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Archive‘It’s Dangerous and Difficult’: Artist William Kentridge on the Challenges for Young Artists Facing Quick Fame and Market Speculation by Devorah Lauter (news.artnet.com), October 20, 2021
William Kentridge can’t tell you what the title of his current show in Paris, “Finally Memory Yields,” is about. He doesn’t know. That’s why he chose it. …
Extract from a speech made in the House of Assembly on 21 May 1962 during the second reading of the General Law Amendment Bill
When South Africa became a Republic, subversive elements intensified their attack on South Africa and her peoples. At this time Adv. Vorster perÂformed a…
Chapter 7 - ‘We Are Also People’
From the book: Le Rona Re Batho (An account of the 1982 Maseru Massacre) by Phyllis Naidoo, South Africa, 1992 Three days before the massacre on Monday 6…
PHOTOGRAPHY REVIEW; Apartheid, Reflected in an Inventory of Simple Objects by Sarah Boxer (The New York Times), 24 July 1998
David Goldblatt sold his family's menswear business in South Africa to become a photographer in 1962. But the pictures he made of the nation under apartheid…
PlaceDwarsvlei, near Pretoria
The Farm Dwarsvlei is situated 15 kilometres North of Krugersdorp, on the road to Hekpoort, past Sterkfontein of Archaeological fame. It is still Owned and…
ArchiveThe Little Freedom Fighter with the Ponytail by Greg Ardé
Who will listen to this feisty little woman with the grey ponytail and caftan? Greg Arde spoke to Fatima Meer, once a shining light in the fight against…
Address at the Mercosur Summit, Florianopolis, Brazil, 15 December 2000
Your Excellency, Mr. Chairman Your Excellencies Presidents Your Excellencies Ministers Distinguished Guests Ladies and Gentlemen I would like to thank the…
ADDRESS BY PRESIDENT NELSON MANDELA TO THE RALLY AT KWA - MTHETHWA KwaMbonambi, 21 May 1995
Nkosi Nyambose Bantu bakwaMthethwa Members of the Provincial Legislature Distinguished Guests Comrades and Friends I would like to thank the organisers…
ArchiveThe Final Prize - Contents and Preface
From the book: The Final Prize by Norman Levy “Everyone has a story”, Sephiwe, the librarian at the Robben Island Mayibuye Archive, said to me as he handed me…
Arthur Chaskalson: 24 November 1931 - 1 December 2012 by Jeremy Gauntlett, 4 December 2012
Adv Jeremy Gauntlett on the life and work of the late former Chief Justice Arthur Chaskalson's last public address was just weeks ago. It expressed two…
10. Seedat writes to his brother in India
From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal Pachai This letter written in Gujarati by Mohamed…
Freedom In Our Life Time - Foreword by A. P. Mda
From the book: Freedom In Our Life Time by Anton Muziwakhe Lembede When I reflect on my memories of Lembede, two things stick out in my mind ”” his…
Cosatu special congress, Day One: The façade finally falls by Ranjeni Munusamy (Daily Maverick), 14 July 2015, South Africa
The Façade Finally Falls For the longest time, the national office bearers of Cosatu insisted that they have a firm grip on the federation. After the…
The Afrikaner Bond
The Origins of the Afrikaner Bond The Afrikaner Bond, an Afrikaner political organisation that was effectively the first political party in South Africa, was…
Chapter II - More of the same
From the book: Side by Side by Helen Joseph After almost five years of house arrest, I was eagerly but anxiously looking forward to 31 October 1967, when the…
The Role of the Missionaries in conquest - Chapter VIII - “Christianity and Civilization”
From the book: The Role of the Missionaries in conquest by Nosipho Majeke IN THE EIGHTEEN-FIFTIES and after, British politicians were wont to invoke Divine…
Archive’Operation Mayibuye.’ Document found by police at Lilliesleaf Farm, Rivonia, 11 July 1963.
PART 1. The white state has thrown overboard every pretence of rule by democratic process. Armed to the teeth it has presented the people with only one choice…
Article1910-1924: African nationalism and working-class and popular protests
Introduction General Louis Botha headed the first government of the new Union of South Africa, with General Jan Smuts as his deputy. Their South African…
South Africa in the 1900s (1900-1917)
Introduction More than two and a half centuries prior to the birth of Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela, Jan Van Riebeeck and his expedition of Dutch Calvinist…
ArticleAfrican nationalism and working-class & popular protests, 1910-1924
General Louis Botha headed the first government of the new Union of South Africa, with General Jan Smuts as his deputy. Their South African National Party,…
The ANC Women’s League in the Struggle for Women’s Rights in South Africa by Meghan Knapp
This article was written by Meghan Knapp and forms part of the SAHO and Southern Methodist University partnership project Abstract The African National…
“Exodus without a map”: What happened to the Durban moment? by Edward Webster
This paper was submitted to the 1973 Durban Strikes Celebrating 50 Years Conference Preamble Although I had known Vishnu for nearly…
Statement at Press Conference in Dar es Salaam Concerning Sentences in the Rivinia Trial by O. R. Tambo, 12 June 1964
Nelson Mandela, Walter Sisulu, Govan Mbeki, Ahmed Kathrada, Raymond Mhlaba, Andrew Mlangeni, Dennis Goldberg and Elias Motsoaledi were today sentenced to…
David Goldblatt: Structures of Dominion & Democracy (Artthrob), 31 March 2015, Durban, Kwazulu Natal, South Africa
For five decades Goldblatt has travelled South Africa photographing sites weighted with historical narrative: monuments, as well as private, religious and…
David Goldblatt by Jean Dykstra, 11 September 2011
In a videotaped interview with David Goldblatt that is included in his current exhibition at the Jewish Museum, the South African photographer ponders how it…
ArchiveA Place In The City - The Rand On The Eve Of Apartheid by Luli Callinicos
Introduction Tomorrow awaits you, long way to walk. It’s no use talking, to gold-propped ears When the National Party won the 1948 election, white…
EventAKA, the Prince of South African hip hop is born
Kiernan Jarryd Forbes, popularly known by his stage name AKA was born in Cape Town on 28 January 1988.[1] He started out his hip hop career as part of a group…
“Message to Those Staying At Home”: Joint Statement by Dr G. M. Naicker and Chief Albert J. Luthuli, April 1958
Message To Those Staying At Home: Joint Statement By Dr G. M. Naicker And Chief Albert J. Luthuli, April 195863 Those who will be staying at home in…
'We Go To Action': Statement on the Launching In Natal of the Defiance Campaign, August 30, 1952
Natal through its accredited delegates whose stand was fully endorsed at the Conference of the African National Congress, Natal Branch, held in Durban on March…
EventMercenaries from South Africa led by Colonel “Mad Mike” Hoare, attempt an unsuccessful coup in Seychelles
The armed mercenaries entered the Seychelles disguised as a beer-drinking tourist party, "The Ancient Order of Froth-Blowers." Hoare's objective was to return…