Visual Arts and Architecture

A survey of the history of photography in South Africa reveals, broadly, three important eras, colonisation, repression ...

Introduction We are not dealing with sets of statistics. We are talking about people of flesh and blood, who laugh...

Most researchers who study rock art tend to focus on technical aspects, such as the material and techniques used. Their ...

Timeline 1958 The photographer, Peter Magubane, is the first black South African to win the Press Photo of th...

Art in the state of siege The Sharpeville Massacre was one of the most important turning points in the history of Sou...

Early Convict Stations in the Cape Colony

Afrapix – Comrades with Cameras A history of a South African anti apartheid Documentary Photography Collective A...

South Africa: The Cordoned Heart is considered as one of the seminal photographic exhibitions and books of the 1980’s. T...

"On Language South Africa is a land of many languages, but these languages can be divided into two main categories - the...

Artist Proof Studio (APS) offers a three-year printmaking-training program to diverse young people from across South Afr...

For the month of August 2016, in honor of women,  South Africa History Online (SAHO) began collaborating with Artth...

On 13 November 2001 the Director General of the Department of Foreign Affairs Mr Sipho Pityana launched the "Africa...

Who is SAAAH? About SAAAH The South African Association of Art Historians (SAAAH), founded in 1984, is the major profe...

In 1977, a group of "cultural workers"from the townships fled into exile in Gaborone, Botswana; including Molefe Pheto, ...

This catalogue and exhibition celebrate the founding, over 100 years ago, of the oldest surviving body for practising ar...

Theatre Workshop ‘71 was a theatre training workshop that was founded in 1971 by the South African Institute for Race Re...

Established in Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape, in 1986, Imvaba Arts Association worked closely with artists in New Brighto...