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# ![@HistorySAZAR Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:26/cr:twitter::1863279265510207488.png) @HistorySAZAR History ZAR

History ZAR posts on X about south africa, cape town, at a, university of the most. They currently have XXXXXXX followers and 2424 posts still getting attention that total XXXXXXX engagements in the last XX hours.

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### Social Influence

**Social category influence**
[countries](/list/countries)  [travel destinations](/list/travel-destinations) 

**Social topic influence**
[south africa](/topic/south-africa) #471, [cape town](/topic/cape-town) #52, [at a](/topic/at-a) #1055, [university of](/topic/university-of) #302, [the first](/topic/the-first), [native](/topic/native) #1746, [bantu](/topic/bantu) #108, [education](/topic/education) #3154, [collection](/topic/collection), [portal](/topic/portal) #748

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### Top Social Posts
Top posts by engagements in the last XX hours

"Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe was born on this day in 1924. Image Source: Drum Social Histories"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1996804040643248534)  2025-12-05T04:49Z 128.7K followers, 338.5K engagements


"Joyce Sikhakhane seen here at the then Jan Smuts Airport on her way to appear as a defence witness at a political trial/ terrorism trial in 1971. (Photo: Rand Daily Mail)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1997166188015558918)  2025-12-06T04:48Z 128.7K followers, 3228 engagements


"Actress model dancer and singer Dottie Tiyo c 1961. Dorothy (Dottie) Tiyo was one of the original cast members of King Kong: An All-African Jazz Opera (1959) by Harry Bloom (book) Pat Williams (lyrics) and Todd Matshikiza (music and Nguni lyrics) though she is not credited in the official Cape Town programme. She had a role opposite the boxer Jake Ntuli in the film Tremor (Denis Scully/1961) and was in the revue African Follies (1961) when it was staged in Durban but her career was interrupted when she and white businessman John Rudd who was a keen promotor of African theatre were arrested"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1995116833607676170)  2025-11-30T13:04Z 128.4K followers, 8952 engagements


"Dr Yusuf Dadoo (second from right) speaking at a demonstration in Red Square (since renamed Freedom Square) in the Johannesburg suburb of Fordsburg South Africa 6th April 1952. The demonstration was in support of the Defiance Campaign. (Photo: Jurgen Schadeberg/Getty Images)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1993992817337663738)  2025-11-27T10:38Z 128.7K followers, 2063 engagements


"Anti-apartheid and student activist Caiphus Nyoka who was murdered by police on XX August 1987 at his home in Daveyton at the age of XX years. Image Source: Supplied by family"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1996272794590495216)  2025-12-03T17:38Z 128.7K followers, 37.2K engagements


"The Alberton magistrate court was packed to the windows when XX women appeared before Odendaal on charges of public disturbance. It was alleged that the women took part in disturbances that arose as a result of a boycott of the Bantu Education Act at Natalspruit on April XX 1955. It was also alleged that the women took part in disturbing the public peace by roaring shouting making noises and quarrelling thereby collecting a crowd or by other riotious behaviour. The women were represented by Nelson Mandela seen in this picture addressing them. Photo: Peter Magubane/Drum Social Histories"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1996827305579004006)  2025-12-05T06:21Z 128.7K followers, 5755 engagements


"Groutville Bantu Cane Planters Association was an organization led by Chief Albert Luthuli. The association aimed to support Black farmers particularly those growing sugar cane in the Groutville area Natal South Africa. In the 1930s the apartheid government enacted the Sugar Act which disproportionately affected black growers. Chief Luthuli played a key role in reviving the Groutville Bantu Cane Growers' Association to address these challenges and advocate for the rights of African farmers. Source: sacanegrowers/Kiki Mzoneli"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1998106804790923415)  2025-12-08T19:05Z 128.7K followers, 5091 engagements


"Nathaniel Impey Honono (1908 1986) was a South African activist and teacher born in the Qumbu district of the Transkei region. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Fort Hare in 1937. In 1945 Honono became the president of Cape African Teachers Association (CATA) and utilised his popularity to resist the government's African education policies. During the 1940s and 1950s Honono worked closely with Isaac Bangani Tabata and other activists within the Non-European Unity Movement (NEUM). Honono was a dedicated member of various organizations including the Non-European Unity"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1998715111612019051)  2025-12-10T11:23Z 128.7K followers, 4773 engagements


""The force of change will not be found in sleek cocktail parties in the comfort of suburbia or in the endless seminars and symposia arranged in the high-rise rarefield atmosphere of the so called island of peace." - Muntu Ka Myeza (1950-1990)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1999025591593693588)  2025-12-11T07:56Z 128.7K followers, 7506 engagements


"A crowd gathers at Red Square in Johannesburg to welcome Yusuf Dadoo after he had served a term of imprisonment as a passive resister July 1948. Image Source: The Passive Resister/ ANC Archives"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1997598717226979768)  2025-12-07T09:27Z 128.7K followers, 3003 engagements


"Some of the survivors of the Clydesdale Colliery Coalbrook coal mine disaster in which XXX miners died near Sasolburg Free State South Africa on 21st January 1960. (Photo by Terence Spencer"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1997999224747663448)  2025-12-08T11:58Z 128.7K followers, 12K engagements


"On XX August 1968 Dr William Frederick Nkomo was invited to speak at the University of Cape Town's Day of Affirmation of Academic and Human Freedom. His address The Courage to Think followed in a series after that of Robert Kennedy's Ripple of Hope speech in June 1966. In his speech he said "The idea of a common patriotism and nationalism was always recognised by all. It was only in recent times with the emergence of apartheid theoreticians that the country definitely deviated from the path of a common nationalism.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1999047819005428168)  2025-12-11T09:25Z 128.7K followers, 2120 engagements


"Muntu Ndebele (right) and Norman Knox (left) stars of the 1976 South African classic e'Lollipop which tells the story of two young friends Tsepo and Jannie from different backgrounds. The film also known as Forever Young Forever Free explores themes of friendship community and sacrifice against the backdrop of Apartheid. Image Source: National Screen Service (NSS)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1993975629964841280)  2025-11-27T09:30Z 128.7K followers, 273.5K engagements


"Soweto student protesters after their march to the Department of Bantu Education offices 1976. Image Source: Drum Social Histories/Peter Magubane/Soweto"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1998660412930404363)  2025-12-10T07:45Z 128.7K followers, 12.2K engagements


"An armed guard stands over three workers as they use a trolley to transport bars of pure gold between buildings at a gold refinery in the city of Johannesburg in Transvaal South Africa in May 1946. Photo: James Jarche"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1999142719751348497)  2025-12-11T15:42Z 128.7K followers, 7432 engagements


"An election flyer calls for the electorate to endorse apartheid by voting for L.A. Snyman leader of the National Partys Braamfontein constituency 1953. Photo: Jrgen Schadeberg / Jurgen Schadeberg Collection"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1988443958251266377)  2025-11-12T03:09Z 128.6K followers, 241.6K engagements


"Rev Jesse Jackson Baptist minister and civil rights leader passionately addresses students at Rutgers University during their South Africa Apartheid protest New Brunswick New Jersey May X 1985. (Photo by Afro American Newspapers)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1990341190747865586)  2025-11-17T08:48Z 128.5K followers, 3296 engagements


"Businessman and soccer administrator Irvin Khoza c 1980s. Image Source: Drum Social Histories"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1991805766555345246)  2025-11-21T09:47Z 128.6K followers, 519.2K engagements


"The first Interracial boxing match in South Africa November 1976: Jan Kies vs. Elijah Tap Tap Makhathini 1976. Makhathini TKOs Jan Kies. Source: AP Archives"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1993952654293430490)  2025-11-27T07:58Z 128.4K followers, 21.4K engagements


"University of Sussex students march against Apartheid 1964"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1994086366242615420)  2025-11-27T16:50Z 128.6K followers, 195.9K engagements


"Helen Joseph at the Union Buildings during the anti-pass march 1956. Image Source: Mayibuye Archives"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1994665016230805779)  2025-11-29T07:09Z 128.4K followers, 3675 engagements


"Gladys Mgudlandlu exhibiting her paintings for the first time in Johannesburg Adler Fielding Gallery 1964. Image Source: Drum Social Histories"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1994699833924280510)  2025-11-29T09:27Z 128.4K followers, 7928 engagements


"Communist Party leaders Moses Kotane and Yusuf Dadoo c 1952. Photo: Jurgen Schadeberg"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1995003952971100626)  2025-11-30T05:36Z 128.5K followers, 10.4K engagements


"South African jazz pianist actor marimba player acclaimed also as a composer and arranger - Gideon Nxumalo at the Dorkay House c 1960s. Photo: Ernest Cole"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1995018845002612978)  2025-11-30T06:35Z 128.4K followers, 3224 engagements


""You are either alive and proud or you are dead and when you are dead you can't care anyway. And your method of death can itself be a politicizing thing. . . So if you can overcome your personal fear of death which is a highly irrational thing then you're on the way." - Steve Biko extract from essay 'On Death' I Write What I Like"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1995333895881965762)  2025-12-01T03:27Z 128.6K followers, 6925 engagements


"Women's anti-pass march 1956. Image Source: Bailey's Archive"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1995342590330167771)  2025-12-01T04:01Z 128.5K followers, 4078 engagements


"Nelson Mandela with his law class at the University of the Witwatersrand 1944. Image Source: Wits University Archive / Nelson Mandela Foundation"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1995403783652970606)  2025-12-01T08:05Z 128.6K followers, 2837 engagements


"Bishop Desmond Tutu at Washington National Cathedral in 1984. Image Source: Associated Press"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1995537872875913368)  2025-12-01T16:57Z 128.4K followers, 2554 engagements


"Proud members of Malombo at the launch of their album Pele Pele issued by Atlantic Records c 1976. Photo: The World/Times Media"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1995746667694321808)  2025-12-02T06:47Z 128.5K followers, 3056 engagements


"Armed police officer during a youth demonstration near Cape Town September 1976. (Photo by Keystone/Hulton Archive)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1996082432097886437)  2025-12-03T05:01Z 128.6K followers, 44.4K engagements


"Bishop Desmond Tutu the General Secretary for the South African Council of Churches after receiving the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo. 1984. Photo: Alf Kumalo"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1996451444032262487)  2025-12-04T05:28Z 128.6K followers, 1871 engagements


"A Soweto resident runs away from the toxic smell of teargas in 1976. Photo: Alf Kumalo"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1996455107710562321)  2025-12-04T05:42Z 128.5K followers, 49.4K engagements


"Sophiatown Forced removals: "You are hereby required in terms of the Native Resettlement Act 1954 to vacate the premises in which you are residing ." The first date given - February 12th 1955. Image Source: Bob Gosani/Drum Social Histories"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1996476918338859269)  2025-12-04T07:09Z 128.6K followers, 41.8K engagements


"Pupils protesting outside Tshisimani College of Education in Venda August 1986. Photo by Mbuzeni Zulu/ Sowetan"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1996534439317492052)  2025-12-04T10:57Z 128.6K followers, 8013 engagements


"Sergeant Major Reuben Moloi of the municipal police October 1956. Photo by Warwick Robinson/ Rand Daily Mail/Times Media"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1996537061290242528)  2025-12-04T11:08Z 128.5K followers, 3964 engagements


"A group of non-commissioned officers of the South African Native Labour Corps at a camp Dannes March 1917. Image Source: Imperial War Museum"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1996546369490977005)  2025-12-04T11:45Z 128.6K followers, 2217 engagements


"Workers gather around the Rand Daily Mail newspaper reading the headlines that tell of the death of XX strikers in 1973. Image Source: David Hemson Collection/UCT Photography Collection"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1996563227606675842)  2025-12-04T12:52Z 128.6K followers, 2482 engagements


"On the set of the 1951 film "Cry the Beloved Country" L-R: director Zoltan Korda actor Canada Lee actor Charles Carson and author of the book Alan Paton. (Photo by Popperfoto)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1996629074714980765)  2025-12-04T17:14Z 128.5K followers, 2258 engagements


"Defendants Moses Kotane (left) and Nelson Mandela leave a courtroom in Pretoria South Africa during the Treason Trial 1958. The trial of XXX people lasted from 1956 to 1961. (Photo by Jurgen Schadeberg)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1996889584249328040)  2025-12-05T10:29Z 128.6K followers, 4547 engagements


"A prison van brings prisoners to Drill Hall for the Treason Trial Johannesburg December 1956. Image Source: Drum Social Histories/Jurgen Schadeberg"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1996946993080390042)  2025-12-05T14:17Z 128.5K followers, 3119 engagements


"After losing bids for the World Boxing Association title in 1979 and 1980 Gerrie Coetzee avenged himself in 1983 by knocking out the previously undefeated Michael Dokes. Photo: Disney General Entertainment Content"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1996959894562336982)  2025-12-05T15:08Z 128.5K followers, 1937 engagements


"Native Policemen Natal South Africa c 1900. Image Source: National Army Museum Study collection"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1997156165420306648)  2025-12-06T04:08Z 128.5K followers, 20.5K engagements


"Armed police arrest an entire household in a pre-dawn swoop on a section of Cato Manor Durban South Africa Jan. XX 1960. Police roused residents from their sleep and took them to police stations for questioning in their investigations into the death of eleven people some of them policemen in the riots that had occurred the previous weekend. Image Source: Flashbak"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1997217400295444560)  2025-12-06T08:11Z 128.6K followers, 19.5K engagements


"Solomon Plaatje was part of the deputation to London in 1914 to protest the land act the pamphlet above was an advert for Plaatje's address to the New England P.S.A on XX July 1915. Wits Archives"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1997546493725794788)  2025-12-07T05:59Z 128.5K followers, 3996 engagements


"The start of a campaign for Radio Freedom by the Dutch group "Broadcasting for Radio Freedom" in Rotterdam The Netherlands August 1989; from left to right: Bram Peper (mayor of Rotterdam) Pallo Jordan (ANC) and Wim Kok (leader of the Dutch Labour Party). Photo: Pieter Boersma"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1997651352869073385)  2025-12-07T12:56Z 128.6K followers, 3685 engagements


"Women's anti-pass campaign August 1956. Image Source: Drum Social Histories"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1997685336139526465)  2025-12-07T15:11Z 128.6K followers, 2409 engagements


"The cast of 'King Kong' during rehearsals at the Prince's Theatre on Shaftesbury Avenue in the West End of London England 13th February 1961. Billed as an 'all-African jazz opera' the production with music and lyrics by Todd Matshikiza and Pat Willams with the book by Harry Bloom the stage musical portrayed the life and times of a heavyweight boxer Ezekiel Dlamini (1921-1957). (Photo by European/Archive Photos)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1997989276617740734)  2025-12-08T11:18Z 128.6K followers, 3685 engagements


"South African writer editor and anti-apartheid activist Ronald Segal (1932 - 2008) prior to his exile circa 1960. (Photo by Terence Spencer)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1997995256789291470)  2025-12-08T11:42Z 128.6K followers, 2769 engagements


"Ralph Bunche who received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1950 traveled to South Africa for three months in 1937. His notes which were skillfully compiled and annotated by historian Robert Edgar provide unique insights on a segregated society especially the leadership crisis in Black organizations like the ANC and the AAC at the time. Photo: Terence Spencer"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1997997878975832387)  2025-12-08T11:53Z 128.5K followers, 5521 engagements


"Stephen Dlamini (1913-1994) activist and President of the South African Congress of Trade Unions. Image Source: Starve The History of the South African Congress of Trade Unions"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1998043835323314205)  2025-12-08T14:55Z 128.6K followers, 2309 engagements


"South African miners hired through the Native Recruiting Corporation go through a medical examination before they are sent to work in the mines c 1960. (Photo by Evans/Three Lions)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1998244188643885076)  2025-12-09T04:11Z 128.6K followers, 10.7K engagements


"Students in Langa Cape Town August 1976. Image Source: Hubpages"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1998387868713308219)  2025-12-09T13:42Z 128.6K followers, 4371 engagements


"Inkosi Albert Luthuli addressing a predominantly white crowd in Cape Town c 1950s. Photo: Cloete Breytenbach / Drum Social Histories"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1998402902340091964)  2025-12-09T14:42Z 128.6K followers, 1858 engagements


"Inanda Seminary students c 1975. Inanda Seminary School is one of the oldest schools for girls in South Africa. It was founded in 1869 at Inanda by Daniel and Lucy Lindley an American missionary couple. Image Source: The Heritage Portal/Kefilwe Manana Makhanya/Wikipedia"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1998448372038988147)  2025-12-09T17:43Z 128.6K followers, 3543 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 128.7K followers, 4.8M engagements


"Vitalious Xaba (17) Zacharia Rapoo (16) and Johannes Pilane (17) from Katlehong beaten by security forces XX March 1988. Photographer: Gille de Vlieg"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1976557894049857745)  2025-10-10T07:58Z 128.7K followers, 695.7K engagements


"Orlando Pirates supporters c 1971. Photo: Ralph Ndawo"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1984862120849096821)  2025-11-02T05:56Z 128.7K followers, 884.8K engagements


"Orlando City Ramblers playing with Orlando Pirates 1964. Image Source: Drum Social Histories"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1987792614586753412)  2025-11-10T08:01Z 128.6K followers, 5400 engagements


"Captured Israelites 1921 Photo: Museum Africa. On May XX 1921 police killed at least XXX Israelites - followers of the prophet Enoch Mgijima - in a 20-minute battle at Bulhoek near Queenstown"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1992946923536613610)  2025-11-24T13:22Z 128.7K followers, 2382 engagements


"Dr Theodore Masiza Kakaza (1876-1947) was one of the first ten Black South Africans who went to study at Wilberforce University in Ohio USA In 1896 funded by the AME Church. He was a medical doctor and President of the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) division in Buffalo New York. After graduating from Wilberforce University in 1902 with a BSc he entered Meharry Medical College in Nashville Tennessee before enrolling at the University of Toronto in 1904. In 1907 he graduated with a Bachelor of Medicine (M.B) degree. He was married to Menzie and they both lived in Buffalo New"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1995055269408063850)  2025-11-30T09:00Z 128.7K followers, 3147 engagements


"President Nelson Mandela in office 1994. Photo: Paul Weinberg"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1995381354079690923)  2025-12-01T06:36Z 128.7K followers, 82.5K engagements


"Kamala Harris right and Howard University classmate Gwen Whitfield at an anti-apartheid protest march 1982. Image Source: California Museum"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1995388275541115307)  2025-12-01T07:03Z 128.7K followers, 58.4K engagements


"A mother and child search for their belongings after their house was burnt down by 'witdoeke' (vigilantes) 1986. Photo: Guy Tullim/UCT Photography Collection"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1996563898044932409)  2025-12-04T12:55Z 128.6K followers, 12.5K engagements


"South African singer Miriam Makeba at the United Nations March 1964. Image Source: UN Photo"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1997265130946715782)  2025-12-06T11:21Z 128.7K followers, 6707 engagements


"Apartheid signs October 1977. Photo: Photo by Andrzej Sawa/Sunday Times"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1997279562091335803)  2025-12-06T12:18Z 128.7K followers, 138.1K engagements


"A political rally at Regina Mundi Church in 1982. Image Source: Southern Cross"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1997301913403142366)  2025-12-06T13:47Z 128.7K followers, 2456 engagements


"UDF supporters obtaining signatures for the UDF million signature campaign against the Apartheid government and its proposed constitutional reforms August 1984. Photo: Joe Molefe/ Sowetan/Times Media"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1997658140754448539)  2025-12-07T13:23Z 128.7K followers, 22.3K 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 1936 gaining the triple Scottish"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1928482659656765805)  2025-05-30T16:04Z 128.7K followers, 405.6K engagements


"The Bloemfontein Municipalitys Notice No. X of 1884. (Source: The Friend of the Free State and Bloemfontein Gazette)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1992479140524745071)  2025-11-23T06:23Z 128.7K followers, 140.5K engagements


"South African reggae artist Sipho Johnson 'Jambo' Mdletshe (1966-2014) perfoming his hit song "She is my baby" in 1997"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1995797438104289551)  2025-12-02T10:09Z 128.7K followers, 9194 engagements


"Passbook that Black South Africans were required to carry Jan 1985. Photo:UN Photo"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1995805670436749444)  2025-12-02T10:42Z 128.7K followers, 219.1K engagements


"Coretta Scott King widow of the late Martin Luther King Jr. and children Bernice & Martin are arrested as they protest apartheid at the South African Embassy in D.C June 1985. Image Source: Bettmann"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1997281251984822561)  2025-12-06T12:25Z 128.7K followers, 39.3K engagements


"Reverend Dr Francis Herman Gow the bishop of the African Methodist Church (AME) in South Africa c 1950s. Image Source: Drum Social Histories"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1998403635059867970)  2025-12-09T14:45Z 128.7K followers, 2057 engagements


"Singer Brenda Fassie tearfully welcomes Nelson Mandela 1990. Image Source: Soweto/Peter Magubane"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1998680960867393974)  2025-12-10T09:07Z 128.7K followers, 237.2K engagements


"Ewert 'The Lip' Nene left and Kaizer 'Chincha Guluva' Motaung during their younger days c 1970s. Image Source: Sowetan"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1999051088918389104)  2025-12-11T09:38Z 128.7K followers, 3113 engagements


"Book: Thambi Naidoo and Family - Struggle for a Non-racial Democracy in South Africa by Ismail Vadi"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1999138421860651377)  2025-12-11T15:25Z 128.7K followers, 3190 engagements


"Jake Tuli (Jacob Ntuli) turned professional as a boxer in 1950 aged XX in his eighth bout he captured the South African bantamweight title and later the flyweight title in 1952 he became the first Black South African to win an Empire championship (the forerunner to the Commonwealth title) this success made him one of the best two or three flyweights at that time and his achievement was confirmed when The Ring magazine ranked him as their top-rated flyweight he had 19-fights in South Africa 25-fights in Great Britain 1-fight in Portuguese Mozambique 1-fight in the Philippines and 1-fight in"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1999337031785177545)  2025-12-12T04:34Z 128.7K followers, 3215 engagements


""So as a prelude whites must be made to realise that they are only human not superior. Same with Blacks. They must be made to realise that they are also human not inferior." - Steve Biko Picture: ProleWiki"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1967839384826421363)  2025-09-16T06:34Z 128.7K followers, 334K engagements


"Workers of the South African Native Labour Corps stacking lorry radiators requiring repair at the Base Mechanical Transport Depot at Rouen XX May 1918. Image Source: Imperial War Museum"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1996551112544186878)  2025-12-04T12:04Z 128.7K followers, 3141 engagements


"Johnny Clegg Sipho Mchunu and waMabhlebe dancers at a Wits Free Peoples Concert March 1972. (Photo: Frank Black/ The Star/ The Hidden Years Music Archive Project)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1998237384639680682)  2025-12-09T03:44Z 128.7K followers, 5948 engagements


"Group of nurses who qualified at MEDUNSA (Medical University of South Africa). MEDUNSA was established in Pretoria North during 1976. It is today known as Sefako Makgatho Health Sciences University (SMU). Photo by Dotman Pretorius (Circa late 1970s). Image Source: The Heritage Portal"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1998299571861041631)  2025-12-09T07:51Z 128.7K followers, 19.3K engagements


"Family photo of a Black South African family c 1950s. Image Source: The Heritage Portal"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1998327771957772662)  2025-12-09T09:44Z 128.7K followers, 12.2K engagements


"Anti-apartheid anti-pass law and women's rights activist - Florence Matomela (1910-1969). Matomela was active in the Defiance Campaign of 1952 and later became the vice-president of the Federation of South African Women (FEDSAW) in the mid 1950s. She helped organise the 1956 Women's March to the Union Buildings. Photo: Eli Weinberg"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1998600715959185656)  2025-12-10T03:48Z 128.7K followers, 2106 engagements


"Nelson Mandela with Joe Slovo during a march c 1990. Image Source: Soweto/Peter Magubane"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1998684194646397160)  2025-12-10T09:20Z 128.7K followers, 294.5K engagements


"Julius Nyerere greets Nelson Mandela Dar Es Salaam Tanzania 1990. Image Source: ANC archives"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1998735463348088985)  2025-12-10T12:44Z 128.7K followers, 33.1K engagements


"Union Buildings and Gardens circa 1920. Image Source: The Heritage Portal"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1998768247450243370)  2025-12-10T14:54Z 128.7K followers, 19.3K engagements


"Demonstrators outside the Palace of Justice on June XX 1964 after the verdict in the Rivonia Trial. Eight defendants were sentenced to life imprisonment. Photo by Daniel Priolett/AFP"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1998801503092662494)  2025-12-10T17:06Z 128.7K followers, 1762 engagements


"Community Health Awareness Project (CHAP) was launched by Azapo in July 1982. 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"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1998987623319146974)  2025-12-11T05:26Z 128.7K followers, 3412 engagements


"In 1937 at the urging of some in District Six Cissie Gool ran for the Cape Town city council. She didnt manage to win that election. But after gaining the support of both the community and her dad (hed taken a while to come around to the idea of her becoming a full-time councillor) she came back much stronger the following year. Using the tagline The Peoples Own Candidate she campaigned on a 10-point programme that included calls for decent housing and sanitation and more creches and clinics for the poor. Cissie won the election by an impressive XXX votes. Photo: UKZN Special Collections/SAHO"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1999014336409284728)  2025-12-11T07:12Z 128.7K followers, 7594 engagements


""Being black is not a matter of pigmentation being black is a reflection of a mental attitude. - Bantu Stephen Biko (1946-1977)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1999069086374858856)  2025-12-11T10:49Z 128.7K followers, 20.3K engagements


"Rev Isaac Wauchope Dyobha and his family the Xhosa minister on board the SS Mendi around whom the legend of the Mendi is based. In 1916 Rev Isaac Wauchope enrolled in SANLC as an army chaplain. The SS Mendi left Cape Town for England and from Southampton it crossed the Channel to France in February 1917. On the 21st of February the SS Darro ship collided with the Mendi. The Mendi then sank resulting in the death of over XXX men majority of whom were Black. Rev Wauchope Dyobha was one of them. Image Source: Cory Library/Saho"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1999130663585271894)  2025-12-11T14:54Z 128.7K followers, 5224 engagements


"Pedestrians and cars pass shops and retail outlets on Church Street Pretoria Transvaal Province South Africa May 1946. (Photo by James Jarche)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1999143461988032968)  2025-12-11T15:45Z 128.7K followers, 4125 engagements


"An employee stands by the entrance gate to Kruger National Park a national park and game reserve in Transvaal South Africa May 1946. (Photo by James Jarche)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1999146401830195489)  2025-12-11T15:56Z 128.7K followers, 5567 engagements


"Arrival for Greek Theater engagement X July 1961. Harry Belafonte (C) his wife Julie Robinson (R) and Miriam Makeba (L). Photo by Los Angeles Examiner/USC Libraries"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1999489833090335175)  2025-12-12T14:41Z 128.7K followers, 1321 engagements