Events, Projects & Exhibitions
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SAHO PROJECTS
Website
SAHO’s website is one of the most comprehensive resources on South African history and culture.
Schools Project
The publication of the new history curriculum for schools on SAHO’s website is the mainstay of its schools programme. In addition, SAHO organises travelling exhibitions that visit schools and also runs workshops for history teachers.The project encourages schools to undertake local history projects, such as the recording of the lives of those South Africans who played a role in the struggle for freedom and democracy.The schools programme also produces books, posters and CD-ROM’s on aspects of South African history for students and teachers. 
Community Project
The aim of the community based programme is to provide communities with assistance and training to undertake oral history projects and in the use of Internet Technology to tell their own and community histories.The project also aims to urge communities to undertake research into their histories and to assist them in marketing their heritage sites and local festivals.
Lives of Courage Campaign
The campaign’s primary aim is to build an online “Wall of Remembrance”, and to involve communities and more specifically, school children to assist in the compilation of this information.The online “Wall of Remembrance” will include information on people who were imprisoned, banned, banished, detained, executed (in prison or by security forces), died in exile or in action within the country and who played a leading role in the trade union, women, youth and liberation organizations.
EXHIBITIONS, PUBLICATIONS & CULTURAL PROGRAMMES
Since 2000 SAHO has developed an innovative arts and cultural programme which has made us one of the leading NGO’s in this area. SAHO has made an impact on the promotion of arts and culture at home and abroad by embarking on several projects.
Web Gallery
SAHO’s flagship project is its website, which includes information on artists and their work, the history of arts organisations, movements and cultural heritage. The website regularly features the work of South African artists and photographers in the form of a web gallery accompanied by a commentary and biographical details on the artists.
Publications and Exhibitions
SAHO promotes the work of South African artists locally and overseas through a ground-breaking publishing and exhibitions programme. In partnership with local and international publishing partners, SAHO has rapidly grown into a highly acclaimed publishing house. A series of books on history, culture and photography have been produced.
For a full list of SAHO's publications
SAHO has curated approximately 20 major exhibitions and has a number of travelling exhibitions touring Africa and the rest of the world.
For a full list of Online Exhibitions
SAHO SHOP
We will soon be launching an online shop, which allows users to purchase images and books. To browse through available publications
Bonani Africa Festival of Photography
SAHO organised a photographic festival of the work of African photographers. In 2002 fifty exhibitions were displayed in Johannesburg and Pretoria. A successful photographic conference was also attended by students from Natal University, University of the Western Cape and 3 Gauteng Technikons. To view the online exhibition
OUR LIST OF PUBLICATIONS & EXHIBITIONS
Narratives - Rituals and Graven Images
By Omar Badsha (publication, exhibition & web gallery)
A highly acclaimed photographic commentary on South Africa edited from essays taken over 25 years by one of the country’s leading documentary photographers (2001).
SISA SERIES:
Imperial Ghetto - Ways of Seeing in a South African City
By Omar Badsha (publication, exhibition & web gallery)
Published by SAHO and SISA as part of the South African Social Identities Series (2001).
After Apartheid: Social Identities in the New South Africa Vol 1
Edited by Abebe Zegeye (publication)
Published by SAHO and SISA as part of the South African Social Identities Series.
After Apartheid: Social Identities in the new South Africa Vol 2
Edited by Abebe Zegeye and Robert Kriger (publication)
Published by SAHO and SISA as part of the South African Social Identities Series.
Kala Pani: Caste and Colour in South Africa
By Rahana Ebr-Vally (publication)
Published by SAHO and SISA as part of the South African Social Identities Series.
Coloured by History - Identity and Place Amongst Coloured South Africans
Edited by Zimitri Erasmus (publication)
Published by SAHO and SISA as part of the South African Social Identities Series
The I of the Beholder - Identity Formation in the Art and Writing of Breyten Breytenbach
By Marilet Sienaert (publication)
Published by SAHO and SISA as part of the South African Social Identities Series
With Our Own Hands - Fighting Poverty in South Africa
Edited by Omar Badsha (publication, exhibition & web gallery)
A book about poverty and development in South Africa done for the Department of Public Works with focus on the impact of poverty alleviation programmes in 3 of South Africa’s poorest provinces (2001).
Bonani Africa Photographic Festival - 23 August - 30 September 2002
(exhibition & web gallery)
SAHO organised a photographic festival of the work of African photographers. In 2002 fifty exhibitions were displayed in Johannesburg and Pretoria. A successful photographic conference was also attended by students from Natal University, University of the Western Cape and 3 Gauteng Technikons (2002).
Amulets & Dreams - War, Youth and Change in Africa
Edited by Omar Badsha
Photographs by Guy Tillim and Omar Badsha
Text by Julia Maxted (publication & web gallery)
Published by SAHO, ISS, Unisa Press. This book covers civil strife and its effects on the society in 6 African countries namely Angola, Mozabique, Burundi, Sierra Leone, Ethiopia and Eritria. The book and exhibition opened in Durban at the launch of the African Union by the OAU Secretary General Amara Essay (2002).
Our Dream Deferred - The Poor in South Africa
By Abebe Zegeye and Julia Maxted (publication & web gallery)
Published by SAHO and Unisa Press (2002).
Sita - memoirs of Sita Gandhi
Edited by Uma Dhupelia-Mesthrie
A book published by SAHO and the Durban local history Museum. Sita, a grand-daughter of Mahatma Gandhi, recounts with charming details her childhood years at phoenix Settlement, a farm from which the longest surviving Indian newspaper was produced, Indian Opinion. Her account provides a striking glimpse of the challenges faced by Gandhi's South African Family in continuing his legacy
(2003).
Cape Flats Details - Life and Popular Art in Cape Town’s Townships
By Chris Ledochowski (publication, exhibition & web gallery)
This book is the culmination of 10 years of documenting life in the Cape Flats African and Coloured townships of Cape Town by one of South Africa’s most talented, but least recognized, documentary photographers. Ledochowski’s painstaking and brilliant photographs document the wall decorations and murals drawn by artists in these townships. The essay of 250 images speaks about hopes, dreams, rituals and social comment by Cape Town’s poor (2003).
Natal Organisation of Women photographic exhibition
by Omar Badsha (exhibition &web gallery)
A photographic commentary on the Natal Organisation of Women (2003).
FREEDOMza
(exhibition & web gallery)
Photographic essays by 6 South African photographers documenting the lives of 15 secondary school learners from urban and rural communities and representing the broad spectrum of South African society. This project was a joint venture between SAHO and the Department of Education. The exhibition was shown at the 27 April celebrations in Cape Town at the castle (2003).
Robert McBride: A Coloured life
by Gomolemo Mokae (publication)
Published by SAHO with Vista University (2004).
Defiant Daughters - Portraits of South African Women
By Giselle Wulfsohn (web gallery)
Portraits by one of the leading documentary photographers of women activists and leaders who made a difference in the struggle and in shaping the new democracy (2004).
Dumile Feni Official Website
(web gallery and online project)
The project was put together by SAHO and the Dumile Feni Foundation. The website was launched and is maintaned by SAHO. It is used to publish Dumile's work and to provide a platform for like-minded artists to express their views (2004).
Jurgen Shadeburg images
(web gallery)
A web gallery of Jurgen Shadeburg's images (2004).
Images of Mandela
by Louise Gubb (web gallery)
A web gallery of images of Mandela (2004).
Revisions - expanding the narrative of South African Art.
edited by Haden Proud (exhibition & publication)
A private collection assembled by Bruce Campbell Smith, exhibited at the South African National Gallery in Cape Town in 2004. The collection is unique and perhaps the most impressive of its kind outside of any public institution. It constitutes a rich, albeit selective, chronicle of this particular collector's personal collation of objects representing South African endeavour in the visual arts over a period of some eighty-odd years.
The book is being launched in early 2007 and was published by SAHO and Unisa Press. The books prinipal focus is on "work by black South African artists" active between the 1920s and 2004. The collection presents a range of images - including some of undoubted, if not iconic, importance - ranging from the colonial and apartheid eras to embrace the first ten years of the new democratic order.
Celebrating 50 years of the Freedom Charter: June 26 1955-June 26 2005
Compiled by the SAHO staff (publication for schools)
SAHO compiled this publication for the Department of Education. It was distributed to shools acroos the country in 2005.
An Age of Hope: Landmarks in a century of struggle 1906-2006
Compiled by the SAHO staff (publication for schools)
SAHO compiled this publication for the Department of Education. It was distributed to shools acroos the country in 2006.
Age of Hope: The Women's struggle, 1900 till today
Edited by Joni Light & Omar Badsha (exhibition)
A travelling exhibition and web gallery produced for the Department of Education. The exhibition consists of over 100 images of women and the struggle over the last century. In 2007 the exhibition will be translated into a publication.
FUTURE PUBLICATIONS & EXHIBITIONS
(watch this space)
