r/southafrica • u/BeanieFunnyGuy • 19d ago
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.
galleryr/southafrica • u/Make_the_music_stop • 3d ago
History When R9 would ensure you got a colour TV. Those B&W TV’s were just the worst!
r/southafrica • u/IlikeGeekyHistoryRSA • 9d ago
History SADF member stands guard at an election booth 27 April 1994, a group of newly enfranchised South Africans wait to vote.
r/southafrica • u/Mulitpotentialite • 10d ago
History TIL that since its inception in 1961 until late 1971, one rand was worth $1.40. On 15 March 1982, the dollar became stronger than the rand for the first time.
r/southafrica • u/MartinSosig • 3d ago
History Old SA notes.Anyone know what year or decade these are from ? 1960’s would be the earliest.
galleryr/southafrica • u/Make_the_music_stop • Jul 26 '21
History Durban beach front. Around 1930.
r/southafrica • u/IlikeGeekyHistoryRSA • 10d ago
History SADF member escorts a 1994 general election ballot box due to threats from the AWB.
r/southafrica • u/Vektor2000 • 12d ago
History Recce operators during the Angolan War, 1980's. Andre Diedericks, Vic Victorino, Menno Uys and Jose da Costa. [1024x765]
r/southafrica • u/du-one • Jul 06 '21
History How sad that this great vision lies in the ground with the man. Corruption has reached astronomical new heights under the ANC.
r/southafrica • u/FuckYourPoachedEggs • 25d ago
History Did the South African Army just not speak English during the apartheid era?
r/southafrica • u/IlikeGeekyHistoryRSA • 11d ago
History Armed SADF Soldier guards an election booth behind razor wire in downtown Johannesburg, a newly enfranchised South African points the way to the booth
r/southafrica • u/lostinLspace • Jul 26 '21
History Found this on european thread... Everyone of course saying it is in Dutch...
r/southafrica • u/Tame_Trex • 9d ago
History Went driving around this weekend and found this random memorial to the Whisky Train incident.
imgur.comr/southafrica • u/IlikeGeekyHistoryRSA • 8d ago
History The First ‘all race’ Voluntary Military Service (VMS) intake. A member of 15 RCD points the new recruits to a processing hall at NASREC ,Johannesburg, 1994.
r/southafrica • u/IlikeGeekyHistoryRSA • Jul 02 '21
History Two Pictures of the Anti Apartheid Group, Torch Commando, Protesting the Apartheid government sometime during the 1950s.
galleryr/southafrica • u/IlikeGeekyHistoryRSA • Jul 16 '21
History SADF members round up looters in Mafikeng during the attempted BDF uprising in 1994 and bring peace to the streets.
r/southafrica • u/majordennisbloodnok • 9d ago
History A South African on Hammersmith Bridge
r/southafrica • u/ScootsM • Jul 22 '21
History The badge of the Civil Corporation Bureau. A death squad during the apartheid days who carried out many killings and atrocities from 1988-1992.
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.
r/southafrica • u/shaunkleyn • 4d ago
History History of Pinelands Office Park, Modderfontein, Gauteng
r/southafrica • u/IlikeGeekyHistoryRSA • Jul 01 '21
History WW2 Fighter Ace and early Anti Apartheid Activist Adolph Gysbert Malan or "Sailor Malan"
r/southafrica • u/Make_the_music_stop • 19d ago
History South Africa leaves The Commonwealth. How this was reported in UK cinemas in 1961 (British Pathé - 3 minutes)
youtube.comr/southafrica • u/Vektor2000 • 7d ago
History A guerilla band composed of American Rangers, South Africans, Russians and Poles behind the German lines, Campagnatico area, 21 June, 1944 [750x547]
r/southafrica • u/Vektor2000 • Jun 20 '21
History Len Taunyane and Jan Mashiani (both Tswana), the first South Africans to participate at the Olympic Games. They travelled to the USA in 1904. Both were prisoners during the Boer War.
r/southafrica • u/amzosingh • Jul 24 '21
History Big winter freeze smashes 19 chilly temperature records in South Africa
