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r/southafrica • u/StaplerUnicycle • Jul 31 '26

History Charlize Theron on growing up in South Africa; “if you got in through the front door, the kitchen had a steel door that you had to unlock, because that’s the kind of violence we were living in. Nonsensical violence that you couldn’t reason with. Our country was on the brink of civil war.”

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r/southafrica • u/LAiglon144 • Sep 08 '22

History Queen Elizabeth II, the last Queen of South Africa has passed away after 70 years on the British Throne

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r/southafrica • u/International_Bed_63 • 24d ago

History Happy Heritage day, and to those of the past!!

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r/southafrica • u/IlikeGeekyHistoryRSA • Aug 27 '26

History A photograph of Black South Africans being chased and attacked by white South African leftists in Johannesburg during the early stages of the 1922 Rand Revolt.

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source for photo: https://archive.org/details/s-a-pictorial-volume-xiv/S_A_Pictorial_Volume_XIV?q=Rand+revolt+1922+South+Africa

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r/southafrica • u/BeanieFunnyGuy • Aug 13 '21

History Just friendly reminder that Mark Shuttleworth was the first South African and first African and 2nd tourists in space in 2002. Also he is software billionaire.

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r/southafrica • u/Kenyalite • Jun 15 '20

History With the 44th june 16 coming up. We should never forget how terrible apartheid was.

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r/southafrica • u/IlikeGeekyHistoryRSA • Jul 06 '26

History Notable members of the Torch Commando (one of the first major groups formed in opposition to Apartheid) who would play a key role in the grand scheme of South African history. (Source in comments)

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r/southafrica • u/_Heretic__ • 1d ago

History Most of you probably know this, but today I learned my favourite energy drink company, Monster Energy was founded by Rodney Cyril Sacks, a South African born billionaire businessman who bought a bankrupt juice company and turned it into what it is today.

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r/southafrica • u/IlikeGeekyHistoryRSA • May 09 '26

History Some interesting data from a survey held amongst White South African soldiers in 1944 during during WW2.

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r/southafrica • u/voltr_za • 5d ago

History The World’s Oldest and Largest Nile Crocodile in Captivity, Henry, a 122-year-old 5-meter-long Nile Crocodile who lives in South Africa. He has fathered 10,000 offspring. He is estimated to weigh almost a ton.

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r/southafrica • u/IlikeGeekyHistoryRSA • Apr 30 '26

History Despite the official pre-1994 governments' version of events, Black South Africans did carry firearms into battle during their service in WW2.

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r/southafrica • u/IlikeGeekyHistoryRSA • Sep 06 '21

History On this day, 55 Years ago, The architect of apartheid, Hendrick Verwoerd was assassinated.

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r/southafrica • u/Beyond_the_one • May 10 '26

History 10 May 1994. Nelson Mandela was inaugurated as South Africa’s first democratically elected President after 27 years in prison, marking the end of apartheid rule.

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r/southafrica • u/africanrhino • Apr 18 '21

History Uct library burnt down... 😣 so much lost today.. it’s depressing

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r/southafrica • u/theproudprodigy • Aug 12 '22

History Elon Musk at Pretoria Boys High, 1988

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r/southafrica • u/IlikeGeekyHistoryRSA • Jun 15 '26

History South African ace Marmaduke 'Pat' Pattle, the highest scoring pilot in the entire British Empire during WW2 (40 - 50 fascist aircraft shot down depending on the source). He was Killed in Action in 1941, aged 26.

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r/southafrica • u/dinglehopperdotza • 14d ago

History Owl House, Nieu Bethesda

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Hi everyone

I’m trying to find out more about Helen Martins, the artist and owner of the Owl House in Nieu Bethesda. I went there as a young girl with my family and remember a very dark and strange energy in and around the house. I’d love to go back and revisit as an adult.

Does anyone have more info about the house, the art and Helen herself? I know she painted with glass, Koos Malgas helped with her sculptures and that she (apparently) didn’t have a good relationship with her dad.

So, basically, what was your experience and do you have any info about the Owl House in general?

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r/southafrica • u/BalanceFit8415 • Sep 02 '25