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PlaceMelville Koppies Nature Reserve, Judith Road, Johannesburg
… the small settlement on Melville Koppies was abandoned. All that is left are the kraal walls and two iron smelting … for the real riches to be discovered,…
ArticleDistrict Six is Declared a ‘White Area’
… one of the most multi-racial residential areas in South Africa. [v] An approximate 60 000 people resided in District … CirajRassool, District Six Revisited …
PlaceMiddleburg, Mpumalanga
… the Cultural Heartland of the Mpumalanga Province in South Africa. Middelburg serves as the Agricultural, Industrial and … Ndebele people. Of course, the…
PlaceGariep River Mouth, Namibia
… The Orange River, Southern Africa’s longest waterway, rises high in the Drakensberg … called ‘The River of Diamonds’, stones from the heart of Africa have…
Address at the Launch of the Millenium Labour Council, 7 July 2000
… to promote improved quality of life and decent work for all." This statement may appear unremarkable. This is not so: … future of one economy. Secondly…
ArticleSophiatown in Literature
… the most poignant accounts of the township's and South Africa's history in the last sixty years. Many of them were … texture of Sophiatown and life in early…
The ANC and the Women’s League
… was the national committee and the president, which we all elected. For a long time the women were not proper … their sons and their husbands being arrested…
References and links: Local History
… Books Cameron T. (ed) 1986. An Illustrated History of South Africa. Johannesburg: Jonathan Ball. Carruthers V. 2000. The … D. J. (ed) 1973. Standard…
Dave Robertson
… photographs depicting marginalized lifestyles in South Africa, which were exhibited at galleries in Germany, the … my work has been exhibited by several…
PlaceEmoyeni, Parktown, Johannesburg
… legislation on 26 October 1984. Emoyeni offers a venue for all occassions. Depending on the nature of your event and … this spectacular 1905 Edwardian…
The Great Trek Was Not Over Abolition by Ron (Republican Trekker Volk), 30 October 2008
… Great Trek was that the former slaves were now wandering all over often attacking local residents. Piet Retief only … accepted uncritically and without…
Remembering the Artistry of Photojournalist Ranjith Kally by Kalim Rajab (Daily Maverick) 21 June 2017
… titan Howard Hughes. Ali said: “Howard Hughes dies, with all his billions – not a single tear. Joe Louis dies – … Forgetting. By then, we’d been invited to…
Mines of the beloved country: Through the mind of a photographer and essayist by J Brooks Spector (Daily Maverick), 5 November 2012
… his way along the dark moral landscape that was South Africa, a South African colleague insisted we walk from our … the writer soon had an armload of reading…
PlaceKingsmead Cricket Stadium, Durban
… first Test match on 18 January 1923, a game between South Africa and England that resulted in a draw. Kingsmead has … the annual Boxing Day Test, when the…
PlaceCape Town's Art Museum of Illusions-Kloof Street, Cape Town
… experience! Visiting one doesn’t mean you’ve seen them all!" The first Museum of Illusions opened in Zagreb, … Croatia in 2015 and achieved overnight…
PlaceThe Space
… and defied the Socio-Political Conditions, in South Africa. The Documentary looks at the dangers of apathy, … the dangers of censorship and highlights the…
ArchiveOne hundred years of an air force inspired by General Smuts, by John Kane-Berman (PoliticsWeb), 18 July 2018
… dozen different nations, among them Britain, the US, South Africa, Russia, and Germany. Smuts's opponents in the … that Germany was not able to produce, let…
PlaceLuderitz, Namibia
… of Luderitz has a quiet charm under cobalt blue skies. All visitors to this coastal town in Namibia are encouraged … the spot where Bartholomew Diaz first…
PlaceThe Old Supreme Court Adderley Street, Cape Town
… Monument under old NMC legislation on 8 September 1967. It all began wth the proper Housing of Slaves in Cape Town … this Museum explore the long History of…
PlaceSt Stephen’s Church, Dutch Reformed Church, Riebeeck Square, Cape Town
… upon the site. This was opened on 17 November 1800 and by all accounts was considered by citizens of Cape Town to be a … people called it, the first …
PlaceGriquatown
… desolate; a solitary peach-treeand a few fig-trees were all that survived in the former; and few ofthe Griquas … of a number of little 'outback' towns found…
PlaceVictoria Falls, Zimbabwe and Zambia
… through the region in search of a route to the interior of Africa, came across the falls and was mesmerized by their … habitats, ranging from lush rainforest…
EventThe apartheid government establishes a Department for Coloured Affairs' (CAD)
… the inception of apartheid "Coloured" people in South Africa occupied this precarious position between White and … that the CAD was dissolved and that …
Buy the Insurrection Ensemble's music
… social and political concerns between India and South Africa. The artists are well-known musicians, composers and … Cozens, Tina Schouw and Malika Ndlovu…
ArticleSoweto Students’ Representative Council (SSRC)
… in black schools. Tsietsi Mashinini who fled South Africa in 1977, led the SSRC. After Mashinini's flight from South Africa, Khotso Seatlholo took over the…
The Order of the Southern Cross
… displayed singular and exceptional achievement in South Africa. It is awarded to very few individuals, more often to … Barnard who performed the first heart…
Provincial government and symbols
… places section of the SAHO site, and read about the South Africa’s nine provinces. Also visit SAHO feature on national … 2. Which pieces on the map are…
Performing Arts Council of the Orange Free State (PACOFS)
… cultural resource for people in and around Central South Africa as well as Lesotho . They offer artists and performers … major contributor to the overall…
Antony Kaminju
… Day 2002, Netherlands Embassy, Kenya; Special Mention-CNN Africa Awards 2004; Adobe Photo of the Year Award 2008. … Founding member of Photo Multimedia…
PlaceCameroon
… in the north-western parts of Cameroon [xxi] , and were all formed between the 14th and 16th centuries [xxii] . At … European population into supporting…