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BiographyGregoire Johannes Boonzaier
Born in Newlands, Cape Town in 1909 and lived most of his life at Onrus, Western Cape.The son of D.C. Boonzaaier (qv.), Gregoire pursued art against his father…
BiographyDaniel Cornelis Boonzaier
Born in Patatsrivier, Carnarvon District, Cape, 1865 and died in Cape Town in 1950. D.C. Boonzaier was a SASA member, but there is no surviving record of…
BiographyMoses Kottler
Moses Kottler was born in Joniskis, Lithuania. Sources differ as to the date of his birth – some give it as 1892, others as 1896. As a child, his parents moved…
Military training and camps of the Pan Africanist Congress of South Africa, 1961–1981 by Gregory Houston, Thami ka Plaatjie and Thozama April, (Historia ,60,2), November 2015
Gregoire Boonzaier, SA landscape painter and son of caricaturist D.C. Boonzaier, is born in Cape Town. He died in 2005.
Gregoire Boonzaier (96), one of South Africa’s foremost artists, dies at his home in Onrus River near Hermanus in the Western C
Gregoire Boonzaier (96), one of South Africa’s foremost artists, dies at his home in Onrus River near Hermanus in the Western C
BiographyBartolomeu Dias
Bartolomeu Dias, also spelt: Bartholomew Diaz. He was a Portuguese navigator whose discovery in 1488 of the Cape of Good Hope showed Europeans there was a…
List of exhibitors - South African Society of Artists
A Amshewitz, John Henry, RBA Andersen, Nils Severin Ariba Friba, Franklin Kaye Kendall B Barclay, Dorothy Bayliss, Sir Wyke PRBA …
ArticleThe New Group
This was a group or collective of young South African artists who, upon their return from study in Europe in 1937 began to question and oppose the conservative…
EventPetronella Nellie du Toit South African soprano singer is born
Nellie duToit was born on 17 December 1929 in Pietersburg (now Polokwane) into a musical family. Thus, Nellie du Toit began her singing career at tender age of…
EventPortuguese navigator Bartholomew Dias erects the first stone cross on the South African coast
Portuguese navigator Bartholomew Dias erects his first padrÁƒo, or stone cross, at Kwaaihoek near the mouth of the Bushman's River on the Eastern Cape coast…
PlaceRwanda
Rwanda is a land-locked Country located in the Eastern part of Africa. People began settling in the area as early as 10.000BCE[i]. After several successive…
ArchiveEleanor Kasrils: From Detainment to National Liberation by Nathan Greenhaw
After the South African general election in 1948, the National Party, an Afrikaner political party that supported increased racial segregation and apartheid…
ArticleNatal Workers’ Theatre in the 1980s
Introduction Starting in the late 1970’s and reaching its height in the 1980’s, the South African province of Natal (now known as KwaZulu Natal – KZN) saw a…
NANNA’S LIFE STORY
Contents Early Days Seasonal work in the canning factory THE 'SUBS' STEWARD - "a fine leader to workers in all areas" Life as general secretary Providing…