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Politics and Labour

Politics & Labour

Expanding the Narrative of South African art
Visual Arts

Visual Arts

Architects, fine-artists, photographers, sculptors etc.

Science & Medicine

Notable theorists, scientists & doctors
Community & Religious Leaders

Community & Religious Leaders

                    
Writers & Thinkers

Writers & Thinkers

South Africa's great literary & philosophical minds
Popular Culture

Popular Culture

celebrities, sports stars, musicians, etc
This day in history
What happened on your birthday many years ago?
 

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This week in history

28 August 1875

South African author Maria Elizabeth Rothman (M.E.R.) is born more

29 August 1688

A French minister, Pierre Simond, joins the Huguenots at the Cape by order of the Heeren XVII (Lords Seventeen) more

30 August 1888

The Rosebud, en route from Calcutta to London, is stranded at Diaz Beach, Mossel Bay more

31 August 1938

Andries Dreyer, church archivist and collector of Africana, dies more

1 September 1969

Col. Muammar Gaddafi seizes power in Libya more

2 September 1958

Hendrik Verwoerd becomes Prime Minister more

3 September 1984

Tricameral Parliament inaugurated

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