A South African Arts & Culture Magazine
OR – A hugely successful, commercially manipulated, spending spree? Dr Dawn Gould There are various explanations for the idea of a specific day to commemorate romance. Perhaps the Roman festival of fertility, Lupercalia, was involved. Geoffrey Chaucer,…
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RAY ALEXANDER born in Latvia on 12 January 1913, arrived in South African 11 November 1929. She lost her first job after taking part in an anti pass campaign. In 1941 she married Professor Jack Simons. Ray Alexander was a…
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Sydney Carter Born 1874 died 21 December 1945 was born in England and died in Harrismith (then Orange) Free State. He was known for his portraits and landscapes. In 1924 he was elected to the Cape Town Society of artists. …
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AN IMPORTANT HISTORICAL DATE OF THE PAST MOLLY BELLHOUSE BLACKBURN b 12 November 1930 . Graduated with a BA degree from Rhodes University. Well known anti apartheid activist, campaigner for civil rights, politician. She was a member of the Black…
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An intriguing feature of historical research is how finding details of the subject being investigated leads one along another route – different but in ways which are allied. This sometimes happens particularly when early land grants are involved. In this…
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JOHN TENGO JABAVU b 11 January 1859 d. 10 September 1921. A political activist he would become in 1876 editor of the first newspaper – Isigidmi samaxhosa – in South Africa to be written in the Xhosa language. He also…
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RUTH MOMPATI born 14 September 1925 (died 14 May 2015) was a freedom fighter who felt strongly about the situation of women in South Africa. So much so that she helped organize the women’s march on 9 August 1956….
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DOROTHEA FAIRBRIDGE Born in 1862 d 25 August 1931 was the author of fifteen books. Eg, Historic Houses of South Africa: A study of old Cape Dutch farmsteads 1924, edited: the Cape diaries of Lady Anne Barnard,1922 NEVILLE EDWARD ALEXANDER…
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27 July 1925 – Kippie Jeremiah Moekesti Was born in Johannesburg became a well known saxophone player. At first he played the clarinet but later changed to the saxaphone playing in the Band of Blue. When playing he was…
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11 June 1754 ANTON ANREITH The sculptor, came as a solider employed by the Dutch East India Company, to the Cape in 1777. He associated with the French architect Louis Michel Thibault and the master builder Herman Schutte on…
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