Explore our collections by historical period
10000 BCE - 1651
San and Khoi peoples, early Iron Age settlements, and African kingdoms before European contact...
1652 - 1795
Dutch East India Company settlement at the Cape, expansion and conflicts...
1795 - 1910
British rule, the Great Trek, mineral discoveries, and Anglo-Boer Wars...
1910 - 1948
Formation of the Union, World Wars, and early segregation policies...
1948 - 1994
Formal apartheid, resistance movements, and the struggle for democracy...
1994 - Present
Post-apartheid South Africa, reconciliation, and nation building...
