[GUEST ACCESS MODE: Data is scrambled or limited to provide examples. Make requests using your API key to unlock full data. Check https://lunarcrush.ai/auth for authentication information.] #  @HistorySAZAR History ZAR History ZAR posts on X about south africa, bob, anc, nat the most. They currently have XXXXXX followers and XXX posts still getting attention that total XXXXXXX engagements in the last XX hours. ### Engagements: XXXXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::1863279265510207488/interactions)  - X Week XXXXXXXXX -XX% - X Month XXXXXXXXXX +157% - X Months XXXXXXXXXX +23,652,353% ### Mentions: XXX [#](/creator/twitter::1863279265510207488/posts_active)  - X Week XXX -X% - X Month XXX +248% - X Months XXX +22,400% ### Followers: XXXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::1863279265510207488/followers)  - X Week XXXXXX +12% - X Month XXXXXX +62% - X Months XXXXXX +60,621% ### CreatorRank: XXXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::1863279265510207488/influencer_rank)  ### Social Influence [#](/creator/twitter::1863279265510207488/influence) --- **Social category influence** [countries](/list/countries) XXXXX% [travel destinations](/list/travel-destinations) XXXX% [finance](/list/finance) XXXX% [celebrities](/list/celebrities) XXXX% [musicians](/list/musicians) XXXX% **Social topic influence** [south africa](/topic/south-africa) #352, [bob](/topic/bob) #474, [anc](/topic/anc) 2.16%, [nat](/topic/nat) 1.62%, [fort](/topic/fort) 1.62%, [winnie](/topic/winnie) #84, [moses](/topic/moses) 1.08%, [cape town](/topic/cape-town) 1.08%, [rev](/topic/rev) 1.08%, [lesotho](/topic/lesotho) XXXX% **Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by** [@grok](/creator/undefined) [@ditebogodi81546](/creator/undefined) [@view_see](/creator/undefined) [@zombietninja](/creator/undefined) [@phillippweyers](/creator/undefined) [@feliciamabuza](/creator/undefined) [@jasonkhumalo3rd](/creator/undefined) [@kane_gm9](/creator/undefined) [@pchauke32](/creator/undefined) [@kingnema_jnr](/creator/undefined) [@me_minime](/creator/undefined) [@foesword](/creator/undefined) [@sikhophilani](/creator/undefined) [@vtsholo](/creator/undefined) [@yogae11332246](/creator/undefined) [@mandidlula](/creator/undefined) [@czwe_luvuno](/creator/undefined) [@tessarowenalouw](/creator/undefined) [@mega_himself_](/creator/undefined) [@rand_baas](/creator/undefined) ### Top Social Posts [#](/creator/twitter::1863279265510207488/posts) --- Top posts by engagements in the last XX hours "Nelson Mandela in the garden Robben Island 1977"  [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) on [X](/post/tweet/1946149250661806444) 2025-07-18 10:05:13 UTC 66.8K followers, 15.3K engagements "Joe Gaobakwe Matthews son of Prof ZK Matthews with his wife and children (also a young Naledi Pandor) in 1958"  [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) on [X](/post/tweet/1946565178805436540) 2025-07-19 13:37:58 UTC 66.8K followers, 58.4K engagements "Josia Thugwane on the podium at the 1996 Atlanta summer Olympics games. Thugwane became the first Black athlete to win an Olympic Gold for South Africa"  [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) on [X](/post/tweet/1944037466370920808) 2025-07-12 14:13:45 UTC 66.8K followers, 253.7K engagements "Winnie Busisiwe Mahlangu (1934-2022) was born in Witbank. She was a pioneering South African radio broadcaster who became the first Black woman to be employed permanently by the SABC for Radio Bantu (later renamed Ukhozi FM) in 1962"  [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) on [X](/post/tweet/1946905955519594661) 2025-07-20 12:12:06 UTC 66.8K followers, 18.4K engagements "Craig Williamson ordered the assassination of Ruth First. First was killed by a letter bomb in Maputo Mozambique on XX August 1982. On mid 1984 he mailed a letter bomb which killed Jeanette Schoon and her six year old daughter Katryn. He is enjoying life today having never paid for his crimes"  [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) on [X](/post/tweet/1948475964394275024) 2025-07-24 20:10:45 UTC 66.8K followers, 74.1K engagements "Moses Mauane Kotane (1905-1978) was born at Tamposstad in the Rustenburg district of the western Transvaal. Largely self-taught he received only a few years of formal schooling but became an insatiable reader. Later as a young worker he enrolled in the Communist-run night school in Ferreirastown in JHB where he became known for his ability to master the most abstruce political writings. Kotane worked as a domestic servant Miner bakery worker. In 1929 he joined the CPSA & soon became its vice chairman. Kotane was offered an opportunity to go to the Soviet Union for a year to study at the Lenin"  [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) on [X](/post/tweet/1948787466753687782) 2025-07-25 16:48:33 UTC 66.8K followers, 6020 engagements "Founding Umkhonto WeSizwe: Nelson Mandela (centre) and Robert Resha (right) meeting with the officers in the Algerian army 1962"  [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) on [X](/post/tweet/1946274257580826642) 2025-07-18 18:21:57 UTC 66.8K followers, 13.9K engagements "Pule "Ace" Ntsoelengoe (right) shakes hands with Kaizer Motaung director of Kaizer Chiefs before leaving for the U.S.A December 1979"  [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) on [X](/post/tweet/1947953003668844708) 2025-07-23 09:32:41 UTC 66.8K followers, 49.8K engagements "The founding President of the PAC Robert Sobukwe (1924-1978)"  [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) on [X](/post/tweet/1948308017285378342) 2025-07-24 09:03:23 UTC 66.8K followers, 22.2K engagements "Bessie Head (1937-1986) was born to a white mother & black father. The immorality Act forbidden interracial relationships at the time so Head was fostered to a white family & then a coloured family. She completed her JC in 1953 & earned her teachers certificate around 1955 & worked for a time in SA before emigrating to Botswana with her son in 1964"  [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) on [X](/post/tweet/1947569479153549810) 2025-07-22 08:08:42 UTC 66.8K followers, 98.5K engagements "Hezekieli Ntuli (1912-1973) was a South African sculptor renowned for the wide variety of busts he made out of unfired clay (Ubumba Olungashi in Zulu). Many of Ntuli's artworks were sold to the tourist industry; and are therefore mostly found in private collection today"  [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) on [X](/post/tweet/1944684766227226952) 2025-07-14 09:05:53 UTC 66.8K followers, 10.3K engagements "Nat Nakasa with Nadine Gordimer as Nakasa is about to board an aeroplane to the USA to take up a scholarship 1964"  [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) on [X](/post/tweet/1946527552413061127) 2025-07-19 11:08:27 UTC 66.8K followers, 16.6K engagements "Nurse turned Lawyer and political activist Victoria Mxenge (1942-1985) gunned downed on her driveway infront of her kids"  [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) on [X](/post/tweet/1945525002255618465) 2025-07-16 16:44:41 UTC 66.8K followers, 276.7K engagements "In the name of medical examination Black South African workers had to endure the degrading ordeal of lining up naked to get a permit to work as miners and in other occupations"  [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) on [X](/post/tweet/1944734211216183693) 2025-07-14 12:22:22 UTC 66.5K followers, 66.2K engagements "Dr Francis Herman Gow (1887-1968) was born in Cape Town to a Coloured mother & an African American father. He was educated in America & earned degrees at Wilberforce & Miami Universities. He also earned a Doctorate in Divinity from Morris Brown University in Atlanta Georgia. He enlisted in the American army in World War I & fought in France then returned to the USA to teach music at the Tuskegee Institute until 1925. On his return to South Africa Gow was appointed headmaster of the Wilberforce Institute in Evaton near Vereeniging an AME school founded by Charlotte and Marshall Maxeke. He also"  [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) on [X](/post/tweet/1948621565999931854) 2025-07-25 05:49:19 UTC 66.8K followers, 17.7K engagements "In 1939 Walter Sisulu (1912-2003) founded Sitha Investment one of the first Black owned real estate agencies in Johannesburg. It was Sisulu who encouraged Nelson Mandela to join the ANC and had occasionally contributed to his law school tuition"  [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) on [X](/post/tweet/1945736922749390874) 2025-07-17 06:46:47 UTC 66.8K followers, 118.2K engagements "South African poet novelist artist and short-story writer Herman Charles Bosman (1905-1951)"  [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) on [X](/post/tweet/1948452154542616952) 2025-07-24 18:36:08 UTC 66.8K followers, 3326 engagements "Sidney Poitier as Rev Msimangu and Canada Lee as Mfundisi Stephen Khumalo in 'Cry the beloved country' 1951. Because of the Apartheid laws of the time the director informed authorities that Poitier & Lee were not actors but indentured servants"  [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) on [X](/post/tweet/1946616620211712307) 2025-07-19 17:02:23 UTC 66.4K followers, 4654 engagements "James "Sofasonke" Mpanza (1889-1970) known as "The father of Soweto" in 1944 he led the squatter movement that resulted in the largest housing development and the founding of Soweto"  [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) on [X](/post/tweet/1944787953743437855) 2025-07-14 15:55:55 UTC 66.7K followers, 90.8K engagements "Miriam Makeba and Harry Belafonte at their opening run at the Greek Theater in Los Angeles July XX 1961"  [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) on [X](/post/tweet/1947337275584422128) 2025-07-21 16:46:00 UTC 66.6K followers, 10.7K engagements "From the 1950 South African musical Zonk The musical was one of the first to feature all Black performers"  [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) on [X](/post/tweet/1944746116261536182) 2025-07-14 13:09:40 UTC 66.4K followers, 4798 engagements "Kaizer Chiefs director Ewert Nene with Zacharia Lamola and Shadrack Twala. c 1970's"  [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) on [X](/post/tweet/1948415556131913958) 2025-07-24 16:10:43 UTC 66.8K followers, 21.5K engagements "Sophiatown Love story by Bob Gosani (1934-1972)"  [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) on [X](/post/tweet/1948771049828438457) 2025-07-25 15:43:19 UTC 66.8K followers, 10.5K engagements "Gideon "Mgibe" Nxumalo (1929-1970) was a South African musician jazz pianist composer and arranger. An unsung hero in the South African arts even though he worked with some of the great jazz artists of the time in South Africa"  [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) on [X](/post/tweet/1948297944890740913) 2025-07-24 08:23:22 UTC 66.8K followers, 6255 engagements "Anti-apartheid activist and President of the Pan Africanist Congress of Azania Clarence Makwetu (1928-2016)"  [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) on [X](/post/tweet/1948471819901829306) 2025-07-24 19:54:17 UTC 66.8K followers, 26.2K engagements "Pixley Ka Isaka Seme enrolled at Columbia University in 1902. On why he chose the University he said: "I enyoy hard work and I have always desired to be in the centre of things. This is why I came to Columbia. New York City is the cynosure of all American life the greatest interests of the country are directed from this centre. A glance through the city's record is enough to convince any mind that Columbia is a force behind the throne in the greater movements of New York life""  [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) on [X](/post/tweet/1946601880416862456) 2025-07-19 16:03:49 UTC 66.8K followers, 9355 engagements "Come Back Africa is a 1959 South Africa film by the American independent filmmaker Lionel Rogosin. It featured amateur actors with real people and events. The filming was done secretly and the script was worked out by Rogosin Bloke Modisane & Lewis Nkosi"  [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) on [X](/post/tweet/1948807145161363929) 2025-07-25 18:06:45 UTC 66.8K followers, 2916 engagements "Rev Elijah Makiwane (1850-1928) with his family. Cecilia Makiwane (1880-1919) who became the first Black South African to qualify as a professional registered nurse stands at the back-right corner"  [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) on [X](/post/tweet/1947890668090626516) 2025-07-23 05:24:59 UTC 66.8K followers, 4918 engagements "Miriam Makeba addressing the United Nations on apartheid policies of South Africa XX October 1976"  [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) on [X](/post/tweet/1945709376133616060) 2025-07-17 04:57:19 UTC 66.8K followers, 31.4K engagements "Hazel Futa on the cover of Drum Magazine October 1958"  [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) on [X](/post/tweet/1946869783149867321) 2025-07-20 09:48:22 UTC 66.8K followers, 5134 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"  [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) on [X](/post/tweet/1928482659656765805) 2025-05-30 16:04:30 UTC 66.8K followers, 158.1K engagements "The 1982 Maseru raid : XX ANC activists and Lesotho residents were massacred at point blank range by the Apartheid government"  [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) on [X](/post/tweet/1948694768218669226) 2025-07-25 10:40:12 UTC 66.8K followers, 8412 engagements "The founding of the Pan Africanist Congress of Azania April 1959"  [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) on [X](/post/tweet/1946857679051210811) 2025-07-20 09:00:16 UTC 66.8K followers, 31.1K engagements "Makgatho Mandela in 1978. He is reading Black Nationalism in South Africa: A Short History by Peter Walshe"  [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) on [X](/post/tweet/1948699599499116730) 2025-07-25 10:59:24 UTC 66.8K followers, 8001 engagements "Thabo Mbeki head of the ANC dept of information speaks during the Heroes Day concert on XX December 1987 in the Netherlands"  [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) on [X](/post/tweet/1947945975558889901) 2025-07-23 09:04:46 UTC 66.8K followers, 5672 engagements "Oliver Tambo and Nelson Mandela in Sudan 1962"  [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) on [X](/post/tweet/1946138886884741590) 2025-07-18 09:24:02 UTC 66.4K followers, 15.3K engagements "The Cradock Four were a group of four anti-apartheid activists who were abducted and murdered by the South African security police in June 1985"  [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) on [X](/post/tweet/1941894047380939159) 2025-07-06 16:16:34 UTC 66.8K followers, 126.6K engagements "Jameson Gilbert Coka a young journalist and trade unionist from Natal wrote an autobiography that got featured on Margery Perham's 'Ten Africans' book in the 1930's. It's definitely worth reading"  [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) on [X](/post/tweet/1945723551987761272) 2025-07-17 05:53:39 UTC 66.8K followers, 4185 engagements "Jazz Sensation Louisa Emmanuel circa 1950's. Picture: Bob Gosani"  [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) on [X](/post/tweet/1946441363194630492) 2025-07-19 05:25:58 UTC 66.4K followers, 4619 engagements "Ahmed Timol (1941-1971) was an anti-apartheid activist in the Underground South African Communist Party. He died at the age of XX from injuries sustained when he fell from the top floor of the John Vorster Square police station"  [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) on [X](/post/tweet/1947331792395981285) 2025-07-21 16:24:13 UTC 66.8K followers, 34.7K engagements "John Kani during the filming of 'An African dream' 1987"  [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) on [X](/post/tweet/1947870922461089978) 2025-07-23 04:06:32 UTC 66.8K followers, 38.7K engagements "An emotional Brenda Fassie embraces Nelson Mandela"  [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) on [X](/post/tweet/1944770168741036089) 2025-07-14 14:45:14 UTC 66.8K followers, 708K engagements "Students at the South African Native College (now known as the University of Fort Hare) 1918. DDT Jabavu is in the center of the front row. The colleges first principal Alexander Kerr is sitting to his immediate left"  [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) on [X](/post/tweet/1944813435847405720) 2025-07-14 17:37:10 UTC 66.8K followers, 12.4K engagements "Harry Mashabela a colleague of Alf Kumalo gets kicked while covering British musician Cliff Richard's tour to the country 1961"  [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) on [X](/post/tweet/1945856702785466825) 2025-07-17 14:42:44 UTC 66.3K followers, 11.4K engagements "Winnie Mandela descends the steps of the palace of justice during the Rivonia Trial with Albertina Sisulu infront of her 1964"  [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) on [X](/post/tweet/1944251256001659114) 2025-07-13 04:23:16 UTC 66.8K followers, 142.5K engagements "Regina G Twala playing the piano for her family with husband Dan Twala son Vusimuzi and relative Mary Twala (who became a successful actress) 1955. Regina Twala was an anthropologist & political activist. She was the second Black woman to graduate from Wits University (1948)"  [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) on [X](/post/tweet/1946832215301636139) 2025-07-20 07:19:05 UTC 66.6K followers, 7379 engagements "Oliver Tambo Chief Albert Luthuli and Moses Mabhida circa 1950's"  [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) on [X](/post/tweet/1946484498947825849) 2025-07-19 08:17:23 UTC 66.5K followers, 8721 engagements "The happy cast of the all African musical 'King Kong' arriving at the Johannesburg stadium after a two and a half month tour during which they visited Port Elizabeth Cape Town & Durban. c 1959"  [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) on [X](/post/tweet/1947724831522197778) 2025-07-22 18:26:01 UTC 66.8K followers, 5257 engagements "Students attending the national conference of Black and White students July 1930 on the campus of the South African Native College (renamed University of Fort Hare in 1951) in Fort Hare Cape Province South Africa"  [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) on [X](/post/tweet/1945886640653631512) 2025-07-17 16:41:42 UTC 66.8K followers, 3828 engagements "Hugh Masekela on CBS's "To tell the truth" aired on XX December 1964"  [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) on [X](/post/tweet/1947167801174610392) 2025-07-21 05:32:35 UTC 66.8K followers, 76.6K engagements "Nelson Mandela talking to Walter Sisulu in the B-section courtyard Robben Island. 1965"  [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) on [X](/post/tweet/1940623508520001821) 2025-07-03 04:07:54 UTC 66.8K followers, 602.3K engagements "Anthropologist musician and activist Johnny Clegg (1953-2019)"  [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) on [X](/post/tweet/1946633363483181501) 2025-07-19 18:08:55 UTC 66.8K followers, 349.7K engagements "Sibusiso Nyembezi (1919-2000) was a South African writer known as a Zulu novelist poet scholar teacher and editor. One of his most popular novel Inkinsela yase Mgungundlovu was made into a television series"  [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) on [X](/post/tweet/1944320906169290885) 2025-07-13 09:00:02 UTC 66.8K followers, 20K engagements "Percy 'Chippa' Moloi at the Jan Smuts airport on his way to join Leeds United in England 1967"  [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) on [X](/post/tweet/1944988637206135261) 2025-07-15 05:13:21 UTC 66.5K followers, 49K engagements "Robert Sobukwe at the Orlando Police station March 1960"  [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) on [X](/post/tweet/1946850596482400766) 2025-07-20 08:32:07 UTC 66.8K followers, 19.3K engagements "Don GS Mtimkulu (1908-2000) earned a BA & MA from Fort Hare. He continued his studies at the Yale Graduate School and the London School of Economics in the 1930's. Mtimkulu headed Adams College & Ohlange before taking professorship at Fort Hare in the 1950's"  [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) on [X](/post/tweet/1946520003051696343) 2025-07-19 10:38:27 UTC 66.8K followers, 4583 engagements "Dr Jotello F Soga with his Scottish wife c early 1900s. Dr Soga was the son of the Xhosa minister Rev Tiyo Soga. He was not only the first Black South African to qualify as a veterinary surgeon he was the first EVER South African to qualify (the second qualified in 1912)"  [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) on [X](/post/tweet/1946844498522202399) 2025-07-20 08:07:53 UTC 66.8K followers, 12.4K engagements "A forgotten activist Dr Phyllis Ntantala-Jordan (1920-2016)"  [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) on [X](/post/tweet/1947557314929582348) 2025-07-22 07:20:22 UTC 66.8K followers, 41.2K engagements "Hugh Masekela and the Union of South Africa released May 1971. L to R: Hugh Masekela Jonas Gwangwa and Caiphus Semenya"  [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) on [X](/post/tweet/1948109811033288938) 2025-07-23 19:55:47 UTC 66.8K followers, 32.2K engagements "Rev.Dr John L Dube with his second wife and their children circa 1930's"  [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) on [X](/post/tweet/1946237996392403433) 2025-07-18 15:57:52 UTC 66.3K followers, 4700 engagements "Winnie Mandela walking through the gate of 8115 with Zindzi beside her 1962"  [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) on [X](/post/tweet/1947738419687211313) 2025-07-22 19:20:01 UTC 66.8K followers, 39.8K engagements "Letta Mbulu and her husband Caiphus Semenya"  [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) on [X](/post/tweet/1945875739363971578) 2025-07-17 15:58:23 UTC 66.8K followers, 61.7K engagements "Edward "Eddie" Roux (1903-1966) was a South African botanist academic writer member of the Communist Party of South Africa and anti-apartheid activist"  [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) on [X](/post/tweet/1947213080158429690) 2025-07-21 08:32:30 UTC 66.8K followers, 3320 engagements "Robert F Kennedy meets with Chief Albert Luthuli 1966"  [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) on [X](/post/tweet/1942251425653751823) 2025-07-07 15:56:39 UTC 66.4K followers, 86.4K engagements "Bob Gosani and Casey 'Kid' Motsisi c 1950's"  [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) on [X](/post/tweet/1947614234529222682) 2025-07-22 11:06:33 UTC 66.8K followers, 15.7K engagements "Paul Robeson (1898-1976) was an American lawyer singer actor unionist & civil rights activist. He used his fame & activism to bring global attention to the struggles of the Black people in South Africa in the 1930's & 1940's. His friends included Dr AB Xuma & Dr Bokwe"  [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) on [X](/post/tweet/1946608726351183886) 2025-07-19 16:31:01 UTC 66.8K followers, 5522 engagements "Thabo Mbeki in 1981 while in exile in Zambia speaks about New Zealand allowing the Springboks to tour NZ despite bans and boycott of Apartheid South Africa by the world"  [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) on [X](/post/tweet/1943959144513360225) 2025-07-12 09:02:31 UTC 66.4K followers, 69.4K engagements "Steve Biko with his wife Ntsiki and son Nkosinathi 1973"  [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) on [X](/post/tweet/1941452202666754459) 2025-07-05 11:00:50 UTC 66.7K followers, 497.3K engagements "Tony Award winning South African Actor Zakes Mokae (1934-2009)"  [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) on [X](/post/tweet/1947244409734500372) 2025-07-21 10:36:59 UTC 66.7K followers, 25K engagements "Jomo Sono and his beautiful bride Gail Sebetlele on their wedding day February 1979"  [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) on [X](/post/tweet/1944110648838791576) 2025-07-12 19:04:33 UTC 66.8K followers, 458.2K engagements "Domestic worker arrested for not carrying her pass Johannesburg 1955"  [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) on [X](/post/tweet/1937559363704750381) 2025-06-24 17:12:05 UTC 66.8K followers, 961.9K engagements "Pixley Ka Isaka Seme the founder of the ANC enjoying student life at Oxford University in 1908"  [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) on [X](/post/tweet/1936695184500080940) 2025-06-22 07:58:08 UTC 66.8K followers, 744.4K engagements "King Goodwill Zwelithini during his installation as Zulu King in Nongoma on December X 1971"  [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) on [X](/post/tweet/1946543228775190946) 2025-07-19 12:10:45 UTC 66.8K followers, 153.7K engagements "Elkiam "Professor" Khumalo on his wedding day to his bride Miss Mabel Moagi August 1964"  [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) on [X](/post/tweet/1947879962704298349) 2025-07-23 04:42:27 UTC 66.8K followers, 71.4K engagements "Henry "Black Cat" Cele makes another fine save for Aces as he pushes the ball c 1965. Henry Cele went on to become a famous actor in the 1980's and 1990's"  [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) on [X](/post/tweet/1948240590417629331) 2025-07-24 04:35:27 UTC 66.8K followers, 169.6K engagements "Nelson Mandela and Winnie Madikizela-Mandela on their wedding day June 1958"  [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) on [X](/post/tweet/1943968430832378155) 2025-07-12 09:39:25 UTC 66.8K followers, 383.3K engagements "Robert Sobukwe a portrait 1970. Picture: Alf Kumalo"  [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) on [X](/post/tweet/1946228454887694818) 2025-07-18 15:19:57 UTC 66.8K followers, 14.1K engagements "The "Plaatje bioscope" was a mobile cinema exhibition created by the South African intellectual & activist Sol Plaatje in the 1920s. Plaatje used a portable movie projector along with films books & other educational materials to bring educational experiences to rural areas"  [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) on [X](/post/tweet/1947580741950345542) 2025-07-22 08:53:27 UTC 66.8K followers, 14.1K engagements "Nelson Mandela mending clothes at Robben Island 1964. He is wearing shorts because Black prisoners were not allowed to wear long pants"  [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) on [X](/post/tweet/1944645666141082028) 2025-07-14 06:30:31 UTC 66.8K followers, 132K engagements "Drum Magazine Photojournalist Bob Gosani (1934-1972)"  [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) on [X](/post/tweet/1946474100563517599) 2025-07-19 07:36:03 UTC 66.3K followers, 6350 engagements "Lawyer and Pan Africanist Jama Mbeki (1948-1982) brother to Thabo Mbeki and Moeletsi Mbeki. Died at the hands of the Lesotho army in 1982"  [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) on [X](/post/tweet/1943227707409502374) 2025-07-10 08:36:03 UTC 66.8K followers, 501.6K engagements "Jomo Sono seen with trophies after his recent return from the U.S.A in November 1980"  [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) on [X](/post/tweet/1947696437170475325) 2025-07-22 16:33:11 UTC 66.8K followers, 76.4K engagements "Anthropologist chemist journalist & activist Eslanda Robeson (1895-1965). She spent about X months in South Africa & Uganda with her son Paul Robeson Jr in 1936 doing a research for her thesis & even attended the wedding of her friend Dr Roseberry Bokwe. She and her husband Paul Robeson became a passionate advocates for the Liberation of South Africa"  [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) on [X](/post/tweet/1948103171236106299) 2025-07-23 19:29:24 UTC 66.8K followers, 3365 engagements "Nelson Mandela in the garden Robben Island 1977. Initially Black prisoners were not allowed to wear long pants but they fought against that law and won. In this picture the prisoners were getting special treatment because the authorities had allowed journalists to visit"  [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) on [X](/post/tweet/1946157317298196669) 2025-07-18 10:37:16 UTC 66.8K followers, 13.6K engagements "Sabelo Phama (1949-1994) was a political activist who served as the Military Commander of APLA the military wing of the PAC and Secretary for Defense of the PAC. He declared 1993 'The year of the big storm'. On X February 1994 Phama died in a car accident in Morogoro in Tanzania"  [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) on [X](/post/tweet/1945132627121393742) 2025-07-15 14:45:31 UTC 66.7K followers, 49.7K engagements "Welcome Msomi and Daphney Hlomuka in the stage play 'Umabata' London 1972"  [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) on [X](/post/tweet/1946958405039489403) 2025-07-20 15:40:31 UTC 66.8K followers, 14.9K engagements "Dr Enos Mabuza (1939-1997) teacher politician and businessman. He founded the Inyandza National Movement which played a critical role in preventing attempts by the Apartheid government to incorporate the KaNgwane homeland into Eswatini"  [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) on [X](/post/tweet/1945861058175840403) 2025-07-17 15:00:03 UTC 66.4K followers, 5206 engagements "Peter Abrahams (1919-2017) was a South African novelist journalist and political activist. His novel Mine Boy (1946) brought him to critical attention. His memoir Tell Freedom (1954) deal in part with Apartheid. He settled in Jamaica in 1956"  [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) on [X](/post/tweet/1948268437471420684) 2025-07-24 06:26:07 UTC 66.8K followers, 2888 engagements "It was hard for me to find a video of Nat Nakasa (1937-1965) this clip is special to me"  [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) on [X](/post/tweet/1946159423069516089) 2025-07-18 10:45:39 UTC 66.8K followers, 29.7K engagements "South African artist Ernest Mancoba (1904-2002) with his 1929 sculpture African Madonna. African Madonna is considered the first modern sculpture produced by a Black South African"  [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) on [X](/post/tweet/1948661402090058197) 2025-07-25 08:27:37 UTC 66.8K followers, 10.1K engagements "Shirley Gun and Chris Hani holding Haroon Gunn-Salie at a rally marking the 30th anniversary of the formation of Umkhonto WeSizwe 16th December 1991"  [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) on [X](/post/tweet/1947609273347014878) 2025-07-22 10:46:50 UTC 66.8K followers, 17K engagements "World champion boxer Jacob "Baby Jake" Matlala (1962-2013)"  [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) on [X](/post/tweet/1948000136115920954) 2025-07-23 12:39:59 UTC 66.8K followers, 264.2K engagements "Jan Smuts Alfred Xuma and the struggle for Racial Equality in South Africa 1939-1948 by Bongani Ngqulunga"  [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) on [X](/post/tweet/1947692890605687228) 2025-07-22 16:19:06 UTC 66.8K followers, 4626 engagements "Nat Nakasa (1937-1965) began his career as a junior reporter at Ilanga Lase Natal at the age of XX. He then joined Drum Magazine in 1957 after his reporting attracted the attention of Sylvester Stein of Drum Magazine. In 1963 he founded a quarterly literary magazine called 'The Classic'. Nakasa was accepted for the 1965 intake of the Nieman Fellowship a journalism program at Harvard University. He applied for a passport & was refused & had to accept the exit permit instead a one way ticket into exile. After completing his Fellowship Nakasa seemed homesick. Unable to return to South Africa he"  [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) on [X](/post/tweet/1947984868731662555) 2025-07-23 11:39:19 UTC 66.8K followers, 20.6K engagements "Actor and sports man Dan Twala with his brilliant wife the researcher and politician Regina Gelana Twala his son Vusimuzi and other relatives in 1955. A young Mary Twala (who became a very successful & famous actress) can be seen 3rd from left"  [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) on [X](/post/tweet/1946431612301820055) 2025-07-19 04:47:13 UTC 66.8K followers, 119.3K engagements "Don Mattera (1935-2022) on the passing of Robert Sobukwe"  [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) on [X](/post/tweet/1947677724870373400) 2025-07-22 15:18:50 UTC 66.8K followers, 23K engagements "Actress Albertina Temba on the scene of the 1951 film 'cry the beloved country'"  [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) on [X](/post/tweet/1945369498090938802) 2025-07-16 06:26:46 UTC 66.2K followers, 12.5K engagements "Young children mostly girls working for white farmers in Nigel near Johannesburg. They were recruited from Sekhukhuneland XXX miles away in what is now Limpopo province. A 1960 photo essay from Drum Magazine"  [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) on [X](/post/tweet/1945143556793840030) 2025-07-15 15:28:57 UTC 66.8K followers, 111.2K engagements "Nelson Mandela with Nana Sita during the Defiance Campaign 1952"  [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) on [X](/post/tweet/1946082051200872956) 2025-07-18 05:38:12 UTC 66.8K followers, 468.6K engagements "Two jive dancers at Ritz nightclub in downtown Johannesburg 1952. Picture: Jurgen Schadeberg"  [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) on [X](/post/tweet/1945108366159688012) 2025-07-15 13:09:07 UTC 66.4K followers, 6429 engagements "The Africa's Claim was a document drafted around 1943 by Dr Alfred Xuma & his executive outlining Africa's aspirations for rights & equality. General Smuts refused to meet Dr Xuma to discuss the document. When they met at the UN in 1946 General Smuts asked " Xuma you are here What are you doing here" Dr Xuma responded by saying "I had to fly XX XXX miles to meet my Prime Minister. He talks about us but won't talk to us""  [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) on [X](/post/tweet/1946965424060387545) 2025-07-20 16:08:24 UTC 66.8K followers, 9786 engagements "Dr Silas Modiri Molema graduated with a degree in medicine from the University of Glasgow in 1919 going on to practice at the Hume Street Hospital in Dublin Ireland. The following year (1920) he published his most important work dedicated to the origin & history of the Bantu"  [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) on [X](/post/tweet/1947574850232455415) 2025-07-22 08:30:03 UTC 66.8K followers, 4447 engagements "Ken Gampu and Simon Sabela star in the 1979 film 'Zulu Dawn' about the battle of Isandlwana. A prequel of the 1964 film 'Zulu'"  [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) on [X](/post/tweet/1943552945129205838) 2025-07-11 06:08:26 UTC 66.8K followers, 65K engagements "Bishop Tutu wife Leah and son Trevor holding hands in celebration as news comes through of Nelson Mandela's release XX February 1990"  [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) on [X](/post/tweet/1946218147196842041) 2025-07-18 14:38:59 UTC 66.8K followers, 30.5K engagements "Felicia Mabuza (@Feliciamabuza) as a toddler with her mother Olga Williams"  [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) on [X](/post/tweet/1948399562990792816) 2025-07-24 15:07:09 UTC 66.8K followers, 103.7K engagements "Actress and beauty queen Cynthia Shange in the early 70's"  [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) on [X](/post/tweet/1945399030105731154) 2025-07-16 08:24:07 UTC 66.8K followers, 73K engagements "Steve Biko (standing) during the conference of the South African Student's Organisation (SASO) at the University of Natal 1971"  [@HistorySAZAR](/creator/x/HistorySAZAR) on [X](/post/tweet/1946226342493573268) 2025-07-18 15:11:33 UTC 66.8K followers, 31.9K engagements
[GUEST ACCESS MODE: Data is scrambled or limited to provide examples. Make requests using your API key to unlock full data. Check https://lunarcrush.ai/auth for authentication information.]
@HistorySAZAR History ZAR
History ZAR posts on X about south africa, bob, anc, nat the most. They currently have XXXXXX followers and XXX posts still getting attention that total XXXXXXX engagements in the last XX hours.
Engagements: XXXXXXX #
- X Week XXXXXXXXX -XX%
- X Month XXXXXXXXXX +157%
- X Months XXXXXXXXXX +23,652,353%
Mentions: XXX #
- X Week XXX -X%
- X Month XXX +248%
- X Months XXX +22,400%
Followers: XXXXXX #
- X Week XXXXXX +12%
- X Month XXXXXX +62%
- X Months XXXXXX +60,621%
CreatorRank: XXXXXX #
Social Influence #
Social category influence countries XXXXX% travel destinations XXXX% finance XXXX% celebrities XXXX% musicians XXXX%
Social topic influence south africa #352, bob #474, anc 2.16%, nat 1.62%, fort 1.62%, winnie #84, moses 1.08%, cape town 1.08%, rev 1.08%, lesotho XXXX%
Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by @grok @ditebogodi81546 @view_see @zombietninja @phillippweyers @feliciamabuza @jasonkhumalo3rd @kane_gm9 @pchauke32 @kingnema_jnr @me_minime @foesword @sikhophilani @vtsholo @yogae11332246 @mandidlula @czwe_luvuno @tessarowenalouw @mega_himself_ @rand_baas
Top Social Posts #
Top posts by engagements in the last XX hours
"Nelson Mandela in the garden Robben Island 1977"
@HistorySAZAR on X 2025-07-18 10:05:13 UTC 66.8K followers, 15.3K engagements
"Joe Gaobakwe Matthews son of Prof ZK Matthews with his wife and children (also a young Naledi Pandor) in 1958" @HistorySAZAR on X 2025-07-19 13:37:58 UTC 66.8K followers, 58.4K engagements
"Josia Thugwane on the podium at the 1996 Atlanta summer Olympics games. Thugwane became the first Black athlete to win an Olympic Gold for South Africa" @HistorySAZAR on X 2025-07-12 14:13:45 UTC 66.8K followers, 253.7K engagements
"Winnie Busisiwe Mahlangu (1934-2022) was born in Witbank. She was a pioneering South African radio broadcaster who became the first Black woman to be employed permanently by the SABC for Radio Bantu (later renamed Ukhozi FM) in 1962" @HistorySAZAR on X 2025-07-20 12:12:06 UTC 66.8K followers, 18.4K engagements
"Craig Williamson ordered the assassination of Ruth First. First was killed by a letter bomb in Maputo Mozambique on XX August 1982. On mid 1984 he mailed a letter bomb which killed Jeanette Schoon and her six year old daughter Katryn. He is enjoying life today having never paid for his crimes" @HistorySAZAR on X 2025-07-24 20:10:45 UTC 66.8K followers, 74.1K engagements
"Moses Mauane Kotane (1905-1978) was born at Tamposstad in the Rustenburg district of the western Transvaal. Largely self-taught he received only a few years of formal schooling but became an insatiable reader. Later as a young worker he enrolled in the Communist-run night school in Ferreirastown in JHB where he became known for his ability to master the most abstruce political writings. Kotane worked as a domestic servant Miner bakery worker. In 1929 he joined the CPSA & soon became its vice chairman. Kotane was offered an opportunity to go to the Soviet Union for a year to study at the Lenin" @HistorySAZAR on X 2025-07-25 16:48:33 UTC 66.8K followers, 6020 engagements
"Founding Umkhonto WeSizwe: Nelson Mandela (centre) and Robert Resha (right) meeting with the officers in the Algerian army 1962" @HistorySAZAR on X 2025-07-18 18:21:57 UTC 66.8K followers, 13.9K engagements
"Pule "Ace" Ntsoelengoe (right) shakes hands with Kaizer Motaung director of Kaizer Chiefs before leaving for the U.S.A December 1979" @HistorySAZAR on X 2025-07-23 09:32:41 UTC 66.8K followers, 49.8K engagements
"The founding President of the PAC Robert Sobukwe (1924-1978)" @HistorySAZAR on X 2025-07-24 09:03:23 UTC 66.8K followers, 22.2K engagements
"Bessie Head (1937-1986) was born to a white mother & black father. The immorality Act forbidden interracial relationships at the time so Head was fostered to a white family & then a coloured family. She completed her JC in 1953 & earned her teachers certificate around 1955 & worked for a time in SA before emigrating to Botswana with her son in 1964" @HistorySAZAR on X 2025-07-22 08:08:42 UTC 66.8K followers, 98.5K engagements
"Hezekieli Ntuli (1912-1973) was a South African sculptor renowned for the wide variety of busts he made out of unfired clay (Ubumba Olungashi in Zulu). Many of Ntuli's artworks were sold to the tourist industry; and are therefore mostly found in private collection today" @HistorySAZAR on X 2025-07-14 09:05:53 UTC 66.8K followers, 10.3K engagements
"Nat Nakasa with Nadine Gordimer as Nakasa is about to board an aeroplane to the USA to take up a scholarship 1964" @HistorySAZAR on X 2025-07-19 11:08:27 UTC 66.8K followers, 16.6K engagements
"Nurse turned Lawyer and political activist Victoria Mxenge (1942-1985) gunned downed on her driveway infront of her kids" @HistorySAZAR on X 2025-07-16 16:44:41 UTC 66.8K followers, 276.7K engagements
"In the name of medical examination Black South African workers had to endure the degrading ordeal of lining up naked to get a permit to work as miners and in other occupations" @HistorySAZAR on X 2025-07-14 12:22:22 UTC 66.5K followers, 66.2K engagements
"Dr Francis Herman Gow (1887-1968) was born in Cape Town to a Coloured mother & an African American father. He was educated in America & earned degrees at Wilberforce & Miami Universities. He also earned a Doctorate in Divinity from Morris Brown University in Atlanta Georgia. He enlisted in the American army in World War I & fought in France then returned to the USA to teach music at the Tuskegee Institute until 1925. On his return to South Africa Gow was appointed headmaster of the Wilberforce Institute in Evaton near Vereeniging an AME school founded by Charlotte and Marshall Maxeke. He also" @HistorySAZAR on X 2025-07-25 05:49:19 UTC 66.8K followers, 17.7K engagements
"In 1939 Walter Sisulu (1912-2003) founded Sitha Investment one of the first Black owned real estate agencies in Johannesburg. It was Sisulu who encouraged Nelson Mandela to join the ANC and had occasionally contributed to his law school tuition" @HistorySAZAR on X 2025-07-17 06:46:47 UTC 66.8K followers, 118.2K engagements
"South African poet novelist artist and short-story writer Herman Charles Bosman (1905-1951)" @HistorySAZAR on X 2025-07-24 18:36:08 UTC 66.8K followers, 3326 engagements
"Sidney Poitier as Rev Msimangu and Canada Lee as Mfundisi Stephen Khumalo in 'Cry the beloved country' 1951. Because of the Apartheid laws of the time the director informed authorities that Poitier & Lee were not actors but indentured servants" @HistorySAZAR on X 2025-07-19 17:02:23 UTC 66.4K followers, 4654 engagements
"James "Sofasonke" Mpanza (1889-1970) known as "The father of Soweto" in 1944 he led the squatter movement that resulted in the largest housing development and the founding of Soweto" @HistorySAZAR on X 2025-07-14 15:55:55 UTC 66.7K followers, 90.8K engagements
"Miriam Makeba and Harry Belafonte at their opening run at the Greek Theater in Los Angeles July XX 1961" @HistorySAZAR on X 2025-07-21 16:46:00 UTC 66.6K followers, 10.7K engagements
"From the 1950 South African musical Zonk The musical was one of the first to feature all Black performers" @HistorySAZAR on X 2025-07-14 13:09:40 UTC 66.4K followers, 4798 engagements
"Kaizer Chiefs director Ewert Nene with Zacharia Lamola and Shadrack Twala. c 1970's" @HistorySAZAR on X 2025-07-24 16:10:43 UTC 66.8K followers, 21.5K engagements
"Sophiatown Love story by Bob Gosani (1934-1972)" @HistorySAZAR on X 2025-07-25 15:43:19 UTC 66.8K followers, 10.5K engagements
"Gideon "Mgibe" Nxumalo (1929-1970) was a South African musician jazz pianist composer and arranger. An unsung hero in the South African arts even though he worked with some of the great jazz artists of the time in South Africa" @HistorySAZAR on X 2025-07-24 08:23:22 UTC 66.8K followers, 6255 engagements
"Anti-apartheid activist and President of the Pan Africanist Congress of Azania Clarence Makwetu (1928-2016)" @HistorySAZAR on X 2025-07-24 19:54:17 UTC 66.8K followers, 26.2K engagements
"Pixley Ka Isaka Seme enrolled at Columbia University in 1902. On why he chose the University he said: "I enyoy hard work and I have always desired to be in the centre of things. This is why I came to Columbia. New York City is the cynosure of all American life the greatest interests of the country are directed from this centre. A glance through the city's record is enough to convince any mind that Columbia is a force behind the throne in the greater movements of New York life"" @HistorySAZAR on X 2025-07-19 16:03:49 UTC 66.8K followers, 9355 engagements
"Come Back Africa is a 1959 South Africa film by the American independent filmmaker Lionel Rogosin. It featured amateur actors with real people and events. The filming was done secretly and the script was worked out by Rogosin Bloke Modisane & Lewis Nkosi" @HistorySAZAR on X 2025-07-25 18:06:45 UTC 66.8K followers, 2916 engagements
"Rev Elijah Makiwane (1850-1928) with his family. Cecilia Makiwane (1880-1919) who became the first Black South African to qualify as a professional registered nurse stands at the back-right corner" @HistorySAZAR on X 2025-07-23 05:24:59 UTC 66.8K followers, 4918 engagements
"Miriam Makeba addressing the United Nations on apartheid policies of South Africa XX October 1976" @HistorySAZAR on X 2025-07-17 04:57:19 UTC 66.8K followers, 31.4K engagements
"Hazel Futa on the cover of Drum Magazine October 1958" @HistorySAZAR on X 2025-07-20 09:48:22 UTC 66.8K followers, 5134 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" @HistorySAZAR on X 2025-05-30 16:04:30 UTC 66.8K followers, 158.1K engagements
"The 1982 Maseru raid : XX ANC activists and Lesotho residents were massacred at point blank range by the Apartheid government" @HistorySAZAR on X 2025-07-25 10:40:12 UTC 66.8K followers, 8412 engagements
"The founding of the Pan Africanist Congress of Azania April 1959" @HistorySAZAR on X 2025-07-20 09:00:16 UTC 66.8K followers, 31.1K engagements
"Makgatho Mandela in 1978. He is reading Black Nationalism in South Africa: A Short History by Peter Walshe" @HistorySAZAR on X 2025-07-25 10:59:24 UTC 66.8K followers, 8001 engagements
"Thabo Mbeki head of the ANC dept of information speaks during the Heroes Day concert on XX December 1987 in the Netherlands" @HistorySAZAR on X 2025-07-23 09:04:46 UTC 66.8K followers, 5672 engagements
"Oliver Tambo and Nelson Mandela in Sudan 1962" @HistorySAZAR on X 2025-07-18 09:24:02 UTC 66.4K followers, 15.3K engagements
"The Cradock Four were a group of four anti-apartheid activists who were abducted and murdered by the South African security police in June 1985" @HistorySAZAR on X 2025-07-06 16:16:34 UTC 66.8K followers, 126.6K engagements
"Jameson Gilbert Coka a young journalist and trade unionist from Natal wrote an autobiography that got featured on Margery Perham's 'Ten Africans' book in the 1930's. It's definitely worth reading" @HistorySAZAR on X 2025-07-17 05:53:39 UTC 66.8K followers, 4185 engagements
"Jazz Sensation Louisa Emmanuel circa 1950's. Picture: Bob Gosani" @HistorySAZAR on X 2025-07-19 05:25:58 UTC 66.4K followers, 4619 engagements
"Ahmed Timol (1941-1971) was an anti-apartheid activist in the Underground South African Communist Party. He died at the age of XX from injuries sustained when he fell from the top floor of the John Vorster Square police station" @HistorySAZAR on X 2025-07-21 16:24:13 UTC 66.8K followers, 34.7K engagements
"John Kani during the filming of 'An African dream' 1987" @HistorySAZAR on X 2025-07-23 04:06:32 UTC 66.8K followers, 38.7K engagements
"An emotional Brenda Fassie embraces Nelson Mandela" @HistorySAZAR on X 2025-07-14 14:45:14 UTC 66.8K followers, 708K engagements
"Students at the South African Native College (now known as the University of Fort Hare) 1918. DDT Jabavu is in the center of the front row. The colleges first principal Alexander Kerr is sitting to his immediate left" @HistorySAZAR on X 2025-07-14 17:37:10 UTC 66.8K followers, 12.4K engagements
"Harry Mashabela a colleague of Alf Kumalo gets kicked while covering British musician Cliff Richard's tour to the country 1961" @HistorySAZAR on X 2025-07-17 14:42:44 UTC 66.3K followers, 11.4K engagements
"Winnie Mandela descends the steps of the palace of justice during the Rivonia Trial with Albertina Sisulu infront of her 1964" @HistorySAZAR on X 2025-07-13 04:23:16 UTC 66.8K followers, 142.5K engagements
"Regina G Twala playing the piano for her family with husband Dan Twala son Vusimuzi and relative Mary Twala (who became a successful actress) 1955. Regina Twala was an anthropologist & political activist. She was the second Black woman to graduate from Wits University (1948)" @HistorySAZAR on X 2025-07-20 07:19:05 UTC 66.6K followers, 7379 engagements
"Oliver Tambo Chief Albert Luthuli and Moses Mabhida circa 1950's" @HistorySAZAR on X 2025-07-19 08:17:23 UTC 66.5K followers, 8721 engagements
"The happy cast of the all African musical 'King Kong' arriving at the Johannesburg stadium after a two and a half month tour during which they visited Port Elizabeth Cape Town & Durban. c 1959" @HistorySAZAR on X 2025-07-22 18:26:01 UTC 66.8K followers, 5257 engagements
"Students attending the national conference of Black and White students July 1930 on the campus of the South African Native College (renamed University of Fort Hare in 1951) in Fort Hare Cape Province South Africa" @HistorySAZAR on X 2025-07-17 16:41:42 UTC 66.8K followers, 3828 engagements
"Hugh Masekela on CBS's "To tell the truth" aired on XX December 1964" @HistorySAZAR on X 2025-07-21 05:32:35 UTC 66.8K followers, 76.6K engagements
"Nelson Mandela talking to Walter Sisulu in the B-section courtyard Robben Island. 1965" @HistorySAZAR on X 2025-07-03 04:07:54 UTC 66.8K followers, 602.3K engagements
"Anthropologist musician and activist Johnny Clegg (1953-2019)" @HistorySAZAR on X 2025-07-19 18:08:55 UTC 66.8K followers, 349.7K engagements
"Sibusiso Nyembezi (1919-2000) was a South African writer known as a Zulu novelist poet scholar teacher and editor. One of his most popular novel Inkinsela yase Mgungundlovu was made into a television series" @HistorySAZAR on X 2025-07-13 09:00:02 UTC 66.8K followers, 20K engagements
"Percy 'Chippa' Moloi at the Jan Smuts airport on his way to join Leeds United in England 1967" @HistorySAZAR on X 2025-07-15 05:13:21 UTC 66.5K followers, 49K engagements
"Robert Sobukwe at the Orlando Police station March 1960" @HistorySAZAR on X 2025-07-20 08:32:07 UTC 66.8K followers, 19.3K engagements
"Don GS Mtimkulu (1908-2000) earned a BA & MA from Fort Hare. He continued his studies at the Yale Graduate School and the London School of Economics in the 1930's. Mtimkulu headed Adams College & Ohlange before taking professorship at Fort Hare in the 1950's" @HistorySAZAR on X 2025-07-19 10:38:27 UTC 66.8K followers, 4583 engagements
"Dr Jotello F Soga with his Scottish wife c early 1900s. Dr Soga was the son of the Xhosa minister Rev Tiyo Soga. He was not only the first Black South African to qualify as a veterinary surgeon he was the first EVER South African to qualify (the second qualified in 1912)" @HistorySAZAR on X 2025-07-20 08:07:53 UTC 66.8K followers, 12.4K engagements
"A forgotten activist Dr Phyllis Ntantala-Jordan (1920-2016)" @HistorySAZAR on X 2025-07-22 07:20:22 UTC 66.8K followers, 41.2K engagements
"Hugh Masekela and the Union of South Africa released May 1971. L to R: Hugh Masekela Jonas Gwangwa and Caiphus Semenya" @HistorySAZAR on X 2025-07-23 19:55:47 UTC 66.8K followers, 32.2K engagements
"Rev.Dr John L Dube with his second wife and their children circa 1930's" @HistorySAZAR on X 2025-07-18 15:57:52 UTC 66.3K followers, 4700 engagements
"Winnie Mandela walking through the gate of 8115 with Zindzi beside her 1962" @HistorySAZAR on X 2025-07-22 19:20:01 UTC 66.8K followers, 39.8K engagements
"Letta Mbulu and her husband Caiphus Semenya" @HistorySAZAR on X 2025-07-17 15:58:23 UTC 66.8K followers, 61.7K engagements
"Edward "Eddie" Roux (1903-1966) was a South African botanist academic writer member of the Communist Party of South Africa and anti-apartheid activist" @HistorySAZAR on X 2025-07-21 08:32:30 UTC 66.8K followers, 3320 engagements
"Robert F Kennedy meets with Chief Albert Luthuli 1966" @HistorySAZAR on X 2025-07-07 15:56:39 UTC 66.4K followers, 86.4K engagements
"Bob Gosani and Casey 'Kid' Motsisi c 1950's" @HistorySAZAR on X 2025-07-22 11:06:33 UTC 66.8K followers, 15.7K engagements
"Paul Robeson (1898-1976) was an American lawyer singer actor unionist & civil rights activist. He used his fame & activism to bring global attention to the struggles of the Black people in South Africa in the 1930's & 1940's. His friends included Dr AB Xuma & Dr Bokwe" @HistorySAZAR on X 2025-07-19 16:31:01 UTC 66.8K followers, 5522 engagements
"Thabo Mbeki in 1981 while in exile in Zambia speaks about New Zealand allowing the Springboks to tour NZ despite bans and boycott of Apartheid South Africa by the world" @HistorySAZAR on X 2025-07-12 09:02:31 UTC 66.4K followers, 69.4K engagements
"Steve Biko with his wife Ntsiki and son Nkosinathi 1973" @HistorySAZAR on X 2025-07-05 11:00:50 UTC 66.7K followers, 497.3K engagements
"Tony Award winning South African Actor Zakes Mokae (1934-2009)" @HistorySAZAR on X 2025-07-21 10:36:59 UTC 66.7K followers, 25K engagements
"Jomo Sono and his beautiful bride Gail Sebetlele on their wedding day February 1979" @HistorySAZAR on X 2025-07-12 19:04:33 UTC 66.8K followers, 458.2K engagements
"Domestic worker arrested for not carrying her pass Johannesburg 1955" @HistorySAZAR on X 2025-06-24 17:12:05 UTC 66.8K followers, 961.9K engagements
"Pixley Ka Isaka Seme the founder of the ANC enjoying student life at Oxford University in 1908" @HistorySAZAR on X 2025-06-22 07:58:08 UTC 66.8K followers, 744.4K engagements
"King Goodwill Zwelithini during his installation as Zulu King in Nongoma on December X 1971" @HistorySAZAR on X 2025-07-19 12:10:45 UTC 66.8K followers, 153.7K engagements
"Elkiam "Professor" Khumalo on his wedding day to his bride Miss Mabel Moagi August 1964" @HistorySAZAR on X 2025-07-23 04:42:27 UTC 66.8K followers, 71.4K engagements
"Henry "Black Cat" Cele makes another fine save for Aces as he pushes the ball c 1965. Henry Cele went on to become a famous actor in the 1980's and 1990's" @HistorySAZAR on X 2025-07-24 04:35:27 UTC 66.8K followers, 169.6K engagements
"Nelson Mandela and Winnie Madikizela-Mandela on their wedding day June 1958" @HistorySAZAR on X 2025-07-12 09:39:25 UTC 66.8K followers, 383.3K engagements
"Robert Sobukwe a portrait 1970. Picture: Alf Kumalo" @HistorySAZAR on X 2025-07-18 15:19:57 UTC 66.8K followers, 14.1K engagements
"The "Plaatje bioscope" was a mobile cinema exhibition created by the South African intellectual & activist Sol Plaatje in the 1920s. Plaatje used a portable movie projector along with films books & other educational materials to bring educational experiences to rural areas" @HistorySAZAR on X 2025-07-22 08:53:27 UTC 66.8K followers, 14.1K engagements
"Nelson Mandela mending clothes at Robben Island 1964. He is wearing shorts because Black prisoners were not allowed to wear long pants" @HistorySAZAR on X 2025-07-14 06:30:31 UTC 66.8K followers, 132K engagements
"Drum Magazine Photojournalist Bob Gosani (1934-1972)" @HistorySAZAR on X 2025-07-19 07:36:03 UTC 66.3K followers, 6350 engagements
"Lawyer and Pan Africanist Jama Mbeki (1948-1982) brother to Thabo Mbeki and Moeletsi Mbeki. Died at the hands of the Lesotho army in 1982" @HistorySAZAR on X 2025-07-10 08:36:03 UTC 66.8K followers, 501.6K engagements
"Jomo Sono seen with trophies after his recent return from the U.S.A in November 1980" @HistorySAZAR on X 2025-07-22 16:33:11 UTC 66.8K followers, 76.4K engagements
"Anthropologist chemist journalist & activist Eslanda Robeson (1895-1965). She spent about X months in South Africa & Uganda with her son Paul Robeson Jr in 1936 doing a research for her thesis & even attended the wedding of her friend Dr Roseberry Bokwe. She and her husband Paul Robeson became a passionate advocates for the Liberation of South Africa" @HistorySAZAR on X 2025-07-23 19:29:24 UTC 66.8K followers, 3365 engagements
"Nelson Mandela in the garden Robben Island 1977. Initially Black prisoners were not allowed to wear long pants but they fought against that law and won. In this picture the prisoners were getting special treatment because the authorities had allowed journalists to visit" @HistorySAZAR on X 2025-07-18 10:37:16 UTC 66.8K followers, 13.6K engagements
"Sabelo Phama (1949-1994) was a political activist who served as the Military Commander of APLA the military wing of the PAC and Secretary for Defense of the PAC. He declared 1993 'The year of the big storm'. On X February 1994 Phama died in a car accident in Morogoro in Tanzania" @HistorySAZAR on X 2025-07-15 14:45:31 UTC 66.7K followers, 49.7K engagements
"Welcome Msomi and Daphney Hlomuka in the stage play 'Umabata' London 1972" @HistorySAZAR on X 2025-07-20 15:40:31 UTC 66.8K followers, 14.9K engagements
"Dr Enos Mabuza (1939-1997) teacher politician and businessman. He founded the Inyandza National Movement which played a critical role in preventing attempts by the Apartheid government to incorporate the KaNgwane homeland into Eswatini" @HistorySAZAR on X 2025-07-17 15:00:03 UTC 66.4K followers, 5206 engagements
"Peter Abrahams (1919-2017) was a South African novelist journalist and political activist. His novel Mine Boy (1946) brought him to critical attention. His memoir Tell Freedom (1954) deal in part with Apartheid. He settled in Jamaica in 1956" @HistorySAZAR on X 2025-07-24 06:26:07 UTC 66.8K followers, 2888 engagements
"It was hard for me to find a video of Nat Nakasa (1937-1965) this clip is special to me" @HistorySAZAR on X 2025-07-18 10:45:39 UTC 66.8K followers, 29.7K engagements
"South African artist Ernest Mancoba (1904-2002) with his 1929 sculpture African Madonna. African Madonna is considered the first modern sculpture produced by a Black South African" @HistorySAZAR on X 2025-07-25 08:27:37 UTC 66.8K followers, 10.1K engagements
"Shirley Gun and Chris Hani holding Haroon Gunn-Salie at a rally marking the 30th anniversary of the formation of Umkhonto WeSizwe 16th December 1991" @HistorySAZAR on X 2025-07-22 10:46:50 UTC 66.8K followers, 17K engagements
"World champion boxer Jacob "Baby Jake" Matlala (1962-2013)" @HistorySAZAR on X 2025-07-23 12:39:59 UTC 66.8K followers, 264.2K engagements
"Jan Smuts Alfred Xuma and the struggle for Racial Equality in South Africa 1939-1948 by Bongani Ngqulunga" @HistorySAZAR on X 2025-07-22 16:19:06 UTC 66.8K followers, 4626 engagements
"Nat Nakasa (1937-1965) began his career as a junior reporter at Ilanga Lase Natal at the age of XX. He then joined Drum Magazine in 1957 after his reporting attracted the attention of Sylvester Stein of Drum Magazine. In 1963 he founded a quarterly literary magazine called 'The Classic'. Nakasa was accepted for the 1965 intake of the Nieman Fellowship a journalism program at Harvard University. He applied for a passport & was refused & had to accept the exit permit instead a one way ticket into exile. After completing his Fellowship Nakasa seemed homesick. Unable to return to South Africa he" @HistorySAZAR on X 2025-07-23 11:39:19 UTC 66.8K followers, 20.6K engagements
"Actor and sports man Dan Twala with his brilliant wife the researcher and politician Regina Gelana Twala his son Vusimuzi and other relatives in 1955. A young Mary Twala (who became a very successful & famous actress) can be seen 3rd from left" @HistorySAZAR on X 2025-07-19 04:47:13 UTC 66.8K followers, 119.3K engagements
"Don Mattera (1935-2022) on the passing of Robert Sobukwe" @HistorySAZAR on X 2025-07-22 15:18:50 UTC 66.8K followers, 23K engagements
"Actress Albertina Temba on the scene of the 1951 film 'cry the beloved country'" @HistorySAZAR on X 2025-07-16 06:26:46 UTC 66.2K followers, 12.5K engagements
"Young children mostly girls working for white farmers in Nigel near Johannesburg. They were recruited from Sekhukhuneland XXX miles away in what is now Limpopo province. A 1960 photo essay from Drum Magazine" @HistorySAZAR on X 2025-07-15 15:28:57 UTC 66.8K followers, 111.2K engagements
"Nelson Mandela with Nana Sita during the Defiance Campaign 1952" @HistorySAZAR on X 2025-07-18 05:38:12 UTC 66.8K followers, 468.6K engagements
"Two jive dancers at Ritz nightclub in downtown Johannesburg 1952. Picture: Jurgen Schadeberg" @HistorySAZAR on X 2025-07-15 13:09:07 UTC 66.4K followers, 6429 engagements
"The Africa's Claim was a document drafted around 1943 by Dr Alfred Xuma & his executive outlining Africa's aspirations for rights & equality. General Smuts refused to meet Dr Xuma to discuss the document. When they met at the UN in 1946 General Smuts asked " Xuma you are here What are you doing here" Dr Xuma responded by saying "I had to fly XX XXX miles to meet my Prime Minister. He talks about us but won't talk to us"" @HistorySAZAR on X 2025-07-20 16:08:24 UTC 66.8K followers, 9786 engagements
"Dr Silas Modiri Molema graduated with a degree in medicine from the University of Glasgow in 1919 going on to practice at the Hume Street Hospital in Dublin Ireland. The following year (1920) he published his most important work dedicated to the origin & history of the Bantu" @HistorySAZAR on X 2025-07-22 08:30:03 UTC 66.8K followers, 4447 engagements
"Ken Gampu and Simon Sabela star in the 1979 film 'Zulu Dawn' about the battle of Isandlwana. A prequel of the 1964 film 'Zulu'" @HistorySAZAR on X 2025-07-11 06:08:26 UTC 66.8K followers, 65K engagements
"Bishop Tutu wife Leah and son Trevor holding hands in celebration as news comes through of Nelson Mandela's release XX February 1990" @HistorySAZAR on X 2025-07-18 14:38:59 UTC 66.8K followers, 30.5K engagements
"Felicia Mabuza (@Feliciamabuza) as a toddler with her mother Olga Williams" @HistorySAZAR on X 2025-07-24 15:07:09 UTC 66.8K followers, 103.7K engagements
"Actress and beauty queen Cynthia Shange in the early 70's" @HistorySAZAR on X 2025-07-16 08:24:07 UTC 66.8K followers, 73K engagements
"Steve Biko (standing) during the conference of the South African Student's Organisation (SASO) at the University of Natal 1971" @HistorySAZAR on X 2025-07-18 15:11:33 UTC 66.8K followers, 31.9K engagements