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ArchiveKeorapetse Kgositsile @poesiefestival berlin 2009
EventBevil Rudd, the Olympic gold, silver and bronze medalist
Bevil Gordon d’Urban Rudd was born on 5 October 1894 in Kimberley, Northern Cape.[i] He is the grandson of Charles Rudd, one of the founders of the De Beers…
PlaceHout Bay Museum
The Hout Bay Museum is situated right next to the Hout Bay Tourist Office just off Main Road behind the Shell Garage. Just like the town, the cottage style…
PlaceDu Toit's Kloof Pass and the Huguenot Tunnel
The Pass was constructed between 1984 and 1988. Leading up to the Huguenot Tunnel from its South side, is an awe-inspiringly beautiful, high-altitude viaduct…
ArchiveBiography of Buchi Emecheta by Alphonce Baraza
Life Florence Onyebuchi “Buchi” Emecheta was born on July 21, 1944 in Yaba near Lagos, Nigeria, to Igbo parents, Jeremy Nwabundinke and Alice Okuekwuhe…
Rethinking the William Fehr Collection
The William Fehr Collection had been on exhibition at the Castle – more or less unchanged – from the 1950s. The core of the collection comprises historical…
PlaceHout Bay East and West Forts
Found on opposite sides of the Bay entrance, on the mountain. Origanally built to protect the Bay entrance! The site was declared a National Monument in the…
EventCassper Nyovest, the South African Hip Hop artist is born
Refiloe Maele Phoolo, stage name “Cassper Nyovest” was born in Mafikeng, North West Province on 16 December 1990.[1] Cassper Nyovest is one of the most…
EventMinnie Dlamini, the South African television personality is born
Minenhle “Minnie” Dlamini was born in Durban, KwaZulu Natal on 7 July 1990.[1] Minnie attended Northlands Girls’ High School and studied at the University of…
EventTumi Molekane, the South African hip hop artist and poet is born
Boitumelo “Tumi” Molekane was born in Tanzania on 16 August 1981.[1] At the time of his birth his parents were living in exile due to the Apartheid regime…
EventAKA, the Prince of South African hip hop is born
Kiernan Jarryd Forbes, popularly known by his stage name AKA was born in Cape Town on 28 January 1988.[1] He started out his hip hop career as part of a group…
Kirstenbosch Summer Sunset Concerts 2017
The Kirstenbosch Summer Sunset Concerts run annually from the end of November until the beginning of April. Every Sunday, families and groups of friends flock…
ArchiveThe Polokwane conference and South Africa’s second political transition: tentative conclusions on future perspectives by J.C.M. Venter and A. Duvenhage
Archive53rd ANC National Conference Resolutions, December 2012
ArchiveThe ANC Polokwane Conference and its Aftermath by Bulumko Nelana (Policybrief), February 2010
ArchiveInqaba ya basebenzi Number 28, January 1990
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ArchiveInqaba ya basebenzi Issue 26, April 1988
EventSouth African storyteller, Gcina Mhlophe is born
On 24 October 1958, South African storyteller Nokugcina Elsie Mhlophe known as Gcina Mhlophe was born in Kwazulu-Natal South Africa. She is most famous for…
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ArchiveInqaba Ya Basebenzi Number 5, January 1982
PlaceHatfield Street 139, Gardens
Declared a Provinsial Heritage Site, like so many of the lovely old houses on Hatfield Street, in Cape Town!
ArchivePhotographer Ernest Cole: Of bondage and freedom – Discovery of trove of negatives a game changer by Ivor Powell (Daily Maverick), 30 November 2017
By the age of 25, when Ernest Cole fled South Africa for exile in New York, he had already cut the template for the way the experience of apartheid would be…
PlaceHawston
Close to Hermanus, the town of Hawston with its long, white unspoilt beach lies cosily between the sea and the mountain. It is thought that long ago the Quena …
A Walk in the Night
On 1 December 1834, the enslaved people of the Cape were legally freed. To commemorate this day, the annual Emancipation Day “Walk in the Night” will once…
ArchiveUnlike The Gambia’s Jammeh, Mugabe may not disappear, 22 November 2017, AZAD ESSA
In the central lobby of the Banjul International Airport, a painting of Yahya Jammeh, the former president of The Gambia, adorns the ceiling. Jammeh, in…
PlaceFranskraal and the Strandveld Museum
Situated right outside the shark cage diving centre of South Africa (Gansbaai), Franskraal is a quaint seaside village with an awesome array of things to do…
ArchiveA Celebration of Queerness: Zanele Muholi receives a French knighthood
The French Embassy was due to present the Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et de Lettres (Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters) to acclaimed photographer and…
PlaceHaakdoring
Railway siding and settlement 17km from Naboomspruit. Afrikaans for 'hook-thorn' The mame refers to the thorn bush found their and also gives name to the farm…
PlaceHaakbospan
Formerly Ellisras, it is a low lying area North-East of Kiesel. Afrikaans for 'hook-bush pan', the name refers to the many thorny bushes found there, with…