History through pictures

June Uprising

June 16, 1976 thousands of youth in Soweto protested in their classrooms and then started marching towards Orlando stadi...

June 26, 1955. The Congress of the People meet at the Kliptown football ground

June 26, 1955. The Congress of the People meet at the Kliptown football ground

June 1976 declassified image 1

June 1976 declassified image 1

An image from 1976 that was held in the State Archives away from public view until declassified.

June 1976 declassified image 2

June 1976 declassified image 2

An image from 1976 that was held in the State Archives away from public view until declassified. 

June 1976 declassified image 3

June 1976 declassified image 3

An image from 1976 that was held in the State Archives away from public view until declassified.

Judge Johan Kriegler, head of the independent electoral commission visits President Mangop

Judge Johan Kriegler, head of the independent electoral commission visits President Mangop

Joseph Ndlovu, Humanity, 1994

Joseph Ndlovu, Humanity, 1994

Joseph Ndlovu, Humanity, 1994, part of the Constitutional Court of South Africa's collection

Judith Mason Art

Judith Mason Art

Taking a moment to remember the artist Judith Mason who past away on 29 December 2016. 

Jacob Zuma, Nelson Mandela and Thabo Mbeki

Jacob Zuma, Nelson Mandela and Thabo Mbeki

Jacob Zuma, Nelson Mandela and Thabo Mbeki have dominated South Africa’s political landscape since the end of raci...

Installation view by Wim Botha

Installation view by Wim Botha

Untitled, 2016  by Wim Botha, is a loose departure from his more figurative works of previous exhibitions.

Hugh Masekela in front of microphone

Hugh Masekela in front of microphone

Hugh Masekela (born April 4, 1939), iconic South African trumpeter, flugelhornist, cornetist, composer, and singer. He l...

Hendrik Verwoerd’s body after being stabbed to death -06 September 1966 - Cape Town

Headline following the Sharpeville Massacre on the 22nd of March 1960

Headline following the Sharpeville Massacre on the 22nd of March 1960

Headline following the Sharpeville Massacre on the 22nd of March 1960.

Harry Oppenheimer at a Progressive Party meeting - Johannesburg, May 1975

Harry Oppenheimer at a Progressive Party meeting - Johannesburg, May 1975

Hani Zuma Slovo at first SACP rally after unbanning

Hani Zuma Slovo at first SACP rally after unbanning

Chris Hani, Jacob Zuma, Joe Slovo and others do a walkabout at the first South African Communist Party (SACP) rally held...

Gender Violence Graffiti

Gender Violence Graffiti

Africa Unite is a non-profit organisation in Cape Town who made community murals in Nyanga for Human Rights Day in 2013

Garment workers in factory during apartheid

Garment workers in factory during apartheid

Gandhi in a suit

Gandhi in a suit

Funeral for 18, shot by police - Duncan Village, East London - August 1985

Funeral for 18, shot by police - Duncan Village, East London - August 1985

Funeral of Anton Franch, MK member killed in Western Cape - November 1989

Funeral of Anton Franch, MK member killed in Western Cape - November 1989

Freedom Day Graphic

Freedom Day Graphic

Freedom Day was first celebrated on 27 April 1994

Freedom Day was first celebrated on 27 April 1994

Freedom Day was first celebrated on 27 April 1994, when the first democratic election was held. Photo by: Greg Mari...

Freedom Day 2 Graphic

Freedom Day 2 Graphic

Freedom Day 27 April

Freedom Day 27 April

Freedom Day on 27 April is an annual celebration of South Africa's first non-racial democratic elections of 1994. It...

Former President FW De Klerk

Former President FW De Klerk

Frances Baard speaking at the launch of the United Democratic Front (UDF)

Frances Baard speaking at the launch of the United Democratic Front (UDF)

Frances Baard speaking at the launch of the United Democratic Front (UDF) on 20 August 1983

Florence Mkhize

Florence Mkhize

Football in pyramids Egypt

Football in pyramids Egypt

Five Months Nightmare

Five Months Nightmare

Five Months Nightmare - Sharpeville Massacre

FEDSAW Meeting, Johannesburg, 1956

FEDSAW Meeting, Johannesburg, 1956

Farm workers striking in Western Cape

Farm workers striking in Western Cape

Esme Berman

Esmé Berman, a renowned South African art historian and author, passed away on 4 June 2017 at her home in Johannesburg. ...

Earliest known-photo of Nelson Mandela at Healdtown College

Earliest known-photo of Nelson Mandela at Healdtown College

Drum Magazine, September 1957 cover: Treason Trial

Drum Magazine, September 1957 cover: Treason Trial

Drum Magazine, September 1957 cover: Treason Trial

Drought, water and politics in southern Africa

Drought, water and politics in southern Africa

Drought has been a constant threat to farming in South Africa. Read an old article about water and politics in southern ...

Drawing of slaves pressing wine

Drawing of slaves pressing wine

‘Wine pressing’ circa 1832 by Frederick Knyvett (1805 – 1857)

Dorothy Masuka

Everybody's Dotty - Dorothy Masuka , the sizzling hepcat 'Nontsokilo' singer from Bulawayo, January, 1955

Demonstration following the death in detention of Ahmed Timol - Wits University, Johannesburg - 1971

Demonstration following the death in detention of Ahmed Timol - Wits University, Johannesburg - 1971

Delegation from the South African Native National Congress that went to England in 1914

Delegation from the South African Native National Congress that went to England in 1914

Delegation from the South African Native National Congress that went to England in 1914 to convey the objections of the ...

Day of the African Child

Day of the African Child

Day of the African Child, celebrated on 16 June photo by: Alex Majoli/Magnum Photos