Cultural Heritage & Religion

The Cape Minstrels: Origins and Evolution of Tweede Nuwe Jaar (Second New Year) in the Cape

The Cape Minstrels: Origins and Evolution of Tweede Nuwe Jaar (Second New Year) in the Cape

IntroductionIn the years following 1994, South Africa has become well known for its culturally diverse population and he...

Heritage day, Braai Day or Shaka Day: Whose Heritage is it Anyway?

Heritage day, Braai Day or Shaka Day: Whose Heritage is it Anyway?

18 November 2025

BackgroundHeritage Day is one of the newly created South African public holidays. It is a day in which all are encourage...

December 16, the reflection of a changing South African heritage

December 16, the reflection of a changing South African heritage

IntroductionDecember 16 looms large in the history of South Africa. Today in the new South African it is celebrated as t...

Afrikaans: the Language of Black and Coloured Dissent

Afrikaans: the Language of Black and Coloured Dissent

IntroductionAfrikaans, one of the official languages, together with English, during South Africa’s Apartheid era, often ...

African Heritage Sites

African Heritage Sites

Within 37 African countries, UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) has listed 135 Wo...

South Africa’s World heritage sites

South Africa’s World heritage sites

A World Heritage Site is declared by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (Unesco). For ...

Ghallywood: An Evolution of Ghana’s Film Industry

Ghallywood: An Evolution of Ghana’s Film Industry

Early Beginnings of the African Film Industry: During the British colonial rule over Kenya, Uganda, Northern Rhodes...

People and Culture of South Africa

People and Culture of South Africa

14 December 2023

South Africa has early human fossils at Sterkfontein and other sites. The first modern inhabitants of the country were t...

Nguni Stick Fighting

Nguni Stick Fighting

27 November 2023

Introduction This article looks at the history of an indigenous Nguni sport known as Stick Fighting, which was popula...

European missionaries in southern Africa: the role of the missionaries

European missionaries in southern Africa: the role of the missionaries

European missionaries to southern Africa during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries played a strangely ambiguous role...

Sona Patterns - Revisiting the Contributions of the People in Sub-Saharan Africa to Modern Mathematics

Sona 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 scho...

Gayle: The Language of Apartheid South Africa’s Gay Underground

Gayle: The Language of Apartheid South Africa’s Gay Underground

The socio-political landscape of Apartheid South Africa was a challenging one for members of the LGBTQI+ community. Unde...

Arts and Crafts and reconstruction by Jillian Carman

Arts and Crafts and reconstruction by Jillian Carman

My paper is about two women who focused on a common ideal, namely, the use of hand labour for social reconstruction afte...

Placing the film “Inxeba – The Wound” in Historical Review

Placing the film “Inxeba – The Wound” in Historical Review

14 February 2020

Story Synopsis Inxeba is essentially an intersectional story about three Xhosa men that is told in the setting of the...

South African National Symbols and Heritage

South African National Symbols and Heritage

This feature highlights aspects of South African Heritage and symbols of South Africa. A person's heritage is mad...

Insurrections Ensemble

Insurrections Ensemble

Can you create music that can find a home on both sides of the Indian Ocean beyond the cliché of “fusion”? Are Indian fo...

Spark: A Progressive Arts Project Publication

Spark: A Progressive Arts Project Publication

"On Language South Africa is a land of many languages, but these languages can be divided into two main categories - the...

Defining culture, heritage and identity

Defining culture, heritage and identity

What is heritage and identity? Questions of heritage and identity are not as straightforward as they might first appear...

Origins of major world religions reflected in SA

Origins of major world religions reflected in SA

Religion is an important part of millions of people's lives across the world. Thousands of African people are conver...

Tswana

(seTswana [language], baTswana [people]) The four major ethnic divisions among Black South Africans are the Nguni, Soth...

Dutch Reformed Church (DRC)

Dutch Reformed Church (DRC)

When the Dutch settled in South Africa in the 16th and 17th centuries they transplanted their Dutch Reformed theology to...

Missionary settlement in Southern Africa 1800-1925

Missionary settlement in Southern Africa 1800-1925

A study of missionary settlement and the spread of Christianity in southern Africa during the period 1800 - 1925, includ...

Maritime history and heritage: shipwrecks

Maritime history and heritage: shipwrecks

Why are shipwrecks important? Shipwrecks have always held a specific allure. The promise of hidden treasure, the unexp...

History of South African National Orders and Awards

History of South African National Orders and Awards

The birth of a new non-racial and non -sexist democracy in South Africa necessitated a critical review of the system of ...

The History of Christmas Day and its celebration in South Africa

The History of Christmas Day and its celebration in South Africa

Christmas Day, celebrated on December 25 in Catholic, Protestant, and most Orthodox churches, is a public holiday in Sou...

Arts and Cultural Development Network (ACDN)

Arts and Cultural Development Network (ACDN)

13 February 2018

The Arts and Cultural Development Network (ACDN) was founded in 1991 as an initiative to influence government policy at ...

KwaMsiza - A Ndebele village

KwaMsiza - A Ndebele village

19 January 2018

KwaMsiza is a village of 49 families located some 50km north of Pretoria. Its residents are Ndzundza Ndebele, and belong...