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ArchiveIndia’s African Sufis - Demystified! by Blanche Michael
From the hypnotic effects of the circular motions of the spiritual dancing of whirling dervishes to the mesmerising qawwali [1]performances…
ArchiveDavid Goldblatt Revisits "On the Mines" by Jeffrey Ladd, 5 December 2012
As the German publisher Gerhard Steidl prepares a series of books on the life work of David Goldblatt, Jeffrey Ladd spoke with the South…
ArchiveReflections on life in a rearview mirror by Jo Ractliffe, 27 Jun 2011
David Goldblatt celebrated his 80th birthday in November last year. He tells fellow photographer Jo Ractliffe about his journey. I’d like…
ArchiveDavid Goldblatt on Ranjith Kally's 'Memory Against Forgetting', by Ranjith Kally with Kalim Rajab, 30 January 2015
Until the photographer Ranjith Kally held his first exhibition at the Goodman Gallery in Jo’burg in 2004, I knew hardly anything about the…
ArchiveDavid Goldblatt's landscapes of high voltage by Melvyn Minnaar, 21 November 2014
A restless sense of documentation drives David Goldblatt. Like those earliest colonial adventurer-explorer-writers of Southern Africa, wide…
ArchiveGoldblatt: I'm after a particular sense of stillness by Ivan Vladislavic, 27 September 2013
Vladislavic: What work are you showing at the Art Fair?Goldblatt: I've chosen 30 pictures, both old and new. It's a rather disparate…
ArchiveProcedure for voting by secret ballot in National Assembly, 8 August 2017
Today at 14h00 Parliament hosts sitting on the voting on the motion of no confidence in the President. Here is the Procedure for Voting by…
ArchiveSecret Histories | South African Photographer David Goldblatt Reveals the Effects of Apartheid on His Native Land by Miss Rosen, 29 September 2016
South African photographer David Goldblatt (b. 1930) describes himself as “a self-appointed observer and critic into the society in which I…
O. R. Tambo Speeches, Articles and Letters edited by E. S. Reddy
Kora Sound Bites Part 1
Part 1 of 2 This node contains the sound files from afraidkora1123.wav to numtwokora1057.wav afraidkora1123
ArticlePhotographer Ernest Cole: Of bondage and freedom – Discovery of trove of negatives a game changer by Ivor Powell (Daily Maverick), 30 November 2017
By the age of 25, when Ernest Cole fled South Africa for exile in New York, he had already cut the template for the way the experience of…
Theses and DissertationsOral History by Yuxi Wang
Tweeting Fees Must Fall
A social media representation of the Fees Must Fall Protest
JournalAzania worker- Vol. 2 No.3, May 1986
Official Document - Conference PaperThe Necessity of Non-Racism_Doctor Yusuf Dadoo Today by Professor Ari Sitas
We are living through a race-obsessed period in a race-obsessed country. This obsession comes out in everyday conversations and permeates…
ArchiveThe Creation of the iRhini Homeland By Sinethemba Yame
Theses and DissertationsClass Consciousness and Migrant Workers by David Hemson (University of Warwick)
New introduction to thesis 2019 by David Hemson Hemson, David (1979) Class consciousness and migrant workers: dock workers of Durban. PhD…
The quest for appropriate representation
"The quest for appropriate representation" by Andries Walter Oliphant was originally published in VryeWeekblad. In this two page spread…
Forging Freedom: Landmarks in A Century of Struggle 1906 - 2006
First Conference Centre of Documentary Photography 8-10 July 1988.
Photograph of participants of the first conference hosted by the University of Cape Town's Centre for Documentary Photography, July 8th …
Culture and Resistance - Cynthia Kross
This article by Cynthia Kross was published in 1982 in the South African magazine Staffrider. (Vol. 5.2) The articles describes the recent…
Bringing The Struggle Into Focus
"Bringing the struggle into focus" by Peter McKenzie was also published in the 1982 Staffrider. (Vol. 5.2) and addresses the idea of …
Letter to Farzanah
Omar Badsha's first book of photographs, Letter to Farzanah was published in 1979 in commemoration of the United Nations declared…
Imijondolo
Published in 1985, Imijondolo, (the isi Zulu word for a shack or informal housing), is Omar Badsha's second book of photographs. Badsha's…
Ten Years of Staffrider poster
Poster advertising' 10 Years of Staffrider Magazine event. October 1988
They’re Burning the Churches
Author: Patrick Noonan Published: Jacana Media Price: R165.00 - including VAT Orders can be E-mailed to [email protected] or to mpho…
Celebrating 50 years of the Freedom Charter - June 26 1955-June 26 2005
All rights reserved. You may copy material from this publication for use in non-profit education programmes if you acknowledge the source…
Men of Dynamite
I Remember: Reminiscences of the Struggle for Liberation and the Role of Indian South Africans, 1924 - 1958 by I. C. Meer
Sidney Percival Bunting by Edward Roux
ArchiveReggie Vandeyar: Portrait of a Revolutionary by Ismail Vadi
Reggie Vandeyar Portrait of a Revolutionary by Ismail Vadi is part of the South African History Online Lives of Courage Series
ArchiveHelping Budding Cameramen
This article features the work of Cecil Sols in Soweto, circa 1980s.
Interview with Omar Badsha by Marian Nur Goni
An email interview with Omar Badsha in 2009 conducted by Marian Nur Goni for a masters theses. Afrapix: Some Questions Email interview…
ArchiveAfrapix flyer
A flyer distributed to raise awareness about the Afrapix collective. Circa mid – 1980s.
The African Element in Gandhi by Anil Nauriya
Many books have been written on Gandhi’s twenty-one years in South Africa, the birth of Satyagraha and the transformation of Gandhi from a…
Notes on the Life of Ernest Cole 1940–1990 by Gunilla Knape
This book and exhibition are an attempt to construct a clear picture of Ernest Cole, a complex man whose work is little known, especially…
An archive of documents on Ahmed Timol
Politics in My Blood by Kader Asmal
Two chapters from the book Kader Asmal: Politics in My Blood
Peace Treaty of Vereeniging - original document
Click here for the Peace Treaty of Vereeniging transcript.
Article on SAHO in the Tatler newspaper - 8 December 2011
The ambiguities of dependence in South Africa
"The ambiguities of dependence in South Africa: Class, nationalism, and the state in twentieth-century Natal" by Shula Marks, 1986
ArchiveThe All-African Convention: The Awakening of The People by I.B. Tabata
When The Awakening of A People was first published in 1950, it was intended for the clarification of the real issues facing the Black…
King Kong a venture in the theatre
This is the story of an inter-racial venture in South Africa. Many hundreds of white people and Africans in the Union’s four largest cities…
List of documents pertaining to Deputy Chief Justice Dikgang Moseneke
Book chapterTime for Azania by Robert Sobukwe, 1976
Sobukwe giving the opening speech of the Inaugural Convention of Africanists in April, 1959. His message was a call for African unity and…
Gandhiji’s vision of a free South Africa: A collection of articles by E.S. Reddy
"If we look into the future [of South Africa], is it not a heritage we have to leave to posterity, that all the different races commingle…
Gandhi and South Africa: 1914-1948 by E.S. Reddy and Gopalkrishna Gandhi
Reminiscences of The International Campaign Against Apartheid - with special reference to The United Nations by E.S. Reddy
ArticleWomen in the ANC-led underground by Raymond Suttner
The involvement of women in liberation struggle tends to attract controversy. This relates mainly to the extent and character of women's…