Timelines

Football in South Africa Timeline 1862-2012
This is an ongoing project, if you would like to make a contribution please click on the contribute link above 1862 ...read more
1970’s: Poetry Timeline
1971 Closure of The Classic, by Nat Nakasa, editor. Publication of ‘Sounds of a Cowhide Drum’, Oswald Mtshali’s first ...read more
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The development of Music in South Africa timeline 1600-2004
1600s In the Dutch colonial era, from the 17th century on, indigenous tribes people and slaves imported from the east ...read more
Peter Magubane Timeline 1932-
Photograph by Peter Magubane, published in the book Sowetho from 1978 1932 Born in Vrededorp, South Africa. ...read more
A History of South African Literature, timeline 1824-2005
1824 The Glasgow Missionary Society founded the school of Lovedale at Alice in the Tyume valley in 1824. 1877 The ...read more
Afrapix timeline 1978 - 1991
1978/9 Exiled artists, members of the African National Congress (ANC) and other liberation movements in Botswana, ...read more
A History of the South African Film Industry timeline 1895-2003
1895 The Kinetescope (invented by Thomas Edison) was a box in which people could see a moving image. The first ...read more
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Towards a people’s culture, Art and Resistance under apartheid Timeline 1938-1997
1938 Moses Tladi held his first one person show in the Swedish hall in Hankock street, Johannesburg. 1949 July,  ...read more

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