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The inventor of television and South Africa

South Africa’s first television broadcast was on 05 January 1976 at 18:00, with five hours of broadcasting. In her apartment in Yeoville, Johannesburg, Mrs Margaret BAIRD was trying to watch – more than 60 years after her husband invented television. Read more…


THE HISTORY BEHIND THE SARIE MARAIS FOLK SONG

“Sarie Marais’ is a traditional South African folk song, created during the Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902). In 1901 or 1902, in a farmhouse near Vryheid or Utrecht, soldiers of General Louis BOTHA’s commando gathered around a piano. The piano player was Read more…