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1862 ...read more

1971
Closure of The Classic, by Nat Nakasa, editor.
Publication of ‘Sounds of a Cowhide Drum’, Oswald Mtshali’s first ...read more
1600s
In the Dutch colonial era, from the 17th century on, indigenous tribes people and slaves imported from the east ...read more
Photograph by Peter Magubane, published in the book Sowetho from 1978
1932
Born in Vrededorp, South Africa. ...read more
1824
The Glasgow Missionary Society founded the school of Lovedale at Alice in the Tyume valley in 1824.
1877
The ...read more
1978/9
Exiled artists, members of the African National Congress (ANC) and other liberation movements in Botswana, ...read more
1895
The Kinetescope (invented by Thomas Edison) was a box in which people could see a moving image. The first ...read more
1938
Moses Tladi held his first one person show in the Swedish hall in Hankock street, Johannesburg.
1949
July, ...read more