Today marks the 60th anniversary of the forming of the Black Sash: the Women’s Defence of the Constitution League was founded on the 19 May 1955 by six white women who stood together to oppose the Separate Representation of Voters Bill, a law aimed at disenfranchising non-whites. While the League lost their first fight, they grew in strength and … Read more
Last Tuesday saw the remains of late journalist, Ndazana Nathaniel Nakasa, brought home to South Africa. Nakasa, popularly known as ‘Nat’ was one of South Africa’s most promising journalists at the time that he went into exile in 1964. Having moved to Johannesburg to work as a journalist for the Post, Nat later found work … Read more
With the country heading off to the polls tomorrow we thought that it would be a good time to reflect on a bit of South Africa’s history, both recent and past. It doesn’t seem possible, but it was nearly seven years ago that the battle with Durban’s street names began. In an effort to acknowledge … Read more
Opening next month, Rise and Fall of Apartheid: Photography and the Bureaucracy of Everyday Life is a photographic exhibition ten years in the making. The traveling exhibition, which has been shown in New York, Milan and Munich will finish its tour at Johannesburg’s Museum Africa, in celebration of 20 years of democracy in South Africa. … Read more
Despite having grown up in the Eastern Cape, Steve Biko has strong ties to the province of KwaZulu-Natal, having studied medicine at UKZN (then University of Natal), before being expelled for his political connections. Last Thursday marked the 36th anniversary of Biko’s death. Biko died on the 12th September 1977 after sustaining brutal beatings whilst … Read more