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EventThe first museum is opened in Soweto, and is named after Hector Pieterson, one of the first casualties of the 16 June 1976 Soweto uprising.
… become a popular destination for tourists, and memorial sites like the Hector Pieterson museum add to the appeal and …
BiographyBilly Paddock
Billy Paddock, of Irish extraction, grew up in Durban, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal) in the 1950s. He attended Glenwood High School in Durban where he excelled at…
BiographyArthur Albert Hugh Adams
… of Antwerp Exhibition leaflet 2005 [Online]: Available at: sites.google.com. [Accessed 25 February 2009]|Bruce-Dick, T. …
PlaceKwaDukuza timeline
… to about 1500. Ice Age In the Groutville area, there are sites of pre-historic Ice Age glacial activities, likewise in … which was unfortunately demolished…
PlaceVredefort Dome, Free State Province
… Heritage Site in 2005, making it one of 8 World Heritage sites in South Africa. It is the biggest and oldest known …
BiographyPhila Portia Ndwandwe
Phila Portia Ndwandwe (also known as Zandile or Zandi) became part of the Natal Machinery of uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) in 1985 under the leadership of Muzi Ngwenya…
Outbreak of bubonic plague
… thereto, and the necessary spaces have been reserved as sites for Churches, Shops, School, Market Square, Park, etc. … the Colonial Secretary in fencing in…
PlaceFreedom Park
… Africa's history, were conducted nationwide. Soil from the sites of each of the ceremonies, as well as trees …
ArticlePrehistory of the Cape Town area
… at outposts and in the Castle ( see forts and military sites ). Recently, an historic cemetery, now known as …
ArticleKingdoms of southern Africa: Great Zimbabwe
… east of the Kalahari Desert. It is far bigger than similar sites in the area ( See Mapungubwe map ). What does its name …
PlaceBethulie Bridge across the Gariep River
… The town is home to one of the largest concentration camp sites from the war, as well as the iconic Royal Hotel, South … hotel. Bethulie’s streets, old…
PlaceCircle of Kramat's, Cape Town
… Sayed Mahmud, in Constantia, are probably the oldest known sites of deceased Auliyah, ('known as,'Friends of Allah'), … is visible. Visitors must pay respect…
PlaceJan De Waal House, 93 Bree Street, Cape Town
… Town still in its original form. There are two well-known sites in Cape Town named after the De Waal family. De Waal …
David Goldblatt: Structures of Dominion & Democracy (Artthrob), 31 March 2015, Durban, Kwazulu Natal, South Africa
… decades Goldblatt has travelled South Africa photographing sites weighted with historical narrative: monuments, as well as private, religious and secular…
ArticleRock Art
… from a trance, would paint the images they saw. Painted sites were thus storehouses of the potency that made contact …
ArticleFinding out about hunter-gatherers and herders
… created many rock paintings at thousands of different sites all over South Africa. They used natural ingredients to …
Thayanayagie (Thailema) Pillay
Thayanayagie (Thailema), daughter of Veerammal Naidoo and Govindasamy Kristshnasamy Thambi Naidoo, was four years old when her family moved to the Tolstoy Farm…
BiographyJoseph Alfers
Joseph Alfers was born in 1949 in Umbumbulu, where his father was the Assistant Native Commissioner. He attended school and university in Pietermaritzburg,…
PlaceHeritage Route of King Shaka
… in 1879. There is no building, just trenches and tent sites. It was under the Ultimatum Tree that delegates of King … about 5kms before the Tugela River…
Archaeology: A Way of Rediscovering the Past
… they are interested in. This means looking for places or sites where people lived and left behind traces of this life. …
Remembering the enslaved in Cape Town by Sam North
… century held various administrative functions, and, unlike sites such as Cape Coast Castle in Ghana, its interior … twentieth century. Taking in a number of…
PlacePakhuis Pass
… entire length and offers a wide variety of Scenery, Grave Sites, Weathered Rock Formations, Picnic Sites and some of the Cederberg's finest Hiking Trails…
!U’S STORY - Photographs 1 - 8
… to the same waterholes, we don't reoccupy the old camp sites. We don't want to make new fires exactly where the old fires have been. To build new fires on…
BiographySantu Mofokeng
Born in 1956, Mofokeng grew up in and around Soweto (Johannesburg), spending most of his childhood in Orlando East. Mofokeng’s initial experiences with…
BiographyRomeo Zamani Makhanya
Zamani Romeo Makhanya was born in Durban, 1959. He experienced the trauma of losing his brothers one after the other to genetic heart-related conditions. The…
BiographyEnoch Mankayi Sontonga
Enoch Mankayi Sontonga was born in Uitenhage, Eastern Province (now Eastern Cape) around 1873 as a member of the Xhosa-speaking Mpinga clan of the Tembu tribe…
BiographyProfessor Bernard Magubane
Professor Bernard Makhosezwe Magubane was born on 26 August 1930 on a farm near Colenso in Natal (now kwaZulu-Natal). He was the son of labour tenants on a…
PlaceGod’s Window
… see. In fact, it seems as if one can see forever! Viewing sites are provided along the length of the spectacular Blyde … For just R10 one can witness one of…
BiographyKrotoa (Eva)
Krotoa (known as Eva to the Dutch and English settlers) was the niece of Autshumao, a Khoi leader and interpreter to the Dutch (he was known as Harry/Herry…
BiographyHotep Idris Galeta
‘Cecil Galeta’ was born on 7 June 1941 and grew up in Cape Town, South Africa. However, he was more commonly known as Cecil Barnard; Barnard was his father's…