SAHO global search
3,559 records
ArchiveThings Are Going Our Way At O.K. by SPEAK, 1990 – 1994, Johannesburg
Abdullah Ibrahim and the Politics of Jazz in South Africa
… the apartheid regime, from the early 1950s until the 1990s, focusing on the work of one artist particularly. While …
BiographyStanley B. Lollan
Stanley B. Lollan was born in Johannesburg in 1925, he became one of the few significant coloured activists in the Transvaal in the 1950s. A clerk by…
Black October: the Impact of the Spanish Influenza Epidemic of 1918 on South Africa by H. Phillips, 1990, South Africa
Black October by H. Phillips, 1990, South Africa (Part 1 of 8) Black October by H. Phillips, 1990, South Africa (Part 2 of 8) Black October by H. Phillips,…
BiographyProfessor Kader Abdul Asmal
Kader Abdul Asmal was born on 8th of October in 1934, in the small rural town of Stanger, KwaZulu Natal (then Natal). Young Asmal was raised in a vibrant,…
BiographyLogan K. Ntlabati
Logan K. Ntlabati was a prominent member of the African National Congress (ANC) national executive committee in the 1940s, he was born in the Transkei and…
BiographyJan van Eck
Van Eck was born in Holland on 18 December 1943, the first born of five children. He came to South Africa when he was five years old with his mother and…
BiographyNorman Stewart Middleton
Norman Stewart Middleton was born in January 1921, in Sophiatown, Johannesburg, Transvaal (now Gauteng) and moved to Pietermaritzburg, Natal (now kwaZulu-Natal…
BiographyRoger Meintjes
Roger Meintjes was born in Cape Town, Western Province (now Western Cape) in 1963. Meintjes was very interested in photography and bought a second-hand…
BiographyPaul Grendon
“I am interested in making large-scale paintings that can be used in public places with imagery that is totally accessible to everyone.” Paul Grendon…
BiographyMoses Mabhida
Moses Mbheki Mncane Mabhida was born in Thornville near Pietermaritzburg on 14 October 1923, into a poor family which was later forced off the land. Mabhida…
ArchiveUrban crisis and the apartheid state response: South African housing policy in the 1980s
A dissertation presented in partial fulfilment of the MSc in Urban Planning (Housing in Development), submitted to the University College, London (Development…
Letter to Defence and Aid Fund for the Rivonia Trial, from Richard Gill, 1960s
BiographyAudrey ‘Bobbie’ Cobden
Audrey ‘Bobbie’ (her childhood nickname) Cobden was born in Johannesburg, Transvaal Province (now Gauteng) on 15 April 1923. She grew up in Johannesburg and…
BiographyMangisi Pheneas Nene
African National Congress branch chairman in Alexandra Township in Johannesburg in the 1950s and one of the accused in the Treason Trial. He was born in Natal…
BiographySydney Kumalo
It is appropriate that the final large scale work completed by Sydney Kumalo before his death is a three-metre high bronze figure of a Zulu "imbongi" or praise…
Poonoosamy Ruthnam Pather
Poonoosamy Ruthnam Pather (PR) was born in Mauritius in 1895. His grandfather settled in that country after emigrating from Tanjore in India in the 1840s. PR…
BiographyChief Mangosuthu Gatsha Buthelezi
… salary for months. They also recalled an incident in the 1990s when King Goodwill Zwelithini hosted Nelson Mandela at …
Ida Fiyo Mntwana
Ida was born in 1903 and worked as a dressmaker. She was the first president of the African National Congress Women’s League and a leader of many mass women’s…
BiographyPaul Weinberg
Paul Weinberg was born in 1956 in Pietermaritzburg into a progressive middle-class Jewish family. His father was a lawyer and his mother a music teacher. He…
Event19 die at Shell House massacre
… and had then spread to other provinces in the 1990s. The IFP claimed that the ANC was intent on undermining …
BiographyJacob Gedleyihlekisa Zuma
… government representatives in the late 1980s to early 1990s. Among the first of these meetings, in November 1987, …
ArticleUrban Removals - the Destruction of Sophiatown
Introduction This feature examines the history of forced removals in Johannesburg up to the destruction of Sophiatown. It begins by establishing the link…
Statement by Oliver Tambo with Other ANC leaders visiting Sweden, 02 February 1990
Today, Pretoria`s President, F.W. de Klerk, made important announcements which go a long way towards creating a climate conducive to negotiations. We welcome…
Opening address by Oliver Tambo to the National Consultative Conference, 14 December 1990
Christmas message of the Deputy President of the ANC, Nelson Mandela December 1990
Fellow South Africans, It is my privilege to speak to you today, on Christmas Eve, the first Christmas in almost 30 years that I have been able to spend with…
While crowd waits, Mandela plays with babies by Caroly McGibbon, 18 February 1990
APDUSA Views - Issue No 32: In Defence Of Socialism! Against Stalinism! June 1990
ArchiveCOSATU Women March Against The LRA by Tammy Shefer (SPEAK), 1990 – 1994, Johannesburg
BiographyDJ Ready D (Deon Daniels)
Deon T Daniels aka DJ Ready D, was born in District Six, Cape Town on 11 December 1968, before the residents there were forcibly removed. Ready D and his…