# ![@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, university of, south african the most. They currently have [-------] followers and [----] posts still getting attention that total [-------] engagements in the last [--] hours.

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### Top Social Posts
Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours

"The first person to qualify as a Vetenary surgeon in South Africa was Dr Jotello Festiri Soga (1865-1906) the son of the Xhosa minister Rev Tiyo Soga. He studied at Edinburgh College of Medicine and Vetenary Medicine. He played a leading role in eradicating rinderpest"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1873337067624890749)  2024-12-29T11:55Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"The United Front was a collaboration between the ANC PAC and other liberation movements. Leading a big march in London is Oliver Tambo Dr Yusuf Dadoo and other political leaders"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1875539108002746807)  2025-01-04T13:45Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"Ruth First (1925-1982) was a South African activist and scholar who was assassinated by a parcel bomb in Mozambique while working in exile. Seen here in her jail cell. She was assassinated by the order of Craig Williamson who was a Spy & a major in the South African Police"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1916081732341612883)  2025-04-26T10:47Z 22.3K followers, 21.5K engagements


"Alfred Mangena the first Black lawyer in South Africa in his own words. August [--] 1901"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1916799921279090931)  2025-04-28T10:21Z 21.5K followers, [----] engagements


"Dr Joseph Mokoena (1919-1969) attended St Peter's with Tambo both set academic records in [----] & both went to Fort Hare to study BSc Physics & Maths. Mokoena would eventually become the 1st Black South African to earn a PhD in Mathematics. He died in a car accident in Zambia"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1916915865313816854)  2025-04-28T18:02Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Michael Mosoeu Moerane (1904-1980) was a choral music composer and the first Black South African to write a symphonic poem in [----]. He was one of the first Black South African to graduate with a Bachelor of Music. He was President Thabo Mbeki's Uncle"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1917171742453137778)  2025-04-29T10:58Z 21.5K followers, [----] engagements


"Dr Silas Modiri Molema (1891-1965) was a medical doctor historian biographer author & National secretary of the ANC. He was educated at Lovedale & left SA to study medicine at the University of Glasgow in [----] graduated in [----] & practiced in Dublin Ireland for some time"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1917282002526515653)  2025-04-29T18:17Z 21.6K followers, [----] engagements


"Paul Xiniwe (1857-1902) was a musician businessman and teacher. He toured Europe with the African Choir from [----] to [----]. He founded the Temperance Hotel in [----]. The hotel was the first hotel for Black people in the Cape"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1917303342365081975)  2025-04-29T19:41Z 21.6K followers, [----] engagements


"Solomon Plaatje (1876-1932) as a journalist & a leader in the ANC embarked on a journey across rural SA to investigate the impact of the 1913's Land Act. He opted to use a bicycle as his main means of transport. His bicycle-based investigation led to a book he published in 1916"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1917603950557089853)  2025-04-30T15:36Z 22.8K followers, 14.6K engagements


"Pixley ka Seme founder of the ANC graduating with a BA from Columbia University in New York [----]. He then left for Oxford University to study Law. He had left SA a small kid in the late 1890's came back to SA educated with an American accent. Founded the ANC at [--] years Old"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1917993013751537809)  2025-05-01T17:22Z [----] followers, 49.1K engagements


"The AME Church gave scholarships to women like Adelaide Tantsi Charlotte Maxeke and Eva Morake (pictured below). But Mrs Morake went further became the 1st Black SA'n woman to earn a Masters degree when she graduated from the Teachers college of the Columbia University in 1932"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1918181929024622592)  2025-05-02T05:53Z 23.1K followers, 16.6K engagements


"Nelson Mandela and Moses Kotane outside court during the Treason Trial in the mid 1950's"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1918232201524584480)  2025-05-02T09:12Z 23.1K followers, 48K engagements


"First Black SAn's to graduate from a SA'n University. ZK Matthews (left) graduating with a BA and Edwin Ncwana (right) graduating with a Diploma circa [----]. ZK Matthews later earned an LLB through UNISA in the 1930's & completed a Masters degree from Yale University in 1934"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1918252071423258830)  2025-05-02T10:31Z 23.6K followers, 58.3K engagements


"Nelson Mandela and his future first wife Evelyn Mase at Walter and Albertina Sisulu's wedding on [--] July [----]. Mandela was the best man. Mandela and Mase were to marry [--] months later"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1918333576870764975)  2025-05-02T15:55Z 22.2K followers, 26.4K engagements


"@mandlabafo His father was from Botswana but he was born and bred in SA"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1918554317579039186)  2025-05-03T06:32Z [----] followers, [---] engagements


"Joe Gaobakwe Matthews (1929-2010) was a South African lawyer an activist of the ANC from [----] until [----] when he left to join the IFP. He earned a BA from Fort Hare in [----] & LLB from University of London in [----]. His father was Prof ZK Matthews & his daughter is Naledi Pandor"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1918669789590946064)  2025-05-03T14:11Z 25.1K followers, 266.4K engagements


"Dr Jotello Festiri Soga (1865-1906) the first Black South African to qualify as a Vetenary surgeon and played a leading role in eradicating rinderpest. He was the son of the Xhosa minister Rev Tiyo Soga. Seen here with his Scottish wife"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1918704415801770113)  2025-05-03T16:29Z 23.7K followers, 20.4K engagements


"Isaac Bangani Tabata (1909-1990) was a South African political activist author and orator. A Marxist in the Trotskyist tradition he was central in the Non-European Unity Movement from its inception in [----]. He was notable for his innovative analysis & theoretical work"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1918719192431284516)  2025-05-03T17:27Z 22K followers, [----] engagements


"Harold Cressy (1889-1916) lived a very short life. But he achieved a lot in it. He was the first coloured/non-white SA'n to gain a degree from a South African University when he earned a BA from UCT in [----]. He continued his successes with his activism in education &"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1918744183960928352)  2025-05-03T19:07Z 23.1K followers, 18.8K engagements


"Rev Elijah Makiwana (1850-1928) the clergyman & pioneering journalist seen here with his family. Cecilia Makiwana (1880-1919) his daughter and the first registered professional Black nurse in South Africa can be seen at the back-right"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1918752500192031204)  2025-05-03T19:40Z 25.6K followers, 85.5K engagements


"Dr James Moroka (1891-1985) a medical doctor & farmer who led the ANC from 1949-1952. Moroka excelled at medical school at the University of Edinburgh & graduated in [----]. He qualified as a surgeon in the 1930's bt could not put his training to use because of the colour bar laws"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1918939639336915409)  2025-05-04T08:03Z 23.8K followers, 110.4K engagements


"Thami Mnyele (1948-1985) was a South African artist associated with the Black Consciousness movement and the ANC. He moved to Botswana & joined the Medu Art Ensemble in [----] with his friend & activist Wally Serote. He was murdered by SAFD soldiers & they confiscated his art"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1918962846752195070)  2025-05-04T09:36Z 22.8K followers, [----] engagements


"The Manhattan Brothers was a very popular singing group in the 1940's and 1950's that launched the careers of Miriam Makeba General Duze Macky Davashe and others. The group had one US billboard pop chart hit with "Lovely lies" which picked at number [--] in 1956"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1918976970013934026)  2025-05-04T10:32Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"Dr AC Jordan (1906-1968) was a SA'n Xhosa novelist historian & a pioneering South African intellectual. He earned a BA (1934) & a Masters (1942) & doctorate (1957). He was a professor at the University of California & University of Wisconsin-Madison. Pallo Jordan is his son"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1918993154696438151)  2025-05-04T11:36Z 23.5K followers, 128.9K engagements


"Mary Malahlela-Xakana (1916-1981) was the first Black South African woman to graduate from the University of Witwatersrand and the first Black woman to earn a medical degree in a South Africa university when she graduated in [----]. She was a founding member of the YWCA"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1919007829458874858)  2025-05-04T12:34Z [----] followers, 20.3K engagements


"Ashby Peter Mda (1916-1993) was a SA'n activist teacher Africanist and lawyer. He is a founding member of the ANCYL & was a founding member of the PAC even though he never officially joined it. Mda formed a strong intellectual & political relationship with Anton Lembede"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1919016489471914241)  2025-05-04T13:09Z 23.9K followers, 42.5K engagements


"Adv Duma Nokwe (1927-1978) was a SA'n political activist teacher and lawyer who served as the SG of the ANC from [----] until [----]. After being barred from teaching he took up Law & eventually became the 1st Black advocate to be admitted to the Bar"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1919028255442526370)  2025-05-04T13:56Z 23.1K followers, 56.8K engagements


"The hanging of Mampuru II on the 22nd of November [----] at the Pretoria Central prison. He was stripped naked and hanged in public. The rope broke the first time and he was dragged onto the gallows to be hanged again"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1919032465382932577)  2025-05-04T14:12Z 25.9K followers, 278.9K engagements


"Frances Gqoba poses for a photograph at the London Stereoscopic Company Studio in [----] while on tour with the African Choir"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1919048123617321205)  2025-05-04T15:15Z 25.8K followers, 119.1K engagements


"The renaissance man Darius Dhlomo (1931-2015) with the talented Steve Kalamazoo Mokone (1932-2015)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1919059681865060793)  2025-05-04T16:00Z 22.8K followers, 53.5K engagements


"The President of the ANC Oliver Tambo attending the funeral of [--] ANC activists and Lesotho residents who were massacred at point blank range by the Apartheid regime on what became known as the Maseru raid of 1982"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1919092906956103687)  2025-05-04T18:12Z 24.6K followers, 26.9K engagements


"The lawyer Chief Organizer of the Defiance Campaign and Transvaal ANC leader Nelson Mandela in the 1950's"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1919112845263880200)  2025-05-04T19:32Z 23.6K followers, 103.7K engagements


"Oliver Tambo (ANC) Nana Mahomo (PAC) and Peter Molotsi (PAC) arrive in Ghana (26 April 1960) to begin their journey in exile"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1919121734260658576)  2025-05-04T20:07Z 23.1K followers, 62.1K engagements


"The fearless Chief Bambata KaMancinza (1865-1906)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1919292777893912729)  2025-05-05T07:27Z 24K followers, 201.9K engagements


"Africanists of the Pan Africanist Congress of Azania: President of the PAC Zephania Mothopeng (left) and Jeff Masemola who was the longest serving prisoner on Robben Island"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1919408420345500082)  2025-05-05T15:06Z 22.4K followers, 35.9K engagements


"The uncompromising Zephania Mothopeng (1913-1990)was the President of the PAC from [----] until [----]. A teacher by profession Mothopeng began his activism within the ANCYL then left to become the founding member of the PAC in 1959"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1919411943615393927)  2025-05-05T15:20Z 22.5K followers, 58.5K engagements


"Jeff Masemola (1929-1990) the Tiger of Azania who was the longest serving prisoner on Robben Island was a teacher by profession and a founder member of the PAC's armed wing"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1919416019031867713)  2025-05-05T15:36Z 24K followers, 171.5K engagements


"Dr Phyllis Ntantala - Jordan (1920-2016) was a South African political activist author of her famous autobiography: A Life's Mosaic wife to the famous Xhosa literary historian Dr AC Jordan and a mother to politician and activist Pallo Jordan"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1919429511210213384)  2025-05-05T16:30Z 23.4K followers, 36.6K engagements


"Bishop H.M Turner of the AME church receiving Mfundisi James Dwane of the Order of Ethiopia 1898"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1919482109623742550)  2025-05-05T19:59Z 23.6K followers, 61.4K engagements


"Sol T Plaatje (1876-1932) at his desk taken from his book Native Life in South Africa"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1919678117003604396)  2025-05-06T08:58Z 24K followers, 106K engagements


"The South African scholar and anti-apartheid activist Ruth First (1925-1982). She died from a letter bomb sent to her by the South African intelligence"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1919683081079763160)  2025-05-06T09:18Z 24.9K followers, 380.5K engagements


""Here is a tree rooted in African soil nourished with the waters from from the rivers of Africa. Come and sit under its shade and become with us the leaves of the same branch and the branches of the same tree." - Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe (1924-1978)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1919710131404628217)  2025-05-06T11:05Z 22.8K followers, 21.1K engagements


"Abram Onkgopotse Tiro (1947-1974) was a student activist aligned to the Black Consciousness Movement. His activism with the BCM got him expelled from the University of the North (now known as the University of Limpopo). Tiro was killed by a parcel bomb in Botswana in 1974"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1919799817099776124)  2025-05-06T17:01Z 19.5K followers, 24.2K engagements


"South African Actor Zakes Mokae wins a Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a play"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1919803869573365837)  2025-05-06T17:18Z 25K followers, 70.3K engagements


"Johnny Dyani (1945-1986) was a South African Jazz double bassist vocalist & Pianist who was a key member of the Blue Notes. He also played with musicians like Abdullah Ibrahim Don Cherry Steve Lacy among many others. He died on stage at the Berlin Festival in 1986"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1919811747885576459)  2025-05-06T17:49Z 25.8K followers, 32.1K engagements


"Bob Gosani (1934-1972) was a South African photographer who was part of the 'Drum decade' of the 1950's. He started off as a messenger at Drum Magazine then soon moved to assisting Jurgen Schadeberg. Some of his pictures have become iconic images of the 1950's in South Africa"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1919981736970129830)  2025-05-07T05:04Z 25.8K followers, 20.7K engagements


"Bram Fischer (1908-1975) was a South African communist lawyer and Afrikaner revolutionary who famously defended the Rovinia Trialists in the Rivonia Trial. Following the trial he was sentenced to life imprisonment & diagnosed with cancer while in prison"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1919991509228659149)  2025-05-07T05:43Z 24.1K followers, 91.4K engagements


"Inside the Drum Magazine office of the 1950's"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1919997211661725772)  2025-05-07T06:06Z 24.1K followers, 48.9K engagements


"Nat Nakasa (1937-1965)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1920067024312561754)  2025-05-07T10:43Z 23.6K followers, 19.8K engagements


"Dumile Feni and Louis Moholo in London 1971"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1920072196703019389)  2025-05-07T11:04Z 23.7K followers, 54.4K engagements


"Moses Mabhida (1923-1986) was an outstanding leader of humble origins who became a dominant figure in the trade union movement communist party Congress Movement and Umkhonto We Sizwe"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1920112561766228248)  2025-05-07T13:44Z 23.9K followers, 56.7K engagements


"Alfred Mangena (1879-1924) was a journalist the first Black lawyer in South Africa and the founding member of the SANNC (later the ANC). A born leader after the Bambata rebellion in [----] he had represented Bambata's men by submitting two petitions to the British authorities"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1920130384597029064)  2025-05-07T14:55Z 23.6K followers, 14.8K engagements


"Professor Mazisi Kunene (1930-2006) was a South African political activist poet an active organizer of the anti-apartheid movement in Europe and USA. He taught at the University of California & was ANC's representative In both USA and Europe. He was SA's first poet laureate"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1920169901555101862)  2025-05-07T17:32Z 23.6K followers, 25.4K engagements


"In this short clip South African writer Lewis Nkosi interviews Wole Soyinka and Chinua Achebe (1964)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1920182372013674967)  2025-05-07T18:22Z 25.8K followers, 27.1K engagements


"The Es'kia Mphahlele of the 'Drum Decade'"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1920384044669284725)  2025-05-08T07:43Z 24K followers, 27.2K engagements


"Walter Sisulu (1912-2003)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1920480169472467113)  2025-05-08T14:05Z 24.5K followers, 62.6K engagements


"Chief Albert Luthuli Mazisi Kunene and Oliver Tambo"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1920532041801630176)  2025-05-08T17:31Z 25.8K followers, 85.4K engagements


"Mapetla Mohapi (1947-1976) was an activist of the Black Consciousness Movement who died in detention in [----]. He was the first person to be detained under section [--] of the Terrorism Act. The historian Zikhona Valela (@valavoosh) wrote a good book about his story"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1921189238495699282)  2025-05-10T13:03Z 24K followers, 47.1K engagements


"Simon Mabhunu Sabela (1931-1994) was a South African actor and the first Black South African to direct a feature film. He appeared in many local productions as well as in some Hollywood films"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1921244390351143278)  2025-05-10T16:42Z 25K followers, 86.3K engagements


"Lillian Ngoyi (1911-1980) political activist first woman to be elected to the NEC of the ANC. She helped launch the Federation of South African Women"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1921457654997627109)  2025-05-11T06:49Z 25.9K followers, 14.6K engagements


"Political activist and women's rights activist Lilian Ngoyi with her daughter"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1921462460613120125)  2025-05-11T07:08Z 25.8K followers, 72.1K engagements


"Gibson Kente (1932-2004) was a South African playwright composer producer and director. He was known as the of Black theater in South Africa. He was one of the first writers to deal with life in the Black South African townships"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1921466041470742815)  2025-05-11T07:22Z 25K followers, 13.9K engagements


"Moses Mabhida with Joe Gaobakwe Matthews"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1921488826448368028)  2025-05-11T08:53Z 24K followers, 15.7K engagements


"Oliver Tambo Chief Albert Luthuli and Moses Mabhida in 1959"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1921489728139899252)  2025-05-11T08:57Z 25.1K followers, 30.1K engagements


"Ashley Kriel (1966-1987) was a South African anti-apartheid activist who was killed by Police on [--] July [----] for his role in the anti-apartheid movement"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1921496906481512655)  2025-05-11T09:25Z 25.8K followers, 84.1K engagements


"Nelson Mandela in discussion with C Andrews a Cape Town teacher circa 1950's"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1921499076979261505)  2025-05-11T09:34Z 25.9K followers, 22.8K engagements


"The All African Convention [----]. The convention consisted of representatives from across a broad political spectrum including the ANC ICU and CPSA. They convened in Bloemfontein in response to [--] proposed bills by President J.B.M Hertzog"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1921500636685762783)  2025-05-11T09:40Z 24K followers, [----] engagements


"Edwin Thabo Mofutsanyana (1899-1995) was a South African teacher Miner and journalist. Mofutsanyana was an active member of the Communist Party of South Africa. He studied at the Lenin School in Moscow in the 1930's"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1921505741866746221)  2025-05-11T10:00Z 24K followers, [----] engagements


"Ellen Kuzwayo (1914-2006) was a South African teacher women's rights activist and politician. She published her acclaimed autobiography "Call me Woman" in 1985"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1921539110696636794)  2025-05-11T12:13Z 42.9K followers, 49.8K engagements


"King Kong South Africa - A reflection"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1921555999837569178)  2025-05-11T13:20Z 26.2K followers, 23.9K engagements


"Josie Mpama (1903-1979) was a South African anti-apartheid activist and trade unionist. The first black woman to play a major role in the CPSA. She wrote for Umsebenzi the official press organ of the Communist Party in the 1920's & 30's"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1921565111627501651)  2025-05-11T13:56Z 25.1K followers, [----] engagements


"After earning his MD from Northwestern University in [----] Dr Xuma did advanced medical training at the University of Edinburgh in [----]. An Alpha Men (Joined Alpha Phil Alpha - Alpha Xi Chapter in 1923). He revitalized ANC's dwindling fortunes & stopped SA from annexing Namibia"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1921574361355403661)  2025-05-11T14:33Z 26.4K followers, 10.9K engagements


"Nelson Mandela and his wife Winnie Mandela"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1921633457945330056)  2025-05-11T18:28Z 25.9K followers, 120.6K engagements


"Helen Joseph (1902-1992) was a SAn anti-apartheid activist. Born in England Helen graduated from the University of London & ventured to SA in [----] where she settled & got married. She played a pivotal role in the formation of FEDSAW which led the [----] march against pass laws"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1921905979303543068)  2025-05-12T12:31Z 25.9K followers, 14.4K engagements


"John Nyathi Pokela (1923-1985) was a South African political activist and chairman of the PAC from [----] to [----]. He had been educated at Fort Hare and worked as a teacher. He was sentenced to [--] years in prison on Robben Island on charges of sabotage"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1921923915179348240)  2025-05-12T13:42Z 24K followers, [----] engagements


"Ken Gampu (1929-2003) was a South African actor who appeared in many local as well as Hollywood productions. His first acting job was in Athol Fugard's play No good Friday (1958). His big break came in the [----] film Dingaka by Jamie Uys"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1921985381240566231)  2025-05-12T17:46Z 25.1K followers, 23.6K engagements


"South African saxophonist and composer Mthuthuzeli Dudu Pukwana (1938-1990)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1922015748282634379)  2025-05-12T19:47Z 25.1K followers, 10.9K engagements


"Steve Biko as a student at the University of Natal"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1922289248465482047)  2025-05-13T13:54Z 25.9K followers, 193K engagements


"Oliver Tambo and Nelson Mandela in Sudan 1962"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1922577020665405782)  2025-05-14T08:57Z 26K followers, 45.9K engagements


"Viola Hashe (1926-1977) during a Defiance Campaign meeting in Johannesburg [----]. Viola Hashe was an anti-apartheid activist teacher and trade unionist. Hashe was also blind"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1922649098294870456)  2025-05-14T13:44Z 27.1K followers, 17.3K engagements


"Walter and Albertina Sisulu's wedding on the 17th of July [----]. Mandela was the best man"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1923402826601976198)  2025-05-16T15:39Z 26.3K followers, 47.3K engagements


"Solomon Kalushi Mahlangu (1957-1979) South African freedom fighter struggle activist and operative of the ANC's militant group Umkhonto WeSizwe (MK). Executed by hanging on the 6th of April [----] at the age of 22"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1923439671406702978)  2025-05-16T18:05Z 25.9K followers, 35.7K engagements


"A love story Sophiatown by Bob Gosani 1954"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1923792986212561054)  2025-05-17T17:29Z 25.9K followers, 49.5K engagements


"Archie Mafeje (right) with Welsh Makanda on Adderley street in Cape Town 1961"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1924082708306636864)  2025-05-18T12:40Z 26.2K followers, 14.9K engagements


"A gift from SATCHMO: Hugh Masekela with the trumpet he received from US Jazz legend Louis Armstrong by Jurgen Schadeberg 1954"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1924454071827628252)  2025-05-19T13:16Z 26.2K followers, 18.9K engagements


"Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe (1924-1978) was a teacher lecturer lawyer founding member and first President of the Pan Africanist Congress of Azania which led the [----] anti-pass campaign. The campaign resulted in the Sharpeville massacre"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1924846871039578530)  2025-05-20T15:17Z 26.2K followers, 20.5K engagements


"@Thabo_M_Phumo Car accident in Nairobi"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1925438958617481397)  2025-05-22T06:29Z 26.1K followers, [--] engagements


"Jameson Gilbert Coka was born in [----] & died in the 1960's. He was a talented writer journalist and trade unionist active in the CPSA ICU & ANC. He wrote his brief yet brilliant autobiography in the 1930's that got featured on Margery Perham's Ten Africans book"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1925460978407264765)  2025-05-22T07:57Z 26.2K followers, [----] engagements


"ANCYL leaders Walter Sisulu Nelson Mandela and Harrison Motlana standing on a staircase at the Johannesburg Supreme Court in 1952"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1925547774491185513)  2025-05-22T13:42Z 26.4K followers, [----] engagements


"Steve 'Kalamazoo' Mokone (1932-2015) the first Black South African to play in the European league"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1925800331985768780)  2025-05-23T06:25Z 26.5K followers, 29.1K engagements


"@tebz1423 @IAMTHEJAZZ_ He was not from Botswana. ZK Matthews was born and bred in SA. His father was from Botswana though. Yes they did change their Tswana surname to 'Matthews' I think to honour an ancestor"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1925878808298561953)  2025-05-23T11:37Z 26.2K followers, [---] engagements


"Dr Xuma (right) singing at a church service with his wife Madie Hall Xuma and Bishop Frances Herman Gow. Bishop Frances Herman Gow (1887-1968) was a significant figure in the AME church in South Africa"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1925882912261447982)  2025-05-23T11:54Z 52.4K followers, [----] engagements


"Dr Jotello Festiri Soga (1865-1906) the son of the Xhosa minister Rev Tiyo Soga was not only the first Black South African to qualify as a Vetenary surgeon he was the first EVER South African to qualify (the second qualified in 1912"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1925895440081264757)  2025-05-23T12:43Z 27.2K followers, [----] engagements


"John Henderson Soga (1860-1941) was the first Xhosa historian. The second son of Rev Tiyo Soga and his Scottish wife Soga studied in Glasgow (1870-77) the University of Edinburgh (1890-93) before following his father into the United Presbyterian ministry"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1925904649556475942)  2025-05-23T13:20Z 82K followers, [----] engagements


"George D Montshioa born in [----]. The first Motswana called to the English bar and one of the founding fathers of the ANC. A revolutionary activist and a progressive legal mind tasked with writing and preparing the first constitution of Congress"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1926199687591162169)  2025-05-24T08:52Z 26.6K followers, 12.4K engagements


"Treason Trial 1956: The prisoners on their way to court in a prison van by Peter Magubani"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1926302054806396985)  2025-05-24T15:39Z 26.4K followers, [----] engagements


"Blues singer & film star Dolly Rathebe posing on a mine dump for a cover picture. Dolly and Jurgen Schadeberg were picked up by the police who suspected them of contravening the immorality Act. The charges were later dropped 1952"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1926304323723522132)  2025-05-24T15:48Z 26.5K followers, 15.8K engagements


"Orlando Township [----] by Jurgen Schadeberg: "The homes are just put together with bits of wood cardboard boxes rusty bits of tin and cut up sacks""  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1926548089768202436)  2025-05-25T07:57Z 26.5K followers, 29.8K engagements


"@Bonz_Speaks Dottie Tiyo was jailed sometime in the 1960's for contravening the Immorality Act. She had been having a fling with a prominent white business executive with the name John Rudd and her career never fully recovered after that incident"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1926691757409861788)  2025-05-25T17:28Z 26.4K followers, [---] engagements


"Nelson Mandela at the North London home of Oliver Tambo in [----] two months before arrested and imprisoned. By Michael Peto"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1927629706863538189)  2025-05-28T07:35Z 28.4K followers, 131.6K engagements


"Chairman of the PAC John Nyathi Pokela in Zurich in November [----] en route to the United Nations Organization in New York"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1927764683823468925)  2025-05-28T16:31Z 26.6K followers, [----] engagements


"Dr Rotoli Xaba (1893-1953) was one of the earliest Black South Africans to qualify as a medical doctor. He had been in correspondence with Dr W.E.B Dubois during the 1920s when he was studying in Edinburgh. He faced financial & educational difficulties leading him to dropout of his medical studies. In [----] he tried to enter Wits University but he was told that was impossible. Finally achieving sufficient solvency to go back to Scotland he gained his triple Scottish qualification (a LRCP & LRCS from Edinburgh and a LRFPS from Glasgow) in [----]. He returned to the Cape & was licensed to practice"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1928812367556595909)  2025-05-31T13:54Z 27.3K followers, [----] engagements


"Richard Rive (1931-1989) was a South African writer and academic. He earned a BA from UCT in [----]. In [----] he was given a scholarship secured for him by Es'kia Mphahlele. He earned an MA (Columbia University) in [----] and a PhD (Oxford) in [----]. Rive initially published his short stories on Magazines like Drum & Fighting Talk. His collection African Songs was published in [----]. Rive was stabbed to death at his home in Cape Town 1989"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1929575009132925434)  2025-06-02T16:25Z 28.3K followers, 30.2K engagements


"@PalesaMogorosi_ His father was African American and his mother cape coloured"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1929839623217246668)  2025-06-03T09:56Z 65.5K followers, [----] engagements


"@NkoeshengZ Drum Magazine reported on Tengo Max Jabavu's death with the tribute 'End of a Great Line' to signify the end the family line for the Jabavu clan. Unfortunately the young Jabavu was not married nor did he had any children"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1929973404750287097)  2025-06-03T18:48Z 27.3K followers, [---] engagements


"In [----] Charlotte Maxeke and the African Choir toured the USA. They were shamelessly abandoned by their management. Left stranded and broke in Cleveland Ohio Rev Reverdy C Ransom of the AME church assisted in enrolling the young South Africas at the Wilberforce University"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1930155701214613767)  2025-06-04T06:52Z 52.4K followers, [----] engagements


"Elizabeth Nozipho Xuma the only daughter of Dr Alfred B Xuma circa 1950's. She got married and moved to Swaziland where she died of sickle-cell anemia in [----] at the age of [--]. Her brother Alfred Mtutuzeli Xuma studied medicine in Europe and later settled in Washington and became a practicing physician"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1930170987401642389)  2025-06-04T07:53Z 28.3K followers, [----] engagements


"South African students at Wilberforce University Ohio around [----]. Charlotte Manye is seated at the center"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1930645740168073565)  2025-06-05T15:19Z 28.2K followers, 15K engagements


"Three central figures from right to left ANC founder Pixley Ka Isaka Seme the Swazi Queen Regent Labotsibeni & Crown Prince (later King) Sobhuza. The Swazi monarchy financed the Abantu Bathu newspaper of the SANNC (ANC) thereby putting into effect the aims of its founder of forming a political alliance between the educated elite & traditional leaders"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1930699646726558127)  2025-06-05T18:54Z 28.2K followers, 11.5K engagements


"All African Convention (AAC) Executive members on a deputation to the Prime Minister in Cape Town February [----]. From left to right : AWG Champion Rev AS Mtimkulu HS Kekana JM Dippe Prof DDT Jabavu HS Msimang Rev SJ Mvambo Rev ZR Mahabane RH Godlo"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1931248758886473765)  2025-06-07T07:15Z 28.2K followers, [----] engagements


"The Ohlange Institute founded in [----] by Rev John L Dube and his first wife Nokutela Dube. The first educational institution in South Africa to be founded by a Black person. Rev John Dube had been in contact with Booker T Washington and modelled the school after the Tuskegee University in America"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1931319508712488985)  2025-06-07T11:57Z 28.3K followers, 10.1K engagements


"Tause Soga Rev Tiyo Soga's niece one of her studio portraits she took in [----] while studying in Scotland"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1931733620948881609)  2025-06-08T15:22Z 81.9K followers, 12.1K engagements


"Van Zyl Slabbert Thomas Sankara and Thabo Mbeki in June 1987"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1932058567529390380)  2025-06-09T12:53Z 42.7K followers, 340.7K engagements


"Abantu-Batho was the first Black owned National news paper in South Africa. It was formed in October [----] primarily through the efforts of Pixley Ka Isaka Seme. It received impetus when Motsoalle a newspaper established by Daniel Letanka merged with Abantu Batho in [----] at the request of Pixley Seme. Letanka went on to be one of the directors of the company that published the newspaper. Labotsibeni the Swazi Queen Regent provided the financial assistance. It was founded as the official mouthpiece of the newly founded SANNC (ANC)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1932106424638898675)  2025-06-09T16:04Z 28.4K followers, 19.4K engagements


"Lewis Nkosi South African journalist author professor and poet"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1932731839552086094)  2025-06-11T09:29Z 31.3K followers, [----] engagements


"Davidson Don Tengo Jabavu and Florence Makiwane after their wedding August 1916"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1932837196827906141)  2025-06-11T16:27Z 41.7K followers, [----] engagements


"Sharpeville [----] by Peter Magubane"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1933099659259461915)  2025-06-12T09:50Z 42.2K followers, 47K engagements


"Harry Belafonte and Miriam Makeba circa 1960's"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1933203172987998672)  2025-06-12T16:42Z 43.5K followers, 288.7K engagements


"Dr W.E.B Dubois (1868-1963) was a leading American scholar who was an influential friend mentor lecturer and advisor to many South African activists in the first half of the 20th century (Charlotte Maxeke Dr AB Xuma Pixley Ka Isaka Seme Dr Rotoli Xaba and many others). Dr Dubois was the first African American to graduate from Harvard University with a doctorate & was an influential member of the Niagara Movement"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1933211720601710872)  2025-06-12T17:16Z 40.3K followers, [----] engagements


"Gert Sibande (1901-1987) the Lion of the East was a South African farm worker and anti-apartheid activist. He was a co-accused in the Treason Trial of 1956-1961 alongside Nelson Mandela and others"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1933617936633151622)  2025-06-13T20:10Z 41.6K followers, 11.1K engagements


"Drum Magazine cover April 1956"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1934877837724450908)  2025-06-17T07:36Z 42.7K followers, 32.6K engagements


"Steve "Kalamazoo" Mokone 1956"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1935010638381592585)  2025-06-17T16:24Z 42.7K followers, 14.2K engagements


"From left to right: William Koyi Mapassa Ntintile Shadrach Mngunana and Isaac Wauchope. Four South African missionaries who volunteerred to work at the Livingstonian Mission in 1876"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1935025055341179034)  2025-06-17T17:21Z 31.7K followers, [----] engagements


"The Treason Trialists December 1956"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1935233856170500303)  2025-06-18T07:11Z 48.2K followers, 79.1K engagements


"Members of the South African Native Labour Corps cooking on a Soyer stove around [----]. The Native Labour Corps was a force of workers formed in [----] in response to a British request for workers at French ports. [---] of the Black servicemen perished alongside [--] white officers when the ship SS MENDI sank in the freezing waters of the English channel in February of 1917"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1935345830514381271)  2025-06-18T14:36Z 42.6K followers, 10.7K engagements


"A golf lesson Sophiatown by Jurgen Schadeberg 1952"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1935719115123015892)  2025-06-19T15:19Z 53.9K followers, 291.3K engagements


"A relative Phineas Mahlangu identifies Solomon Mahlangu in a line up at Middleburg Police Station. Phineas was tortured and violently forced by the police to point him out"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1935724241904713929)  2025-06-19T15:39Z 43.1K followers, 271.7K engagements


"Walter and Albertina Sisulu's wedding [--] July 1944"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1935748357835624897)  2025-06-19T17:15Z 43.3K followers, 29.8K engagements


""Awakening on Friday morning [--] June [----] the South African Native found himself not actually a slave but a pariah in the land of his birth". Solomon Tshekiso Plaatje"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1935964870471827560)  2025-06-20T07:36Z 43.1K followers, 20.9K engagements


"Walter Sisulu (1912-2003) was a leading anti-apartheid activist. He left school then worked in Jhb as a baker gold miner labourer & bank teller. In [----] he founded Sitha Investment one of the first Black owned real estate agency in SA. Its objectives was to help Black & Indian people buy houses. The agency's office became a hub for anti-apartheid activists & intellectuals. He was elected General Secretary of the ANC in 1949"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1935983107338862624)  2025-06-20T08:48Z 43.2K followers, 20K engagements


"Sphiwo Mthimkulu (1960-1982) was a student & political activist. His activism began when he joined SASM in [----]. He was expelled from Jabavu High & again from Healdtown High for his activism. Because of his activism the special branch placed him under surveillance. He was arrested & charged for being in a possession of banned political literature. He subsequently spent [--] months imprisonment. He joined COSAS upon his release & eventually became it's leader. As a leader of COSAS he was part of the ANC underground structure & led many campaigns. He continued to be harassed by the special branch."  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1936075422313132524)  2025-06-20T14:55Z 55K followers, 129.6K engagements


"Solomon Mahlangu was one of the [---] political prisoners to be executed on the gallows of Pretoria Central prison. He had been convicted on murder on the basis of common purpose he did not fire the shot. He was only 22"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1936104975295197258)  2025-06-20T16:52Z 52.5K followers, 23.7K engagements


"Winnie Madikizela-Mandela and Ruth First by Mary Benson"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1936140052943503370)  2025-06-20T19:12Z 43.1K followers, 34.9K engagements


"Ruth First's office after the explosion that took her life on the 17th of August [----]. A letter bomb was sent to her office by the South African security agency"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1936151052727767149)  2025-06-20T19:55Z 42.9K followers, 16.1K engagements


"South African actor Zakes Mokae with James Earl Jones and Ruby Dee in the stage production of Athol Fugard's Boesman and Lena in 1970"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1936337423447081163)  2025-06-21T08:16Z 43.2K followers, 20.5K engagements


"In [----] during his senior year at Columbia University Pixley Ka Isaka Seme the native from Zululand who later founded the ANC in [----] was awarded the George William Curtis Medal Columbia University's highest oratorical honor for his speech "The Regeneration of Africa""  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1936366413108887998)  2025-06-21T10:11Z 52.4K followers, 23K engagements


"Oliver Tambo with the Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme. Palme was a long-time friend of Oliver Tambo and a staunch supporter of the anti-apartheid movement. Palme was assassinated in 1986"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1936400550808916093)  2025-06-21T12:27Z 42.8K followers, 11.6K engagements


"One of the earliest Black South African to graduate from the University of Birmingham where he qualified as a medical doctor in [----] Dr Innes Gumede. Before going to Europe to read for medicine he had studied at Lovedale and at Fort Hare"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1936440215964619064)  2025-06-21T15:04Z 55K followers, 26K engagements


"Mary Benson (1919-2000) was a South African political activist author and biographer. In [----] she published one of the earliest Nelson Mandela biographies. She first documented the South African anti-apartheid movement in [----] with her book on the ANC SACP and PAC called "The African Patriots""  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1936686245758845373)  2025-06-22T07:22Z 43.2K followers, [----] engagements


"Pixley Ka Isaka Seme the founder of the ANC enjoying student life at Oxford University in 1908"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1936695184500080940)  2025-06-22T07:58Z 69.1K followers, 744.6K engagements


"People don't understand the struggle Black South Africans like Pixley Seme and Alfred Xuma had to go through to afford higher education at American & European Universities in the first half of the 20th century. They were both constantly short of money and resorted to working hard Labour at times. Xuma worked the boiler rooms & coal mines to raise funding. Seme worked as a bell boy. While the money from missionaries sometimes paid for their studies it was not enough"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1936723242867147254)  2025-06-22T09:49Z 43K followers, 19K engagements


"Xuma was admitted at the University of Minnesota in [----]. His poverty almost forced him to abandon his studies. He earned meals by washing dishes in a campus cafeteria. By end of his 1st two years he had waited tables shovelled coal milked cows & fired boilers to earn his keep"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1936731523354407211)  2025-06-22T10:22Z 48.2K followers, 21.9K engagements


"Matthew Mzingaye Biko was featured on TD Mweli Skota's "African Yealy Registry" in [----]. His son Steve Biko became one of the leading and influential political activists & theorists of the 20th century"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1936763582424764663)  2025-06-22T12:29Z 43.1K followers, 26K engagements


"South African actor Zakes Mokae wins a Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play for "Master Harold and the Boys" 1982"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1936844924982571040)  2025-06-22T17:53Z 53.9K followers, 56.5K engagements


"22 year old student activist Sphiwo Mthimkhulu on the day of his release from hospital. In [----] during his last detention Mthimkhulu was given a deadly poison called Thallium by the police that paralysed him. On the 14th of April Mthimkulu & Topsy Madaka were abducted & tortured to death by the police"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1937023233456263598)  2025-06-23T05:41Z 55.3K followers, 139.6K engagements


"@realnorma_kay Go through my tweets and learn how Black South Africans like Seme had to work hard Labour at times to acquire higher education at American and European Universities. Pixley was a domestic servant at one time. These people endured the worst. Don't go around insulting for likes"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1937051554105667958)  2025-06-23T07:34Z 40.9K followers, [----] engagements


"Drum Magazine February [----] with a young Nomsa Nene"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1937055904068715001)  2025-06-23T07:51Z 52.5K followers, 168K engagements


"Ashley Kriel (1966-1987)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1937141723769024659)  2025-06-23T13:32Z 54K followers, 71.1K engagements


"Nokutela Dube (1873-1917) was a pioneering educationalist & co-founder of Ohlange Institute & Ilanga newspaper. For almost a century her remains lay forgotten in the Brixton Cemetery in Joburg marked simply with a plaque with the racist initials "CK" for "Christian Kaffir""  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1937228086208053595)  2025-06-23T19:15Z 55.3K followers, 122.5K engagements


"Felicia Mabuza on the cover of Drum Magazine May 1972"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1937415661996655067)  2025-06-24T07:41Z 61.4K followers, 442.4K engagements


"Robert Resha and Amina Cachalia during the Treason Trial of the 1950's. A young Nelson Mandela can be seen behind"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1937445653715493083)  2025-06-24T09:40Z 52.5K followers, 20.6K engagements


"Dolly Rathebe in "African Jim / Jim comes to Joburg" the first South African film to feature an all Black cast 1949"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1937454895780806737)  2025-06-24T10:16Z 56.5K followers, 14.2K engagements


"Oliver Tambo Congress Mbatha and Lancelot Gama: Members of the 'The Syndicate'. This was a group of Fort Hare University science major students who were committed to helping each other during their student days and after. Mbatha became a lecturer & Gama became a Physician"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1937483264928682066)  2025-06-24T12:09Z 52.5K followers, 10.4K engagements


"Alexandra Bus Boycott: In [----] when Putco imposed a fare increase from [--] pence to [--] pence residents organized a coalition of local organizations to launch a bus Boycott on January [--]. It soon spread to other townships on Putco's routes. In June the boycotters prevailed. #Azikwelwa"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1937505633307124151)  2025-06-24T13:38Z 52.5K followers, 37.8K engagements


""The Man Who Founded the ANC" by Bongani Ngqulunga is a good book on the Life and career of Pixley Ka Isaka Seme (1881-1951)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1937507860990017910)  2025-06-24T13:47Z 54.3K followers, 31.9K engagements


""The First President" by Heather Hughes is a good book on the Life and career of John L Dube"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1937511475746341160)  2025-06-24T14:01Z 53.8K followers, 17.7K engagements


"A young Hugh Masekela receives a gift from SATCHMO. In [----] Hugh Masekela received a trumpet from US Jazz legend Louis Armstrong. By Jurgen Schadeberg"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1937527860891103674)  2025-06-24T15:06Z 52.4K followers, 40.6K engagements


"Domestic worker arrested for not carrying her pass Johannesburg 1955"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1937559363704750381)  2025-06-24T17:12Z 86.2K followers, 967K engagements


"Zephania Mothopeng (1913-1990)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1937758561603293683)  2025-06-25T06:23Z 58.5K followers, 464.2K engagements


"Oliver Tambo arrives with Amilcar Cabral at the OAU Heads of State meeting in Algiers 1968"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1937771769017913348)  2025-06-25T07:16Z 53.9K followers, 29.3K engagements


"Dr Joseph Mokoena (1919-1969) attended St Peter's with Oliver Tambo. Both set academic records in [----]. Both went to Fort Hare to study BSc Physics and Maths. Both were active in the YL. Mokoena earned an MSc from UNISA with distinction (1948). He was awarded a Fellowship in Mathematics at Brown University (1950). Mokoena became the first Black South African to earn a PhD in Mathematics. He died in a car accident in Zambia"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1937780915159056434)  2025-06-25T07:52Z 53.9K followers, 31.6K engagements


"The first Black Physician in Johannesburg Dr Alfred Bitini Xuma (1893-1962)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1937802049724510242)  2025-06-25T09:16Z 54.2K followers, 52.2K engagements


"Although it has been widely known that the PAC was officially formed on the 6th of April [----] this day was only a culmination of a series of events long before that. One key date prior to the 6th of April [----] was the 1st November [----] when the Africanist within the ANC finally came with the decision to split from the Transvaal Congress. It was one of the most stormiest conferences of the charterists tensions were high with a threat of violence looming in the air"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1937878469418914228)  2025-06-25T14:20Z 53.9K followers, 14K engagements


"John Mavuma Nembula left the Zululand for the United States to assist in the typesetting & publication of the Bible into Zulu in [----]. He decided to remain in the US. He did Pre-Med at the University of Michigan (1884-1885) and enrolled for 2nd year medicine in [----] at the Chicago Medical College (predecessor of Feinberg School of Medicine). He earned his medical degree in [----] becoming the 2nd Black South African to qualify as a medical doctor. He returned to South Africa in [----] and although he faced challenges securing employment he was appointed District Surgeon of Umsinga. In [----] he was"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1937891824976252986)  2025-06-25T15:13Z 64.1K followers, 85.9K engagements


"Dolly Rathebe on the cover of Drum Magazine April 1953"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1937910878671659231)  2025-06-25T16:28Z 53.9K followers, 12.9K engagements


"Letta Mbulu performs Nongqongqo on the [----] Sidney Poitier led film "A Warm December""  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1937929811168501951)  2025-06-25T17:44Z 66K followers, 167.8K engagements


""Here is a tree rooted in African soil nourished with the waters from the rivers of Africa. Come and sit under its shade and become with us the leaves of the same branch and the branches of the same tree" - Mangaliso Robert Sobukwe From his inaugural speech April 1959"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1938084285430530336)  2025-06-26T03:57Z 53.8K followers, 14.8K engagements


"In [----] Johan Snyman a farmer was convicted of beating a labourer to death. Barefoot and unshaken Henry "Mr Drum" Nxumalo walked to the gate of Snyman's farm to ask for the job which would enable him to investigate the Labour conditions. Picture: Jurgen Schadeberg"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1938092671114911872)  2025-06-26T04:31Z 57.8K followers, 10K engagements


"Defendants Moses Kotane and Nelson Mandela leave a courtroom in Pretoria during the Treason Trial [----]. Picture: Jurgen Schadeberg"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1938135906071843170)  2025-06-26T07:23Z 54.3K followers, 38.7K engagements


"King Nyabela (circa 1825-1902) was the regent of the Ndzundza Ndebele after the death of King Mabhoko whose son Fene was too young to take over. Nyabela fought against the Boers & protected Mampuru II when he was hunted. The ZAR had previously tried & failed to subdue the AmaNdebele in [----] [----] & [----]. The Mampuru II incident of [----] offered the ZAR a new opportunity to attack. In the ensuing war known as the Mapoch War (1882-1883) Commander Piet Joubert commandeered as my as [----] Afrikaner fighters to fight the Ndebele King. King Nyabela gathered support from his allies within the"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1938249620066333078)  2025-06-26T14:54Z 55.9K followers, 78K engagements


"Philip Kgosana (1936-2017) the UCT student and PAC activist who led an anti pass law march of approximately [--] [---] people on [--] March [----] from Langa to Cape Town"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1938279478771232873)  2025-06-26T16:53Z 55K followers, 33.9K engagements


"Dr Silas Modiri Molema (1891-1965) son of Chief Silas Molema. Molema was a politician historian & medical doctor. He graduated in [----] as a medical doctor from the University of Glasgow & In [----] he published "The Bantu Past & Present" a study of the different tribes in SA"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1938489445730124056)  2025-06-27T06:47Z 53.9K followers, 21.2K engagements


"Chris Hani (1942-1993)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1938497872091062432)  2025-06-27T07:21Z 57.5K followers, 130.6K engagements


"Moses Kotane (1905-1978)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1938537787965464629)  2025-06-27T09:59Z 53.8K followers, [----] engagements


"Building Umkhonto WeSizwe: Nelson Mandela and Robert Resha in Algeria for military training 1962"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1938588686225981735)  2025-06-27T13:22Z 54.3K followers, 74.8K engagements


"The first generation of Black South Africans to study at Universities abroad did so through missionaries. The AME Church gave scholarships to many young Black South Africans in the first half of the 20th. Eva Morake (pictured below) was one of those recipients. She did her undergrad at Wilberforce University and went on to earn an MA from Columbia University (1932) becoming the first Black South African woman to do so"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1938646210094551230)  2025-06-27T17:10Z 54K followers, 35.8K engagements


"Eleanor Xiniwe 1891"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1938834371349487687)  2025-06-28T05:38Z 54.2K followers, 11.9K engagements


"Jonas Gwangwa in London circa 1960"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1938854587659665816)  2025-06-28T06:58Z 53.8K followers, 14.2K engagements


"Dr James Moroka (1891-1985) was able to study medicine at the University of Edinburgh through the assistance of a Mr Macdonald a church minister from Scotland. He excelled at the University earning his medical degree in [----]. After graduating he worked in England for a while before returning to SA. In [----] he returned to Europe to pursue postgraduate study in Vienna. He qualified as a Surgeon after [--] years. But having returned to SA he was never able to put his training to use as the colour bar laws prevented him from working at the only facilities in Bloemfontein's main hospital"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1938906753162260629)  2025-06-28T10:26Z 53.8K followers, 32.5K engagements


"21 May [----] Alfred Mangena at the time a Law student in London took on the Empire that is inflicting oppression on his people by using the Empire's laws against it. He filed a deposition against the governor of Natal Henry McCallum on acts of oppression"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1938957331364016146)  2025-06-28T13:47Z 53.9K followers, 11.2K engagements


"Nelson Mandela and Colonel Wakenu in [----]. On the personal orders of his Majesty Haile Selassie Mandela was given a gun as a gift"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1938971203739287767)  2025-06-28T14:42Z 54.6K followers, 30.9K engagements


"Steve Mokone and Darius Dhlomo in 1958"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1939185818163114488)  2025-06-29T04:55Z 53.9K followers, 10.6K engagements


"Kenneth Kaunda with the members of the South African gospel group the King's Messengers Quartet circa 1970's. Kaunda heard a recording of the KMQ & arranged a full paid trip for them to Zambia so that he could hear them perform live. Washington Sixolo (actor) is 3rd from left"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1939226271860559945)  2025-06-29T07:35Z 55.3K followers, 13.3K engagements


"Chief Albert Luthuli Prof Mazisi Kunene and Oliver Tambo speak:"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1939329260700774873)  2025-06-29T14:25Z 57K followers, 36.7K engagements


"As we end youth month: Youth kneel infront of police with their hands in the air during the protests in Soweto on [--] June 1976"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1939342125482852799)  2025-06-29T15:16Z 56.2K followers, 24.1K engagements


"Political Prisoners: Nelson Mandela Herman Toivo Ja Toivo and Maqina Mpanza. Robben Island prison 1977"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1939399527984742560)  2025-06-29T19:04Z 55K followers, 45.4K engagements


"As we close youth month: Last breath of Hector Peterson in the arms of Mbuyisa Makhubu on [--] June 1976"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1939534660431663447)  2025-06-30T04:01Z 57K followers, 179.9K engagements


"John and Nokutela Dube toured the USA together between [----] and [----]. They traveled to America to raise funds for the Ohlange Institute. In the Los Angeles Times of February [----] Nokutela Dube is featured in the series "Women of Note""  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1939613348355858433)  2025-06-30T09:13Z 54.3K followers, 13.4K engagements


"Dr Neil Aggett (1953-1982) was a Kenyan-born South African medical doctor and trade unionist who was killed while in detention by the Security Branch of the Apartheid police after being held in detention for [--] days without trial"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1939638663173874175)  2025-06-30T10:54Z 56.1K followers, 79.7K engagements


"South African Jazz guitarist General Duze who played with Miriam Makeba amongst many others can be seen playing to a small group of children. Circa 1950's. Picture: Jurgen Schadeberg"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1939662429434298715)  2025-06-30T12:28Z 55.3K followers, 11.3K engagements


"John Kani and Winston Ntshona at a Tony nominee luncheon at Sardi's restaurant in Manhattan 1975"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1939674913679561136)  2025-06-30T13:18Z 57.8K followers, 256.4K engagements


"The funeral procession of Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe February 1978"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1939705950895509961)  2025-06-30T15:21Z 54.3K followers, 78.9K engagements


"The Ohlange Institute (Ohlange High School) in [----]. The institute was founded in [----] by Rev John L Dube and his first wife Nokutela Dube. It was the first school to be founded by a Black person in South Africa"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1939716936646169035)  2025-06-30T16:05Z 54.3K followers, 24.9K engagements


"In this clip Nat Nakasa speaks about the Transkei"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1939732733498130753)  2025-06-30T17:08Z 56.1K followers, 21.8K engagements


"Job Maseko (1922-1952) was a South African soldier during World War II who served in the Native Military Corps. He was one of many Allied troops captured by the Axis in the surrender of the Port of Tobruk in [----]. He gained fame for sinking a German vessel with a milk can"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1939943427728162968)  2025-07-01T07:05Z 61.4K followers, 148.8K engagements


"Nelson "Teenage" Dladla with his wife Sarah Radebe (Dladla) during their wedding at Kwa-Thema Springs in 1983"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1939992624863056087)  2025-07-01T10:20Z 55.9K followers, 149.6K engagements


"Dr Mary Malahlela-Xakana (1916-1986) was the first Black South African woman to register as a medical doctor in South Africa and the first to graduate from the University of the Witwatersrand"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1940029448067150059)  2025-07-01T12:47Z 58.3K followers, 143.1K engagements


"Miriam Makeba Johannesburg [----] by Bob Gosani"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1940038498888847466)  2025-07-01T13:23Z 55K followers, 25.8K engagements


"The first ever recording of 'Nkosi Sikelel iAfrica' sung by Sol T Plaatje October [----] while he was in London. Plaatje was accompanied by Sylvia Colenso on the Piano"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1940083385856151959)  2025-07-01T16:21Z 61.9K followers, 65.3K engagements


"Nozipho Mabel Mafuya (1934-2002) was a South African actress & singer. A famous singer in the 50's & 60s Mafuya launched her career in [----] with Troubadour. She toured Britain with King Kong the musical until [----]. She starred in many local & international productions"  
[X Link](https://x.com/HistorySAZAR/status/1940108539084829066)  2025-07-01T18:01Z 58.1K followers, 75.8K engagements

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