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Jun 16, 2025

Polokwane

Polokwane is the capital city of Limpopo. Where the youth uprising occures in Soweto in 1976. 

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Jun 14, 2025

Arthur Newton's Rock Seat -Comrades Marathon

This picture is his plaque to remember- Arthur's Seat is a rocky hollowed out landmark in a rock face. Where Arthur Newt...

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Jun 13, 2025

Mpofu – Fort Fordyce Nature Reserve

Bass fishing is a popular activity as is rock climbing – Fort Fordyce features ten bolted routes with names like the Fev...

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Jun 11, 2025

Blinkwater

Blinkwater, a small but charming area in the Eastern Cape. UNDP’s work proves that investing in development makes things...

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Jun 04, 2025

Revisiting Grey Street: Phyllis Naidoo as Historian - Uma Dhupelia-Mesthrie, University of the Western Cape

Phyllis Naidoo, honorary doctorate, acceptance speech at the then University of Durban-Westville (now University of KwaZ...

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Jun 02, 2025

Cape Town's Art Museum of Illusions-Kloof Street, Cape Town

At the Museum of Illusions Cape Town, visitors are encouraged to touch, play, explore, and take photos. Whether you’re d...

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Archive
May 13, 2025

Omar Badsha – Political Activist and Cultural Worker

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Biography
Apr 30, 2025

Reggie Williams

Apartheid was a programme established by the white dominated National Party (NP) in 1948 to consolidate the process of r...

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Apr 29, 2025

Gqeberha was Port Elizabeth, Nelson Mandela Bay

Port Elizabeth is now known as Gqeberha. The name change was approved by the South African government in 2021 and is an ...

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Afrikaans community, 1883-1899
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Apr 26, 2025

Afrikaans community, 1883-1899

 As the demand for African land and labour spiralled, conflict was heightened as white Afrikaans farmers tightened ...

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Apr 10, 2025

Centurion, Gauteng

The suburb of Lyttelton was one of the original suburbs that made up the old Verwoerdburg. Lyttelton was granted City Co...

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Apr 09, 2025

Transvaal Province

The Transvaal is a historical region and former Province of South Africa, located North of the Vaal River, that existed ...

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Apr 04, 2025

Hilton College an Independent Boy's Boarding School

The land was part of 'Ongegund', a farm belonging to a Johanna Grobbelaar, which had been purchased by her late husband ...

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Mar 27, 2025

Pietermaritzburg Botanical Gardens

On 3 March 1874, the Pietermaritzburg Botanical Garden was founded. It was run by the newly formed Pietermaritzburg Bota...

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Mar 23, 2025

Valley of a Thousand Hills

The Thousand Hills experience is to KwaZulu-Natal what the Garden Route is to the Cape. It is an area of great peace and...

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