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If we want to understand African history, we need to understand the Battle of Adwa by Hannah Giorgis (Pambazuka News), 02 Mar 2016
… and those invested in Ethiopia’s history. photography, and film about the battle continue to document this powerful …
ArchiveThe Moral Problem of Winnie Mandela by Paul Trewhela (Dailymaverick.com), 6 April 2018, South Africa
… disorder in the global sanitising of her image, as in the film Winnie by the French director, Pacale Lamche, which …
Banned, but never silenced by Glyn Williams (Editor - The Daily Dispatch), 6 September 2012, Eastern Cape, South Africa
… years. Over the years there have been books, lectures, the film Cry Freedom and inevitable controversy that has so often …
Book 4: Industrialisation, Rural Change and Nationalism - Introduction
… Chiefs! We don't care about Chiefs! Give us jazz and film stars, man! We want Duke Ellington, Satchmo, and hot …
Photographer Juda Ngwenya was the face of Reuters in Africa and a special friend by Siphiwe Sibeko (Mail and Guardian), 25 Oct 2016
There is a saying that goes: “Show me your friends and I will tell you who you are.” I am what I am because I was inspired, motivated and mentored by Juda…
Documentary Photography and Awakening the International Community, 1976-1994
… the Nationalist government. A record existed. Pictures and film could be confiscated and used as evidence, as in the …
ArticleSALDRU Newspaper Clippings Archive 1974 - 2000
The clippings collection built up by the Southern Africa Labour & Development Research Unit (Saldru) in the School of Economics at the University of Cape Town…
Activity: Kingdoms of southern Africa: Mapungubwe, Thulamela and Great Zimbabwe
For the student Discussion Questions Who was the founder of the Mali Empire? Which city was considered a centre of learning during the Mali Empire? …
ArticleThe British Anti-Apartheid Movement
… on the TUC made South Africa a priority, even producing a film promoting the boycott, which was seen in cinemas … the country and spread the message. The AAM…
PlaceThe Haven Night Shelter(s)
… to alert Capetonians to this terrible tragedy. Some took a film on homelessness around the community halls of Cape Town, …
ArticleAfrapix Chronology 1981-1991
… of Paul Weinberg, who also worked with Weinberg on a film titled, Mayfair, was working for Reuter’s news agency as … realities of Southern Africa. It began…
ArticleThe International Defence and Aid Fund (IDAF)
… called The Anvil and the Hammer , which won prizes at film festivals in London and Leipzig. Brooks also produced …
ArticleSouth Africa’s Academic and Cultural Boycott - Timeline
22 June 1946 —The Government of India requested that the question of the treatment of Indians in the Union of South Africa be included in the agenda of second…
Regarding the white male gaze in South African photography by Daniel Gallan, 14 Jun 2017
… goal that culminated in Subotzky’s first fictional film, WYE, that powerfully critiques the white South African …
ArchiveRemembering Hugh Masekela: the horn player with a shrewd ear for music of the day by Gwen Ansell (The Conversation), 23 January 2018
… the 1950 movie “Young Man With A Horn”. Masekela saw the film as a schoolboy at the Harlem Bioscope in Johannesburg’s …
Hugh Masekela: the horn player with a shrewd ear for the music of today, not yesterday, 29 October 2017
… the 1950 movie “Young Man With A Horn”. Masekela saw the film as a schoolboy at the Harlem Bioscope in Johannesburg’s …
BiographyStephen Bantu Biko
IntroductionStephen (Steve) Bantu Biko was a popular voice of Black liberation in South Africa between the mid 1960s and his death in police detention in 1977…
Provincial government and symbols
Go to the places section of the SAHO site, and read about the South Africa’s nine provinces. Also visit SAHO feature on national symbols. …
PlaceKhami Ruins, Zimbabwe
Khami Ruins National Monument and World Heritage Site, is located to the west of the Khami River, 22 km from the City of Bulawayo. The property, located on a…
Article“The Dark and Heavy Shadow”: Gender Based Violence and Anti-Gender-Based-Violence Campaigns in South Africa
… for roles in the television show, Melrose Place and the film, Who’s the Boss), used her Twitter account (a social …
Resistance Photography and Mobilization of the Resistance, 1946-1976
… England and the United States. Leveson visited Kodak's film studios and studied "leading" foreign photographers, … Photography” The Journal of the Society…
Preface
… in the possession of the gallery had not been recorded on film. As a result, I have had to agree to the hiring of …
ArticleA Short History of ESKOM, Part 2 (2001-2022)
Following on from Part 1, this article seeks to analyse some of the historical and present dynamics bedevilling ESKOM. Over the past twenty years, ESKOM’s…
Bathandwa Ndondo
As a young child, Ndondo’s maternal grandmother raised himwhile his mother, Lulama Sidumo (nee Ndondo),worked. Following the death of his grandmother, his…
BiographyDr James Sebe Moroka
Dr. James Sebe Moroka was the great grandson of Chief Moroka I of the Barolong, from Thaba Nchu in the then Orange Free State. Moroka was born on 16 March…
ArticleEarly hominid discoveries in South Africa and East Africa
… in the past. History has been recorded in writing, on film and photographs and in oral records of people who were …
Growth of African Nationalism and Defiance
… solidarity to the 1956 Treason Trialists, Cape Town hosted film shows to raise money for the Treason Trail Fund. …
South African and World leaders
… United Nations more than once to act against apartheid. Film makers, writers and journalists used their talent to …
The melody of freedom
… of reeds. It became popular in the 1950's, thanks to the film Magic Garden, in which Willard played it. White Greed 80 … it has advocated the total isolation…
BiographyNithianandan ‘Elvis' Ganese Govender
Nithianandan Ganese Govender (Elvis) was born on 1 November 1958 in Esperanza, a village on the south coast of Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal – KZN), on the eastern…