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BiographyJo Ractliffe
… in South Africa at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco (2014); Apartheid and After at Huis Marseille, …
BiographyNithianandan ‘Elvis' Ganese Govender
Nithianandan Ganese Govender (Elvis) was born on 1 November 1958 in Esperanza, a village on the south coast of Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal – KZN), on the eastern…
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…
ArchiveBan the can support the metalbox workers
Cream background with brown block with title in cream lettering. Artwork in centre showing a soft drink can in a circle with a cross over it. Black block at…
BiographyFranco Frescura
… conferences in Windhoek, Lusaka, Hong Kong, Singapore and San Francisco. In November 1999, he became a member of the …
BiographyCecil Edwin Frans Skotnes
Cecil Edwin Frans Skotnes was born on 1st June in 1926 in East London. Skotnes served in the South African Forces in Italy. Before returning to South Africa he…
BiographyPeter Henry Abrahams
Peter Henry Abrahams Deras (Peter Abrahams) was born in Vrededorp, Johannesburg’s largest Coloured and Asian slum, on 19 March 1919. Abrahams is a 'Coloured'…
BiographyDenis Theodore Goldberg
… an honorary life member along with Nelson Mandela and Aung San Suu Kyi. In 2011 he was awarded the German Cross of the …
BiographyTim Bruwer
Odd one out Over the years many people have asked me how it came about that I, amongst all the Afrikaners that I grew up with or knew, as a young man in the…
BiographyCharles Sidney Groves
Charles Sidney Groves Arca was born in Leicester, England, 1878. Stained glass was integral to the teaching in early twentieth-centur British schools of art…
BiographyAugust Aime Balkema
Several dutch publishers have featured prominently in the South African book industry. They include JJ van Schaik, Gerrit Bakker, Cornells Struik and AA…
ArchiveDrawing of an SWAPO man
Black and white drawing of an African man by Paul Robson, dated 1986. May be SWAPO leader. Namibia.
Biography of Can Themba by Aisha Ahmed
Key Words: Can Themba, Apartheid, Writer in Exile, Drum Magazine Born: 1924 Marabastad, Pretoria Died: 1968 Swaziland Education: High School, Polokwane …
BiographyLeslie Rubin
The son of a rabbi, Leslie Rubin was born on 5 August 1909 in District Six, Cape Town, Cape Province (now Western Cape), then a multiracial district of the…
ArchiveMemorandum van HSAW aan die Voorsitter van die SVR werkkomitee
Memorandum from the Chief of the South African Defence Force to the Chairman, State Security Council, detailing guidelines for the formulation of a short term…
ArchiveThe man SA fears
For the sixth year in succession, the South African Parliament has approved the continued detention on Robben Island maximiim security prison of Robert…
EventSA’s Fifa membership reinstated
Thirty-one years after being expelled, South Africa had its membership of the Football International Federation Association (Fifa) reinstated on 3 July 1992…
ArchiveBanned ex-BPC man enters Wits 1982 B
ArchiveAppendix 8 Sam will never see his favoured son free of the traitor’s brand by Denis Goldberg
Sam Goldberg is dead. But he lives on. One of the characters in the sell-out play, “Cincinatti”, was based on Sam, who died in Johannesburg this week. Sam was…
BiographyPeter Clarke
Born in Cardiff Road, Simon’s Town in 1929, as the third born child in a family of six, there was much that his domestic worker mother and Dockyard handyman…
The White man’s task by Jan Smuts, 22 May 1917
Before the country had time to settle down under Union, South Africa was fighting in the Great War. After the conquest of both German South West and East…
ArchiveThe Black Man in South Africa
… to be given by I B Tabata at the University of California, San Diego, entitled The Black Man in South Africa. …
Samuel Silverthorne Bailey, surgeon and hospital pioneer in SA, marries Hester Aletta van Reenen, daughter of J.G. (Jan) van Re
ArchiveDie boodskap van Toronto aan die kerk
ArchiveMandela - the man no prison can silence
Jan van Riebeeck (57) dies in Batavia.
ArticleRock art as an expression of hunter-gatherer society and world-view
… called Bushman art because most of it was created by the San. What did the artists paint? Ancient rock artists painted … www.lando.co.za The painter in…
BiographyBenson Tsele
Benson Tsele died on 21 March 1968 in combat against the then white supremacist Rhodesian army. The Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) guerrilla was part of the Luthuli…
Term 1:THE HUNTER GATHERERS OF SOUTHERN AFRICA
… ARE THE HUNTER GATHERERS OF SOUTHERN AFRICA? LIFE OF THE SAN CHANGES FOREVER: The arrival of the Europeans WHO ARE THE SAN SAN COMMUNITY AND BELIEFS SAN…