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ArticlePhotography and the Liberation Struggle in South Africa
… has the colonial state employed photographic imagery to construct and preserve white hegemony? How have people …
ArchiveThe Importance and Power of Gender Safe Spaces by Shanél Johannes
As gendered individuals, our lived experiences are not static, for our positionalities and realities differ. The creation of a safe space is important to…
The Broederbond by Norman Levy
… about how the country had been brought to the point where under the National Party the ideology of apartheid had become … I had realised, but from the…
BiographyPregaluxmi (Pregs) Govender
… an MP in 2002. Tracing her life from growing up in poverty under apartheid to becoming the fiercely outspoken activist, …
BiographyStephen Joel Chifunyise
… rising to the positions of Director of Arts and Crafts, Under-Secretary for Arts and Crafts in the Ministry of Youth, …
BiographyMagasvarie Govender
… and on 17 June 1986, she was arrested at her school under the State of Emergency and became one of only three …
BiographyChristiaan Rudolf De Wet
… as volunteers and the four of them reported for duty under Commandant Lucas Steenekamp. In March and April 1900 De …
BiographyAhmed Mohamed "Kathy" Kathrada
… While he attended Johannesburg Indian High School, he came under the influence of Dr. Yusuf Dadoo and the Cachalia …
PlaceMaynardville Open Air Theatre
… Nursery School [6] , which opened in 1952, initially under the auspices of the Barkly Training College for Nursery … Church Street! The City Council even…
PlaceKnysna Forest
The Knysna Forest has a rich history spanning thousands of Years, from indigenous use to colonial exploitation and modern conservation.Indigenous people who…
Place"When Woodstock had a Beach"
Before the clash of concrete and commerce, before the hum of machinery overtook the gentle sound of waves, the Woodstock coastline thrived as a vibrant beach…
PlaceThe Company Gardens, Cape Town.
… space. Government Avenue was declared a National Monument under old NMC legislation on13 August 1937, while the …
PlaceHilton College an Independent Boy's Boarding School
… teacher and cleric'. Lucas was Anglo-Irish, the son of an Under Secretary for Ireland , and in 1852 had been a young … had studied mathematics at St John’s…
PlaceZuurberg Mountain Village (also spelt:"Suurberg")
Lying in the North Western corner, of the Sundays River Valley, Zuurberg lies at the foot of the Mountain of the same name. The Historic Zuurberg Pass, almost…
PlaceCentral African Republic
… Central Africans and sent them to southern Congo to construct the Congo-Ocean Railway, which linked Congo to …
PlaceChris Hani Baragwanath Hospital, Johannesburg
… bleak for the Allies. There was thus real urgency to construct the hospital as quickly as possible. Within a …
PlaceBonnievale, Langeberg Municipality-Cape Town
Bonnievale is a quiet Town in the Breede Valley of the Western Cape. Bonnievale is surrounded by the Langeberg Mountains. What makes Bonnievale so unique is…
BiographyReverend Allan Aubrey Boesak
… were however dropped, but the security police kept him under constant surveillance in the hope of finding a reason …
BiographySydney Kumalo
… Art Centre in 1953. Kumalo began his career studying under Cecil Skotnes at Polly Street, and later working …
BiographyJudge Jan Hendrik Steyn
… urban areas: their very residence there was on sufferance, under section 10 of the Bantu Urban Areas Act. The fiction …
BiographyHendrik Frensch Verwoerd
… for the Union?" ”” 52 percent voted 'Yes'. The government under Strijdom' had brought in a rule requiring government to …
BiographyNongqawuse
… the name of Cory was informed that she was alive in 1910 under the name of Victoria Regina, but he did not find her. …
BiographyDr Abdullah Abdurahman
… that APO stood for Abdurahman's Political Organisation. Under his leadership the APO grew into a body of several …
Address by ANC President, Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela, to the OAU Ad Hoc Committee for Southern Africa Arusha, 28 April 1992
… revolve around two key problem areas: The regime hopes to construct the constitution-making body in such a manner that … powers by any other structure…
The Afrikaner Bond
… He wanted to see South Africa united as a republic, under the control of Afrikaners, and free of British … British took over the Cape in 1806, Afrikaners had…
PlaceValdezia Mission Station, Soutpansberg District
Situated in the Soutpansberg District to the south-east of Louis Trichardt is Valdezia Mission Station, an establishment that has come to represent a portion…
BiographyWalter Kefuoe Fikeleph Chakela
… was a Black Consciousness organisation. He spent two days under the guidance of Jerry Modisane who was the president of …
PlaceZambezi River, Zambia and Zimbabwe
… Board. The new Board was vested with the power to construct dams and power stations, to transmit electric power … to be operated and was fully developed as a…
Archive2023 - President Ramaphosa, State of the Nation Address, 9 February 2023
… boundaries of our land. We are not defined by the minerals under our earth or the spectacular landscape above it. We are … coming months and ultimately end…
PlaceHaartbeespoort
Hartbeespoort, informally also known as: "Harties", is a small resort town north of Johannesburg in the North West Province of South Africa. Situated on slopes…