBathurst, Eastern Cape
Bathurst in the Eastern Cape, is one of the smallest but most interesting Municipalities in South Africa. Founded in 1820, this peaceful little Village on the…
PlaceBeachwood Mangroves Swamp, Durban
Mangrove swamps have been rated amongst the rarest and most scientifically interesting eco-systems that occur in the tidal environment. The Beachwood Mangroves…
21. Pariah constables pollute Hindus
From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal Pachai Some 29 people submitted the following complaint…
PlaceMohodi
The area of Mohodi ga Manthatha or Mohodi in short was a settlement in the former homeland of Lebowa about 75 km north-west of Pietersburg (now Polokwane). The…
EventTryphina Mboxela Jokweni is honoured by the ANC
Tryphina Mboxela Jokweni was a member of the African National Congress (ANC) and was part of the 1956 Union Buildings March which saw 20 000 women march to…
PlaceRocher Pan Nature Reserve
Rocherpan is a coastal nature reserve teeming with birds and colourful wildflowers. The reserve, which lies 25 km north of Velddrif on the Cape West Coast,…
PlaceLouw House Museum, Sutherland
A literacy Museum in the House where two famous, Afrikaans poets and writer brothers, N.P van Wyk Louw and W.E.G. Louw, were born. There are very Interesting…
EventRight wing Wit Kommando bombs academic's office
The office of a member of Prime Minister P.W. Botha's team, responsible for drawing up plans for a Southern African Constellation of States, Professor Jan…
EventSir John Robinson forms Natal's first ministry as Prime Minister
On 10 October 1893, Natal's first ministry was formed, with Sir John Robinson as Prime Minister, Minister of Education, and Colonial Secretary. Robinson, who…
January 8th Statements -Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 94th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 2006
Compatriots: On the occasion of the 94th anniversary of the formation of the African National Congress, our movement salutes the people of South Africa and…
Memorandum from Nelson Mandela to F. W. de Klerk, 26 June 1992
… in content. 2. In my letter to you written from prison in 1989 I outlined the kernel of the political problem which the …
The Heritage Museum at Villa Zain by Joline Young
“People who come here say how alive this place is. They say they actually feel the vibration of the rich history that fills these walls. I have given 19 years…
ArticleThe 2nd Johannesburg Biennale
Bookmarked by Dan Cameron in Art Forum as “what may turn out to be the most important exhibition of the 1990s”, the 2nd Johannesburg Biennale, which opened on…
Student Politics in the Era of Democracy
During the 1990-1994 period of political liberalisation and negotiations leading to the first democratic elections the South African Students Organisation …