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… word meaning “hearth.” A hearth is the traditional centre of the home where families would get together to share their stories, just as Iziko is sharing the story of South Africa with both locals and visitors today. Explore … Town’s cultural History with Iziko Museums. Iziko Museums of Cape Town is the official name given to the group of …

… One morning, in the middle-class suburb of Johannesburg where he lives, David Goldblatt found his … guard at the entrance make no difference. Since the end of apartheid in the 1990s no one has been spared by the … everybody gets a share!" Now aged 80 and a leading figure of South African photography, Goldblatt has lost none of his …

… to impose a working structure on a proposed new series of images which would take the photographer right across the … Goldblatt bought a Global Positioning System and a series of survey maps. His concept was to pinpoint the exact intersection of every latitude and longitude line in South Africa, and …

… and history. Informal talk delivered at National Seminar of the National Union of South African Students, April 1973. Pages7 to 10 of Appendix to the Report of the Chairman of the Interim …

… Minister described and analysed the political dispensation of the day in an exemplary fashion. It was his first public appearance following the announcement of the United Party's federal policy. After referring to … Adv. Vorster went on to analyse the policy directions of the various political parties. He concentrated most on the …

… Durban- the Treasurer General of the ANC, Dr Mathews Phosa was the keynote speaker at a PBF … Treasurer General spoke about the Road Ahead and the plans of the ruling party in Government for the next five years. He identified a number of issues that are affecting our people on a daily basis and …

… The trial of eighteen suspected Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) members, … two main charges under the Terrorism Act, and a number of alternative counts under other legislation. Selby Temba … Mothopeng, who was also an internal leadership member of the banned PAC, was tried along with the seventeen other …

… the following topics: v  Towards the Commercialization of Traditional Knowledge and Bio-Diversity based products and … Knowledge Systems Perspective v  Indigenous Systems of Governance and Post-Colonial Africa: The Case of Barotseland v  Indigenous Weather Knowledge, Beliefs and …

… Lord Charles Somerset was the Governor of the Cape Colony from 1814 to 1826. He arrived in the Cape … and to improve conditions for the inhabitants. He was one of the British officials of the time that earned a lot of money even compared with the … www.grahamstown.co.za [Accessed: 2 April 2014]|The History of Parliament , Somerset, Lord Charles Henry (1767 -1831) , …

… South African author and winner of the 1991 Nobel Prize for Literature, Nadine Gordimer , was born in Springs, Transvaal (now known as Gauteng).One of South Africa’s most prolific novelists she has written … Allan Boesak. Godimer was responsible for the script of the 1989 BBC film, Frontiers, and for four of the seven …

… and found guilty by a British military court on charges of murder, arson and demolishing of trains. Scheepers admitted during his trial that he had committed acts of arson, but claimed that he had acted at all times on the … Human & Rousseau.| Kruger, D.W. (ed)(1972). Dictionary of South African Biography, Cape Town: Human Sciences …

… astronomer Frederick William Herschel, the discoverer of the planet Uranus.From 1816 Herschel began a collaboration … many double stars discovered during his father's survey of the northern sky from 1783-1803. With his father he cast, … polished a new 460 mm speculum mirror with a focal length of some 6 m and by 1820 had used it to construct one of the …

… people are aware that Durban has the largest concentration of Indian people outside of India! Originally brought in during the 1860’s by the … started their new lives as store owners and artisans. Some of the oldest remaining Indian shops and stores in Durban are …

… for the famous sculptor Anton van Wouw and is an example of Norman Eaton’s romantic, organic designs. The thatch roof … shade for the windows, the face brick finish is typical of the materials that Eaton liked to use in his designs and … Wouw Museum when the Rembrandt Group, under the direction of Dr Anton Rupert, provided the funds to the University of …

… people moved to Cities in search for jobs. As the number of Black people increased in the Cities, the Johannesburg … (JCC) passed Slum Clearance programmes with the aim of removing Black people from the inner City of Johannesburg. The JCC was controlled by the National Party …

… From the book:  Le Rona Re Batho (An account of the 1982 Maseru Massacre) by Phyllis Naidoo, South Africa, … Not all the 30 South Africans killed were members of the ANC. The only common thread between the 30 was the … students, were escaping the horror and strangulation of Bantu education, hoping to further their studies and …

… confrontation with the Botha constitution. Thousands of millions of people around the world, including the Security Council of the United Nations, are confident of a total rejection of …

… The Amathola Mountain Range which is a subsidiary of the Winterberg Range, 15 km North-East of Alice, extending Westwards to the Great Fish River. The … perhaps a chief who had a Village there! Amathole is one of the 7 districts of Eastern Cape Province of South …

… Baartman District Municipality, Eastern Cape. Former name of the Farm- Almondsfontein, given by Colonel Robert Jacon Gordon, who was the Commander of the Garrison at the Cape . In honour of Professor J Allemand, of the University of Leiden (the … New Dictionary of South African Names by Peter E Raper   …

… This is the story of an inter-racial venture in South Africa. Many hundreds of white people and Africans in the Union’s four largest cities worked selflessly together to give the cast of the musical King Kong the opportunity for Africans to make …

… Frederick Courtney Selous came to South Africa at the age of nineteen in 1871. Inspired by the writings of explorers such as Dr. David Livingstone and William … Charles Baldwin, Selous wanted to explore the continent of Africa. He travelled from the Cape of Good Hope to the …

… Report of the Legal Commission of the Study Project on Christianity in Apartheid Society. Content includes: Statement by the Members of the Commission; The image of the law in the minds of White …

… Guinea is a West African nation bordering the Bight of Biafra, between Cameroon and Gabon . The earliest indigenous population of this country were the pygmies and Ndowe societies. Around the 12th and 13th Century a wave of Bantu migration settled in the area. The prominent Bantu …

… Welgegund was awarded to Swart Martiens Pretorius a nephew of President M.W Pretorius, founder of Pretoria, at the end of the 19th century by the Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek (ZAR). …

… is a monumental tower, usually ornate, at the entrance of a temple, especially in Southern India. This is a prominent feature of Hindu temple architecture!) The Tamil Society of Pretoria replaced an early wood-and-iron structure with a … by Gordon Verhoef & Krause, November 2011. Places of Worship in South Africa. Halfway House: Southern Book …

… British, taking the name Zimbabwe. The day marked the end of racial segregation after a protracted war of liberation that claimed many lives. In the ninety year … after Ian Douglas Smith made a Unilateral Declaration of Independence (UDI) from Britain. This was after the …

… Island prisoners settled down to the mindless timetable of imprisonment, filling hours with manual labour which … routine repeated itself in the endless rising and setting of the sun, in the waxing and waning of the moon. The waiting for letters and visits, the joy of …

… List of womens demands reprinted by the Federation of South African Women as set out in the 1955 Congress of the People. Green, yellow, black and white artwork at …

… South African statesman and the last prime minister of the Cape Colony before the formation of the Union of South Africa in 1910, John Xavier Merriman, died in … D.J. et al. (eds)(1970).  Standard Encyclopaedia of Southern Africa , Cape Town: NASOU, v. 7.  …

… Not Banned by Frances Baard and Barbie Schreiner The start of a bad time The treason trial was the start of a very bad time. At that time they were after all of our organizations, wanting to stop what we were doing and …