History through pictures

President Jacob Zuma, members of the Tambo family and government officials during the unveiling of the Oliver Tambo stat...

Chief Albert Luthuli and Oliver Tambo at Johannesburg train station in May 1959.

American civils rights leader Jesse Jackson with Oliver Tambo (left) and Trevor Huddleston (right) in London during the ...

Oliver Tambo, Thabo Mbeki and Alfred Nzo during the ANC's 74th anniversary press conference in Lusaka, Zambia, in Januar...

Oliver Tambo and Nelson Mandela see each other for the first time in 28 years in Sweden (12 March 1990)

Zubeida Vallie's photo of a COSATU march in 1992. From left to right: John Gomomo, Chris Hani, Jay Naidoo, Alan Boe...

A policeman arrests two Indian men of South Africa, on November 14, 1983 during a demonstration against Apartheid outsid...

Patrick Mosiua Lekota, Popo Molefe and Trevor Manuel Aug 20, 1983

A Moravian missionary, Johann Kienemann, visits schoolchildren in Engonjaneni in KwaZulu-Natal in 1933. 

Frances Baard addressing the UDF in Mitchels Plain. Photograph by Paul Weinberg. .

Farm workers demanded a wage increase from R69 to R150 when they went on strike in 2012-2013 & improved working cond...

Members of the South African Defiance Campaign arrive in Cape Town

Reverend Isaac Wauchope pictured centre.

The sinking of the Mendi remains the greatest wartime maritime disaster ever suffered in South Africa.

Mamathola,  August 3, 1958

A woman highlighting poverty in rural areas.

The Anti-Apartheid Movement’s “No to Botha” demonstration on 2 June 1984, while British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher...

Anglo-Boer War prisoners of war on St Helena.

Opposition youth members protest against Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe, 14 April 2015

His Holiness the Dalia Lama and his good friend Desmond Tutu.

Indian fishermen in Durban circa 1896. 

Miriam Makeba, performs at the Africa Festival in Delft, the Netherlands on 4th August 1990.  Image: Frans Schellekens...

 Kenyan security officials ready a batch of poached ivory.

Busi Mhlongo live in concert promoting her album, Urban Zulu, before she passed away.

Derek Hanekom, Faiez Jacobs, Baleka Mbete and Cheryl Carolus at the 33rd anniversary of the formation of the UDF

A woman in a train compartment reserved for Whites protesting against Apartheid

Albertina Sisulu and Winnie Mandela sit with their respective husbands in City Hall, Cape Town, following the unconditio...

In 1957, Ghana was the first sub-Saharan African nation to declare independence from Colonialism.

The pass that Indians were forced to carry in the Transvaal, 1908

Albert Luthuli and his wife Nokukhanya in Oslo 12 September 1961, for the Nobel peace prize.

Patrice Lumumba in Congo, 1960.

Today SAHO commemorates the birthday of Oliver Tambo, who was born ninety nine years ago on 27 October 1917.  

Siblings in pre-independent Accra in 1934. 

Gideon Iileka, Steve Hayes, Thomas Ruhozu. Kamanjab, Namibia, 5 Oct 1971

Dance instructor Phillip Boyd gives a ballet class in Gugulethu to previously disadvantaged youth. 

Jean and Barloo Naidoo, who were members of the Space Club Committe and their extensive, wonderful family.

The South African women artists collective iQhiya at Documenta in Kassel Germany earlier this year. (Photo by Stath...

Sonke Gender Justice (Sonke) celebrates the verdict of guilty against Nkosinam Xabadiya for the domestic violence murder...

An early photo of key figures in South Africa’s theatre heritage: John Kani, Athol Fugard and Winston Ntshona.