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BiographyRobert Anthony Basil Waterwitch
… bombing campaign which sought to target various election sites across the Cape Peninsula in an attempt to disrupt the …
PlaceImizamo Yethu, Hout Bay
… at Imizamo Yethu was made available in late 1990 and 429 sites were occupied in March/April 1991 (Gawith and Sowman … move together with the household and…
Prehistory: Pre colonial farmers in Gauteng
… type of walling, spread north across the Vaal. Type N sites are on record near Balfour, in the Suikerbosrand, … have been one in the Klipriviersberg, where…
Delegates in attendance at the SANNC Founding Conference in 1912
… research follow the links to SAHO features and external sites relating to content in and around the topic that are …
BiographyRandolph Hartzenberg
Randolph Hartzenberg is a Cape Town-based artist who works with painting, printmaking, installation, video and performance. Through his paintings,…
ArticleWhy protect children’s rights?
… the use of Nevirapine at a limited number of pilot sites only. Nevirapine was to be provided free of charge to … and children who did not have access to the…
BiographyAlex Hepple
Alex Hepple was born in the Johannesburg suburb of La Rochelle on 28 August 1904. His father, Thomas Hepple (1869-1942), an immigrant from Sunderland, was a…
BiographyZimasile Ngqawana
Zimasile Ngqawana affectionately known as ‘Zim’was born in New Brighton a township in Port-Elizabeth on 25 December 1959. He was the youngest of five children,…
BiographyNomvula Paula Mokonyane
Nomvula Paula Mokonyane was born on 28 June 1963 in Kagiso on the West Rand, Transvaal (now Gauteng). She is the youngest in a family of 12, with six sisters…
Classroom activities: Learning about history
… to appreciate our everyday surroundings, not only heritage sites. Remember that local history is about ordinary people …
BiographyVera Ponnen
Vera Ponnen (nee Vera Gwendoline Alberts) was born in 1915 in England. She came to South Africa in 1938 as a governess. The next year, she went to Johannesburg…
PlaceMakhonjwa Mountains, Barbeton
… years ago). Is one of the Ten South African World Heritage Sites! This Mountain is found in the Somgimvelo Game Reserve . …
PlaceKimberley, Northern Cape
… . Surrounding Kimberley are many memorials and sites of some important battles of the Anglo-Boer war , most … treated to some of the city's Historical and…
BiographyJohannes Maswanganyi
Johannes Maswanganyi was born in 1948 at Msengi Village, near Giyani, Limpopo Province.Although younger than many of the sculptors from rural northern…
Activity: The first farmers in Southern Africa
… that were used up to 10000 years ago were found at various sites. Some of the world’s largest collections of rock art …
Book 1: Ancient Civilizations and Global Trade - Chapter 3 - It’s a Mystery. Or is it? by Amanda Esterhuysen
… years of research carried out at the archaeological sites of Mapungubwe, Great Zimbabwe and Thulamela, and tries to understand why information about these…
ArticleRock art as an expression of hunter-gatherer society and world-view
… initial estimate. Click here for a list of World Heritage Sites. South African rock art was only discovered about 350 …
BiographyJoseph Manana
Manana was born in Escourt, KwaZulu-Natal. He has been working as an artist since the mid 1980s and is largely self-taught. A few years ago he received an…
The search for Peter Johnson’s story
… asking them to help map the cemetery for potential burial sites of Johnson and Karabo. The photographs proved difficult … when a number of unmarked graves…
PlaceJonkershoek
… built in 1792, while both reserves are World Heritage Sites. Jonkershoek is hot in summer, and cold and wet in …
BiographyHarold Cressy
Harold Cressy was born on 1 February 1889 in Rorkes Drift, KwaZulu Natal. He was one of the five children of Bernard and Mary Cressy. The local Roman Catholic…
ArticleWhat is heritage?
… Parks in KwaZulu Natal are said to be World Heritage Sites, because they are considered to be so unique that they …
BiographyIan Mkhize
Ian Mkhize was born on 3 October 1941 in Nhlazantshe Township in Pietermaritzburg. He spent his formative years in Ixopo and matriculated at Sobantu High in…
PlaceKruger National Park
… and diversity, with well over 255 recorded archaeological sites ranging from early Stone Age (roughly 1 million years … Iron Age settlements and recent…
PlaceThe Free State National Botanical Gardens, Bloemfontein
… and display of the varied Flora of the Province. Several Sites were investigated in the City Centre, on the Slopes of …
PUBLIC RESPONSE TO SAHO WEBSITE
… You type in "Sharpeville 1960"" and you get all these sites in which this word is mentioned (sometimes not even the … Improvements for Johannesburg Hi folks…
Polokwane an Overview
… after various attempts to settle in surrounding sites, some successfully and others not. Pietersburg occupies …
BiographyNontsikelelo June-Rose Cothoza
… ↵ [2]Ngami Pewe, ‘Identification of Liberation Heritage Sites at Lamontville and its Linkage to the Kwazulu-Natal … 2020. Pewe, Ngami. ‘Identification of…
BiographyDawood Seedat
Dawood Seedat (1916-1976) was the grandson of a Ladysmith, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal) trader M.E. Seedat, who had nine children, one of whom, Ahmed, moved to…
BiographyJudge Albert Louis “Albie” Sachs
Albert Louis Sachs was born in Johannesburg in 1935. His father, Emil Solomon (Solly) Sachs, had arrived in South Africa from Lithuania at the age of six, on…