South Africa
Facts, researched articles, and events related to South Africa, drawn from the Provenance Africa archive.
Researched Articles
- South Africa's Secret Nuclear Arsenal and Its Voluntary Dismantlement (Article)
- Tsietsi Mashinini and the June 16, 1976 Soweto Uprising (Article)
- Operation Savannah: South Africa's 1975 Push Toward Luanda, and Cuba's Response (Article)
- Indlamu: The Zulu War Dance's Real, More Complicated History (Article)
- Winnie Mandela's Defiance of Her 1985 Banning Order (Article)
- Macmillan's 'Wind of Change' Speech and Settler Backlash in Kenya (Article)
- Robert F. Kennedy's 1966 Tour of South Africa and Tanzania (Article)
- Jeremy Corbyn's 1984 Arrest at an Anti-Apartheid Protest in London (Article)
- The Battle of Isandlwana, 1879: The Zulu Kingdom's Victory Over the British (Article)
- Air Peace's Free Flights Home During South Africa's 2019 Xenophobic Attacks (Article)
- Solomon Mahlangu's Execution and the Global Clemency Campaign (Article)
- The African Boycott of the 1976 Montreal Olympics (Article)
- Oliver Tambo's Escape Into Exile, 1960 (Article)
- The Rivonia Trial: Winnie Mandela, Israel's Quiet Objection, and a Life Sentence (Article)
- The Sharpeville Massacre, March 21, 1960 (Article)
- Steve Biko's Own Testimony, and the Death Still Under Investigation (Article)
- Chris Hani: The Assassination That Nearly Broke South Africa's Transition (Article)
- The Dingane-Retief Treaty and the Killing of the Voortrekker Delegation (Article)
- Desmond Tutu's 1984 Nobel Peace Prize (Article)
- The 2021 Omicron Travel Bans on Southern Africa (Article)
- Trump's Fabricated 'White Genocide' Ambush of Ramaphosa in the Oval Office (Article)
- Did Human Language Begin in Southern Africa? A Contested 2011 Study (Article)
- Adam's Calendar: A 400-Year-Old Cattle Enclosure Marketed as a 200,000-Year-Old Metropolis (Article)
- How a Web-Popularity Ranking Became Africa's Go-To University List (Article)
- The British MP Who Called Nelson Mandela's BBC Tribute 'Misplaced' (Article)
- The Balobedu Rain Queen: South Africa's Only Hereditary Female Monarchy (Article)
- The 71,000-Year-Old Projectile Technology of Pinnacle Point (Article)
- Sibusiso Vilane: The First Black African to Conquer the Seven Summits and Three Poles (Article)
- Where Africa's Millionaires Lived in 2012: Johannesburg, Cairo, and Lagos (Article)
- Why Durban's Airport Carries the Zulu King's Name (Article)
- Nelson Mandela's Death and the Wave of Global Mourning That Followed (Article)
- Miriam Makeba's 1966 Grammy: A Protest Album Disguised as a Folk Record (Article)
- Mandla Maseko: The 'First Black African in Space' Who Never Flew (Article)
- How Durban Overcame a Killer Sandbar to Become Southern Africa's Busiest Port (Article)
- Gandhi's Record on Race During His Years in South Africa (Article)
- The Carlton Centre Was Africa's Tallest Building for 46 Years (Article)
- Nigeria Recalculated Its Way to 'Africa's Largest Economy' in 2014 (Article)
- Kruger National Park: Roughly the Size of New Jersey, Built From Two Colonial-Era Reserves (Article)
- The Lydenburg Heads: Southern Africa's Oldest Known Sculpture (Article)
- Nelson Mandela's 1962 Arrest — and the Disputed CIA Tip-Off Claim (Article)
- Shaka and the Founding of the Zulu Kingdom (Article)
- Steve Biko and the Death That Shook Apartheid South Africa (Article)
- A 2017 Study Found More Than 10,000 Chinese Firms Operating in Africa (Article)
- Bishop Ambrose Reeves: Secretly Deported for Opposing Apartheid (Article)
- Keorapetse Kgositsile: Poet, ANC Exile, and National Poet Laureate (Article)
- The Death of Hugh Masekela, 'Father of South African Jazz' (Article)
- Nelson Mandela Walks Free: February 11, 1990 (Article)
- Zuma's Fall and Ramaphosa's Rise: South Africa's 2018 Transition (Article)
- The Volkstaat Debate: The Push for a Separate Afrikaner Homeland (Article)
- Winnie Madikizela-Mandela: Activist, Icon, and Contested Figure (Article)
- The Death of the Prince Imperial in the Anglo-Zulu War, 1879 (Article)
- The Zulu Kingdom: The Smallest Empire on This List, and the Most Famous (Article)
From the Archive
- The Iran nuclear capabilities has taken centre stage recently with the Israel-Iran War, but do you know tha…
- Former Zambian President Edgar Lungu will be buried in South Africa instead of Zambia, due to a family disp…
- Highest-Paid African Presidents (as at 01/01/2025) 1. Paul Biya - Cameroon 🇨🇲 Monthly Salary: $51,748 Ann…
- South Africa is the only country on the African continent to have legalized weed for personal and recreatio…
- Snow in South Africa....
- DJ Khalid and the Roc Nation welcoming South Africa's champions who have dominated the league for the 8th t…
- Burial ceremony of the late, great intellectual, Steve Biko, on the 25th September 1977 in Ginsberg, South…
- The Steve Biko Building at the University of Manchester, named after the late, great South African anti-apa…
- Is there "White genocide" in South Africa?
- Trump's "evidence" of white South African genocide was completely fabricated. Images he showed President Ra…
- Julius Malema took President Ramaphosa of South Africa to the cleaners recently for cowering to Elon Musk a…
- Between April 2024 and April 2025, teenage pregnancies were recorded amongst 154 girls aged between 10 and…
- Muhsin Hendricks was shot dead in Gqeberha, South Africa, as he left to officiate an interfaith wedding. Tw… (2025)
- Athol Fugard, South African playwright who chronicled apartheid and its aftermath in works like 'Master Har… (2025)
- South African actress Connie Chiume, known internationally for her role as a tribal elder in "Black Panther… (2024)
- South Africa held a general election in which the African National Congress lost its parliamentary majority… (2024)
- South Africa's Springboks defeated New Zealand 12-11 in the Rugby World Cup final, winning a record fourth… (2023)
- South Africa filed a genocide case against Israel at the International Court of Justice over its conduct in… (2023)
- Kiernan Forbes, the South African rapper known as AKA, was shot dead outside a restaurant on Florida Road i… (2023)
- BREAKING: The great Desmond Tutu, former Bishop of Johannesburg and Archbishop of Cape Town; South African…
- BREAKING: The United States has joined Canada, the UK, many European countries and some Asian countries in…
- In 1970, pressured South Africa's apartheid regime allowed for the first time, a black representative to th…
- BREAKING: F.W. de Klerk, former president of South Africa who yielded power to black majority rule has died…
- Lest we forget, the late, great South African reggae legend, Lucky Dube was fatally shot in Rosettenville,…
- Former President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki dishing hard truths we need to admit as Africans. Watch.
- How the process to buy a gun in South Africa compares to same in some other countries... (NYT)
- Here are the hotspots for African venture capital investment, with Nigeria ($307 million), Kenya ($305 mill…
- Top 10 causes of death in South Africa as at 2019. (IHME)
- BREAKING: Jacob Zuma, former President of South Africa has been sentenced to 15 months in jail for "egregio…
- The city of Johannesburg, South Africa, in the 1930s, 1960s, 1974, and 2017.
- According to the UN-sponsored World Happiness Report 2021, here are the 10 happiest countries in Africa: 1.…
- Happy independence to our Namibian brothers and sisters! On 21 March 1990, Namibia secured its independence…
- Speaking of great kings, here's the story of one of Africa's greatest leaders, Basotho nation and Lesotho's…
- BREAKING: legendary South African actor, Menzi Ngubane, particularly renowned for his role as Sibusiso Dlom…
- BREAKING: Patrice Motsepe, the South African billionaire, has been elected new President of the Confederati…
- President Emmerson Mnangagwa of Zimbabwe, then Minister of State Security, talks about imposing sanctions o…
- Good morning Africa, as we start our day with a tribute to The Queen of African Pop, South African singer,…
- On 19th May, 1986, the South African apartheid Government breached territorial sovereignty and conducted ai…
- BREAKING—South Africa has stopped the use of the AstraZeneca-Oxford COVID19 vaccine, as it couldn't protect…
- Here's Wauter "Dr Death" Basson, the all-powerful leader of Project Coast, a chemical/bio weapons programme…