1904 Olympic marathon participants Len Tau (left) and Jan Mashiani of South Africa.
Missouri History Museum
Jan Mashiani and Len Tau apparently found themselves in the US in 1904 as part of a world’s fair displaying ‘savages’.
Eugen Sandow stopped in South Africa on a world tour.
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Eugen Sandow’s visit to South Africa in 1904 was a triumph of colonial display and racism. Despite its prejudices it influenced the development of bodybuilding in South Africa.
King Charles III And Queen Camilla on their coronation day.
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Activists view their moral case for the return of the diamonds as unanswerable, but it runs up against many complications.
Members of the Ossewabrandwag on parade during WWII. The then political opposition collaborated with the Germans.
OB Photo Collection/Records, Archives and Museum Division, North-West University
Following the war, the South African authorities were anxious to charge known war criminals, traitors and collaborators. But nothing came of it.
The main painted panel with names. It was this panel that led us to finding the authors and adding to their story.
Tim Forssman
Stories like the kind stored in this place, known as Telperion Shelter, provide history to a landscape and people.
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Art and visual culture played a significant role in building a unified Afrikaner nationalism that allowed apartheid to thrive. A new book unpacks the issue.
One of the Boer concentration camps.
Photographical Collection Anglo-Boer War Museum, Bloemfontein SA
A British Conservative MP has brought concentration camps during the South African War back into the spotlight.
Celebrations after court rules that the personal use of dagga is not a criminal offence.
Kim Ludbrook/EPA
Court ruling may well undo decades of often racist cannabis law enforcement.