Arts and Culture

1862 The first documented football matches in South Africa are played in Cape Town and Port Elizabeth (between White c...

1895 The Kinetescope (invented by Thomas Edison) was a box in which people could see a moving image. The first Kin...

1824 The Glasgow Missionary Society founded the school of Lovedale at Alice in the Tyume valley in 1824. 1877 ...

Jeff Butler (1992) The Englishman was earmarked as Bafana Bafana's first coach, but a discrepancy with his coaching q...

1600s In the Dutch colonial era, from the 17th century on, indigenous tribes people and slaves imported from the e...

1971 Closure of The Classic, by Nat Nakasa, editor. Publication of ‘Sounds of a Cowhide Drum’, Oswald Mtshali’s firs...

Zwelidumile Geelboi Mgxaji Mslaba “Dumile” Feni was born on 21 May 1942 in the small town of Withuis in Worc...