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PlaceIziko South African Maritime Centre
The Iziko South African (SA) Maritime Centre opened in 1990. It is based at the Victoria and Alfred Waterfront (V&A Waterfront), Cape Town, Western Cape. The…
ArchiveThe Snape Building Political Demonstration at the University of Cape Town in 1966 by Andrew M. Colman
In the late afternoon of Wednesday, 21 September 1966, I took part in a small political demonstration on the campus of the University of Cape Town (UCT). It…
ArchivePhotographing dispossession, forgetting solidarity: waiting for social justice in Wentworth, South Africa by Sharad Chari
ArchiveErnest Mancoba at Home part 3
ArchiveErnest Mancoba at Home part 2
ArchiveErnest Mancoba at Home part 1
ArchiveWhere did all the masks go? by Dewald van Rensburg (22 May 2020)
In the first quarter of this year South Africa’s normally staid and insignificant mask industry exploded. Like its peers across the globe it had orders…
PlaceVergelegen Wine Estate Library
The library at Vergelegen Wine Estate situated in Somerset West, Western Cape used to be a winery that was built during 1816. It was converted to a library in…
EventIgnatius Iggy Mthebule remembered
Ignatius ‘Iggy’ or ‘Gab’ Mthebule was a student activist and leader associated with the Azanian Student Organisation (AZASO) in 1975. Iggy’s brother, Samuel…
EventTryphina Mboxela Jokweni is honoured by the ANC
Tryphina Mboxela Jokweni was a member of the African National Congress (ANC) and was part of the 1956 Union Buildings March which saw 20 000 women march to…
EventLadybrand Four story told at the TRC
In December 1986, uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) cadres Joyce ‘Betty Boom’ Koekanyetswe, Nomasonto Mashiya and Tax Sejaname were abducted by members of the Orange Free…
PlaceSeweweeks Poort, Swartberg
The Seweweeks Poort is probably the most beautiful 18 km stretch of gravel road anywhere in South Africa. With easy gradients, multiple river crossings, mind…
PlaceInxuba Yethemba Local Municipality, Eastern Cape
The Inxuba Yethemba Local Municipality is a Category B Municipality situated in the Chris Hani District in the Eastern Cape Province. It is approximately 240…
PlaceHindu Tamil Institute Building, Durban
Built by the Tamil Community the prominent and almost 70-year-old Building of the Hindu Tamil Institute (HTI) in Cross Street, Durban, near the Durban Girls’…
PlaceDessenhoek, Durban
Dessenhoek forms a Community of Durban, towards the Pinetown Area. In a continual effort to improve the lives of those around them, Gelvenor once again gave…
ArchiveThe Colonising Camera photographs in the making of Namibian History
ArchiveDenis Goldberg: Rivonia triallist, liberation struggle stalwart, outspoken critic
ArchiveDENIS GOLDBERG 11 APRIL 1933-29 APRIL 2020 - The boy who would build a nation
ArchiveDenis Goldberg belongs to those who defeated apartheid
As a white person in white-ruled South Africa, Denis Goldberg chose to be part of the struggles of the oppressed rather than live in the glare of white…
ArchiveAfricans in Cape Town: State Policy and Popular Resistance, 1936-73 by B Kinkead-Weekes
ArchiveScholars and Ulama of KwaZulu Natal by Dr Yunus Osman
ArchiveIn conversation with Cedric Nunn by Sean Jacobs, (Social Dynamics), June 2011
ArchiveDenis Goldberg memorial
EventKhayelitsha becomes the first township in the Western Cape to confirm a COVID-19 case
On 29 March 2020, Khayelitsha township in Cape Town, Western Cape was the first township to confirm positive case of Covid- 19 virus. The Western Cape province…
PlaceWaterloo Bay, East London
A Bay is an Area of water surrounded or otherwise demarcated by Land. Bays generally have calmer waters than the surrounding sea, due to the surrounding land…
PlaceMitchell's Plain, Cape Flats
It was laid-out as an Area for Coloureds and erected to house the middle income group, about 30 years ago! Parts of it quickly deteriorated into little more…
PlaceRetreat, Cape Town
Retreat is a Suburb of City of Cape Town, Western Cape with a postal code. It is about 15 kms West-North-West of the Provincial Capital City of Cape Town. The…
ArchiveRadio Freedom: A History of South African Underground Radio by Chris A. Smith
At seven p.m. sharp, seven nights a week, during the darkest days of apartheid, an incendiary radio broadcast beamed out from Lusaka, Zambia. It began with the…
EventPresident Cyril Ramaphosa calls for national lockdown for 21 days in South Africa
On 23 March 2020, President Cyril Ramaphosa declared a national state of disaster in terms of section 27 of the Disaster Management Act. This was an urgent…
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