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ArchiveOxford: 1970s: the youth take charge
Brown, red and black poster. Large photograph of the Soweto Uprising in June 1976. Quote from Nelson Mandela. Short bits of history and photographs from 1970…
ArchiveAnti-apartheid 1978
Black background with white lettering and multicoloured artwork of Hector Pieterson photograph. Two small black and white photographs, one of a refugee camp…
Advance to peoples power!
ANC multicoloured poster. Centre is a photograph of people carrying a flag. Black and white photographs down both sides of past and present ANC presidents…
ArchiveA broken landscape
Black and white poster. Notice of an exhibition of photographs, covering South Africa from 1984 to 1986, by Gideon Mendel at The Market Photo Gallery. From the…
ArchiveBuilders of the nation: 5: South Africas fir
Multicoloured poster produced for the Department of Labour by the Mayibuye Centre, UWC. Photograph of original Food and Canning Workers Union formed in 1941 in…
David Goldblatt, once and future freedom hero by Rebecca Davis (Daily Maverick), 28 November 2012, South Africa
… statements have come in the form of his award-winning photography. Goldblatt began his photographic career in 1948, …
ArchiveThe South African Choir’s pathbreaking tour: 1891 – 1893 by Martin Plaut, 6 January 2017
The contacts between black South Africans and the African American community in the United States played an important part in the development of the South…
Memorial service of photojournalist Juda Ngwenya by Cyril Ramaphosa, Rhema Church, Randburg, 26 October 2016
… state of emergency in the eighties, Mr Ngwenya's evocative photography speak volumes of the courage of the oppressed …
EventThelma Gutsche, a South African scholar, historian and film critic, dies
… on the Consultative Committee of the Bensusan Museum of Photography. Gutshce was also the founding member of the …
BiographyNontsikelelo June-Rose Cothoza
Nontsikelelo June-Rose Cothoza was born at King Edward Hospital, Umbilo, Durban, in June 1967. The second child of Zizile Cothoza, Nontsikelelo Cothoza, or…
ArchiveStaffrider Vol.6 No.1 1984
Contents and Contributors STAFFRIDER, VOL. 6 NO. 1, 1984 CONTENTS, Stories: The Tenants by Mpumie Cilibe; A Dirty Story by Yashar Kemal; The Incest of…
Analysis: Is South Africa doing enough to prevent heritage flight? by Rebecca Davis (Daily Maverick), 07 March 2017, South Africa
… Collection. The archive is a record of Goldblatt’s photography career over 60 years. It includes digital images, …
PlaceThe Wits School of Arts and Arts Museum
… a leading Teaching and Research Department in African Art, Photography and Curatorial Practice. A Wits Postgraduate …
ArchiveAt the Pompidou by Jeremy Harding, 26 April 2018
… it, chanting, to its place’. By the time he turned to photography for a living in the 1960s, Johannesburg, the gold …
ArchiveStaffrider Vol.5 No.2 1982
Contents and ContributorsStories: To Fly by Steve Jacobs ; Pikinini’s Adventure by Walt Oyi Sipho kwa Mthetwa; Don’t Leave Me by Joseph Moladira; Japie and…
SAHO Timeline and Milestones
… 2010 Soccer World Cup was held. Bonani Africa Festival of Photography (2010) One of the largest ever exhibitions of contemporary South African documentary…
Photographer Juda Ngwenya was the face of Reuters in Africa and a special friend by Siphiwe Sibeko (Mail and Guardian), 25 Oct 2016
… page the following day, they also won me my first major photography award, the Mondi newspaper award in 2001, putting …
BiographyDorothy Adams
Dorothy Adams was born in 1928 in Wellington, 72 kilometres north-east of Cape Town. Wellington had been declared on the farm of Champagne in 1840, and it grew…
ArchiveStaffrider Vol.7 No.2 1988
Contents and Contributors Contents: Comment: A W Oliphant; Short Stories: The Concrete Fountain. Ahmed Essop; To Speak the Truth, Laughing by Rose Zwi; Two…
SAHO Milestones
… 18 August - 30 September - Bonani Africa Festival of Photography - One of the largest ever exhibitions of contemporary South African documentary photography,…
PlaceSouth African National Art Gallery
… and Temporary Exhibitions of paintings, works on paper, photography, new media, sculpture, beadwork and textiles are …
David Goldblatt: oblique apartheid look by Kenneth Baker, 5 December 2012
"South Africa in Apartheid and After: David Goldblatt, Ernest Cole, Billy Monk," which opened at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art last weekend, will…
PlaceDutch Reformed Church, Zoutpansberg
The Nederduits Gereformeerde congregation of Zoutpansberg was established at Renosterpoort, by S Hofmeyr, in September 1872, with Rev PJJ Boshoff as its first…
INK: Making Access Visible, ASAI Print Workshops
… specializing in other media such as painting, sculpture or photography. Still others may be proficient in particular …
Dr William Fehr (1892-1968), collector of art as history
… of Queen Victoria, the Anglo-Boer War, the perfection of photography and the rise of cinema, the replacement of the …
BiographyNarriman Gadija Bazier Samuels
Narriman Gadija Bazier Samuels, affectionately known as "Ma G" throughout Mitchells Plain, grew up during the height of apartheid in South Africa. While her…
ArchiveOmar Badsha: Recording the roles of the ordinary by Niren Tolsi (Mail and Guardian), 17 September 2020
… has also documented and archived history through his photography, the co-founding of the non-racial Afrapix …
BiographyAbdool Karrim Essak
Abdool Karrim Essak was born in 1925 in India. He was the third child of Fathima and Ishaq Hashim. His father was an adventurer and left his family to seek…
PlaceOudekraal Beach, Bakoven
… her. Excellent bottom topography and great site for photography. There’s even a seal colony called Strawberry …
BiographyZuleikha Mayat
Zuleikha Mayat was born in 1926 in Potchefstroom, Transvaal (now North West Province). Her father, Mohamed Bismilla, was a prominent business person who first…