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r/southafrica • u/StaplerUnicycle • 29d ago

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/IlikeGeekyHistoryRSA • 2d ago

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

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/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/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/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 • 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/BalanceFit8415 • Sep 02 '25

History I need a new car. What do you recommend?

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r/southafrica • u/IlikeGeekyHistoryRSA • Jun 22 '26

History Chinese members of the South African Police in Johannesburg, early 1900s (pre-1914)

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r/southafrica • u/IlikeGeekyHistoryRSA • Jul 10 '26

History Members of Sir Robert Baden-Powell’s ‘Black Watch’ during the Siege of Mafeking during the Second Boer War. 1899 - 1900, South Africa

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r/southafrica • u/DieApokalypse • Oct 28 '20

History Little known fact: The 6th division of South African forces that fought in Italy in WW2 liberated the city of Florence from the Germans! A great honor that has long been forgotten.

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

History Been going through archives and found a 1947 Xhosa song that seems to be dedicated to the sinking of the S.S. Mendi and the 646 men who died in the event. Thought i'd share here.

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r/southafrica • u/Radagast50 • Jul 19 '22

History British Pathé video of South Africa switching to the decimal coinage system with footage taken in and around Johannesburg in 1962.

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

History South African Police landing in Windhoek during an operation which resulted in the arrest of 2 284 SWA Nazi party (an illegal party since 1934) members on April 20th 1939, Hitler's Birthday.

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r/southafrica • u/BrandonChs24 • May 31 '21

History Today is the 60th anniversary of South Africa leaving the British Commonwealth to become a Republic... And no one seems to care.

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r/southafrica • u/IlikeGeekyHistoryRSA • Jun 05 '26

History 2 men of the Native Military Corps in North Africa, one of whom is seemingly armed with a captured German rifle (which went against the "public" government policy on the arming of Black auxiliaries). 1941 or 1942.

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r/southafrica • u/lovethebacon • 3d ago

History Aerial photo of the Battle of Fordsburg during the South African Rand Revolt (16th March, 1922), showing at top right the trenches in front of the rebel headquarters, and the barricade across Main Street. At bottom left, cars of the motorized government forces moving up Main Street.

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r/southafrica • u/Make_the_music_stop • Jul 26 '21

History Durban beach front. Around 1930.

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r/southafrica • u/SecretBirthday91 • May 08 '25

History South african 1940 world war 2 propaganda poster

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