#  @HistorySAZAR History ZAR History ZAR posts on X about south africa, image, the first, in the the most. They currently have [-------] followers and [---] posts still getting attention that total [-------] engagements in the last [--] hours. ### Engagements: [-------] [#](/creator/twitter::1863279265510207488/interactions)  - [--] Week [---------] +80% - [--] Month [---------] +39% - [--] Months [----------] +33% - [--] Year [-----------] +98,894,736% ### Mentions: [---] [#](/creator/twitter::1863279265510207488/posts_active)  - [--] Week [--] -43% - [--] Month [---] -14% - [--] Months [-----] +209% - [--] Year [-----] +155,150% ### Followers: [-------] [#](/creator/twitter::1863279265510207488/followers)  - [--] Week [-------] +0.27% - [--] Month [-------] +1.50% - [--] Months [-------] +66% - [--] Year [-------] +119,136% ### CreatorRank: [------] [#](/creator/twitter::1863279265510207488/influencer_rank)  ### Social Influence **Social category influence** [countries](/list/countries) 26.7% [travel destinations](/list/travel-destinations) 15.84% [finance](/list/finance) 1.81% [musicians](/list/musicians) #3757 [champions league](/list/champions-league) 0.45% [la liga](/list/la-liga) 0.45% [celebrities](/list/celebrities) 0.45% **Social topic influence** [south africa](/topic/south-africa) #275, [image](/topic/image) #168, [the first](/topic/the-first) 7.24%, [in the](/topic/in-the) 6.33%, [university of](/topic/university-of) #364, [collection](/topic/collection) #3612, [london](/topic/london) #3478, [cape town](/topic/cape-town) #121, [native](/topic/native) #445, [education](/topic/education) #4701 **Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by** [@grok](/creator/undefined) [@zombietninja](/creator/undefined) [@j_mandla_afri](/creator/undefined) [@gawdlymzansisa](/creator/undefined) [@calvinphiri8](/creator/undefined) [@sefenefene](/creator/undefined) [@gala_tweets](/creator/undefined) [@siyayasn](/creator/undefined) [@ballyvooney](/creator/undefined) [@lebelohistorian](/creator/undefined) [@sphiwemhlambi](/creator/undefined) [@the_greatndivho](/creator/undefined) [@nathieez](/creator/undefined) [@ms_tourist](/creator/undefined) [@sam71t](/creator/undefined) [@semolekwa](/creator/undefined) [@watujayp](/creator/undefined) [@zweli1](/creator/undefined) [@dakalondou](/creator/undefined) [@nicferreir](/creator/undefined) **Top assets mentioned** [Dana Incorporated (DAN)](/topic/$dan) ### Top Social Posts Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours "Miriam Makeba (right) with Nina Simone c 1970s. Image Source: Nina Simone Musical (X)" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/2022183280670560357) 2026-02-13T05:37Z 131.2K followers, 40.4K engagements "Poet author educator and political activist - Ratshaka Ratshitanga (1933 - 2022) footage courtesy of his documentary 'The Two Rivers' (1985)" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/2022291651339735287) 2026-02-13T12:47Z 131.2K followers, 20.1K engagements "The Jazz Maniacs c 1940-44. Jacob Moeketsi is at the piano the leader Solomon 'Zuluboy' Cele sits in the front line with Wilson Silgee (alto sax) left and Zakes Nkosi (tenor sax) right. Behind are (left to right) Zakes Searbi Vy Nkosi (trombone) and Edward Sililo. Image Source: Ned Newitt https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022995946469015990 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022995946469015990" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/2022995946469015990) 2026-02-15T11:26Z 131.2K followers, [---] engagements "Alfred Nzo (right) with Thomas Nkobi (with cap) Noord-Holland Schiphol October [----]. Photo Credit: Rob Croes (ANEFO)" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/2023020955413704974) 2026-02-15T13:05Z 131.2K followers, [----] engagements "South African group Joy perform Paradise Road live on BBC TV c 1980's. Joy was a South African female vocal group who had a chart-topping hit in South Africa with Paradise Road. The record spent [--] weeks at No. [--] spot" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/2015662560138105190) 2026-01-26T05:46Z 131.2K followers, 197.8K engagements "Prof Mangaliso Robert Sobukwe the founding President of the Pan Africanist Congress of Azania c 1970s. Photo: Alf Kumalo" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/2021529354480845175) 2026-02-11T10:18Z 131.2K followers, 12K engagements "Archbishop Desmond Tutu then Bishop of Johannesburg spoke at Stanford University's Memorial Auditorium about the evils of Apartheid and the importance of economic sanctions on the first national Martin Luther King Jr. Day on January [--] [----]. Footage courtesy of Stanford University Archive. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022285117306085596 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022285117306085596" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/2022285117306085596) 2026-02-13T12:21Z 131.2K followers, 18.6K engagements "June 1966: Senator Robert F Kennedy in a meeting with Black leaders from Johannesburg. From left they are: P.Q Vundla T. W Kambule Collins Ramusi Khabi Mngoma. Image Source: Drum Social Histories" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/2022317168101085321) 2026-02-13T14:29Z 131.2K followers, [----] engagements "David Samaai (1927 - 2019) was a South African tennis player. Under the Apartheid regime he was not allowed to enter tournaments in South Africa like the South African Championships but he could play tournaments abroad although he had to fund his own trips. He participated in the Wimbledon Championships in [----] [----] [----] and [----] the first non-white South African to do so. His best result in the singles event was reaching the third round in [----] where he lost in straight sets to seventh-seeded and eventual finalist Ken McGregor. At the [----] French Championships he lost in the second round of" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/2022357876631601272) 2026-02-13T17:11Z 131.2K followers, 50.6K engagements "Vintage photo of PAC founding member and President - Zephania "Zeph" Mothopeng (1913 - 1990). Image Source: IMS Vintage Photos" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/2022559141168918703) 2026-02-14T06:30Z 131.2K followers, [----] engagements "Oliver Tambo at the Mandela and Tambo law office c [----]. Photo Credit: Jurgen Schadeberg" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/2022576162354958356) 2026-02-14T07:38Z 131.2K followers, [----] engagements "South African artist Dumile Feni (left) with South African drummer Louis Moholo in exile London [----]. Photo: George Hallett" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/2022694280394084426) 2026-02-14T15:27Z 131.2K followers, [----] engagements "Allan Kirkland Soga (1862 - 1938) was a South African journalist writer political activist and founding member of the South African Native National Congress. Soga was the youngest son of Tiyo Soga the first African in South Africa to be ordained a minister. His mother was a Scot and he was educated in the Cape and in Scotland receiving sufficient legal education to be appointed a magistrate. Later dismissed from this position he was employed at other times as a labour bureau agent and a road inspector in the Transkei. His first calling however was journalism and he was associated both with" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/2022726148614934658) 2026-02-14T17:34Z 131.2K followers, [----] engagements "Dr Max Yergan (1893 - 1975) was an African American activist & intellectual who first came to South Africa in [----] as a representative of the YMCA until [----]. A communist by conviction at this time he introduced number of Fort Hare University students most notably Govan Mbeki to Marxist thinking. In [----] he was asked to aid the drafting of the constitution of the All African Convention. He had a reputation as a forceful and persuasive speaker. On his return to the USA he was appointed to the faculty of City College in New York and joined Paul Robeson in the founding of the Council on African" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/2022924472831873281) 2026-02-15T06:42Z 131.2K followers, [----] engagements "1989: Chris Mathabe one month after his release after spending [--] years on Robben Island. Mathabe was a student activist who was an executive member of the Soweto Student's League before his arrest in [----]. Photo Credit: Gille de Vlieg" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/2022935272514818506) 2026-02-15T07:25Z 131.2K followers, [----] engagements "Exiled PAC activist Philip Kgosana (left) with Francis Mbelu April [----]. Kgosana was famous for leading a demonstration at the age of [--] on [--] March [----] in which [-----] protestors opposing the country's pass laws marched from Langa to Cape Town one of the largest anti-apartheid demonstrations to take place in South Africa. Photo: Peter Magubane/Drum Social History/Wikipedia https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022942770986447158 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022942770986447158" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/2022942770986447158) 2026-02-15T07:55Z 131.2K followers, [----] engagements "A young Zakes Nkosi c 1930s/40s. Isaac Zakes Nkosi (1925 - 1980) was a bandleader composer and saxophonist. He started his schooling in Alexandra at the Holy Cross Catholic School where he also began his music career. Here he learnt the rudiments of piano and organ. By the age of nine he was something of a musical prodigy and by the age of fifteen he had added the accordion violin and clarinet to his repertoire. His sister Minah bought him his first saxophone when he was [--] and after matriculating he formed his first music group. Zacks was soon playing professionally with the local bands like" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/2022994153504641268) 2026-02-15T11:19Z 131.2K followers, [----] engagements "Zindzi Mandela with Whitney Houston Soweto November [----]. Photo Credit: Dana Lixenberg" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/2023009646773195154) 2026-02-15T12:21Z 131.2K followers, 15.8K engagements "Choir at Clydesdale Mission Umzimkulu c [----]. Image Source: Piper Collection / Historic Africa" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/2023022742493393317) 2026-02-15T13:13Z 131.2K followers, [----] engagements "Xhosa woman smokes a pipe outside in a rural village in Transkei South Africa. Photo: Anne Fischer Photographic Collection" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/2020477825455718432) 2026-02-08T12:40Z 131.2K followers, 28.9K engagements "Young David Sibeko with his 'sweetheart' c 1950s. After leaving school Sibeko went to work for Drum initially as switchboard operator but later as a reporter. In [----] he became an insurance agent. He Joined the PAC during the state of emergency after the banning of the organization in [----]. In [----] Sibeko was appointed head of the PAC's mission to Europe and the Americas. He was responsible for the establishment of new PAC offices in various countries. Sibeko was assassinated in Tanzania in [----]. Source: SAHO/Drum Social Histories https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021282070945734934" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/2021282070945734934) 2026-02-10T17:56Z 131.2K followers, [----] engagements "James 'Sofasonke' Mpanza one of the great men of Soweto with some of his race horses c 1950s. Since Black people were not allowed to own race horses his horses were raced under the names of white people. Image Source: Soweto/Peter Magubane" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/2021810450703196191) 2026-02-12T04:55Z 131.2K followers, 28.3K engagements "1942 Congress deputation to the Prime Minister - Back l to r: Z.K Matthews R.G Baloyi A.J Sililo R.H Godlo - Front l to r: T.M Mapikela J.A Calata A.B Xuma E Qamata. Image Source: The African Patriots by Mary Benson (1963)" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/2021874502091641311) 2026-02-12T09:10Z 131.2K followers, [----] engagements "1983: At 3:15 a.m. Going to work standing room only now on the Wolwekraal-Marabastad bus which is licensed to carry [--] sitting and [--] standing passengers. Photo Credit: David Goldblatt" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/2022129287709725010) 2026-02-13T02:02Z 131.2K followers, 26.5K engagements "Steve 'Kalamazoo' Mokone c 1950s. Mokone was the first Black South African player to play in a professional European league. He began his professional career in [----] with English side Coventry City and later played in the Netherlands with Heracles Almelo (Darius Dhlomo joined him at the Club in 1958). He also joined Cardiff City before being signed in [----] by Spanish side FC Barcelona. He was loaned to French side Marseille. Mokone played in Italy for Torino and in Spain for Valencia CF before finishing his career in Canada in the Eastern Canada Professional Soccer League with the Hamilton" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/2022338833862337006) 2026-02-13T15:55Z 131.2K followers, 12.7K engagements "Drum Magazine's Music editor Todd Matshikiza (On the piano) c [----]. Matshikiza was a Jazz pianist composer and journalist. In [----] he composed the music and some of the lyrics of the Jazz musical King Kong. The musical had a successful run in South Africa before opening at the Prince's Theatre in London's West End on [--] February [----]. Photo Credit: Jurgen Schadeberg https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022609045908050061 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022609045908050061" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/2022609045908050061) 2026-02-14T09:49Z 131.2K followers, [----] engagements "c 1990s: At his first swearing in as acting state President Inkosi Mangosuthu Buthelezi is congratulated by Dr Ben Ngabane while Dr Frank Mdlalose looks on. Image Source: Buthelezi - A Biography by Ben Temkin" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/2022684324861219207) 2026-02-14T14:48Z 131.2K followers, 15.3K engagements "Journalist writer and politician Solomon T. Plaatje (1876 - 1932) was one of the most vocal critics of womens passes. The pass system applied to black women and men but women were hit hardest. Plaatje noticed an anomaly in the manner in which the system was applied in Bloemfontein: married men could get exemption from ordinary pass laws on the basis of their status as respectable native inhabitants but their wives and daughters had to produce a pass on demand and also pay a shilling to renew them every month. In a letter to the editor of The Friend Plaatje condemned the native womens pass law" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/2023030997541937613) 2026-02-15T13:45Z 131.2K followers, [----] engagements "Police dogs force back a crowd at Orlando Stadium c early 1960s. Photo: Peter Magubane/Drum Social Histories/Soweto" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/2022946027985310053) 2026-02-15T08:08Z 131.2K followers, [----] engagements "Rev.Dr C.F Beyers Naud (seated left) with his family c 1930s. Naud was a South African Afrikaner Calvinist Dominee theologian and the leading Afrikaner anti-apartheid activist. Image Source: Learn and Teach Magazine" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/2022975208538206399) 2026-02-15T10:04Z 131.2K followers, [----] engagements "Oliver Tambo arriving with PAIGC President Amilca Cabral at the OAU Heads of State meeting in Algiers [----]. Image Source: Oliver Tambo Exhibition" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/2023072257447485644) 2026-02-15T16:29Z 131.2K followers, [----] engagements "Charlotte Maxeke (1871-1939) was a South African political activist and musician. She became the 1st Black South African woman to graduate from a University when she earned a BSc degree from Wilberforce University Ohio [----]. She toured with the African Choir in 1891" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1919459292521849312) 2025-05-05T18:28Z 131K followers, 614.2K engagements "Late afternoon in Soweto on [--] June [----] by Peter Magubane" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1934542407196176859) 2025-06-16T09:23Z 131K followers, 286.9K engagements "Miriam Makeba circa 1970's" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1935756844603211896) 2025-06-19T17:49Z 131K followers, 199.5K engagements "The first Africans to compete in the Olympic Games were two South Africans Jan Mashiane and Len Taunyane who competed in the Marathon at the [----] St. Louis Olympics" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1936772962952090055) 2025-06-22T13:07Z 130.9K followers, 365.1K engagements "Sam Nzima with his iconic image of Hector Pieterson during the [----] Soweto uprising" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1939583659712938316) 2025-06-30T07:15Z 131K followers, 128.6K engagements "White girl on the bench with a Black maid who is not allowed to sit with her [----]. Picture: Peter Magubane" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1939919016065155492) 2025-07-01T05:28Z 130.9K followers, 897.2K engagements "Steve Biko 1969" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1939952266619818219) 2025-07-01T07:40Z 131K followers, 1.1M engagements "Miriam Makeba and friends 1954" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1945029781264707988) 2025-07-15T07:56Z 131.2K followers, 311.9K engagements "Miriam Makeba on the cover of Time Magazine 1967" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1946933783040520466) 2025-07-20T14:02Z 131.1K followers, 1.2M engagements "World champion boxer Jacob "Baby Jake" Matlala (1962-2013)" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1948000136115920954) 2025-07-23T12:39Z 130.9K followers, 271.8K engagements "South African group Joy perform Paradise Road live on BBC TV c 1980's. Joy was a South African female vocal group who had a chart-topping hit in South Africa with Paradise Road. The record spent [--] weeks at No. [--] spot" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1950170955487002837) 2025-07-29T12:26Z 131K followers, 284.6K engagements "Letta Mbulu performing Nongqongqo in the [----] film A Warm December starring and directed by Sidney Poitier" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1950476987945865628) 2025-07-30T08:42Z 130.9K followers, 272.5K engagements "Miriam Makeba with Dizzy Gillespie during a rehearsal April 1991" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1958411552165355715) 2025-08-21T06:11Z 131.1K followers, 20.8K engagements "Prophet Isaiah Shembe (1865-1935) the founder of Ibandla lamaNazaretha" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1959668411270590534) 2025-08-24T17:25Z 130.9K followers, 681.4K engagements "The founder of the Zion Christian Church (ZCC) - Engenas Ignatius Lekganyane (c. 18851948)" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1963467709556924644) 2025-09-04T05:02Z 131K followers, 901.3K engagements "'3.00 a.m' - Early passengers on the Wolwekraal-Marabastad bus [----]. Picture: David Goldblatt" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1964563122951508343) 2025-09-07T05:35Z 131.1K followers, 321.2K engagements "Students at Wits University [----]. Picture: Charles Milligan" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1964741216958054640) 2025-09-07T17:23Z 130.9K followers, 2.1M engagements "Winnie Madikizela-Mandela was born on this day in [----]. Picture: Eli Weinberg" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1971469092638032106) 2025-09-26T06:57Z 130.9K followers, 220.1K engagements "Poet and political activist Professor Keorapetse Kgositsile (1938-2018) with his son Thebe Neruda Kgositsile (Earl Sweatshirt). Image Source: Genius" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1974422885902213239) 2025-10-04T10:34Z 130.9K followers, 542.4K engagements "Woman dumped at Beestekraal after forced removal [--] August [----]. Photo: Gille de Vlieg" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1977614132724760647) 2025-10-13T05:55Z 131.2K followers, 441.8K engagements "Lucas Mangope addressing citizens of Bophuthatswana in an undated picture. Photo: Media24 Archive" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1979481260096401877) 2025-10-18T09:34Z 131.1K followers, 280.3K engagements "Helen Mmapula Mmakgoba Sibidi is a South African artist. Sebidi's work has been represented in private and public collections including at the National Museum of Women in the Arts Washington and New York the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art New York and the World Bank. Her work has been recognised internationally and locally. In [----] she won the Standard Bank Young Artist award becoming the first black woman to win the award. Image Source: The Artist Press" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1981630777835003978) 2025-10-24T07:56Z 131K followers, 328.4K engagements "Chris Hani (1942-1993)" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1984709182855991595) 2025-11-01T19:48Z 131K followers, 154K engagements "Veronica and Robert Sobukwe soon after his release from Robben Island. Circa [----]. Photo: Ralph Ndawo" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1984857329427230901) 2025-11-02T05:37Z 131.2K followers, 467.2K engagements "The love story of Bubbles Mpondo and Jannie Beetge is a tragic tale of a cross-racial romance during apartheid in South Africa. Mpondo a Black woman and Beetge a white Afrikaner bodybuilder were deeply in love but faced intense opposition and were arrested multiple times for violating the Immorality Act. Their story ended in tragedy in [----] when they were found dead in their Johannesburg home. Source: Drum Magazine / Drum Social Histories" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1984904227886354678) 2025-11-02T08:43Z 131K followers, 918.6K engagements "Forced removals: Bulldozer destroying houses at the corner of Hanover and Blythe Streets. Table Mountain in the background c 1970s. Image Source: District Six Museum Image Collection" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1987083302600081520) 2025-11-08T09:02Z 131K followers, 169.7K engagements "Cissie Z. Gool addressing a Passive Resistance meeting Red Square Durban [----]. Image source: Gandhi-Luthuli Documentation Centre" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/2012988601580048693) 2026-01-18T20:40Z 131.1K followers, [----] engagements "Inkosi Albert Luthuli (c.1898 - 1967) and his wife Nokukhanya leave the Dorchester Hotel in London for the airport 7th December [----]. They were passing through London en route from South Africa to Oslo where Luthuli received the Nobel Peace Prize. (Photo by Keystone/Hulton Archive) https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2013158610214219854 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2013158610214219854" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/2013158610214219854) 2026-01-19T07:56Z 131.2K followers, 14.4K engagements "Creation Of The First Bantu State - Transkei (1962). Footage courtesy of British Path (YT)" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/2013878777080615163) 2026-01-21T07:38Z 131K followers, 51K engagements "The first Black woman in South Africa to qualify as a medical doctor having taken her Hippocratic oath in [----] - Dr Mary Malahlela-Xakana (1916-1981). She was also the first Black woman in South Africa to graduate from the University of the Witwatersrand. Dr Malahlela-Xakana opened her practice in Dobsonville and started seeing patients there. She was also a founding member of YWCA in South Africa and was part of the Fort Hare University council. Picture: SAHO https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2016772558297747661 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2016772558297747661" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/2016772558297747661) 2026-01-29T07:17Z 130.8K followers, 64.9K engagements "Dr Donald G S Mtimkulu (1908-2000) was a South African academic. Mtimkulu was a son of a methodist priest. He earned a BA and MA from Fort Hare and in the 1930s became one of the first Black South Africans to attend Yale University. He also attended the London School of Economics. He had a long career in higher education serving as head of Adams College then taking a professorship in education at the University of Fort Hare in the 1950s. In [----] when the Extension of University Education Act fully segregated higher education in South Africa by race and barred Black students from attending" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/2017285494804033620) 2026-01-30T17:15Z 131.2K followers, [----] engagements "Robert Sobukwe (back right) with his family at his B.A. graduation University of Fort Hare [----]. Image Source: Wits Archives" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/2017496982583914600) 2026-01-31T07:15Z 131K followers, [----] engagements "From Drum Magazine: A love story c 1953" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/2017542666112635072) 2026-01-31T10:17Z 130.9K followers, 39.5K engagements "Mother and Child in their home after the destruction of its shelter by Officials of the Development Board Crossroads Cape Town [--] October [----]. Photo: David Goldblatt" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/2017637533882966353) 2026-01-31T16:34Z 130.8K followers, [----] engagements "Picnic at Hartebeespoort Dam on New Year's Day Transvaal [----]. (North West Province). Photo by David Goldblatt" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/2017666766625796228) 2026-01-31T18:30Z 131K followers, [----] engagements "On [--] January [----] William Khanyile was killed in Matola Mozambique during a cross border raid by South African Defence Force members. A rocket was fired at point-blank rage through his bedroom wall while he was sleeping. The raid became known as the Matola Raid. Source: Saho" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/2018242550914601053) 2026-02-02T08:38Z 131K followers, [----] engagements "The journey of Johnny Mothopeng and his wife Ellen from Soweto to Robben Island - excerpt from the [----] documentary by Kevin Harris "This we can do for Justice & for Peace"" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/2018302900611506386) 2026-02-02T12:38Z 130.9K followers, [----] engagements "Miss World 1972: Two South African contestants on left Miss Africa South Cynthia Shange and on right Miss South Africa Stephanie Elizabeth Reinecke pictured together in Grosvenor Square London on 22nd November [----] prior to competing in the Miss World [----] beauty pageant. (Photo by Rolls Press/Popperfoto) https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2018310268313301207 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2018310268313301207" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/2018310268313301207) 2026-02-02T13:07Z 130.9K followers, 36.4K engagements "Dr Allan Boesak accompanied by his wife Is greeted by Coretta Scott King at Hartsfield Jackson International Airport On March [--] [----] (Photo By Norm Staples)" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/2018656275303956987) 2026-02-03T12:02Z 130.8K followers, [----] engagements "Joseph Moloi from South Africa signed with Cardiff City F.C. in Wales UK 15th November [----]. (Photo by Stroud/Express/Hulton Archive)" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/2018716587620991329) 2026-02-03T16:01Z 130.8K followers, 12.2K engagements "Oliver Tambo Nana Mahomo and Peter Molotsi arrive in Ghana April [----]. Image Credit: Mauritius Images" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/2018956962851876981) 2026-02-04T07:57Z 131K followers, [----] engagements "1985: Young mourners carrying symbolic AK-47 rifles stand over the coffins of Queenstown residents killed by police who opened fire on them as they were leaving the church in which they had met to discuss a consumer boycott. Fourteen people were murdered including three fifteen-year-olds. Photo: Gideon Mendel/UCT Photography Collection https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2019049516045849038 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2019049516045849038" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/2019049516045849038) 2026-02-04T14:04Z 131.1K followers, [----] engagements "Dolly Rathebe (1928 - 2004) born Josephine Malatsi was a South African musician actress cover girl film star cultural icon and one of the principal players in the cultural renaissance that flowered briefly before it was terminated by Apartheid in the late 1950s. She was born in Randfontein west of Johannesburg in [----] but grew up within the unique cultural and political milieu of Sophiatown in the 1930s and 1940s. As a young woman Rathebe was drawn to the burgeoning and vibrant music scene in Sophiatown and started singing with local jazz bands in neighbourhood clubs. In [----] she was spotted" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/2019098664170328413) 2026-02-04T17:20Z 130.9K followers, [----] engagements "Pedestrians walk across Church Square in the centre of the city of Pretoria in the Transvaal province (now Gauteng) of South Africa in [----]. In the background stands the Ou Raadsaal council chamber building. (Photo by Paul Popper/Popperfoto)" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/2019140002631020708) 2026-02-04T20:04Z 130.9K followers, [----] engagements "Danny Schechter at the funeral of Inkosi Albert Luthuli. Schechter who was studying at the London School of Economics was one of a number of people known as the London Recruits who went to South Africa for the African National Congress (ANC). Schechter had travelled to South Africa as a tourist but smuggled in leaflets produced by the ANC and mailed them to addresses he had been given before going to the funeral. Image Source: Tony Sutton collection https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2019164663435481111 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2019164663435481111" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/2019164663435481111) 2026-02-04T21:42Z 131K followers, [----] engagements "Oliver Tambo holding Danny Weiss the son of Cora and Peter Weiss at Dannys birthday party. Tambo was staying at the Weiss home in Riverdale NY while petitioning in the United Nations in October [----]. Tambo went into exile from South Africa in [----] to lead the External Mission of the ANC. He became president of the ANC in [----] following the death of Inkosi Albert Luthuli. Image Source: Cora and Peter Weiss Collection https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2019295374540767679 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2019295374540767679" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/2019295374540767679) 2026-02-05T06:21Z 131.1K followers, [----] engagements "A girl and her maid on a 'Europeans only' bench c [----]. Photo by Peter Magubane" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/2019471185633817028) 2026-02-05T18:00Z 130.9K followers, 34K engagements "South African doctors and politicians Dr Albertina Luthuli and her husband Dr Pascal Ngakane with their children Lunguli Zandile Nomusa and Motsumi on their arrival aboard the Pendennis Castle at Southampton Hampshire England 26th October [----]. Dr Luthuli the daughter of the Nobel Peace Prize laureate Inkosi Albert Luthuli and her family had arrived from South Africa on an exit permit granted by John Vorster's government. (Photo by Bertnan Lemmon Portsmouth/Keystone/Hulton Archive) https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2019621964944482751 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2019621964944482751" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/2019621964944482751) 2026-02-06T03:59Z 131K followers, 15.9K engagements "Boxer Elijah 'Ellis Brown' Mokone with the son of promoter Tiger Shaik c [----]. Photo: Barney Desai / Drum Social Histories" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/2019670410921668875) 2026-02-06T07:12Z 130.8K followers, [----] engagements "Actor and filmmaker Lionel Ngakane with his brother medical doctor and activist Dr Pascal Ngakane c 1960s. Photo: Ranjith Kally / Drum Social Histories" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/2019695451730244096) 2026-02-06T08:51Z 130.8K followers, [----] engagements "Chris Hani and Tokyo Sexwale walking in the street c 1990s. Photo Credit: Ken Oosterbroek" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/2019709523112661450) 2026-02-06T09:47Z 131.2K followers, 198K engagements "Oliver Tambo c 1963" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/2019763863323906251) 2026-02-06T13:23Z 131.1K followers, [----] engagements "Father Trevor Huddleston with the St Peter's baseball team c [----]. One of the immediate results of the Bantu Education Act was that one of South Africa's most famous schools St Peter's announced that it would be forced to shutdown because of the Act. The Eton of South Africa; as St Peters was called had an astonishing record of scholarship achievement over its [--] years. But the Community of Resurrection who ran the school felt that as a matter of principle they could not carry on with the school with the syllabus and control demanded by the new Act. The school was situated in Rosettenville" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/2019774038533374033) 2026-02-06T14:03Z 131K followers, [----] engagements "Ingwenyama uNyumbabo Mayitjha II (1947 - 2005) was the king of the Ndzundza Ndebele nation in Mpumalanga South Africa reigning from [----] to [----] after succeeding his father Mabusabesala II. During apartheid while the Ndebele were governed as nominal citizens of the KwaNdebele bantustan Mayitjha served in several positions in the cabinet of the Chief Minister of KwaNdebele but was also a prominent opponent of separate development and further ethnic division while advocating for education and tribal unity. Source: Wikipedia https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2019790730995159104" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/2019790730995159104) 2026-02-06T15:10Z 130.9K followers, [----] engagements "Oliver Tambo graduates with a Bachelor of Science (Mathematics and Physics major) at the University College of Fort Hare in [----]. Image Source: Beyond The Engeli Mountains by Luli Callinicos" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/2019846049792397701) 2026-02-06T18:49Z 131.1K followers, 10.7K engagements "Students at the South African Native College (now known as the University of Fort Hare) c [----]. D.D.T Jabavu the colleges first Black Professor is in the center of the front row. The colleges first principal Alexander Kerr is sitting to his (Jabavu) immediate left. Image Source: The Ghost of Equality - The Public Lives of D. D. T. Jabavu of South Africa [--------] by Catherine Higgs https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2020023949489303704 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2020023949489303704" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/2020023949489303704) 2026-02-07T06:36Z 131K followers, [----] engagements "Dr Wilson Zamindlela Conco (1919-1996) was a South African medical doctor political activist and founder member of the ANCYL. He attended Marianhill College where he distinguished himself as a student. After a year of premedical studies at Fort Hare he studied medicine at the University of the Witwatersrand graduating in [----]. A brilliant medical student who qualified from the University of the Witwatersrand top of his class in [----]. His appointment as demonstrator in the histology laboratory at Wits provoked a protest among National Party MP's that led to his demotion to the position of" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/2020028598812389473) 2026-02-07T06:55Z 130.9K followers, [----] engagements "The renaissance man Darius Dhlomo (R) singing at a Nightclub in the Netherlands c [----]. Dhlomo was a South African professional boxer footballer drummer tennis player jazz musician and political activist. Alongside his budding boxing career he was the captain of both the Baumannville City Blacks football team and the Natal national football team. Further to this he also sang in a jazz quintet a fact which led Drum Magazine to publish a feature on him titled "Darius Dhlomo Man of Many Talents". He decided to move to the Netherlands having signed a professional football contract with Heracles" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/2020057195325313229) 2026-02-07T08:49Z 130.8K followers, [----] engagements "Protest march in Los Angeles after the defendants in the Rivonia Trial were sentenced to life in prison c late [----]. In the front is South African exile Bernard (Ben) Magubane then a student at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA). Image Source: Ben Magubane private collection https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2020070076548849991 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2020070076548849991" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/2020070076548849991) 2026-02-07T09:40Z 131.1K followers, [----] engagements "Six year old John Matshikiza with his sister Marian and mother Esme Matshikiza greeting Princess Margaret at the opening of the King Kong Jazz Musical in London February [----]. Image Source: Drum Social Histories" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/2020087140269584825) 2026-02-07T10:48Z 130.9K followers, [----] engagements "Nelson "Nana" Mahomo (1930 - 2014) pictured on the left was a political activist an editor documentary filmmaker and businessman. After working for some time as a clerk for Arthur Blaxall and attempting a business venture with Joe Molefi Mahomo went to the University of Cape Town to start a law degree in [----]. In April [----] he was elected secretary for culture in the PAC. With other Africanists he helped build a Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) organization in and around Cape Town recruiting "task forces" of youthful activists and soliciting support from sympathetic whites. Delegated with Peter" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/2020092068639461492) 2026-02-07T11:07Z 130.9K followers, [----] engagements "Alex La Guma (1924 - 1985) was a South African novelist political activist and son of the prominent ANC SACPO and CPSA leader Jimmy (James) La Guma. His writing career took off in [----]. In [----] he was among the activists charged in the Treason Trial. He published his first short story "Nocturn" in [----]. In [----] he began writing for New Age a progressive newspaper and in [----] he was placed under house arrest. Before his five-year sentence could elapse A No Trial Act was passed and he and his wife were put into solitary confinement. On their release from prison they returned to house arrest. He" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/2020101488102502887) 2026-02-07T11:45Z 130.9K followers, [----] engagements "Joe Gaobakwe Matthews (1929 - 2010) was a South African lawyer an activist of the ANC from [----] until [----] when he left to join the IFP an organization founded by his friend Inkosi Mangosuthu Buthelezi (Matthews was the best man at Buthelezi's wedding in [----]. The two developed a close friendship while students at Fort Hare). He earned a BA from Fort Hare in [----] an LLB from University of London in [----] and a MA in History at the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London in [----]. He completed legal articles with JH Spilkin attorneys in Port Elizabeth from [----] to" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/2020113815732408718) 2026-02-07T12:34Z 130.9K followers, [----] engagements "Anton Muziwakhe Lembede (1914 - 1947) was a South African political activist teacher lawyer theoretician and founding President of the Congress Youth League. Lembede was born into a peasant family living on the farm in Eston in Natal. He was baptised as an Anglican. His father Mbazwana Martin was a farm labourer and his mother Martha Norah MaLuthuli Lembede a teacher who taught him at home until he completed his elementary education. In [----] after completing his elementary education his family relocated to KwaMphepheta in Mbumbulu. One of the reasons for the relocation was that Lembede should" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/2020126890007159280) 2026-02-07T13:25Z 130.9K followers, [----] engagements "June 1976: Student activist Japie Vilankulu from Alexandra (man carrying the rubbish bin lid) was killed by police moments after this photograph was taken. Photo by Peter Magubane" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/2020132595703365897) 2026-02-07T13:48Z 130.9K followers, [----] engagements "South African artist and musician Gerard Sekoto in Paris France July [----]. Sekoto left South Africa to live in Paris under self-imposed exile in [----]. Photo: Peter Magubane / Drum Social Histories" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/2020156904605991396) 2026-02-07T15:25Z 130.9K followers, [----] engagements "Late afternoon Soweto [--] June [----]. Photo by Peter Magubane" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/2020161591371510119) 2026-02-07T15:43Z 131.1K followers, 16.1K engagements "'Song of the Pick' (1946) by Gerard Sekoto (1913 - 1993). Sekoto painted this shortly before moving to Paris in what became a lifelong exile from South Africa. The painting is based on a 1930's photograph by Andrew Goldie" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/2020205170123264317) 2026-02-07T18:37Z 131K followers, [----] engagements "The Sobukwe Clause was a legal provision within South Africa's General Law Amendment Act of [----] that under the guise of fighting communism allowed for the arbitrary extended detention of prisoners after their sentences were served effectively enabling indefinite imprisonment for individuals deemed a threat by the government. Introduced to specifically target and continue the imprisonment of Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) founding President Robert Sobukwe it was a highly discriminatory piece of legislation that was used only for him and symbolized the apartheid government's attempts to" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/2020418387814310198) 2026-02-08T08:44Z 131.1K followers, 16.2K engagements "Nelson Mandela in his law office which he shared with Oliver Tambo Johannesburg [----]. Photo: Jurgen Schadeberg/UCT Photography Collection" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/2020482166321217836) 2026-02-08T12:57Z 131.1K followers, [----] engagements "The Harlem Swingsters were a prominent South African jazz band in the 1950s known for their blend of American jazz with South African music styles like marabi. They performed widely in South Africa and were associated with figures like Benni Gwigwi Mrwebi and Kippie Moeketsi gaining significant popularity before eventually changing their name to The Jazz Dazzlers. Photographer: Jurgen Schadeberg https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2020492598821957968 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2020492598821957968" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/2020492598821957968) 2026-02-08T13:39Z 131K followers, [----] engagements "Basil Coetzee with his saxophone in Strandfontein Cape Town South Africa c [----]. Photo: Basil Breakey / UCT Photography Collection" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/2020500557132423622) 2026-02-08T14:10Z 131.2K followers, [----] engagements "Trevor Manuel with his then wife Lynne Matthews and son Govan on his release from detention in [----]. Photo: Zubeida Vallie/UCT Photography Collection" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/2020502198812303665) 2026-02-08T14:17Z 131.2K followers, 37.9K engagements "Youth in the northern Transvaal township of Leandra mourned the death of their leader Chief Ampie Mayisa during his funeral. Chief Mayisa was beaten to death and his body and his house were burnt by vigilantes in Lebohang Leandra Transvaal on [--] January [----]. Chief Mayisa supported a group of young comrades who sought refuge in his house on the day of his murder. Photo by Joanne Rathe https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2020511581386264625 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2020511581386264625" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/2020511581386264625) 2026-02-08T14:54Z 131K followers, [----] engagements "American actor Canada Lee (1907 - 1952) is consoled by his friend Sidney Poitier (1927 - 2022) in a scene from the London Films production 'Cry The Beloved Country'. The film was produced and directed by Zoltan Korda (1895 - 1961) and based on a novel by Alan Paton. Photo: Hulton Archive" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/2020521385236312287) 2026-02-08T15:33Z 130.9K followers, [----] engagements "Nelson Mandela in discussion with C. Andrews a Cape Town teacher circa 1950s. (Photo by Three Lions/Hulton Archive)" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/2020526792746868960) 2026-02-08T15:55Z 131K followers, [----] engagements "Anti-apartheid demonstrators holding placards in memory of South African activist Vuyisile Mini one of the first activists to be executed by apartheid South Africa outside South Africa House in Trafalgar Square London England 7th November [----]. (Photo by Central Press/Hulton Archive) https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2020531846619287643 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2020531846619287643" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/2020531846619287643) 2026-02-08T16:15Z 131.1K followers, [----] engagements "Faried Esack tries to stop police from removing ANC flag draped over the coffin of slain activist Ashley Kriel Cape Town July [----]. Photo: Roger Meintjies/UCT Photography Collection" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/2020560657691623878) 2026-02-08T18:09Z 130.9K followers, [----] engagements "1960: Massacre at Sharpeville - A grief-stricken woman is led home after viewing the body of her husband who was shot by police. Photo by Peter Magubane" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/2020777551157948711) 2026-02-09T08:31Z 131.1K followers, 12.9K engagements "1960: A Massacre at Sharpeville - The mass funeral of the victims of the Sharpeville Massacre. Photo by Terence Spencer" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/2020781103028531200) 2026-02-09T08:45Z 131K followers, [----] engagements "King Sandile KaNgqika (c 1820-1878) was the leader of the Gaiga ama Rharabe Xhosa. A dynamic leader he led the Xhosa armies in several Xhosa-British wars. Having recently been equipped with modern fire-arms Sandile's forces successfully inflicted losses on the British that led to Sandile gaining a reputation as a Xhosa warrior. He was captured during the War of the Axe in [----] but on his release he was granted land in 'British Kaffraria' for his people. He later supported his cousin brother Sarhili (Kreli) King of the entire Xhosa Nation of Great house in a war against the Cape Colony and the" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/2020791338539655516) 2026-02-09T09:26Z 130.8K followers, [----] engagements "Arthur N Fula (1908 - 1966) was a South African author who wrote mainly in Afrikaans. Fula a native Xhosa speaker worked as a miner clerk labourer and an as interpreter where he interpreted from Zulu and Sesotho. Three of his Novels are published but there are poems & novellas that still remain unpublished. In addition to his mother tongue isiXhosa Fula was fluent in isiZulu Setswana Sesotho Sepedi English French (he learnt French at the Alliance Franaise centre) and Afrikaans which he learnt as a young boy when his family moved to Johannesburg. Source: SAHO" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/2020863904750919973) 2026-02-09T14:14Z 131.2K followers, [----] engagements "South African singer Miriam Makeba performs with her daughter Bongi during a concert on February [--] [----] at the "Pavillon de Paris" in Paris. (Photo by Michel Clement)" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/2020868834450604200) 2026-02-09T14:34Z 131K followers, 10.6K engagements "The first group of Black South African Students to study at the Wilberforce University funded by the African Methodist Episcopal Church c 1894/5. Charlotte Manya (later Charlotte Maxeke) the only female in the group is seated at the centre. Manya graduated with a BSc from the University c 1901/2 the first Black woman in South Africa to accomplish such a feat. She married Marshall Maxeke (also a Wilberforce University graduate) and the two established a school at Evaton after their return from the United States. Source: Songs of Zion - The African Methodist Episcopal Church in the United" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/2020876799937220858) 2026-02-09T15:05Z 131K followers, [----] engagements "South African artist photographer and activist Omar Badsha and South African artist Dumile Feni (1942 - 1991) at the Durban Art Gallery August [----]. Image Source: M&G (Photo likely by A. Moosa Badsha)" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/2020890801325125779) 2026-02-09T16:01Z 131K followers, [----] engagements "Nat Nakasa (1937 - 1965) featured on episode [--] of the American public affairs television program - Black Journal. The episode aired in [----]. The entire episode was about apartheid in South Africa" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/2020942386697056689) 2026-02-09T19:26Z 131K followers, [----] engagements "Junior students prepare to return to class as senior rings bell c [----]. The 'Eton of South Africa' as St Peter's was called closed its doors in [----] because of the introduction of Bantu Education. The Community of Resurrection who ran the school felt that as a matter of principle they could not carry on with the school with the syllabus and control demanded by the Bantu Education Act. Image Source: Drum Social Histories https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021105080934494375 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021105080934494375" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/2021105080934494375) 2026-02-10T06:12Z 131.1K followers, [----] engagements "Joe Slovo shares a joke and a laugh with UDF leader Terror Lekota c 1980/90s. Image Source: Learn and Teach Magazine" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/2021107576843194424) 2026-02-10T06:22Z 131K followers, [----] engagements "A young Caroline Motsoaledi the wife of the Rivonia Trialist Elias Motsoaledi c 1940-50s. Image Source: Learn and Teach Magazine" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/2021108735523819775) 2026-02-10T06:27Z 131.1K followers, [----] engagements "Kippie Moeketsi and Dolly Rathebe back at work again c early 1980s. Image Source: Learn and Teach Magazine" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/2021109640453304528) 2026-02-10T06:31Z 131K followers, [----] engagements "Kippie playing with Abdullah Ibrahim (Dollar Brand) in the old days c. 1970s. Image Source: Learn and Teach Magazine" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/2021110733249851810) 2026-02-10T06:35Z 131K followers, [---] engagements "The Velvettes - South African girl group active in Great Britain in the 1960s. Backing vocalist for Cyril Davies' All Stars. The lineup included Hazel Futa Eunice Mamsie Mthombeni and Patience Gcwabe. Photo by Mike Peters" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/2021119835917226456) 2026-02-10T07:11Z 131.2K followers, [----] engagements "South African girl group 'The Velvettes' as backing vocalists for Cyril Davies's All-Stars with Long John Baldry in [----]. Footage: Long John Baldry (YT)" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/2021124267828527321) 2026-02-10T07:29Z 131K followers, [----] engagements "Ezekiel Mphahlele Drum Magazine fiction editor receives a kiss from his wife Rebecca on his graduation c [----]. He was awarded M.A. English (with distinction) Thesis: "The Non-European Character in South African English Fiction" and was the first Black South African to graduate M.A. English with distinction at UNISA. Photo by Peter Magubane" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/2021127288314568829) 2026-02-10T07:41Z 131K followers, [----] engagements "Johnny Clegg performs at a concert organised by the UDF-affiliated Johannesburg Democratic Action Committee (JODAC) in [----]. Photo: Paul Weinberg" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/2021148082985943329) 2026-02-10T09:03Z 131K followers, [----] engagements "1985: Mourners at the funeral of UDF activist and lawyer Victoria Mxenge assassinated shortly before the Pietermaritzburg Treason Trial by apartheid agents led by Dirk Coetzee. Photo Credit: Paul Weinberg" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/2021149188726104095) 2026-02-10T09:08Z 131K followers, [----] engagements "Community Health Awareness Project (CHAP) was launched by Azapo in July [----]. As Azapo's Health Secretary Dr. Abu Baker Asvat headed the project. One of CHAPs most well-known programmes was a mobile health clinic which travelled across the country throughout the 1980s. Asvat and a team of volunteers travelled throughout South Africa aiming to provide primary health care to some of the nations most disadvantaged areas. Source: Saho/Michelle Hayman/Abu Asvat Institute https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021157721165201457 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021157721165201457" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/2021157721165201457) 2026-02-10T09:42Z 131.2K followers, [----] engagements "A study in concentration: Ray Nkwe is seen here filing records at the office of the record company he was working for c late 1960s. Raymond Thabagolo Nkwe (1934 - 1982) was a South African singer music producer guitarist arts activist and broadcaster. Image Source: Drum Social Histories https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021172210686185601 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021172210686185601" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/2021172210686185601) 2026-02-10T10:39Z 131K followers, [----] engagements "Promoter Raymond Nkwe (1934 - 1982) seen wearing a polo-neck jersey that bears the names of two great saxophonists - Ornette Coleman and John Coltrane c [----]. Image Source: Drum Social Histories" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/2021177905766682970) 2026-02-10T11:02Z 131K followers, [----] engagements "1985: Winnie Mandela before appearing on the ABC tv series 'Nightline' special 'Ted Koppel in South Africa'. (Photo by American Broadcasting Companies)" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/2021194150788653314) 2026-02-10T12:06Z 131K followers, 12.1K engagements "The Banned Men of the Congress Alliance c 1950s. Source: Drum Social Histories" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/2021221299738018156) 2026-02-10T13:54Z 131.1K followers, [----] engagements "Oliver Tambo and Nelson Mandela during a meeting in London [----]. Mandela arrived in London on [--] June [----] after his African tour. He was on his clandestine trip to get support for the armed struggle and met members of the opposition. Oliver Tambo was already living in London and leading the External Mission of the ANC. Photo by Michael Peto https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021235651564241238 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021235651564241238" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/2021235651564241238) 2026-02-10T14:51Z 131.1K followers, 16.6K engagements "Credo Mutwa (left) playing the part of a mortal chief talks to the Star Queen Nosilimela's mother a goddess [----]. Nosilimela's fantasy was Mutwa's first attempt as a playwright. The fantasy or mythical drama created by Credo Mutwa tells the story of Nosilimela the 'Princess of the stars' and follows her temperamental journey as she navigates life in human flesh. Image Source: Drum Magazine March [----]. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021251351729049631 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021251351729049631" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/2021251351729049631) 2026-02-10T15:54Z 131K followers, [----] engagements "c 1980s: Barney Rachabane at the Rainbow Jazz Club in Pinetown. Marc Duby is on bass in the background. Photo: Rafs Mayet" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/2021468358869488017) 2026-02-11T06:16Z 131.1K followers, [---] engagements "Ruth First with Winnie Mandela c early 1960s. Photo by Mary Benson. The photographer Mary Benson (1919 - 2000) was a South African anti-apartheid activist and an author/biographer. Some of her most famous works include biographies of Inkosi Albert Luthuli (1963) and Nelson Mandela (1986). https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021478082968744111 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021478082968744111" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/2021478082968744111) 2026-02-11T06:55Z 131K followers, [----] engagements "South African artist Ernest Mancoba (1904-2002) with his [----] sculpture African Madonna. African Madonna is considered the first modern sculpture produced by a Black South African. Photo: Ruth Motau" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/2021501141801107656) 2026-02-11T08:26Z 131.1K followers, [----] engagements "Priscilla Mokaba (1937 - 2013) was a political activist. She was the mother of Peter Mokaba. Priscilla was one of several political activists put in jail in South Africa during the 1980s. She was described as a distinguished activist who had stood firm against the apartheid regime. Image Source: Sowetan https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021516955438502307 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021516955438502307" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/2021516955438502307) 2026-02-11T09:29Z 131K followers, [----] engagements "Florence Mkhize addressing a meeting in Durban c [----]. Photo: Ranjith Kally/Drum Social Histories" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/2021539323888406805) 2026-02-11T10:58Z 131.1K followers, [----] engagements "Inkosi Albert John Luthuli reading an article about his recent lecture tour to Cape Town [----]. Photo: Ranjith Kally/Drum Social Histories" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/2021555590829621457) 2026-02-11T12:03Z 131.1K followers, [----] engagements "Alfred Nzo addressing the United Nations Special Committee of [--] on decolonization Lusaka Zambia April [--] [----]. UN Photo by Y. Nagata" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/2021581625486610806) 2026-02-11T13:46Z 131.2K followers, [----] engagements ""I recognize that the hour has come when we the native races of this country must be Up and working - for God only helps those who help themselves" - Rev John L Dube 1912" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/2021582421062226060) 2026-02-11T13:49Z 131.1K followers, [----] engagements "Dr James Moroka and Inkosi Albert Luthuli at an annual Congress Conference in December [----]. Image Source: Drum Social Histories" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/2021587681017258174) 2026-02-11T14:10Z 131.1K followers, [----] engagements "The Championship cricket team at Healdtown a Methodist Mission school near Fort Beaufort South Africa c [----]. Image Source: The Activist Collector by Christa Clarke" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/2021820586587197698) 2026-02-12T05:36Z 131.1K followers, [----] engagements "Prof D.D.T Jabavu with Lida Clanton Broner outside her Newark home August [----] just before the public launch of Council on African Affairs. In [----] Broner an African American hairstylist and housekeeper from Newark New Jersey traveled to pre-apartheid South Africa fulfilling a lifelong goal of visiting the continent of her ancestors. As she traveled through South African giving speeches on race pride to social clubs schools and especially to women's groups Broner amassed a collection of handicraft given by the many people she met "to show in America". Her story is documented in 'The Activist" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/2021823989446738305) 2026-02-12T05:49Z 131.2K followers, [----] engagements "Dr James Moroka with his wife Susan with one of their children in Thaba 'Nchu October [----]. Photo by Lisa C Broner" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/2021840033162895506) 2026-02-12T06:53Z 131.1K followers, [----] engagements "Bunny Luthuli (1945 - 1977) was a South African Jazz musician and a founder member of The Drive. He was a guitarist for The Drive a Jazz band formed in [----]. The Drive was known for its fusion of jazz soul & funk elements. They achieved significant popularity in South Africa during the 1970s. He died in a tragic car accident that also claimed the life of his fellow band member Henry Sithole in [----]. Picture: Electric Jive https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021844282772980063 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021844282772980063" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/2021844282772980063) 2026-02-12T07:10Z 131.2K followers, [----] engagements "Moses Tladi (1903 1959) was a self-taught South African artist who was the first black painter to hold a formal exhibition in South Africa and the first black artist to exhibit at the South African National Gallery. Tladi started painting with leftover commercial house paint and a stick. His talent for painting was noticed by his employer Read who started providing him with artists' materials. Read also introduced Tladi to the collector and philanthropist Howard Pim who was once a mayor of Johannesburg and played a leading role in the establishment of the Johannesburg Art Gallery. Both Read" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/2021849266839273592) 2026-02-12T07:30Z 131.2K followers, [----] engagements "Clarke Edward Maxeke was an author who was the only son of Marshall and Charlotte Maxeke. He was born in the Transvaal around [----] (Other sources say 1905) and was educated in the mission schools and at the Wilberforce Institute in Evaton. He also studied at the Lovedale College. After Lovedale he went to the USA to further his education at the Morris Brown University. He wrote a novel on native life experiences in Johannesburg which was published in the USA. Historical accounts vary on his passing. Some sources suggest that he predeceased his mother (who died in 1939) while others suggest" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/2021901983032959189) 2026-02-12T10:59Z 131.2K followers, [----] engagements "Davidson Don Tengo Jabavu as a student at the University of Birmingham c [----]. Image Source: The Ghost of Equality - The Public lives of D.D.T Jabavu of South Africa [----] - [----] by Catherine Higgs" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/2021909259861340210) 2026-02-12T11:28Z 131.1K followers, [----] engagements "Modikwe Dikobe (pseudonym of Marks Rammitloa [----] - 2005) was a South African novelist poet trade unionist and squatter leader in Johannesburg in the 1940s. He wrote one book and one collection of poetry whilst working as a hawker clerk domestic servant and night watchman. Literary historian Tim Couzens editor of Dikobe's volume of poetry Dispossessed states that "Dikobe is unique in South African literature because he has been until recently . the only substantial writer who is while writing fairly strongly working class." Image Source: Picryl" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/2021946199150924049) 2026-02-12T13:55Z 131.2K followers, [----] engagements "From left Assistant Secretary-General Enuga S Reddy Centre Against Apartheid Committee Chairman Ernest B Maycock (Barbados) and Committee Secretary Salih Araim on [--] January [----]. (UN Photo: Yutaka Nagata)" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/2022003609131790574) 2026-02-12T17:43Z 131.2K followers, [----] engagements "Miriam Makeba and Paul Simon late 1980s. Image Source: Bernard Gotfryd Photograph Collection Library of Congress" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/2022005836470767886) 2026-02-12T17:52Z 131.2K followers, [----] engagements "Inkosi Albert John Luthuli with Senator Robert F Kennedy and his wife June [----]. Image Source: Luthuli Museum" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/2022045565878775828) 2026-02-12T20:30Z 131.2K followers, [----] engagements "February [----] Forced Removals in Sophiatown: "You are hereby required in terms of the Native Resettlement Act [----] to vacate the premises in which you are residing .". Photo Credit: Bob Gosani/Drum Social Histories" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/2022137253787816242) 2026-02-13T02:34Z 131.2K followers, [----] engagements "ANC/SACP-leader Chris Hani (left) talks to Dutch activist Klaas de Jonge (right) in Transkei November [----]. Photo: Pieter Boersma" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/2022192207198138469) 2026-02-13T06:12Z 131.2K followers, [----] engagements "7 June 1962: Nelson Mandela arrives in London England on his clandestine trip to get support for the armed struggle. In January [----] Mandela secretly left South Africa and travelled across the African continent for several months. Mandela returned to South Africa in July [----] and was arrested at a roadblock near Howick Natal on the 5th of August. (API/Gamma-Rapho) https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022299140852453495 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022299140852453495" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/2022299140852453495) 2026-02-13T13:17Z 131.2K followers, [----] engagements "South African poet academic and political activist Prof Keorapetse Kgositsile on a television show by Dr Maya Angelou in 1968" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1961503854287049038) 2025-08-29T18:58Z 131.2K followers, 4.8M engagements "Inkosi Albert John Luthuli relaxing at home with his grandson Motsumi Ngakane c [----]. Photo: Terence Spencer" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/2019698487038980153) 2026-02-06T09:03Z 131.2K followers, 12.1K engagements "Jomo Sono kisses his bride Gail Sebetlele on their wedding day. He later led Orlando Pirates to victory over Highlands Park February [----]. Image Source: Arena Holdings Collection" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/2019778882191151581) 2026-02-06T14:23Z 131.2K followers, 123.5K engagements "Princess Elizabeth makes a broadcast from the gardens of Government House in Cape Town South Africa on the occasion of her 21st birthday 21st April [----]. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Hulton Archive)" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/2020525621571404244) 2026-02-08T15:50Z 131.2K followers, [----] engagements "The first Africans to qualify as medical doctors at the University of the Witwatersrand: Dr HHW Hermanus (left) Dr JLZ Njongwe (right) & Dr Donald Moikangoa (NP). Dr Njongwe became an influential activist and was one of the leading figure in the Defiance Campaign of [----]. Image Source: Northwestern Library https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2020815642006266042 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2020815642006266042" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/2020815642006266042) 2026-02-09T11:02Z 131.2K followers, [----] engagements "Bongi Makeba (1950 1985) was a South African singer/songwriter. She was the only child of singer and activist Miriam Makeba. Makeba was born in South Africa. She recorded only one solo album Blow On Wind before she died in [----]. She was buried in Conakry Guinea. Some of her songs can still be heard in her mothers repertoire. Source: Electric Jive. Photo by Klaus Rose https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2020905995388481752 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2020905995388481752" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/2020905995388481752) 2026-02-09T17:01Z 131.2K followers, 37.7K engagements "Mrs Veronica Nzo the wife of anti-apartheid activist Mr Alfred Nzo c early 1960s. Mrs Nzo skipped the country with Mrs Nokwe to Bechuanaland (Botswana) from there they hoped to fly north to join their husbands who were both living in exile in London at the time. Mrs Nzo a qualified medical & surgical nurse and a midwife had to resign from her post as a matron to prepare for life in exile. Image Source: Drum Social Histories https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021567845377659085 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021567845377659085" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/2021567845377659085) 2026-02-11T12:51Z 131.2K followers, 24.4K engagements "Daniel Cornel Marivate (1897 - 1989) was a South African writer composer educator who wrote the first Xitsonga novel Sasavona. The physician Dr Charles Daniel Marivate and academic C.T.D Marivate were his son's. Image Source: WikiCommons" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/2021903955589259693) 2026-02-12T11:07Z 131.2K followers, [----] engagements "Inkosi Albert John Luthuli burning his pass book [----]. Image Source: Luthuli Foundation" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/2021921320414388347) 2026-02-12T12:16Z 131.2K followers, [----] engagements "Cape Town 1974: District Six Forced Removals. Photo: Paul Alberts" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/2021982474860212656) 2026-02-12T16:19Z 131.2K followers, [----] engagements "Dr Alfred B Xuma joined Alpha Phi Alpha Alpha Xi Chapter in [----] at Marquette University" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/2022249197047853494) 2026-02-13T09:59Z 131.2K followers, [----] engagements "June 1966: Senator Robert F Kennedy seen on the roof of a car outside the Regina Mundi Catholic Church in Soweto where he prayed with local residents. Photo by Alf Kumalo" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/2022308367029428581) 2026-02-13T13:54Z 131.2K followers, [----] engagements "At dawn on [--] December [----] the South African Police swooped on [---] political activists throughout the country arresting them on charges of high treason. Photo Credit: Jurgen Schadeberg" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/2022621983805182034) 2026-02-14T10:40Z 131.2K followers, [----] engagements "Dr Rotoli Xaba's (1893-1953) early history exemplified in an acute form the problems of foreign study for Black South Africans. His correspondence for his period in Edinburgh during the mid 1920's reveals the financial & educational difficulties he faced prompting cries of despair from his family as well as his sponsors. He found difficulty paying for essentials things as well as paying rent to his landlady. She threatened eviction but reluctantly because Xaba was well behaved. These difficulties led him to drop out many times until he finally qualified in [----] gaining the triple Scottish" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1928482659656765805) 2025-05-30T16:04Z 131.2K followers, 426.6K engagements "Mpho and Mphonyana Mathibela made history when they were born conjoined at Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital on December [--] [----]. The twin girls were joined at the head and after careful consideration a decision was made to surgically separate them. The successful separation surgery took place in 1988" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1953704646691709005) 2025-08-08T06:27Z 131.2K followers, 1.6M engagements "Orlando Pirates supporters before a game c [----]. Photo: Ralph Ndawo / Drum Social Histories" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/2019675835410837759) 2026-02-06T07:33Z 131.2K followers, 49.1K engagements "Drum Magazine Staff: (Back Row) Alfred Tsotestsi Dan Chocho Jerry Ntsipe; (Front Row) Mthethwa Matshikiza Maimane October [----]. Image Source: Drum Magazine" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/2021099712951013852) 2026-02-10T05:51Z 131.2K followers, [---] engagements "Prof Thamsanqa Kambule with the class of [----] at the Pace College Soweto. Professor Thamsanqa Kambule (1921 - 2009) was a South African educator and mathematician. He was the first Black professor of mathematics at the University of the Witwatersrand. Photo by @sphiwemhlambi" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/2021102408680485302) 2026-02-10T06:02Z 131.2K followers, [----] engagements "Kaizer Motaung c [----]. Image Source: Drum Social Histories" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/2021928451175784728) 2026-02-12T12:44Z 131.2K followers, 20K engagements "Professor Matshaya Edward Razwimisani Mathivha (1921 - 2002) was a South African academic and teacher who wrote in Tshivenda. He was an author best known for his [----] drama Mabalanganye. Image Source: Pzacad" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/2021984916121202996) 2026-02-12T16:29Z 131.2K followers, [----] engagements "Group of nurses who qualified at MEDUNSA (Medical University of South Africa). MEDUNSA was established in Pretoria North during [----]. It is today known as Sefako Makgatho Health Sciences University (SMU). Photo by Dotman Pretorius (Circa late 1970s). Image Source: The Heritage Portal https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021987336242733201 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021987336242733201" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/2021987336242733201) 2026-02-12T16:38Z 131.2K followers, [----] engagements "1958: Africanist Peter Molotsi at the ANC conference that saw the Africanist movement breakaway from Congress launching the Pan-Africanist Congress of Azania the following year. Photo Credit: Peter Magubane/Drum Social Histories" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/2022144979016241569) 2026-02-13T03:05Z 131.2K followers, [----] engagements "William 'Bloke' Modisane (left) with Todd Matshikiza in the Drum Magazine office c [----]. Photo Credit: Jurgen Schadeberg" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/2022181231891460579) 2026-02-13T05:29Z 131.2K followers, [----] engagements "Activist and trade unionist Shirley Gunn and MK/SACP/ANC leader Chris Hani (holding Haroon Gunn-Salie) at a rally marking the 30th anniversary of the formation of MK [----]. Photo: Paul Grendon" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/2022222063701028973) 2026-02-13T08:11Z 131.2K followers, [----] engagements "Africanist Josiah Madzunya Alexandra Township c [----]. Photo Credit: Bob Gosani" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/2022617602439221450) 2026-02-14T10:23Z 131.2K followers, 201.6K engagements "Zindzi Mandela and singer Whitney Houston in [----] at [----]. Image Source: [----] A Prisoners Home/Alf Kumalo Archive" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/2023005183228453086) 2026-02-15T12:03Z 131.2K followers, 44.3K engagements "Winnie Mandela speaks to Chris Hani Stockholm Sweden March [----]. Photo by Per-Anders Pettersson" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/2023243142741303653) 2026-02-16T03:48Z 131.2K followers, [----] engagements "Nurse turned Lawyer and political activist Victoria Mxenge (1942-1985) gunned downed on her driveway infront of her kids" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1945525002255618465) 2025-07-16T16:44Z 131.2K followers, 338.9K engagements "The African herbalist Khotso Sethuntsa (1898-1972)" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1950839018637123728) 2025-07-31T08:40Z 131.2K followers, 2.1M engagements "Orlando Pirates supporters c [----]. Photo: Ralph Ndawo" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1984862120849096821) 2025-11-02T05:56Z 131.2K followers, 902.3K engagements "Recently qualified Lawyer Oliver Tambo c [----]. Photo by Jurgan Schadaberg" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/2019817425546756557) 2026-02-06T16:56Z 131.2K followers, 16.3K engagements "The African Races Association of the University of Glasgow c [----]. Silas Modiri Molema the Association's President was studying medicine at the University and is seated third from right. Dr Molema became an influential medical doctor anthropologist biographer historian and political activist in South Africa upon his return. Photo: University of Glasgow https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2020384886448664928 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2020384886448664928" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/2020384886448664928) 2026-02-08T06:31Z 131.2K followers, [----] engagements "In [----] Robert Sobukwe who was living under restriction in Kimberley asked the Pretoria Supreme Court for permission to leave South Africa to take up an invitation to teach in America but the court denied his request for an exit permit. This was one of several instances where the apartheid government refused him permission to leave the country. Image Source: Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe Trust/Rand Daily Mail https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2020416106008072409 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2020416106008072409" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/2020416106008072409) 2026-02-08T08:35Z 131.2K followers, 55.7K engagements "Parliament only repealed the Separate Amenities Act in [----]. Here apartheid signs which have come down at a train station are stacked on a trolley. Photo: Ambrose Peter's / Sunday Times" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/2020792009452106150) 2026-02-09T09:28Z 131.2K followers, [----] engagements "South African painter and writer - George Milwa Pemba (1912 - 2001). Image Source: The Herald" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/2021553033788948821) 2026-02-11T11:52Z 131.2K followers, [----] engagements "Kaizer Chiefs chairman Ewert Nene manages Kaizer Chiefs like a modern corporation flying across the country & abroad for recruitment August [----]. Image Source: Drum Social Histories" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/2021615224810291698) 2026-02-11T16:00Z 131.2K followers, 84.9K engagements "African Baking Company (ABC bread) showing delivery trucks in front of the bakery Pretoria c 1950s. Photo by Dotman Pretorius. Image Source: Heritage Portal" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/2021993080283693538) 2026-02-12T17:01Z 131.2K followers, [----] engagements "Kaizer Chiefs founder and director Kaizer Motaung shakes hands with Pule "Ace" Ntsoelengoe before Ntsoelengoe left for the United States of America December [----] Jan Smuts Airport. Image Source: Arena Holdings" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/2022216817692078293) 2026-02-13T07:50Z 131.2K followers, 20.1K engagements "Solomon Mahlangu being identified by a relative Phineas Mahlangu in a line-up at a Police station circa [----]. Phineas Mahlangu was tortured and forced by the police to point him out. Image Source: ANC Archives" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/2022273078152020470) 2026-02-13T11:34Z 131.2K followers, 30.1K engagements "Singer Drum/Zonk Cover girl Model Film Star Cultural Icon - Dolly Rathebe (1928 - 2004). Image Source: Drum Social Histories" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/2022367220731392010) 2026-02-13T17:48Z 131.2K followers, [----] engagements "Nelson Mandela "The Black Pimpernel" around [----]. After being acquitted of high treason on [--] March [----] Nelson Mandela went underground. In May of the same year he organized a stay-away in protest of the declaration of South Africa as a republic. A warrant for his arrest was issued & he was charged for organizing the national protest. Mandela was already becoming a public figure and a symbolic legend. The press referred to him as "The Black Pimpernel" for his ability to evade capture by the South African authorities in reference to "The Scarlet Pimpernel" a fictional character known for his" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/2022379634529063333) 2026-02-13T18:37Z 131.2K followers, [----] engagements "A portrait of the legendary South African Jazz musician Wilson 'King Force' Silgee c 1980s. Photo Credit: Paul Weinberg" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/2022400878100255155) 2026-02-13T20:01Z 131.2K followers, [----] engagements "Lauretta Ngcobo (1931 2015) was a South African political activist novelist and essayist. In [----] she was a participant in the women's anti-pass march and was one of the main speakers. In [----] she married Abednego Bhekabantu Ngcobo a founder member of the Pan Africanist Congress who in [----] was sentenced to two years' imprisonment under the Suppression of Communism Act. After being in exile between [----] and [----] in Swaziland then Zambia and finally England where she taught for [--] years she returned to South Africa and lived in Durban. Ngcobo's writings between the 1960s and early 1990s have" [X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/2022553077597733281) 2026-02-14T06:06Z 131.2K followers, [----] engagements Limited data mode. Full metrics available with subscription: lunarcrush.com/pricing
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"Miriam Makeba (right) with Nina Simone c 1970s. Image Source: Nina Simone Musical (X)"
X Link 2026-02-13T05:37Z 131.2K followers, 40.4K engagements
"Poet author educator and political activist - Ratshaka Ratshitanga (1933 - 2022) footage courtesy of his documentary 'The Two Rivers' (1985)"
X Link 2026-02-13T12:47Z 131.2K followers, 20.1K engagements
"The Jazz Maniacs c 1940-44. Jacob Moeketsi is at the piano the leader Solomon 'Zuluboy' Cele sits in the front line with Wilson Silgee (alto sax) left and Zakes Nkosi (tenor sax) right. Behind are (left to right) Zakes Searbi Vy Nkosi (trombone) and Edward Sililo. Image Source: Ned Newitt https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022995946469015990 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022995946469015990"
X Link 2026-02-15T11:26Z 131.2K followers, [---] engagements
"Alfred Nzo (right) with Thomas Nkobi (with cap) Noord-Holland Schiphol October [----]. Photo Credit: Rob Croes (ANEFO)"
X Link 2026-02-15T13:05Z 131.2K followers, [----] engagements
"South African group Joy perform Paradise Road live on BBC TV c 1980's. Joy was a South African female vocal group who had a chart-topping hit in South Africa with Paradise Road. The record spent [--] weeks at No. [--] spot"
X Link 2026-01-26T05:46Z 131.2K followers, 197.8K engagements
"Prof Mangaliso Robert Sobukwe the founding President of the Pan Africanist Congress of Azania c 1970s. Photo: Alf Kumalo"
X Link 2026-02-11T10:18Z 131.2K followers, 12K engagements
"Archbishop Desmond Tutu then Bishop of Johannesburg spoke at Stanford University's Memorial Auditorium about the evils of Apartheid and the importance of economic sanctions on the first national Martin Luther King Jr. Day on January [--] [----]. Footage courtesy of Stanford University Archive. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022285117306085596 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022285117306085596"
X Link 2026-02-13T12:21Z 131.2K followers, 18.6K engagements
"June 1966: Senator Robert F Kennedy in a meeting with Black leaders from Johannesburg. From left they are: P.Q Vundla T. W Kambule Collins Ramusi Khabi Mngoma. Image Source: Drum Social Histories"
X Link 2026-02-13T14:29Z 131.2K followers, [----] engagements
"David Samaai (1927 - 2019) was a South African tennis player. Under the Apartheid regime he was not allowed to enter tournaments in South Africa like the South African Championships but he could play tournaments abroad although he had to fund his own trips. He participated in the Wimbledon Championships in [----] [----] [----] and [----] the first non-white South African to do so. His best result in the singles event was reaching the third round in [----] where he lost in straight sets to seventh-seeded and eventual finalist Ken McGregor. At the [----] French Championships he lost in the second round of"
X Link 2026-02-13T17:11Z 131.2K followers, 50.6K engagements
"Vintage photo of PAC founding member and President - Zephania "Zeph" Mothopeng (1913 - 1990). Image Source: IMS Vintage Photos"
X Link 2026-02-14T06:30Z 131.2K followers, [----] engagements
"Oliver Tambo at the Mandela and Tambo law office c [----]. Photo Credit: Jurgen Schadeberg"
X Link 2026-02-14T07:38Z 131.2K followers, [----] engagements
"South African artist Dumile Feni (left) with South African drummer Louis Moholo in exile London [----]. Photo: George Hallett"
X Link 2026-02-14T15:27Z 131.2K followers, [----] engagements
"Allan Kirkland Soga (1862 - 1938) was a South African journalist writer political activist and founding member of the South African Native National Congress. Soga was the youngest son of Tiyo Soga the first African in South Africa to be ordained a minister. His mother was a Scot and he was educated in the Cape and in Scotland receiving sufficient legal education to be appointed a magistrate. Later dismissed from this position he was employed at other times as a labour bureau agent and a road inspector in the Transkei. His first calling however was journalism and he was associated both with"
X Link 2026-02-14T17:34Z 131.2K followers, [----] engagements
"Dr Max Yergan (1893 - 1975) was an African American activist & intellectual who first came to South Africa in [----] as a representative of the YMCA until [----]. A communist by conviction at this time he introduced number of Fort Hare University students most notably Govan Mbeki to Marxist thinking. In [----] he was asked to aid the drafting of the constitution of the All African Convention. He had a reputation as a forceful and persuasive speaker. On his return to the USA he was appointed to the faculty of City College in New York and joined Paul Robeson in the founding of the Council on African"
X Link 2026-02-15T06:42Z 131.2K followers, [----] engagements
"1989: Chris Mathabe one month after his release after spending [--] years on Robben Island. Mathabe was a student activist who was an executive member of the Soweto Student's League before his arrest in [----]. Photo Credit: Gille de Vlieg"
X Link 2026-02-15T07:25Z 131.2K followers, [----] engagements
"Exiled PAC activist Philip Kgosana (left) with Francis Mbelu April [----]. Kgosana was famous for leading a demonstration at the age of [--] on [--] March [----] in which [-----] protestors opposing the country's pass laws marched from Langa to Cape Town one of the largest anti-apartheid demonstrations to take place in South Africa. Photo: Peter Magubane/Drum Social History/Wikipedia https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022942770986447158 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022942770986447158"
X Link 2026-02-15T07:55Z 131.2K followers, [----] engagements
"A young Zakes Nkosi c 1930s/40s. Isaac Zakes Nkosi (1925 - 1980) was a bandleader composer and saxophonist. He started his schooling in Alexandra at the Holy Cross Catholic School where he also began his music career. Here he learnt the rudiments of piano and organ. By the age of nine he was something of a musical prodigy and by the age of fifteen he had added the accordion violin and clarinet to his repertoire. His sister Minah bought him his first saxophone when he was [--] and after matriculating he formed his first music group. Zacks was soon playing professionally with the local bands like"
X Link 2026-02-15T11:19Z 131.2K followers, [----] engagements
"Zindzi Mandela with Whitney Houston Soweto November [----]. Photo Credit: Dana Lixenberg"
X Link 2026-02-15T12:21Z 131.2K followers, 15.8K engagements
"Choir at Clydesdale Mission Umzimkulu c [----]. Image Source: Piper Collection / Historic Africa"
X Link 2026-02-15T13:13Z 131.2K followers, [----] engagements
"Xhosa woman smokes a pipe outside in a rural village in Transkei South Africa. Photo: Anne Fischer Photographic Collection"
X Link 2026-02-08T12:40Z 131.2K followers, 28.9K engagements
"Young David Sibeko with his 'sweetheart' c 1950s. After leaving school Sibeko went to work for Drum initially as switchboard operator but later as a reporter. In [----] he became an insurance agent. He Joined the PAC during the state of emergency after the banning of the organization in [----]. In [----] Sibeko was appointed head of the PAC's mission to Europe and the Americas. He was responsible for the establishment of new PAC offices in various countries. Sibeko was assassinated in Tanzania in [----]. Source: SAHO/Drum Social Histories https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021282070945734934"
X Link 2026-02-10T17:56Z 131.2K followers, [----] engagements
"James 'Sofasonke' Mpanza one of the great men of Soweto with some of his race horses c 1950s. Since Black people were not allowed to own race horses his horses were raced under the names of white people. Image Source: Soweto/Peter Magubane"
X Link 2026-02-12T04:55Z 131.2K followers, 28.3K engagements
"1942 Congress deputation to the Prime Minister - Back l to r: Z.K Matthews R.G Baloyi A.J Sililo R.H Godlo - Front l to r: T.M Mapikela J.A Calata A.B Xuma E Qamata. Image Source: The African Patriots by Mary Benson (1963)"
X Link 2026-02-12T09:10Z 131.2K followers, [----] engagements
"1983: At 3:15 a.m. Going to work standing room only now on the Wolwekraal-Marabastad bus which is licensed to carry [--] sitting and [--] standing passengers. Photo Credit: David Goldblatt"
X Link 2026-02-13T02:02Z 131.2K followers, 26.5K engagements
"Steve 'Kalamazoo' Mokone c 1950s. Mokone was the first Black South African player to play in a professional European league. He began his professional career in [----] with English side Coventry City and later played in the Netherlands with Heracles Almelo (Darius Dhlomo joined him at the Club in 1958). He also joined Cardiff City before being signed in [----] by Spanish side FC Barcelona. He was loaned to French side Marseille. Mokone played in Italy for Torino and in Spain for Valencia CF before finishing his career in Canada in the Eastern Canada Professional Soccer League with the Hamilton"
X Link 2026-02-13T15:55Z 131.2K followers, 12.7K engagements
"Drum Magazine's Music editor Todd Matshikiza (On the piano) c [----]. Matshikiza was a Jazz pianist composer and journalist. In [----] he composed the music and some of the lyrics of the Jazz musical King Kong. The musical had a successful run in South Africa before opening at the Prince's Theatre in London's West End on [--] February [----]. Photo Credit: Jurgen Schadeberg https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022609045908050061 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022609045908050061"
X Link 2026-02-14T09:49Z 131.2K followers, [----] engagements
"c 1990s: At his first swearing in as acting state President Inkosi Mangosuthu Buthelezi is congratulated by Dr Ben Ngabane while Dr Frank Mdlalose looks on. Image Source: Buthelezi - A Biography by Ben Temkin"
X Link 2026-02-14T14:48Z 131.2K followers, 15.3K engagements
"Journalist writer and politician Solomon T. Plaatje (1876 - 1932) was one of the most vocal critics of womens passes. The pass system applied to black women and men but women were hit hardest. Plaatje noticed an anomaly in the manner in which the system was applied in Bloemfontein: married men could get exemption from ordinary pass laws on the basis of their status as respectable native inhabitants but their wives and daughters had to produce a pass on demand and also pay a shilling to renew them every month. In a letter to the editor of The Friend Plaatje condemned the native womens pass law"
X Link 2026-02-15T13:45Z 131.2K followers, [----] engagements
"Police dogs force back a crowd at Orlando Stadium c early 1960s. Photo: Peter Magubane/Drum Social Histories/Soweto"
X Link 2026-02-15T08:08Z 131.2K followers, [----] engagements
"Rev.Dr C.F Beyers Naud (seated left) with his family c 1930s. Naud was a South African Afrikaner Calvinist Dominee theologian and the leading Afrikaner anti-apartheid activist. Image Source: Learn and Teach Magazine"
X Link 2026-02-15T10:04Z 131.2K followers, [----] engagements
"Oliver Tambo arriving with PAIGC President Amilca Cabral at the OAU Heads of State meeting in Algiers [----]. Image Source: Oliver Tambo Exhibition"
X Link 2026-02-15T16:29Z 131.2K followers, [----] engagements
"Charlotte Maxeke (1871-1939) was a South African political activist and musician. She became the 1st Black South African woman to graduate from a University when she earned a BSc degree from Wilberforce University Ohio [----]. She toured with the African Choir in 1891"
X Link 2025-05-05T18:28Z 131K followers, 614.2K engagements
"Late afternoon in Soweto on [--] June [----] by Peter Magubane"
X Link 2025-06-16T09:23Z 131K followers, 286.9K engagements
"Miriam Makeba circa 1970's"
X Link 2025-06-19T17:49Z 131K followers, 199.5K engagements
"The first Africans to compete in the Olympic Games were two South Africans Jan Mashiane and Len Taunyane who competed in the Marathon at the [----] St. Louis Olympics"
X Link 2025-06-22T13:07Z 130.9K followers, 365.1K engagements
"Sam Nzima with his iconic image of Hector Pieterson during the [----] Soweto uprising"
X Link 2025-06-30T07:15Z 131K followers, 128.6K engagements
"White girl on the bench with a Black maid who is not allowed to sit with her [----]. Picture: Peter Magubane"
X Link 2025-07-01T05:28Z 130.9K followers, 897.2K engagements
"Steve Biko 1969"
X Link 2025-07-01T07:40Z 131K followers, 1.1M engagements
"Miriam Makeba and friends 1954"
X Link 2025-07-15T07:56Z 131.2K followers, 311.9K engagements
"Miriam Makeba on the cover of Time Magazine 1967"
X Link 2025-07-20T14:02Z 131.1K followers, 1.2M engagements
"World champion boxer Jacob "Baby Jake" Matlala (1962-2013)"
X Link 2025-07-23T12:39Z 130.9K followers, 271.8K engagements
"South African group Joy perform Paradise Road live on BBC TV c 1980's. Joy was a South African female vocal group who had a chart-topping hit in South Africa with Paradise Road. The record spent [--] weeks at No. [--] spot"
X Link 2025-07-29T12:26Z 131K followers, 284.6K engagements
"Letta Mbulu performing Nongqongqo in the [----] film A Warm December starring and directed by Sidney Poitier"
X Link 2025-07-30T08:42Z 130.9K followers, 272.5K engagements
"Miriam Makeba with Dizzy Gillespie during a rehearsal April 1991"
X Link 2025-08-21T06:11Z 131.1K followers, 20.8K engagements
"Prophet Isaiah Shembe (1865-1935) the founder of Ibandla lamaNazaretha"
X Link 2025-08-24T17:25Z 130.9K followers, 681.4K engagements
"The founder of the Zion Christian Church (ZCC) - Engenas Ignatius Lekganyane (c. 18851948)"
X Link 2025-09-04T05:02Z 131K followers, 901.3K engagements
"'3.00 a.m' - Early passengers on the Wolwekraal-Marabastad bus [----]. Picture: David Goldblatt"
X Link 2025-09-07T05:35Z 131.1K followers, 321.2K engagements
"Students at Wits University [----]. Picture: Charles Milligan"
X Link 2025-09-07T17:23Z 130.9K followers, 2.1M engagements
"Winnie Madikizela-Mandela was born on this day in [----]. Picture: Eli Weinberg"
X Link 2025-09-26T06:57Z 130.9K followers, 220.1K engagements
"Poet and political activist Professor Keorapetse Kgositsile (1938-2018) with his son Thebe Neruda Kgositsile (Earl Sweatshirt). Image Source: Genius"
X Link 2025-10-04T10:34Z 130.9K followers, 542.4K engagements
"Woman dumped at Beestekraal after forced removal [--] August [----]. Photo: Gille de Vlieg"
X Link 2025-10-13T05:55Z 131.2K followers, 441.8K engagements
"Lucas Mangope addressing citizens of Bophuthatswana in an undated picture. Photo: Media24 Archive"
X Link 2025-10-18T09:34Z 131.1K followers, 280.3K engagements
"Helen Mmapula Mmakgoba Sibidi is a South African artist. Sebidi's work has been represented in private and public collections including at the National Museum of Women in the Arts Washington and New York the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art New York and the World Bank. Her work has been recognised internationally and locally. In [----] she won the Standard Bank Young Artist award becoming the first black woman to win the award. Image Source: The Artist Press"
X Link 2025-10-24T07:56Z 131K followers, 328.4K engagements
"Chris Hani (1942-1993)"
X Link 2025-11-01T19:48Z 131K followers, 154K engagements
"Veronica and Robert Sobukwe soon after his release from Robben Island. Circa [----]. Photo: Ralph Ndawo"
X Link 2025-11-02T05:37Z 131.2K followers, 467.2K engagements
"The love story of Bubbles Mpondo and Jannie Beetge is a tragic tale of a cross-racial romance during apartheid in South Africa. Mpondo a Black woman and Beetge a white Afrikaner bodybuilder were deeply in love but faced intense opposition and were arrested multiple times for violating the Immorality Act. Their story ended in tragedy in [----] when they were found dead in their Johannesburg home. Source: Drum Magazine / Drum Social Histories"
X Link 2025-11-02T08:43Z 131K followers, 918.6K engagements
"Forced removals: Bulldozer destroying houses at the corner of Hanover and Blythe Streets. Table Mountain in the background c 1970s. Image Source: District Six Museum Image Collection"
X Link 2025-11-08T09:02Z 131K followers, 169.7K engagements
"Cissie Z. Gool addressing a Passive Resistance meeting Red Square Durban [----]. Image source: Gandhi-Luthuli Documentation Centre"
X Link 2026-01-18T20:40Z 131.1K followers, [----] engagements
"Inkosi Albert Luthuli (c.1898 - 1967) and his wife Nokukhanya leave the Dorchester Hotel in London for the airport 7th December [----]. They were passing through London en route from South Africa to Oslo where Luthuli received the Nobel Peace Prize. (Photo by Keystone/Hulton Archive) https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2013158610214219854 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2013158610214219854"
X Link 2026-01-19T07:56Z 131.2K followers, 14.4K engagements
"Creation Of The First Bantu State - Transkei (1962). Footage courtesy of British Path (YT)"
X Link 2026-01-21T07:38Z 131K followers, 51K engagements
"The first Black woman in South Africa to qualify as a medical doctor having taken her Hippocratic oath in [----] - Dr Mary Malahlela-Xakana (1916-1981). She was also the first Black woman in South Africa to graduate from the University of the Witwatersrand. Dr Malahlela-Xakana opened her practice in Dobsonville and started seeing patients there. She was also a founding member of YWCA in South Africa and was part of the Fort Hare University council. Picture: SAHO https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2016772558297747661 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2016772558297747661"
X Link 2026-01-29T07:17Z 130.8K followers, 64.9K engagements
"Dr Donald G S Mtimkulu (1908-2000) was a South African academic. Mtimkulu was a son of a methodist priest. He earned a BA and MA from Fort Hare and in the 1930s became one of the first Black South Africans to attend Yale University. He also attended the London School of Economics. He had a long career in higher education serving as head of Adams College then taking a professorship in education at the University of Fort Hare in the 1950s. In [----] when the Extension of University Education Act fully segregated higher education in South Africa by race and barred Black students from attending"
X Link 2026-01-30T17:15Z 131.2K followers, [----] engagements
"Robert Sobukwe (back right) with his family at his B.A. graduation University of Fort Hare [----]. Image Source: Wits Archives"
X Link 2026-01-31T07:15Z 131K followers, [----] engagements
"From Drum Magazine: A love story c 1953"
X Link 2026-01-31T10:17Z 130.9K followers, 39.5K engagements
"Mother and Child in their home after the destruction of its shelter by Officials of the Development Board Crossroads Cape Town [--] October [----]. Photo: David Goldblatt"
X Link 2026-01-31T16:34Z 130.8K followers, [----] engagements
"Picnic at Hartebeespoort Dam on New Year's Day Transvaal [----]. (North West Province). Photo by David Goldblatt"
X Link 2026-01-31T18:30Z 131K followers, [----] engagements
"On [--] January [----] William Khanyile was killed in Matola Mozambique during a cross border raid by South African Defence Force members. A rocket was fired at point-blank rage through his bedroom wall while he was sleeping. The raid became known as the Matola Raid. Source: Saho"
X Link 2026-02-02T08:38Z 131K followers, [----] engagements
"The journey of Johnny Mothopeng and his wife Ellen from Soweto to Robben Island - excerpt from the [----] documentary by Kevin Harris "This we can do for Justice & for Peace""
X Link 2026-02-02T12:38Z 130.9K followers, [----] engagements
"Miss World 1972: Two South African contestants on left Miss Africa South Cynthia Shange and on right Miss South Africa Stephanie Elizabeth Reinecke pictured together in Grosvenor Square London on 22nd November [----] prior to competing in the Miss World [----] beauty pageant. (Photo by Rolls Press/Popperfoto) https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2018310268313301207 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2018310268313301207"
X Link 2026-02-02T13:07Z 130.9K followers, 36.4K engagements
"Dr Allan Boesak accompanied by his wife Is greeted by Coretta Scott King at Hartsfield Jackson International Airport On March [--] [----] (Photo By Norm Staples)"
X Link 2026-02-03T12:02Z 130.8K followers, [----] engagements
"Joseph Moloi from South Africa signed with Cardiff City F.C. in Wales UK 15th November [----]. (Photo by Stroud/Express/Hulton Archive)"
X Link 2026-02-03T16:01Z 130.8K followers, 12.2K engagements
"Oliver Tambo Nana Mahomo and Peter Molotsi arrive in Ghana April [----]. Image Credit: Mauritius Images"
X Link 2026-02-04T07:57Z 131K followers, [----] engagements
"1985: Young mourners carrying symbolic AK-47 rifles stand over the coffins of Queenstown residents killed by police who opened fire on them as they were leaving the church in which they had met to discuss a consumer boycott. Fourteen people were murdered including three fifteen-year-olds. Photo: Gideon Mendel/UCT Photography Collection https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2019049516045849038 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2019049516045849038"
X Link 2026-02-04T14:04Z 131.1K followers, [----] engagements
"Dolly Rathebe (1928 - 2004) born Josephine Malatsi was a South African musician actress cover girl film star cultural icon and one of the principal players in the cultural renaissance that flowered briefly before it was terminated by Apartheid in the late 1950s. She was born in Randfontein west of Johannesburg in [----] but grew up within the unique cultural and political milieu of Sophiatown in the 1930s and 1940s. As a young woman Rathebe was drawn to the burgeoning and vibrant music scene in Sophiatown and started singing with local jazz bands in neighbourhood clubs. In [----] she was spotted"
X Link 2026-02-04T17:20Z 130.9K followers, [----] engagements
"Pedestrians walk across Church Square in the centre of the city of Pretoria in the Transvaal province (now Gauteng) of South Africa in [----]. In the background stands the Ou Raadsaal council chamber building. (Photo by Paul Popper/Popperfoto)"
X Link 2026-02-04T20:04Z 130.9K followers, [----] engagements
"Danny Schechter at the funeral of Inkosi Albert Luthuli. Schechter who was studying at the London School of Economics was one of a number of people known as the London Recruits who went to South Africa for the African National Congress (ANC). Schechter had travelled to South Africa as a tourist but smuggled in leaflets produced by the ANC and mailed them to addresses he had been given before going to the funeral. Image Source: Tony Sutton collection https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2019164663435481111 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2019164663435481111"
X Link 2026-02-04T21:42Z 131K followers, [----] engagements
"Oliver Tambo holding Danny Weiss the son of Cora and Peter Weiss at Dannys birthday party. Tambo was staying at the Weiss home in Riverdale NY while petitioning in the United Nations in October [----]. Tambo went into exile from South Africa in [----] to lead the External Mission of the ANC. He became president of the ANC in [----] following the death of Inkosi Albert Luthuli. Image Source: Cora and Peter Weiss Collection https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2019295374540767679 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2019295374540767679"
X Link 2026-02-05T06:21Z 131.1K followers, [----] engagements
"A girl and her maid on a 'Europeans only' bench c [----]. Photo by Peter Magubane"
X Link 2026-02-05T18:00Z 130.9K followers, 34K engagements
"South African doctors and politicians Dr Albertina Luthuli and her husband Dr Pascal Ngakane with their children Lunguli Zandile Nomusa and Motsumi on their arrival aboard the Pendennis Castle at Southampton Hampshire England 26th October [----]. Dr Luthuli the daughter of the Nobel Peace Prize laureate Inkosi Albert Luthuli and her family had arrived from South Africa on an exit permit granted by John Vorster's government. (Photo by Bertnan Lemmon Portsmouth/Keystone/Hulton Archive) https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2019621964944482751 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2019621964944482751"
X Link 2026-02-06T03:59Z 131K followers, 15.9K engagements
"Boxer Elijah 'Ellis Brown' Mokone with the son of promoter Tiger Shaik c [----]. Photo: Barney Desai / Drum Social Histories"
X Link 2026-02-06T07:12Z 130.8K followers, [----] engagements
"Actor and filmmaker Lionel Ngakane with his brother medical doctor and activist Dr Pascal Ngakane c 1960s. Photo: Ranjith Kally / Drum Social Histories"
X Link 2026-02-06T08:51Z 130.8K followers, [----] engagements
"Chris Hani and Tokyo Sexwale walking in the street c 1990s. Photo Credit: Ken Oosterbroek"
X Link 2026-02-06T09:47Z 131.2K followers, 198K engagements
"Oliver Tambo c 1963"
X Link 2026-02-06T13:23Z 131.1K followers, [----] engagements
"Father Trevor Huddleston with the St Peter's baseball team c [----]. One of the immediate results of the Bantu Education Act was that one of South Africa's most famous schools St Peter's announced that it would be forced to shutdown because of the Act. The Eton of South Africa; as St Peters was called had an astonishing record of scholarship achievement over its [--] years. But the Community of Resurrection who ran the school felt that as a matter of principle they could not carry on with the school with the syllabus and control demanded by the new Act. The school was situated in Rosettenville"
X Link 2026-02-06T14:03Z 131K followers, [----] engagements
"Ingwenyama uNyumbabo Mayitjha II (1947 - 2005) was the king of the Ndzundza Ndebele nation in Mpumalanga South Africa reigning from [----] to [----] after succeeding his father Mabusabesala II. During apartheid while the Ndebele were governed as nominal citizens of the KwaNdebele bantustan Mayitjha served in several positions in the cabinet of the Chief Minister of KwaNdebele but was also a prominent opponent of separate development and further ethnic division while advocating for education and tribal unity. Source: Wikipedia https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2019790730995159104"
X Link 2026-02-06T15:10Z 130.9K followers, [----] engagements
"Oliver Tambo graduates with a Bachelor of Science (Mathematics and Physics major) at the University College of Fort Hare in [----]. Image Source: Beyond The Engeli Mountains by Luli Callinicos"
X Link 2026-02-06T18:49Z 131.1K followers, 10.7K engagements
"Students at the South African Native College (now known as the University of Fort Hare) c [----]. D.D.T Jabavu the colleges first Black Professor is in the center of the front row. The colleges first principal Alexander Kerr is sitting to his (Jabavu) immediate left. Image Source: The Ghost of Equality - The Public Lives of D. D. T. Jabavu of South Africa [--------] by Catherine Higgs https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2020023949489303704 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2020023949489303704"
X Link 2026-02-07T06:36Z 131K followers, [----] engagements
"Dr Wilson Zamindlela Conco (1919-1996) was a South African medical doctor political activist and founder member of the ANCYL. He attended Marianhill College where he distinguished himself as a student. After a year of premedical studies at Fort Hare he studied medicine at the University of the Witwatersrand graduating in [----]. A brilliant medical student who qualified from the University of the Witwatersrand top of his class in [----]. His appointment as demonstrator in the histology laboratory at Wits provoked a protest among National Party MP's that led to his demotion to the position of"
X Link 2026-02-07T06:55Z 130.9K followers, [----] engagements
"The renaissance man Darius Dhlomo (R) singing at a Nightclub in the Netherlands c [----]. Dhlomo was a South African professional boxer footballer drummer tennis player jazz musician and political activist. Alongside his budding boxing career he was the captain of both the Baumannville City Blacks football team and the Natal national football team. Further to this he also sang in a jazz quintet a fact which led Drum Magazine to publish a feature on him titled "Darius Dhlomo Man of Many Talents". He decided to move to the Netherlands having signed a professional football contract with Heracles"
X Link 2026-02-07T08:49Z 130.8K followers, [----] engagements
"Protest march in Los Angeles after the defendants in the Rivonia Trial were sentenced to life in prison c late [----]. In the front is South African exile Bernard (Ben) Magubane then a student at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA). Image Source: Ben Magubane private collection https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2020070076548849991 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2020070076548849991"
X Link 2026-02-07T09:40Z 131.1K followers, [----] engagements
"Six year old John Matshikiza with his sister Marian and mother Esme Matshikiza greeting Princess Margaret at the opening of the King Kong Jazz Musical in London February [----]. Image Source: Drum Social Histories"
X Link 2026-02-07T10:48Z 130.9K followers, [----] engagements
"Nelson "Nana" Mahomo (1930 - 2014) pictured on the left was a political activist an editor documentary filmmaker and businessman. After working for some time as a clerk for Arthur Blaxall and attempting a business venture with Joe Molefi Mahomo went to the University of Cape Town to start a law degree in [----]. In April [----] he was elected secretary for culture in the PAC. With other Africanists he helped build a Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) organization in and around Cape Town recruiting "task forces" of youthful activists and soliciting support from sympathetic whites. Delegated with Peter"
X Link 2026-02-07T11:07Z 130.9K followers, [----] engagements
"Alex La Guma (1924 - 1985) was a South African novelist political activist and son of the prominent ANC SACPO and CPSA leader Jimmy (James) La Guma. His writing career took off in [----]. In [----] he was among the activists charged in the Treason Trial. He published his first short story "Nocturn" in [----]. In [----] he began writing for New Age a progressive newspaper and in [----] he was placed under house arrest. Before his five-year sentence could elapse A No Trial Act was passed and he and his wife were put into solitary confinement. On their release from prison they returned to house arrest. He"
X Link 2026-02-07T11:45Z 130.9K followers, [----] engagements
"Joe Gaobakwe Matthews (1929 - 2010) was a South African lawyer an activist of the ANC from [----] until [----] when he left to join the IFP an organization founded by his friend Inkosi Mangosuthu Buthelezi (Matthews was the best man at Buthelezi's wedding in [----]. The two developed a close friendship while students at Fort Hare). He earned a BA from Fort Hare in [----] an LLB from University of London in [----] and a MA in History at the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London in [----]. He completed legal articles with JH Spilkin attorneys in Port Elizabeth from [----] to"
X Link 2026-02-07T12:34Z 130.9K followers, [----] engagements
"Anton Muziwakhe Lembede (1914 - 1947) was a South African political activist teacher lawyer theoretician and founding President of the Congress Youth League. Lembede was born into a peasant family living on the farm in Eston in Natal. He was baptised as an Anglican. His father Mbazwana Martin was a farm labourer and his mother Martha Norah MaLuthuli Lembede a teacher who taught him at home until he completed his elementary education. In [----] after completing his elementary education his family relocated to KwaMphepheta in Mbumbulu. One of the reasons for the relocation was that Lembede should"
X Link 2026-02-07T13:25Z 130.9K followers, [----] engagements
"June 1976: Student activist Japie Vilankulu from Alexandra (man carrying the rubbish bin lid) was killed by police moments after this photograph was taken. Photo by Peter Magubane"
X Link 2026-02-07T13:48Z 130.9K followers, [----] engagements
"South African artist and musician Gerard Sekoto in Paris France July [----]. Sekoto left South Africa to live in Paris under self-imposed exile in [----]. Photo: Peter Magubane / Drum Social Histories"
X Link 2026-02-07T15:25Z 130.9K followers, [----] engagements
"Late afternoon Soweto [--] June [----]. Photo by Peter Magubane"
X Link 2026-02-07T15:43Z 131.1K followers, 16.1K engagements
"'Song of the Pick' (1946) by Gerard Sekoto (1913 - 1993). Sekoto painted this shortly before moving to Paris in what became a lifelong exile from South Africa. The painting is based on a 1930's photograph by Andrew Goldie"
X Link 2026-02-07T18:37Z 131K followers, [----] engagements
"The Sobukwe Clause was a legal provision within South Africa's General Law Amendment Act of [----] that under the guise of fighting communism allowed for the arbitrary extended detention of prisoners after their sentences were served effectively enabling indefinite imprisonment for individuals deemed a threat by the government. Introduced to specifically target and continue the imprisonment of Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) founding President Robert Sobukwe it was a highly discriminatory piece of legislation that was used only for him and symbolized the apartheid government's attempts to"
X Link 2026-02-08T08:44Z 131.1K followers, 16.2K engagements
"Nelson Mandela in his law office which he shared with Oliver Tambo Johannesburg [----]. Photo: Jurgen Schadeberg/UCT Photography Collection"
X Link 2026-02-08T12:57Z 131.1K followers, [----] engagements
"The Harlem Swingsters were a prominent South African jazz band in the 1950s known for their blend of American jazz with South African music styles like marabi. They performed widely in South Africa and were associated with figures like Benni Gwigwi Mrwebi and Kippie Moeketsi gaining significant popularity before eventually changing their name to The Jazz Dazzlers. Photographer: Jurgen Schadeberg https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2020492598821957968 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2020492598821957968"
X Link 2026-02-08T13:39Z 131K followers, [----] engagements
"Basil Coetzee with his saxophone in Strandfontein Cape Town South Africa c [----]. Photo: Basil Breakey / UCT Photography Collection"
X Link 2026-02-08T14:10Z 131.2K followers, [----] engagements
"Trevor Manuel with his then wife Lynne Matthews and son Govan on his release from detention in [----]. Photo: Zubeida Vallie/UCT Photography Collection"
X Link 2026-02-08T14:17Z 131.2K followers, 37.9K engagements
"Youth in the northern Transvaal township of Leandra mourned the death of their leader Chief Ampie Mayisa during his funeral. Chief Mayisa was beaten to death and his body and his house were burnt by vigilantes in Lebohang Leandra Transvaal on [--] January [----]. Chief Mayisa supported a group of young comrades who sought refuge in his house on the day of his murder. Photo by Joanne Rathe https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2020511581386264625 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2020511581386264625"
X Link 2026-02-08T14:54Z 131K followers, [----] engagements
"American actor Canada Lee (1907 - 1952) is consoled by his friend Sidney Poitier (1927 - 2022) in a scene from the London Films production 'Cry The Beloved Country'. The film was produced and directed by Zoltan Korda (1895 - 1961) and based on a novel by Alan Paton. Photo: Hulton Archive"
X Link 2026-02-08T15:33Z 130.9K followers, [----] engagements
"Nelson Mandela in discussion with C. Andrews a Cape Town teacher circa 1950s. (Photo by Three Lions/Hulton Archive)"
X Link 2026-02-08T15:55Z 131K followers, [----] engagements
"Anti-apartheid demonstrators holding placards in memory of South African activist Vuyisile Mini one of the first activists to be executed by apartheid South Africa outside South Africa House in Trafalgar Square London England 7th November [----]. (Photo by Central Press/Hulton Archive) https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2020531846619287643 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2020531846619287643"
X Link 2026-02-08T16:15Z 131.1K followers, [----] engagements
"Faried Esack tries to stop police from removing ANC flag draped over the coffin of slain activist Ashley Kriel Cape Town July [----]. Photo: Roger Meintjies/UCT Photography Collection"
X Link 2026-02-08T18:09Z 130.9K followers, [----] engagements
"1960: Massacre at Sharpeville - A grief-stricken woman is led home after viewing the body of her husband who was shot by police. Photo by Peter Magubane"
X Link 2026-02-09T08:31Z 131.1K followers, 12.9K engagements
"1960: A Massacre at Sharpeville - The mass funeral of the victims of the Sharpeville Massacre. Photo by Terence Spencer"
X Link 2026-02-09T08:45Z 131K followers, [----] engagements
"King Sandile KaNgqika (c 1820-1878) was the leader of the Gaiga ama Rharabe Xhosa. A dynamic leader he led the Xhosa armies in several Xhosa-British wars. Having recently been equipped with modern fire-arms Sandile's forces successfully inflicted losses on the British that led to Sandile gaining a reputation as a Xhosa warrior. He was captured during the War of the Axe in [----] but on his release he was granted land in 'British Kaffraria' for his people. He later supported his cousin brother Sarhili (Kreli) King of the entire Xhosa Nation of Great house in a war against the Cape Colony and the"
X Link 2026-02-09T09:26Z 130.8K followers, [----] engagements
"Arthur N Fula (1908 - 1966) was a South African author who wrote mainly in Afrikaans. Fula a native Xhosa speaker worked as a miner clerk labourer and an as interpreter where he interpreted from Zulu and Sesotho. Three of his Novels are published but there are poems & novellas that still remain unpublished. In addition to his mother tongue isiXhosa Fula was fluent in isiZulu Setswana Sesotho Sepedi English French (he learnt French at the Alliance Franaise centre) and Afrikaans which he learnt as a young boy when his family moved to Johannesburg. Source: SAHO"
X Link 2026-02-09T14:14Z 131.2K followers, [----] engagements
"South African singer Miriam Makeba performs with her daughter Bongi during a concert on February [--] [----] at the "Pavillon de Paris" in Paris. (Photo by Michel Clement)"
X Link 2026-02-09T14:34Z 131K followers, 10.6K engagements
"The first group of Black South African Students to study at the Wilberforce University funded by the African Methodist Episcopal Church c 1894/5. Charlotte Manya (later Charlotte Maxeke) the only female in the group is seated at the centre. Manya graduated with a BSc from the University c 1901/2 the first Black woman in South Africa to accomplish such a feat. She married Marshall Maxeke (also a Wilberforce University graduate) and the two established a school at Evaton after their return from the United States. Source: Songs of Zion - The African Methodist Episcopal Church in the United"
X Link 2026-02-09T15:05Z 131K followers, [----] engagements
"South African artist photographer and activist Omar Badsha and South African artist Dumile Feni (1942 - 1991) at the Durban Art Gallery August [----]. Image Source: M&G (Photo likely by A. Moosa Badsha)"
X Link 2026-02-09T16:01Z 131K followers, [----] engagements
"Nat Nakasa (1937 - 1965) featured on episode [--] of the American public affairs television program - Black Journal. The episode aired in [----]. The entire episode was about apartheid in South Africa"
X Link 2026-02-09T19:26Z 131K followers, [----] engagements
"Junior students prepare to return to class as senior rings bell c [----]. The 'Eton of South Africa' as St Peter's was called closed its doors in [----] because of the introduction of Bantu Education. The Community of Resurrection who ran the school felt that as a matter of principle they could not carry on with the school with the syllabus and control demanded by the Bantu Education Act. Image Source: Drum Social Histories https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021105080934494375 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021105080934494375"
X Link 2026-02-10T06:12Z 131.1K followers, [----] engagements
"Joe Slovo shares a joke and a laugh with UDF leader Terror Lekota c 1980/90s. Image Source: Learn and Teach Magazine"
X Link 2026-02-10T06:22Z 131K followers, [----] engagements
"A young Caroline Motsoaledi the wife of the Rivonia Trialist Elias Motsoaledi c 1940-50s. Image Source: Learn and Teach Magazine"
X Link 2026-02-10T06:27Z 131.1K followers, [----] engagements
"Kippie Moeketsi and Dolly Rathebe back at work again c early 1980s. Image Source: Learn and Teach Magazine"
X Link 2026-02-10T06:31Z 131K followers, [----] engagements
"Kippie playing with Abdullah Ibrahim (Dollar Brand) in the old days c. 1970s. Image Source: Learn and Teach Magazine"
X Link 2026-02-10T06:35Z 131K followers, [---] engagements
"The Velvettes - South African girl group active in Great Britain in the 1960s. Backing vocalist for Cyril Davies' All Stars. The lineup included Hazel Futa Eunice Mamsie Mthombeni and Patience Gcwabe. Photo by Mike Peters"
X Link 2026-02-10T07:11Z 131.2K followers, [----] engagements
"South African girl group 'The Velvettes' as backing vocalists for Cyril Davies's All-Stars with Long John Baldry in [----]. Footage: Long John Baldry (YT)"
X Link 2026-02-10T07:29Z 131K followers, [----] engagements
"Ezekiel Mphahlele Drum Magazine fiction editor receives a kiss from his wife Rebecca on his graduation c [----]. He was awarded M.A. English (with distinction) Thesis: "The Non-European Character in South African English Fiction" and was the first Black South African to graduate M.A. English with distinction at UNISA. Photo by Peter Magubane"
X Link 2026-02-10T07:41Z 131K followers, [----] engagements
"Johnny Clegg performs at a concert organised by the UDF-affiliated Johannesburg Democratic Action Committee (JODAC) in [----]. Photo: Paul Weinberg"
X Link 2026-02-10T09:03Z 131K followers, [----] engagements
"1985: Mourners at the funeral of UDF activist and lawyer Victoria Mxenge assassinated shortly before the Pietermaritzburg Treason Trial by apartheid agents led by Dirk Coetzee. Photo Credit: Paul Weinberg"
X Link 2026-02-10T09:08Z 131K followers, [----] engagements
"Community Health Awareness Project (CHAP) was launched by Azapo in July [----]. As Azapo's Health Secretary Dr. Abu Baker Asvat headed the project. One of CHAPs most well-known programmes was a mobile health clinic which travelled across the country throughout the 1980s. Asvat and a team of volunteers travelled throughout South Africa aiming to provide primary health care to some of the nations most disadvantaged areas. Source: Saho/Michelle Hayman/Abu Asvat Institute https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021157721165201457 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021157721165201457"
X Link 2026-02-10T09:42Z 131.2K followers, [----] engagements
"A study in concentration: Ray Nkwe is seen here filing records at the office of the record company he was working for c late 1960s. Raymond Thabagolo Nkwe (1934 - 1982) was a South African singer music producer guitarist arts activist and broadcaster. Image Source: Drum Social Histories https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021172210686185601 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021172210686185601"
X Link 2026-02-10T10:39Z 131K followers, [----] engagements
"Promoter Raymond Nkwe (1934 - 1982) seen wearing a polo-neck jersey that bears the names of two great saxophonists - Ornette Coleman and John Coltrane c [----]. Image Source: Drum Social Histories"
X Link 2026-02-10T11:02Z 131K followers, [----] engagements
"1985: Winnie Mandela before appearing on the ABC tv series 'Nightline' special 'Ted Koppel in South Africa'. (Photo by American Broadcasting Companies)"
X Link 2026-02-10T12:06Z 131K followers, 12.1K engagements
"The Banned Men of the Congress Alliance c 1950s. Source: Drum Social Histories"
X Link 2026-02-10T13:54Z 131.1K followers, [----] engagements
"Oliver Tambo and Nelson Mandela during a meeting in London [----]. Mandela arrived in London on [--] June [----] after his African tour. He was on his clandestine trip to get support for the armed struggle and met members of the opposition. Oliver Tambo was already living in London and leading the External Mission of the ANC. Photo by Michael Peto https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021235651564241238 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021235651564241238"
X Link 2026-02-10T14:51Z 131.1K followers, 16.6K engagements
"Credo Mutwa (left) playing the part of a mortal chief talks to the Star Queen Nosilimela's mother a goddess [----]. Nosilimela's fantasy was Mutwa's first attempt as a playwright. The fantasy or mythical drama created by Credo Mutwa tells the story of Nosilimela the 'Princess of the stars' and follows her temperamental journey as she navigates life in human flesh. Image Source: Drum Magazine March [----]. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021251351729049631 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021251351729049631"
X Link 2026-02-10T15:54Z 131K followers, [----] engagements
"c 1980s: Barney Rachabane at the Rainbow Jazz Club in Pinetown. Marc Duby is on bass in the background. Photo: Rafs Mayet"
X Link 2026-02-11T06:16Z 131.1K followers, [---] engagements
"Ruth First with Winnie Mandela c early 1960s. Photo by Mary Benson. The photographer Mary Benson (1919 - 2000) was a South African anti-apartheid activist and an author/biographer. Some of her most famous works include biographies of Inkosi Albert Luthuli (1963) and Nelson Mandela (1986). https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021478082968744111 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021478082968744111"
X Link 2026-02-11T06:55Z 131K followers, [----] engagements
"South African artist Ernest Mancoba (1904-2002) with his [----] sculpture African Madonna. African Madonna is considered the first modern sculpture produced by a Black South African. Photo: Ruth Motau"
X Link 2026-02-11T08:26Z 131.1K followers, [----] engagements
"Priscilla Mokaba (1937 - 2013) was a political activist. She was the mother of Peter Mokaba. Priscilla was one of several political activists put in jail in South Africa during the 1980s. She was described as a distinguished activist who had stood firm against the apartheid regime. Image Source: Sowetan https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021516955438502307 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021516955438502307"
X Link 2026-02-11T09:29Z 131K followers, [----] engagements
"Florence Mkhize addressing a meeting in Durban c [----]. Photo: Ranjith Kally/Drum Social Histories"
X Link 2026-02-11T10:58Z 131.1K followers, [----] engagements
"Inkosi Albert John Luthuli reading an article about his recent lecture tour to Cape Town [----]. Photo: Ranjith Kally/Drum Social Histories"
X Link 2026-02-11T12:03Z 131.1K followers, [----] engagements
"Alfred Nzo addressing the United Nations Special Committee of [--] on decolonization Lusaka Zambia April [--] [----]. UN Photo by Y. Nagata"
X Link 2026-02-11T13:46Z 131.2K followers, [----] engagements
""I recognize that the hour has come when we the native races of this country must be Up and working - for God only helps those who help themselves" - Rev John L Dube 1912"
X Link 2026-02-11T13:49Z 131.1K followers, [----] engagements
"Dr James Moroka and Inkosi Albert Luthuli at an annual Congress Conference in December [----]. Image Source: Drum Social Histories"
X Link 2026-02-11T14:10Z 131.1K followers, [----] engagements
"The Championship cricket team at Healdtown a Methodist Mission school near Fort Beaufort South Africa c [----]. Image Source: The Activist Collector by Christa Clarke"
X Link 2026-02-12T05:36Z 131.1K followers, [----] engagements
"Prof D.D.T Jabavu with Lida Clanton Broner outside her Newark home August [----] just before the public launch of Council on African Affairs. In [----] Broner an African American hairstylist and housekeeper from Newark New Jersey traveled to pre-apartheid South Africa fulfilling a lifelong goal of visiting the continent of her ancestors. As she traveled through South African giving speeches on race pride to social clubs schools and especially to women's groups Broner amassed a collection of handicraft given by the many people she met "to show in America". Her story is documented in 'The Activist"
X Link 2026-02-12T05:49Z 131.2K followers, [----] engagements
"Dr James Moroka with his wife Susan with one of their children in Thaba 'Nchu October [----]. Photo by Lisa C Broner"
X Link 2026-02-12T06:53Z 131.1K followers, [----] engagements
"Bunny Luthuli (1945 - 1977) was a South African Jazz musician and a founder member of The Drive. He was a guitarist for The Drive a Jazz band formed in [----]. The Drive was known for its fusion of jazz soul & funk elements. They achieved significant popularity in South Africa during the 1970s. He died in a tragic car accident that also claimed the life of his fellow band member Henry Sithole in [----]. Picture: Electric Jive https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021844282772980063 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021844282772980063"
X Link 2026-02-12T07:10Z 131.2K followers, [----] engagements
"Moses Tladi (1903 1959) was a self-taught South African artist who was the first black painter to hold a formal exhibition in South Africa and the first black artist to exhibit at the South African National Gallery. Tladi started painting with leftover commercial house paint and a stick. His talent for painting was noticed by his employer Read who started providing him with artists' materials. Read also introduced Tladi to the collector and philanthropist Howard Pim who was once a mayor of Johannesburg and played a leading role in the establishment of the Johannesburg Art Gallery. Both Read"
X Link 2026-02-12T07:30Z 131.2K followers, [----] engagements
"Clarke Edward Maxeke was an author who was the only son of Marshall and Charlotte Maxeke. He was born in the Transvaal around [----] (Other sources say 1905) and was educated in the mission schools and at the Wilberforce Institute in Evaton. He also studied at the Lovedale College. After Lovedale he went to the USA to further his education at the Morris Brown University. He wrote a novel on native life experiences in Johannesburg which was published in the USA. Historical accounts vary on his passing. Some sources suggest that he predeceased his mother (who died in 1939) while others suggest"
X Link 2026-02-12T10:59Z 131.2K followers, [----] engagements
"Davidson Don Tengo Jabavu as a student at the University of Birmingham c [----]. Image Source: The Ghost of Equality - The Public lives of D.D.T Jabavu of South Africa [----] - [----] by Catherine Higgs"
X Link 2026-02-12T11:28Z 131.1K followers, [----] engagements
"Modikwe Dikobe (pseudonym of Marks Rammitloa [----] - 2005) was a South African novelist poet trade unionist and squatter leader in Johannesburg in the 1940s. He wrote one book and one collection of poetry whilst working as a hawker clerk domestic servant and night watchman. Literary historian Tim Couzens editor of Dikobe's volume of poetry Dispossessed states that "Dikobe is unique in South African literature because he has been until recently . the only substantial writer who is while writing fairly strongly working class." Image Source: Picryl"
X Link 2026-02-12T13:55Z 131.2K followers, [----] engagements
"From left Assistant Secretary-General Enuga S Reddy Centre Against Apartheid Committee Chairman Ernest B Maycock (Barbados) and Committee Secretary Salih Araim on [--] January [----]. (UN Photo: Yutaka Nagata)"
X Link 2026-02-12T17:43Z 131.2K followers, [----] engagements
"Miriam Makeba and Paul Simon late 1980s. Image Source: Bernard Gotfryd Photograph Collection Library of Congress"
X Link 2026-02-12T17:52Z 131.2K followers, [----] engagements
"Inkosi Albert John Luthuli with Senator Robert F Kennedy and his wife June [----]. Image Source: Luthuli Museum"
X Link 2026-02-12T20:30Z 131.2K followers, [----] engagements
"February [----] Forced Removals in Sophiatown: "You are hereby required in terms of the Native Resettlement Act [----] to vacate the premises in which you are residing .". Photo Credit: Bob Gosani/Drum Social Histories"
X Link 2026-02-13T02:34Z 131.2K followers, [----] engagements
"ANC/SACP-leader Chris Hani (left) talks to Dutch activist Klaas de Jonge (right) in Transkei November [----]. Photo: Pieter Boersma"
X Link 2026-02-13T06:12Z 131.2K followers, [----] engagements
"7 June 1962: Nelson Mandela arrives in London England on his clandestine trip to get support for the armed struggle. In January [----] Mandela secretly left South Africa and travelled across the African continent for several months. Mandela returned to South Africa in July [----] and was arrested at a roadblock near Howick Natal on the 5th of August. (API/Gamma-Rapho) https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022299140852453495 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022299140852453495"
X Link 2026-02-13T13:17Z 131.2K followers, [----] engagements
"South African poet academic and political activist Prof Keorapetse Kgositsile on a television show by Dr Maya Angelou in 1968"
X Link 2025-08-29T18:58Z 131.2K followers, 4.8M engagements
"Inkosi Albert John Luthuli relaxing at home with his grandson Motsumi Ngakane c [----]. Photo: Terence Spencer"
X Link 2026-02-06T09:03Z 131.2K followers, 12.1K engagements
"Jomo Sono kisses his bride Gail Sebetlele on their wedding day. He later led Orlando Pirates to victory over Highlands Park February [----]. Image Source: Arena Holdings Collection"
X Link 2026-02-06T14:23Z 131.2K followers, 123.5K engagements
"Princess Elizabeth makes a broadcast from the gardens of Government House in Cape Town South Africa on the occasion of her 21st birthday 21st April [----]. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Hulton Archive)"
X Link 2026-02-08T15:50Z 131.2K followers, [----] engagements
"The first Africans to qualify as medical doctors at the University of the Witwatersrand: Dr HHW Hermanus (left) Dr JLZ Njongwe (right) & Dr Donald Moikangoa (NP). Dr Njongwe became an influential activist and was one of the leading figure in the Defiance Campaign of [----]. Image Source: Northwestern Library https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2020815642006266042 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2020815642006266042"
X Link 2026-02-09T11:02Z 131.2K followers, [----] engagements
"Bongi Makeba (1950 1985) was a South African singer/songwriter. She was the only child of singer and activist Miriam Makeba. Makeba was born in South Africa. She recorded only one solo album Blow On Wind before she died in [----]. She was buried in Conakry Guinea. Some of her songs can still be heard in her mothers repertoire. Source: Electric Jive. Photo by Klaus Rose https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2020905995388481752 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2020905995388481752"
X Link 2026-02-09T17:01Z 131.2K followers, 37.7K engagements
"Mrs Veronica Nzo the wife of anti-apartheid activist Mr Alfred Nzo c early 1960s. Mrs Nzo skipped the country with Mrs Nokwe to Bechuanaland (Botswana) from there they hoped to fly north to join their husbands who were both living in exile in London at the time. Mrs Nzo a qualified medical & surgical nurse and a midwife had to resign from her post as a matron to prepare for life in exile. Image Source: Drum Social Histories https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021567845377659085 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021567845377659085"
X Link 2026-02-11T12:51Z 131.2K followers, 24.4K engagements
"Daniel Cornel Marivate (1897 - 1989) was a South African writer composer educator who wrote the first Xitsonga novel Sasavona. The physician Dr Charles Daniel Marivate and academic C.T.D Marivate were his son's. Image Source: WikiCommons"
X Link 2026-02-12T11:07Z 131.2K followers, [----] engagements
"Inkosi Albert John Luthuli burning his pass book [----]. Image Source: Luthuli Foundation"
X Link 2026-02-12T12:16Z 131.2K followers, [----] engagements
"Cape Town 1974: District Six Forced Removals. Photo: Paul Alberts"
X Link 2026-02-12T16:19Z 131.2K followers, [----] engagements
"Dr Alfred B Xuma joined Alpha Phi Alpha Alpha Xi Chapter in [----] at Marquette University"
X Link 2026-02-13T09:59Z 131.2K followers, [----] engagements
"June 1966: Senator Robert F Kennedy seen on the roof of a car outside the Regina Mundi Catholic Church in Soweto where he prayed with local residents. Photo by Alf Kumalo"
X Link 2026-02-13T13:54Z 131.2K followers, [----] engagements
"At dawn on [--] December [----] the South African Police swooped on [---] political activists throughout the country arresting them on charges of high treason. Photo Credit: Jurgen Schadeberg"
X Link 2026-02-14T10:40Z 131.2K followers, [----] engagements
"Dr Rotoli Xaba's (1893-1953) early history exemplified in an acute form the problems of foreign study for Black South Africans. His correspondence for his period in Edinburgh during the mid 1920's reveals the financial & educational difficulties he faced prompting cries of despair from his family as well as his sponsors. He found difficulty paying for essentials things as well as paying rent to his landlady. She threatened eviction but reluctantly because Xaba was well behaved. These difficulties led him to drop out many times until he finally qualified in [----] gaining the triple Scottish"
X Link 2025-05-30T16:04Z 131.2K followers, 426.6K engagements
"Mpho and Mphonyana Mathibela made history when they were born conjoined at Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital on December [--] [----]. The twin girls were joined at the head and after careful consideration a decision was made to surgically separate them. The successful separation surgery took place in 1988"
X Link 2025-08-08T06:27Z 131.2K followers, 1.6M engagements
"Orlando Pirates supporters before a game c [----]. Photo: Ralph Ndawo / Drum Social Histories"
X Link 2026-02-06T07:33Z 131.2K followers, 49.1K engagements
"Drum Magazine Staff: (Back Row) Alfred Tsotestsi Dan Chocho Jerry Ntsipe; (Front Row) Mthethwa Matshikiza Maimane October [----]. Image Source: Drum Magazine"
X Link 2026-02-10T05:51Z 131.2K followers, [---] engagements
"Prof Thamsanqa Kambule with the class of [----] at the Pace College Soweto. Professor Thamsanqa Kambule (1921 - 2009) was a South African educator and mathematician. He was the first Black professor of mathematics at the University of the Witwatersrand. Photo by @sphiwemhlambi"
X Link 2026-02-10T06:02Z 131.2K followers, [----] engagements
"Kaizer Motaung c [----]. Image Source: Drum Social Histories"
X Link 2026-02-12T12:44Z 131.2K followers, 20K engagements
"Professor Matshaya Edward Razwimisani Mathivha (1921 - 2002) was a South African academic and teacher who wrote in Tshivenda. He was an author best known for his [----] drama Mabalanganye. Image Source: Pzacad"
X Link 2026-02-12T16:29Z 131.2K followers, [----] engagements
"Group of nurses who qualified at MEDUNSA (Medical University of South Africa). MEDUNSA was established in Pretoria North during [----]. It is today known as Sefako Makgatho Health Sciences University (SMU). Photo by Dotman Pretorius (Circa late 1970s). Image Source: The Heritage Portal https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021987336242733201 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021987336242733201"
X Link 2026-02-12T16:38Z 131.2K followers, [----] engagements
"1958: Africanist Peter Molotsi at the ANC conference that saw the Africanist movement breakaway from Congress launching the Pan-Africanist Congress of Azania the following year. Photo Credit: Peter Magubane/Drum Social Histories"
X Link 2026-02-13T03:05Z 131.2K followers, [----] engagements
"William 'Bloke' Modisane (left) with Todd Matshikiza in the Drum Magazine office c [----]. Photo Credit: Jurgen Schadeberg"
X Link 2026-02-13T05:29Z 131.2K followers, [----] engagements
"Activist and trade unionist Shirley Gunn and MK/SACP/ANC leader Chris Hani (holding Haroon Gunn-Salie) at a rally marking the 30th anniversary of the formation of MK [----]. Photo: Paul Grendon"
X Link 2026-02-13T08:11Z 131.2K followers, [----] engagements
"Africanist Josiah Madzunya Alexandra Township c [----]. Photo Credit: Bob Gosani"
X Link 2026-02-14T10:23Z 131.2K followers, 201.6K engagements
"Zindzi Mandela and singer Whitney Houston in [----] at [----]. Image Source: [----] A Prisoners Home/Alf Kumalo Archive"
X Link 2026-02-15T12:03Z 131.2K followers, 44.3K engagements
"Winnie Mandela speaks to Chris Hani Stockholm Sweden March [----]. Photo by Per-Anders Pettersson"
X Link 2026-02-16T03:48Z 131.2K followers, [----] engagements
"Nurse turned Lawyer and political activist Victoria Mxenge (1942-1985) gunned downed on her driveway infront of her kids"
X Link 2025-07-16T16:44Z 131.2K followers, 338.9K engagements
"The African herbalist Khotso Sethuntsa (1898-1972)"
X Link 2025-07-31T08:40Z 131.2K followers, 2.1M engagements
"Orlando Pirates supporters c [----]. Photo: Ralph Ndawo"
X Link 2025-11-02T05:56Z 131.2K followers, 902.3K engagements
"Recently qualified Lawyer Oliver Tambo c [----]. Photo by Jurgan Schadaberg"
X Link 2026-02-06T16:56Z 131.2K followers, 16.3K engagements
"The African Races Association of the University of Glasgow c [----]. Silas Modiri Molema the Association's President was studying medicine at the University and is seated third from right. Dr Molema became an influential medical doctor anthropologist biographer historian and political activist in South Africa upon his return. Photo: University of Glasgow https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2020384886448664928 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2020384886448664928"
X Link 2026-02-08T06:31Z 131.2K followers, [----] engagements
"In [----] Robert Sobukwe who was living under restriction in Kimberley asked the Pretoria Supreme Court for permission to leave South Africa to take up an invitation to teach in America but the court denied his request for an exit permit. This was one of several instances where the apartheid government refused him permission to leave the country. Image Source: Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe Trust/Rand Daily Mail https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2020416106008072409 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2020416106008072409"
X Link 2026-02-08T08:35Z 131.2K followers, 55.7K engagements
"Parliament only repealed the Separate Amenities Act in [----]. Here apartheid signs which have come down at a train station are stacked on a trolley. Photo: Ambrose Peter's / Sunday Times"
X Link 2026-02-09T09:28Z 131.2K followers, [----] engagements
"South African painter and writer - George Milwa Pemba (1912 - 2001). Image Source: The Herald"
X Link 2026-02-11T11:52Z 131.2K followers, [----] engagements
"Kaizer Chiefs chairman Ewert Nene manages Kaizer Chiefs like a modern corporation flying across the country & abroad for recruitment August [----]. Image Source: Drum Social Histories"
X Link 2026-02-11T16:00Z 131.2K followers, 84.9K engagements
"African Baking Company (ABC bread) showing delivery trucks in front of the bakery Pretoria c 1950s. Photo by Dotman Pretorius. Image Source: Heritage Portal"
X Link 2026-02-12T17:01Z 131.2K followers, [----] engagements
"Kaizer Chiefs founder and director Kaizer Motaung shakes hands with Pule "Ace" Ntsoelengoe before Ntsoelengoe left for the United States of America December [----] Jan Smuts Airport. Image Source: Arena Holdings"
X Link 2026-02-13T07:50Z 131.2K followers, 20.1K engagements
"Solomon Mahlangu being identified by a relative Phineas Mahlangu in a line-up at a Police station circa [----]. Phineas Mahlangu was tortured and forced by the police to point him out. Image Source: ANC Archives"
X Link 2026-02-13T11:34Z 131.2K followers, 30.1K engagements
"Singer Drum/Zonk Cover girl Model Film Star Cultural Icon - Dolly Rathebe (1928 - 2004). Image Source: Drum Social Histories"
X Link 2026-02-13T17:48Z 131.2K followers, [----] engagements
"Nelson Mandela "The Black Pimpernel" around [----]. After being acquitted of high treason on [--] March [----] Nelson Mandela went underground. In May of the same year he organized a stay-away in protest of the declaration of South Africa as a republic. A warrant for his arrest was issued & he was charged for organizing the national protest. Mandela was already becoming a public figure and a symbolic legend. The press referred to him as "The Black Pimpernel" for his ability to evade capture by the South African authorities in reference to "The Scarlet Pimpernel" a fictional character known for his"
X Link 2026-02-13T18:37Z 131.2K followers, [----] engagements
"A portrait of the legendary South African Jazz musician Wilson 'King Force' Silgee c 1980s. Photo Credit: Paul Weinberg"
X Link 2026-02-13T20:01Z 131.2K followers, [----] engagements
"Lauretta Ngcobo (1931 2015) was a South African political activist novelist and essayist. In [----] she was a participant in the women's anti-pass march and was one of the main speakers. In [----] she married Abednego Bhekabantu Ngcobo a founder member of the Pan Africanist Congress who in [----] was sentenced to two years' imprisonment under the Suppression of Communism Act. After being in exile between [----] and [----] in Swaziland then Zambia and finally England where she taught for [--] years she returned to South Africa and lived in Durban. Ngcobo's writings between the 1960s and early 1990s have"
X Link 2026-02-14T06:06Z 131.2K followers, [----] engagements
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