The name Modjadji or Rain Queen refers to a line of queens of the Balobedu (Limpopo province, South Africa) known for their ability to control clouds and rainfall. The origin of the first Rain Queen is shrouded in mystery, but all accounts agree that she is a direct descendent of an old chief from the Karanga kingdom of Monomotapa (southeastern Zimbabwe).
Oliewenhuis Art Museum is giving honour to the life and work of an incredible artist,Karin Jaroszynska (1934-2014). Oliewenhuis holds 20 artworks of Jaroszynska in its permanent collection.Most of the works, including the Helsinki-series,were part of a generous donation by the art collector and philanthropist FernandF. Haenggi to Oliewenhuis in 2006; the remainder were purchased by Oliewenhuis. Her work- surrealist, playful and somewhat mysterious- shows Jaroszynska’s extraordinary talent and artistic integrity.
Today, 36 years, ago the United Democratic Front, the largest anti-apartheid formation since the banning of the political organisations in the 1960s was established in the Rocklands Civic Centre in Mitchell’s Plain, Cape Town.
South Africa celebrates Women’s Month annually in August and pays tribute to the more than 20 000 women who marched to the Union Buildings on 9 August 1956. The women marched in order to protest against the extension of Pass Laws to women. The Pass Laws represented a system which was intended to control women even further and reduce women to passive beings, at the mercy of men.
National Museum CEO, Sharon Snell, visits ongoing archaeological excavations and fieldwork along the Modder River near Bloemfontein.
This fieldwork project is a collaborative effort including Dr. Michael Toffolo, Junior Research Chair at the Research Institute on Archaeological Materials at Université Bordeaux Montaigne, France; Dr. Britt Bousman, Professor at the Department of Anthropology at Texas State University, USA; Dr. Christopher Miller, Professor at the Institute for Archaeological Science at