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History — Pictures • Motion • Voice
History — Pictures • Motion • Voice
Explore South Africa's history through photographs, voices and documentaries.
Drawing of an unknown man in former Transkei (Eastern Cape)
Zambia’s first President
Mandela and Sisulu during imprisonment.
BCM activist assassinated while exiled in Botswana (1974)
Top: Nelson Mandela(charge: conspiracy, sabotage 27 years), Walter Sisulu(charge: sabotage 25 years), Govan Mbeki(charge: sabotage 23 years and five months), Raymond Mhlaba, Bottom:Elias Motsoaledi, Andrew Mlangeni aka ministerofTransport (charge: sabotage-26 years), Ahmed Kathrada(charge: sabotage 27 years and 3 months), Denis Goldberg
Founder of the Zulu nation’s military power
U.S. Senator and anti-apartheid advocate
ANC leader in exile for three decades
Trade unionist and activist whose work documented workers’ struggles in KwaZulu-Natal; killed in 1989 alongside her family
Zambia’s first President. Supported SA liberation movements.
a King who faced exile, trial, and political struggle as colonial powers sought to reshape the region in the late 19th century
Civil rights leader whose vision of equality inspired global struggles against racism, including in South Africa
Missionary and scholar who challenged colonial authority and defended the Zulu kingdom while advancing early African publishing
AmaMpondo king who ruled for over 60 years
Mandela casts his first vote.
Mandela greets thousands in Durban, 1994
The moment millions voted for the first time
BaPedi king and strategist, brother to King Mampuru
Brother to King Sekhukhune
Afrikaner revolutionary
PAC leader and political prisoner
Photographer
Pioneer of isiZulu literature and early African intellectual who helped preserve language through print
Early African printer and educator in the rise of indigenous publishing
Venda king known as the ‘Lion of the North’, who resisted colonial encroachment with military strength until his death in 1895
Prince(s) Siyolo ka Mdushane - Maqoma ka Ngqika - Xhoxho brother to Maqoma- (W Moore, 1869)
Xhosa king who died while resisting colonial forces, remembered for leadership and diplomacy
Portuguese explorer
Contemporary cultural figure contributing to modern South African music development through broadcast
Cultural figure reflecting - traditions and identity in modern South Africa through broadcast
Khoi intermediary and translator to Jan Van Reebiek
American civil rights leader
Ndebele king who sheltered resistance leaders such as Kgosi Mampuru and was imprisoned for defying colonial authority
Tambo mourns victims of the 1981 Matola Raid in Mozambique, highlighting the cross-border cost of apartheid violence
1994: The collapse of apartheid-era homelands signals the reunification of South Africa
Robben Island Prisoner 363/64 and intellectual
King Cetshwayo visits London