Latest articles on History

Maaza Mengiste: ‘We are now catching up with the past’

Friday Theresa Mallinson - 12 Nov 2020

As war drums beat again in Ethiopia, author Maaza Mengiste finds new language to memorialise the Second Italo-Ethiopian War

The Portfolio: Saaiqa

Friday Saaiqa - 29 Oct 2020

Photographer Saaiqa shares the story of how she captured this picture that reflects both the socioeconomic realities of our country and simple companionship

Black futures in the age of apocalypse

Friday Nkgopoleng Moloi - 22 Oct 2020

Curating the End of the World deploys Afrofuturism to respond to Covid-19, anti-black violence and capitalism

Reframing women in Namibia’s early history of photography

Friday Lorena Rizzo - 25 Sep 2020

Women photographers, and black African women photographers in particular, are largely absent from early histories of the medium. This is slowly changing

Omar Badsha: Recording the roles of the ordinary

Friday Niren Tolsi - 17 Sep 2020

Saho’s Omar Badsha believes in the power of people telling their own stories, but more funding to support this practice is crucial

A quick trek to ancient Egypt during lockdown

Opinion John Davenport - 8 Aug 2020

Well, the pharaonic Voortrekker Monument to be precise for John Davenport

Oxford’s position on Rhodes Must Fall is bad politics — and even worse history

Opinion Nic Cheeseman - 15 Jun 2020

It is misleading to use Nelson Mandela’s name to defend the Cecil John Rhodes statue

Tobacco and a tipple gave comfort during times of war

Article Will Gordon - 27 Apr 2020

Allied forces in the two world wars were provided with cigarettes. The anti-smoking Nazis used taxes on tobacco to help fill Germany’s depleted coffers

Blowtorch prose hits the spot

Article Nthikeng Mohlele - 3 May 2019

Filled with great skill and craftsmanship, Fred Khumalo’s short stories are exceptional

Reimagining sites of basic education

Article Staff Reporter - 25 Jan 2019

Knowledge gaps can be plugged without always changing compulsory subjects for matric pupils

School history curriculum overhaul mooted

Article Gemma Ritchie & Mashadi Kekana - 18 Dec 2018

Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga has asked that the history curriculum become more comprehensive and well-rounded

Letters to the Editor: June 22 to 28

Article Staff Reporter - 22 Jun 2018

Our readers write in about unlocking youth power and the evolution of the school curriculum

What we teach must be relevant

Article Staff Reporter - 22 Jun 2018

If we do not change the way we teach our children, we will be in big trouble in 30 years

The way history is taught in South Africa is ahistorical ― and that’s a problem

Article Natasha Robinson - 10 Jun 2018

History needs to focus on historical consciousness if students are to become capable of dealing with South Africa's social problems

Editorial: History’s crucial lessons

Article Editorial - 8 Jun 2018

'The department of education’s plan to make history compulsory for every learner throughout their schooling career is to be applauded'

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ConCourt asked to rule that Zuma must testify for 10 days next year

emma balfour - 4 Dec 2020

It is Zondo's legal end game and will leave the former president, his supporters and those implicated in state capture to increasingly play fast and loose at imputing political motive to the commission

National

This is how the SIU catches crooks

Athandiwe Saba - 3 Dec 2020

Athandiwe Saba talked to the Special Investigating Unit’s Andy Mothibi about its caseload, including 1 000 Covid contracts

National

FNB dragged into bribery claims

khaya koko - 3 Dec 2020

Allegations of bribery against the bank’s chief executive, Jacques Celliers, thrown up in a separate court case

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special reports - 4 Dec 2020

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Special Reports

Touching lives through innovation

special reports - 30 Nov 2020

Africa has a high youth population that adapts to technology quickly, and this phenomenon is something which should be taken advantage of

Special Reports

Festive Reading

special reports - 30 Nov 2020

In The Whistleblowers, Mandy Wiener talks to a wide range of the people who have revealed corruption and malfeasance in government and business

Special Reports

Centre for Women & Gender Studies

special reports - 30 Nov 2020

The CWGS aims to resuscitate the histories of African women from all walks of life in an intellectual cleansing/ukuhlambulula of her story

Special Reports

Greening the Future

special reports - 30 Nov 2020

The awards are a way of encouraging progress and celebrating those who wake up every day and work to make this country a better more sustainable place

Special Reports

Failing to learn the lessons? The impact of Covid-19 on a Broken and Unequal Education System

special reports - 30 Nov 2020

If the president was serious about fixing basic education, he would appoint his most competent minister with a powerful mandate to start fixing it

Special Reports

National Science and Technology Forum

special reports - 27 Nov 2020

It's an independent SETI platform, an essential element of an active democracy and an important part of the collaboration process needed in SETI

Special Reports

Milestones over the NSTF’s 25-year history

special reports - 27 Nov 2020

The organisation celebrates its Silver Jubilee as an established player in the NSI and as promoter and influencer of SET and innovation in South Africa