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Living in the Interregnum by Nadine Gordimer (The New York Review of Books), 20 January 1983

Living in the Interregnum by Nadine Gordimer (The New York Review of Books), 20 January 1983

I live at 6,000 feet in a society whirling, stamping, swaying with the force of revolutionary change. The vision is head...

Ottilie Abrahams: An Honest and Upright Person by Harry Boesak (Pambazuka News), 14 July 2018

Ottilie Abrahams: An Honest and Upright Person by Harry Boesak (Pambazuka News), 14 July 2018

Ottilie Abrahams was undoubtedly one of the most remarkable personalities of contemporary Namibia. She led through examp...

One hundred years of an air force inspired by General Smuts, by John Kane-Berman (PoliticsWeb), 18 July 2018

One hundred years of an air force inspired by General Smuts, by John Kane-Berman (PoliticsWeb), 18 July 2018

Last week fighter aircraft flying in formation to look like the figure "100" swooped down The Mall and over Buckingham P...

The New South African Revolution by Prithiraj Dullay, 03 April 2017

The New South African Revolution by Prithiraj Dullay, 03 April 2017

South Africa is poised on a knife edge. Anything can happen. Last week Pravin Gordhan the Minister of Finance and former...

The Little Acknowledged Legacy of Steve Biko by Prithiraj Dullay, (Daily News), 08 Sept 2008

The Little Acknowledged Legacy of Steve Biko by Prithiraj Dullay, (Daily News), 08 Sept 2008

Thirty years ago in 1977 the beast of Apartheid snuffed out the life of one of the greatest thinkers in the liberation p...

Pik Botha: sympathetic obits fail to recognise that he protected apartheid by Alet Pretorius, 23 October 2018

Pik Botha: sympathetic obits fail to recognise that he protected apartheid by Alet Pretorius, 23 October 2018

The death of Roelof Frederik “Pik” Botha, South Africa’s apartheid era foreign minister from 1977 to 1994, has produced ...

How the apartheid regime burnt books – in their tens of thousands, 24 October 2018

How the apartheid regime burnt books – in their tens of thousands, 24 October 2018

On the advice of the State Librarian one fine day in the 1970s, a truck transported thousands of books and magazines fro...

Mines, Masters and Migrants - Life in a Namibian Compound by R. J. Gordon, (Ravan Press), Johannesburg 1977, reviewed by Philip Schemer

Dr Gordon was Personnel Officer during 1974 at a mine near Windhoek, and the book presents a sociological study of the b...

How colonial violence came home: the ugly truth of the first world war by Pankaj Mishra (The Guardian), 10 November 2018

How colonial violence came home: the ugly truth of the first world war by Pankaj Mishra (The Guardian), 10 November 2018

"Today on the Western Front,” the German sociologist Max Weber wrote in September 1917, there “stands a dross of African...

Jakes Gerwel: The epitome of integrity and courage by Niren Tolsi, 30 November 2012

Jakes Gerwel: The epitome of integrity and courage by Niren Tolsi, 30 November 2012

Professor Gert Johannes "Jakes" Gerwel, who died of complications following heart surgery on Wednesday, was a quiet Sout...

Birth of a reggae superstar 3 August 1964 by Sam Mathe

Birth of a reggae superstar 3 August 1964 by Sam Mathe

In the mid-80s a strange pop phenomenon swept through the shebeens and music festivals of South Africa. Based on the art...

Hugh Lewin obituary by Peter Hain (www.theguardian.com), 21 January 2019

Hugh Lewin obituary by Peter Hain (www.theguardian.com), 21 January 2019

In 1959, Hugh Lewin, who has died aged 79, joined the South African Liberal party: shortly afterwards it became the only...

The arch agitator of the Union by Shula Marks, 31 January 2019

The arch agitator of the Union by Shula Marks, 31 January 2019

To mark the centenary of the founding of the Industrial and Commercial Workers' Union (ICU), New Frame republishes work ...

The 1994 South African Election by Phyllis Jordan

Tomorrow, April 26, 1994, an historic event will take place in South Africa, 18 year old and over, men and women, black ...

Getting to know Omar from the inside out by Robyn Sassen, February 19, 2019

Getting to know Omar from the inside out by Robyn Sassen, February 19, 2019

THE ROOM IS deeply silent, but robustly populated. All eyes are focused on the speaker, who is out of your line of sight...

Statement Issued By GCIS: Briefing on the Case of Robert McBride - 21 May 1998

Statement Issued By GCIS: Briefing on the Case of Robert McBride - 21 May 1998 https://www.sahistory.org.za/sites/defau...

George Peake by David Hemson

George Peake by David Hemson

George Peake was a bricklayer, a resistance leader, a capable trade unionist and a socialist. He had links throughout So...

HARWU: The Aborted Attempt to Build a National South African Catering Union (1984 – 1990) by Allan Horwitz, June 2018

HARWU: The Aborted Attempt to Build a National South African Catering Union (1984 – 1990) by Allan Horwitz, June 2018

The Hotel and Restaurant Workers Union (HARWU) was a South African trade union whose short but intense history was shape...

Tribute to Cde Karrim Essack

Tribute to Cde Karrim Essack

On the 29th April 1997, a journalist aged 72 died in the Intensive Care Unit at the Aga Khan Hospital in Dar-es-Salaam T...

The Little Freedom Fighter with the Ponytail by Greg Ardé

The 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, on...

A History of Botsotso by Allan Horwitz

A History of Botsotso by Allan Horwitz

One leg in another leg out tight me up strongly sewn visible mending back pocket trademark silver buttons attached...

Grade 11 - Topic 4 Timeline

1902 A Coloured people’s political organisation, African People’s Organisation (APO), previously known as the African P...

Grade 9 - Term 4: Turning points in modern South African History since 1948

Grade 9 - Term 4: Turning points in modern South African History since 1948

For this complex period to be studied, the Sharpeville massacre, Soweto uprising and the release of Nelson Mandela and u...

Artist. Activist. Historian. This man is preserving the past to protect the future (beautifulnews.co.za)

Artist. Activist. Historian. This man is preserving the past to protect the future (beautifulnews.co.za)

Art is an act of resistance. It asserts our agency. Omar Badsha has identified not only as an artist, but an activist fo...

The Natal Indian Congress, 1972, by F.M. Meer

The Natal Indian Congress, 1972, by F.M. Meer

The opposition to the Government on the part of Indian South Africans since 1894 was spearheaded by the Natal Indian Con...

The old man and the sky: In memory of David Goldblatt, by Charl Blignaut, City Press, 2018-07-01

The old man and the sky: In memory of David Goldblatt, by Charl Blignaut, City Press, 2018-07-01

Legendary photographer David Goldblatt, who died on Monday, was there to document the onset of apartheid and to take a p...

Nelson Mandela Family Tree

The Mandela family tree drafted by Nelson Mandela and K.D. Matanzima. From the book Higher Than Hope - 'Rolihlahla we lo...

Through a Lens Darkly: David Goldblatt (1930-2018), Peter Wilhelm

Through a Lens Darkly: David Goldblatt (1930-2018), Peter Wilhelm

David Goldblatt had a primary gift – involving the seizure of what might have been a disregarded moment spurring a deepe...

DAVID GOLDBLATT (1930–2018)-Giant of SA photography used his lens with precision and compassion, By Greg Marinovich

DAVID GOLDBLATT (1930–2018)-Giant of SA photography used his lens with precision and compassion, By Greg Marinovich

David Goldblatt was one of South Africa’s best known photographic chroniclers. For seven decades, he explored a series o...

How do we understand Nelson Mandela@100? by Raymond Suttner, 29 May 2018

How do we understand Nelson Mandela@100? by Raymond Suttner, 29 May 2018

Celebrating the centenary of Nelson Mandela’s life is an opportunity to move away from the cliché-ridden assessments of ...

Nelson Mandela’s leadership: his ‘obstinacy and stubbornness’ (Part 2) by Raymond Suttner, 11 June 2018

Nelson Mandela’s leadership: his ‘obstinacy and stubbornness’ (Part 2) by Raymond Suttner, 11 June 2018

An unusual, apparently contradictory set of personality traits combined to make Nelson Mandela the leader that he became...

Nelson Mandela’s leadership: The early years (Part 1) by Raymond Suttner, 4 June 2018

Nelson Mandela’s leadership: The early years (Part 1) by Raymond Suttner, 4 June 2018

Despite the vast literature on Nelson Mandela, the qualities that his leadership comprised has been surprisingly neglect...

When Mandela's Predecessor toured the US to Expose Segregation back home by Matthew Blackman (www.ozy.com), 29 May 2018

When Mandela's Predecessor toured the US to Expose Segregation back home by Matthew Blackman (www.ozy.com), 29 May 2018

A short, well-dressed 44-year-old man of the southern African Barolong tribe stood at the American border near Niagara F...

A chronology of meetings between South Africans and the ANC in exile 1983-2000 by Michael Savage

A chronology of meetings between South Africans and the ANC in exile 1983-2000 by Michael Savage

Preface In the decade preceding the dramatic February 1990 unbanning of South Africa’s black liberatory movements, many...

The Peoples's Hospital: A History of McCords, Durban, 1890s–1970s by Julie Parle and Vanessa Noble

The Lady in White: British Imperial Loyalism and Women’s Volunteerism in Second World War Durban by Jonathan Hyslop (Journal of Natal and Zulu History), 2018

The Lady in White: British Imperial Loyalism and Women’s Volunteerism in Second World War Durban by Jonathan Hyslop (Journal of Natal and Zulu History), 2018

Invisible Communities and Their Visible Cameras by Malcolm Corrigall

Invisible Communities and Their Visible Cameras by Malcolm Corrigall

Scandinavia's Magersfontein Dead - Their Final Resting Place? by Garth Benneyworth, September 2017, Sol Plaatje University

Scandinavia's Magersfontein Dead - Their Final Resting Place? by Garth Benneyworth, September 2017, Sol Plaatje University

South Africa’s ‘Mother of the Nation’ who was never First Lady by Mashupye Herbert Maserumule (TheConversation.com), 3 April 2018

South Africa’s ‘Mother of the Nation’ who was never First Lady by Mashupye Herbert Maserumule (TheConversation.com), 3 April 2018

Winnie Madikizela-Mandela – doyen of South Africa’s liberation struggle and the matriarch who was dubbed ‘the mother of ...

Women’s Resistance Against the Pass Laws

During its long history of struggle, the ANC has always been in the vanguard of the struggle against racism, today known...