SAHO global search
403 records
PlaceRust en Vreugd, Buitenkant Street, Cape Town
The original date of construction of the dwelling has not been definitely established but it is assumed that it was built, in its present form, by Willem…
ArticleGrade 5 - Term 4: A Heritage trail through the provinces of South Africa
What is our heritage?Heritage is what we have inherited from the past.Each of South Africa’s nine provinces is rich in diverse heritage that belongs to all…
Book 5: People, Places and Apartheid - Bibliography
From the book: Book 5: People, Places and Apartheid commissioned by The Department of Education Bank, A., C. Malherbe and P. van der Spuy. People of the…
PlaceDurbanville
The site currently known as Durbanville was originally called: 'Pampoen Kraal'. On 2 September 1836 it was renamed; "D'Urban" in honour of Sir Benjamin D'Urban…
Mines of the beloved country: Through the mind of a photographer and essayist by J Brooks Spector (Daily Maverick), 5 November 2012
Back in the mid-1970s, when the writer was still feeling his way along the dark moral landscape that was South Africa, a South African colleague insisted we…
Links & Partnerships
All of the below links are to websites that SAHO recommends (and uses) for further research about South African History. Please inform us if links are no…
Preface
This study of "protest art" in South Africa for the period 1968 to 1976 presented me with several difficulties of research in relation to decisions regarding…
PlaceDutch Reformed Church, Buitenkant Street, Cape Town
This complex dates from 1892 and includes the church building, Cornelia House, and the William Frederick School. It was built by the Tafelberg Congregation and…
PlaceSharpeville, Gauteng
Sharpeville Township holds many sad memories and is Home to the Memorial at the 'Human Rights Precinct'. Sharpeville is situated +/-14 km from Vereeniging.In…
PlaceSlave Lodge, Cape Colony
28 March 1652, the Dutch Merchantman, the 'Amersfoort', anchored at the Cape with a cargo of 174 Slaves. The Amersfoort's arrival in Table Bay, with Slaves in…
ArchiveApartheid - a vigilant witness
A reflection on photography I intended this book as a documentary to show what life is really like for Africans. The government will probably ban this book…
Artist groups and educational facilities (1960-1980)
Due to the apartheid racial classification systems, many black artists were not allowed to further their education and attend formal learning facilities such…
PlaceNederlandse Hervormde Kerkgebou, Pretoria
The ‘Nederduitsch Hervormde' congregation was founded on 8 and 9 September 1855 in Pretoria. It was one of the independent churches started by the …
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 was born,” in a…
PlaceThe Old Presidency Museum, Bloemfontein
Former Home of past Presidents featuring exhibits on their lives, plus art exhibits & performances. It is now a Military Museum, which can be visited between…
PHOTOGRAPHY REVIEW; Documenting Ordinary Scenes Of South Africa Then and Now by Michael Kimmelman (The New York Times), 24 August 2001
David Goldblatt's photographs have borne witness since the late 1940's to life in his native South Africa. More than 150 of his pictures are in a retrospective…
PlaceThe Space
In 1970 Brian Astbury, a Professional Photographer, was hired to take rehearsal photos of Athol Fugard, Yvonne Bryceland, Val Donal and Wilson Dunster who were…
David Goldblatt: Intersections; Asbestos; Particulars by Sue Williamson, 1 - 25 October 2003
Attempting to impose a working structure on a proposed new series of images which would take the photographer right across the country, David Goldblatt bought…
PlaceDie Nederduitsch Hervormde Kerkgebou in Du Toit Street, Pretoria
The ‘Nederduitsch Hervormde' congregation was founded on 8 and 9 September 1855 in Pretoria. It was one of the independent churches started by the …
ArchiveChanging focus: The art and activism of Omar by Bongani Kona (Mail and Guardian), 4 June 2015
It’s early winter in Cape Town, cold and gray, when I take the 1044 train from Newlands station on a Saturday afternoon to meet the photographer Omar Badsha at…
The New Generation
A significant challenge to state policy as regards the visual arts was undertaken at The State of Art in South Africa Conference held in 1979 at the University…
PlaceThe Durban Centre for Photography
The Durban Centre for Photography (DCP) was originally conceptualised and founded by Angela Buckalnd in 1995. The DCP opened at the BAT Centre, Durban, with an…
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-eyed to the…
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 to start with your…
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 man and his work…
David Goldblatt: In the time of AIDS by Galeria Elba Benitez, 31 March 2009, Madrid
In David Goldblatt’s second exhibition at the galería elba benítez the artist presents his “In the time of AIDS” suite, which features medium sized colour…
Towards Simon’s Town – The life of Peter Clarke by Joline Young
Peter Clarke exudes a quiet confidence of a man who is comfortable with himself, but navigates the world around him with a probing mind. His use of words is…
Ernest Cole: Brave photographer who exposed horrors of apartheid from within by Teo Kermeliotis, (cnn.com), 5 January 2015
Inside a dilapidated warehouse, underneath scattered clothes hanging from rusty pipes, a young black man is down on his knees. His feet are naked, his trousers…
South Africa's political landscape, as visual poetry: Haunting images have understated, dry elegance by Mark Feeney, 20 February 2011
Goldblatt, who turned 80 in November, is among the greatest of living documentary photographers. He won the Hasselblad Award, something like a Nobel for…
ArticlePhotography and the Liberation Struggle in South Africa
Introduction We are not dealing with sets of statistics. We are talking about people of flesh and blood, who laugh and cry, who love and hate, who enjoy…