Academics debate how to represent and teach the nation’s pastThe old South African history books once told tales of valiant Dutch ALSO SEE: South African History: 2 Views settlers who trekked to ...

If this history book runs to a second edition in a decade’s time (as Eric Walker’s did) we will await with interest any revision of its conclusions, which are that South Africa is on a ...

Object Details Maker Gavin Jantjes, born 1948, South Africa Label Text A critical work in the history of contemporary art is "A South African Colouring Book," a suite of eleven prints plus cover ...

Returning to South Africa, he played a major role in identifying coastal diamond deposits, as well as platinum, and phosphates. Platinum group minerals have outstripped gold in their value.

Alec Russell is author of the book Bring Me My Machine Gun: The Battle for the Soul of South Africa from Mandela to Zuma. Russel talks with Renee Montagne about Zuma, who is the charismatic leader ...

In effect lifting a veritable veil of silence. The final stanza of the book looks at the fate of both groups in the ensuing decades since South Africa’s became a full democracy in 1994.

Artwork of Nelson Mandela and other South African freedom icons is displayed in Johannesburg's Soweto township in 2013. Eve Fairbanks tells the stories of ordinary South Africans to paint a ...

Those who walk through the threshold of this minefield use the material to churn out books and academic papers while the local, who virtually lives on the doorstep of Wits, is occupied elsewhere.

During the segregation policy’s early days, it had few opponents in government, but there was a lone female who spoke against it, making her mark on the South African history books.