SAHO global search
10,509 records
ArchiveThe Man Before Mandela by Steven Gish
Few alumni know this, but one of South Africa’s most important civil rights leaders is part of the University of Minnesota family. One hundred years ago,…
ArchiveOmar Badsha: Recording the roles of the ordinary by Niren Tolsi (Mail and Guardian), 17 September 2020
This moment’s gaping generational divide, exacerbated by the Covid-19 pandemic, with its accompanying sense of history being lost and collective memory fading,…
Images That Preserve History, and Make It : ‘Rise and Fall of Apartheid’ at Center of Photography by Holland Cotter (The New York Times), 20 September 2012
Photography is the common language of modern history. It’s everywhere; and everyone, in some way, understands it. No institution presents and parses that…
PlaceKingsmead Cricket Stadium, Durban
Although it operates under the sponsorship-based name of Sahara Stadium Kingsmead, this cricket ground in Durban, KwaZulu-Natal is more commonly referred to as…
ArchiveAnton Fransch and the Battle of Athlone
… his hands on some luxuries. More than 2 years later, in 1989, Anton was instructed to return to South Africa. Back in … On the 17th Nov 1989 ANC guerrilla…
ArticleTanzania and its Support of Southern African Liberation Movements
The role of Tanzania in fostering African Liberation movements The emergence of organised popular liberation movements throughout Africa following the end of…
Tanzania and its Suipport of Southern African Liberation Movements
The role of Tanzania in fostering African Liberation movements The emergence of organised popular liberation movements throughout Africa following the end of…
ArticleUniversity Christian Movement (UCM)
In July 1967, the University Christian Movement (UCM) held its founding congress in Grahamstown, with about 90 clergymen and students in attendance. The…
ArticleBlack Community Programmes (BCP)
In the late 1960s and early 1970s, after the banning of the ANC and PAC, the Black Consciousness Movement (BCM) resuscitated the anti-apartheid struggle in…
ArticleThe formation of the SANNC/ANC
Bloemfontein is the birth place of the SANNC, which became the ANC in 1923, one of the largest organizations in later years to struggle for freedom and justice…
EventNatal Law society apologises to Gandhi
The Natal Law Society has apologised posthumously to passive resistance icon, Mahatma Karamchand Gandhi, 105 years after a racist decision barred the young…
EventThe South African government is to grant self-government to KaNgwane
The South African government was to grant self-government to KaNgwane. This move was seen as confirmation that it had finally abandoned its land deal with…
Dunbar, Thibedi, Sigamoney: Three figures in the IWW in South Africa by Red Jack (libcom.org), 08 January 2012
The Industrial Workers of the World (IWW, the Wobblies) was the main influence on the radical left in South Africa in the early twentieth century. But who were…
PlacePretoria High School for Girls, Park Street
Pretoria High School for Girls was started by Lord Milner in 1902 as part of his efforts to anglicise the Transvaal under British Occupation. And so it was…
Tribute To Michael Harmel: Oration At Funeral In Prague, June 24, 1974
We have come together to pay homage to Comrade Michael Harmel, an outstanding South African revolutionary whose whole life was unconditionally and totally…
Cataloguing the archive of the Anti-Apartheid Movement
The archive of the Anti-Apartheid Movement arrived at Rhodes House Library in Oxford in 1996 and it is planned that the cataloguing process will be complete…
ArchiveNobel Lecture
Bishop Tutu's Nobel lecture delivered in Oslo, Norway, on 11 December 1984 and his acceptance of the award speech on the 10th December 1984.
ArchiveLetter from J K Nkadimeng to Afred Nzo
Letter from J K Nkadimeng to Afred Nzo of November 3, 1982 and enclosing RC HQ Commission report of October 1982 at Lusaka. Note that the document is barely…
Polokwane an Overview
'Street soccer' game on a makeshift field, near Polokwane in the Limpopo Province. 2010. © Chris Ledowchowski The Limpopo Province was the scene of scores of…
Port Elizabeth an Overview
The first formal settlement of the Algoa Bay region took place in 1776 when a number of farms were allocated to local Dutch graziers. In 1799 the British…
ArticleHistory of South African National Orders and Awards
The birth of a new non-racial and non -sexist democracy in South Africa necessitated a critical review of the system of National Orders. The previous system…
The Reunited National Party is founded by Malan and Hertzog
From the 1920s to the 1940s J.C. Smuts, J.B.M. Hertzog and D.F. Malan were the most prominent White politicians in South Africa. In 1933 Hertzog and Smuts…
EventHouse of Representatives impeaches American President Bill Clinton
In 1995, Monica Lewinsky, a recent university graduate, began working as an intern in the White House. This was during Bill Clinton's first term of office. A…
ArchiveSolomon Kalushi Mahlangu: 10 years
Black, green, yellow and white poster. Memorial to Solomon Kalushi Mahlangu, executed on 6th April 1979, with his photograph and a rifle. Quote from him. Died…
ArchiveCape Youth Congress: hamba kahle
Yellow, black, green and white poster. Notice of a funeral on 18th July 1987, at Bonteheuwel, for Ashley Kriel. October 1966 - July 1987. Black and white…
ArchiveSWAPO Solidarity Freedom Justice
A2 poster litho blue red green black on white; SWAPO flag; text: 19th April 1985 25th Anniversary SWAPO Solidary Freedom Justice South West African People's…
ArchiveEducation Charter Campaign Transvaal launch
Education Charter Campaign poster. Blue and white. Open book in centre with venues and times. Conference at Ipelegeng Centre, Soweto on 13 October 1984 and…
ArchiveSAAWU Annual National Conference
Notice of SAAWU Annual National Conference at Soweto in 1984. SAAWU in white letters on black background. AGM in green letters on white background. White…
ArchiveFour Johannesburg painters
Notice of an exhibition of four Johannesburg painters at the South African National Gallery. Black and white poster. Red strip at bottom. Painters - Anderson…
ArchiveWebinar Programme: Strategic Debates, the ANC - SACP alliance and the Soviet Union. Convenor: Tshepo Moloi.
The role and influence of the South African Communist Party in the armed struggle by Patrick Mangashe UFH [email protected] Abstract The Communist…