Art & Culture
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ArticleTimeline of South African Football Coaches from 1992 – 2022
Jeff Butler (1992) The Englishman was earmarked as Bafana Bafana's first coach, but a discrepancy with his coaching qualifications led…
ArticleTimeline of State Action Against the Press in the 1960s
1960 Mar- Norman Phillips of the Toronto Star was detained 3 and '/2 days for trying to cable a story about a police attack on Nyanga,…
ArticleDebating Stellenbosch University’s Language Policy
In March 2015 students at the University of Cape Town (UCT), Western Cape, launched a student movement, namely #Rhodes Must Fall which…
ArticleGhallywood: An Evolution of Ghana’s Film Industry
Early Beginnings of the African Film Industry: During the British colonial rule over Kenya, Uganda, Northern Rhodesia, Nyasaland and the…
ArticleTimeline of South African photographic books and exhibitions 1958 - 2003
Timeline 1958 The photographer, Peter Magubane, is the first black South African to win the Press Photo of the Year Award. Albert…
ArticleSona Patterns - Revisiting the Contributions of the People in Sub-Saharan Africa to Modern Mathematics
To many, modern mathematics and Africa are not synonymous. Open any school mathematics book and the role of African scholars has been…
ArticleThe Daily Dispatch
Together with the Rand Daily Mail, the Daily Dispatch was one of the loudest mouthpieces for mainstream liberal critique of the Apartheid…
ArticleAfrikaans: the Language of Black and Coloured Dissent
IntroductionAfrikaans, one of the official languages, together with English, during South Africa’s Apartheid era, often occupies a…
Insurrections: The Storming
September 2015, District Six Homecoming Centre, Cape Town. Performance Curated by: Sumangala Damodaran, Tina Schouw and Ari Sitas …
Performing Arts Council of the Orange Free State (PACOFS)
PACOFS operated from Bloemfontein with Rex Hugo as the first director. In 1996, state subsidy was reduced and PACOFS became a non-profit…
Natal Performing Arts Council (NAPAC)
NAPAC was founded on 25 July 1963 under Chris Lombard as the first director. The first office premises were two small offices in Acutt…
Performing Arts Council of the Transvaal (PACT)
PACT was founded in Pretoria on 3rd January 1963 with P.P.B Breytenbach as the first director. It was founded under the same principle as…
Cape Performing Arts Board (CAPAB)
CAPAB was instituted to promote the performing arts in the Cape Province. Operational costs for CAPAB, the Performing Arts Council of the…
ArticleCulture and Resistance Conference, Botswana, 1982
Several hundred artists and activists from South Africa living in exile and within the country, as well as foreign nationals, were hosted…
ArticleThe Storming: Insurrections Ensemble
September 2015, District Six Homecoming Centre, Cape Town. Performance Curated by: Sumangala Damodaran, Tina Schouw and Ari Sitas …