A selection of images from Athol Fugard’s life and plays.

Get a closer view of the memorial to Athol Fugard in Port Elizabeth’s St George’s Park

Spotlight on a reluctant hero: Basil D’Oliveira in action on the field and in top hat and tails at Buckingham Palace.

More images of Bessie's memorial artwork erected at Werda Hoerskool in Hillary, Durban.

'Life in pictures' - these images range from when she was a young journalist to when she was at Serowe, Botswana.

A selection of images of Orlando Pirates players and their huge fan base

See Sam Nhlengethwa’s memorial outside the Mokgosinyana family home in Orlando, Soweto.

MaBrrr channels Madonna and other great divas.

Watch the Brenda sculpture develop from clay mould to glowing likeness of the queen of African pop.

Posters for the "people’s own candidate" and photos from the very public life of Cissie Gool.

Capetonians at play on the inscribed bollards that commemorate the "Jewel of District Six" .

A collection of images of the building and the people detained at John Vorster Square.

A selection of images of Nokwe’s life before he fled South Africa to escape the threat posed by the apartheid authorities.

Nokwe’s widow, Tiny, and George Bizos reunite at the memorial outside the Johannesburg High Court.

A selection of photographs of the Bulhoek Massacre, courtesy of Museum Africa.

Photographs of the memorial and Church of God and Saints of Christ congregants, taken at an unveiling ceremony.

See Pemba painting at an easel in his garden, and what the memorial in front of his house looks like.

Images of some of the golden moments in Mgxaji’s life and career.

See more pictures of our memorial to boxing hero Happyboy Mgxaji at Sisa Dukashe Stadium.

A selection of images from Ingrid Jonker’s short life.

Photographs of the memorial to Ingrid Jonker near the beach at Gordon’s Bay.

Images from the public and private lives of Lilian Ngoyi.

Friends and relatives of Lilian Ngoyi gather for the unveiling of Stephen Maqashela’s artwork.

Images of the men who created Mannenberg.

Check out the “sound” memorial marking the recording of Abdullah Ibrahim’s famous anthem, Mannenberg.

Gandhi’s transformation from dapper young lawyer to sage in sandals.

A selection of images from Nontetha Nkwenkwe’s life and of the memorial to the prophetess outside the King William’s Town magistrate’s court.

Images from Olive Schreiner’s life.

Take a closer look at the Heritage Project memorial to a lesser-known part of Olive Schreiner’s life.

A selection of images of race classification’s victims, enforcers and signs.

Roderick Sauls’s installation is a stark reminder of how brutal human beings can be to one another.

Images from the long life and career of Raymond Dart

Images from Raymond Mhlaba’s life and of the Heritage Project’s memorial to his role in the 1952 defiance campaign.

A small collection of images of Reverend Wauchope and the men who died with him in the SS Mendi disaster.

Crowds and crashes abound in our collection of images of Van Ryneveld and Brand’s 1920 flying feat.

Get closer to Strijdom van der Merwe’s memorial to the first flight from England to South Africa.

Very few photographs of the Purple March survived the police crackdown on the media at the demonstration.

A selection of images of the Heritage Project’s memorial to the Purple Shall Govern march.

Images from the short life of Tsietsi Mashinini.

Five views of the Tsietsi Mashinini memorial

Take a 360° tour of the memorial site on Campground Road in Newlands, Cape Town.

Go on a 360° virtual tour of the Brenda Fassie memorial, located at Bassline, in the Newtown precinct of Johannesburg.

Zoom in on this 360° people-friendly memorial situated on Longmarket Street Pedestrian Mall near parliament.

A 360º view of the memorial erected at Johannesburg Central Police Station.

Take an illuminating 360° degree tour of the Nokwe memorial outside the Johannesburg High Court on Pritchard Street.

A 360° view of the sculpture on Beach Road in Gordon's Bay.

Take a 360° tour of the artwork at Ngoyi's home on Nkungu Street, Soweto.

A 360º view of the memorial on Bloem Street, Cape Town.

Take a 360° tour of the memorial outside the Hamidia Mosque on Jennings Street, Fordsburg, Johannesburg.

A 360° tour of the memorial at the High Court Annex, Queen Victoria Street, Cape Town.

360° virtual tour of the memorial at the corner of Burg and Church Streets, Cape Town.

Take a 360º tour of Mashinini's memorial opposite his former high school on Mputhi Street, Soweto.

The formation of Orlando Pirates in the late 1930s was the defining moment in the growth of mass support for soccer in SA. This documentary explains why.

Listen to SAfm/Metro FM’s obituary of Brenda, broadcast on May 10, 2004 (5’42").

Hear how Gool both served and scandalised Cape Town’s Muslim community.

Listen to former detainees at John Vorster Square speak about their experiences at the hands of the apartheid security police.

A young, up-and-coming boxer, Malibongwe Thokwe, talks about how he still draws on Mgxaji’s legacy for inspiration every time he steps into the ring

Ingrid Jonker reads one of her poems for a 1965 Springbok radio recording. In Afrikaans.

Listen to Ingrid Jonker’s biographer, Petrovna Metelerkamp, and other friends talk about Ingrid’s life.

A gripping documentary on Lilian Ngoyi’s life and times.

Listen to Abdullah Ibrahim and others reminisce about what gave rise to their famous tune.

Listen to stories of the heartbreak caused by apartheid’s race classification laws.

An extract from a Springbok Radio interview with Raymond Dart, broadcast in February 1969

Family, friends and colleagues talk about Raymond Mhlaba and why he is regarded as one of the unsung heroes of the Eastern Cape

Listen to accounts of the Purple March by people who were there, including Philip Ivey, the young protester who turned the jet of purple dye on the police.

Johannes Phokela discusses the development of his concept for the memorial to Tsietsi Mashinini

Contains extract from the SABC’s coverage of the TRC showing the testimony of Singqokwana Ernest Malgas and Archbishop Tutu’s emotional reaction to it.

Athol Fugard discusses his relationship with Sam Semela, the inspiration behind the protagonist of ’Master Harold’ … and the boys, with Dali Tambo

Features footage of the 1968 England-Australia test, and of BJ Vorster explaining why D’Oliveira could not play in his own country.

Donald Dliwayo, a former chairman of Orlando Pirates, reminisces about the team’s contribution to the liberation struggle.

Madiba describes his surprise when he heard Princess Brenda coming down the stairs in his house

The Sunday Times Heritage Project’s first memorial is to Brenda Fassie, a woman variously described as the Queen of African pop and the Madonna of the Townships

MaBrrr struts her stuff and takes on taxi drivers with her big hit, “Zola Budd”

Four excerpts from ‘She was certainly not a Rosa Luxemburg,’ by UCT post-graduate student G. Paleker

Part 2 focuses on Gool as a student and her marriage.

In Part 3, Gool’s sister-in-law describes listening to her speak at a political event in the Drill Hall

Gool’s death and funeral brought thousands of mourners onto the streets

Spend some time watching footage of our memorial to Gool, and hear what Cape Town’s residents think of it and the woman it commemorates

An extract from an interactive DVD on John Vorster Square: listen to former detainee Barbara Hogan speak about the horror of being locked up in apartheid’s most notorious police station

Watch interviews with former detainees and an ex-security policeman in this extract from an interactive DVD on John Vorster Square

Extract from a documentary on the Bulhoek Massacre, focusing on the controversy over the number of casualties

In the decades since the Massacre, the church has grown in strength, and today has chapters throughout Eastern Cape

A short extract from the 1995 documentary, George Pemba: Painter of the People, which shows Pemba at work

Happyboy Mgxaji fought his first fight in May 1969 and went on to win 88 in total. Watch this rare footage of the bout between him and Puerto Rican boxing legend Samuel Serrano

In his inaugural address to Parliament in May 1994, President Nelson Mandela read Ingrid Jonker’s poem, "The Child"

Part 1: Basil “Mannenberg” Coetzee explains why they named the song after a Cape Town township, and how it became an anthem of the struggle against apartheid

Part 2 of a 1998 SABC3 documentary on Basil “Manenberg” Coetzee

SABC2’s Curious Culture magazine programme goes to Cape Town to report on the Mannenberg memorial

SABC2’s Weekend Live programme reports on the launch of the memorial to Mannenberg

In 1935, the prophetess Nontetha Nkwenkwe died at Weskoppies mental hospital where she had been incarcerated for preaching politically incendiary messages in the Eastern Cape. Fifty-three years later, in 1998, after a long search for her grave, she was re

The Sunday Times Heritage Project memorial to the Race Classification Board – one of apartheid’s biggest absurdities – is attracting a lot of attention in Cape Town

In 1924, Raymond Dart discovered proof that humankind began in Africa. SABC’s famous newsreel, African Mirror, reports on this seminal event in its coverage of the 1963 Man in Africa exhibition, which detailed the history of humans, from prehistoric tim

In June 1964, Raymond Mhlaba and seven other icons of the struggle against apartheid were sentenced to life imprisonment on Robben Island. For them the sentence came as a relief — it was much better than the death sentence they were expecting. In this e

In 1952, Raymond Mhlaba launched the famous Defiance Campaign by walking into a whites-only area at the New Brighton train station, knowing that he would be arrested. In this video extract from a documentary by Dali Tambo, Mhlaba and Nelson Mandela remi

In February 1917, hundreds of SA Native Labour Corps members died when the troopship SS Mendi sank in the freezing waters of the English Channel.

In September 1989, during a protest march in Cape Town, police turned a water-cannon filled with purple dye on the demonstrators in an attempt to make it easier to arrest them. But one brave man, Philip Ivey, hijacked one of the cannons and turned the lur