History Matters

It is a cruel fact that in the last 15 years the Humanities and the Social Sciences have been severely affected by the dire need to respond to the obvious deficit in engineering, natural scientific, informational and managerial needs.  This downscaling of the importance of the human and social forms of scholarship has had a [...]

WISER, University of the Witwatersrand Monday June 13 2011 Venue WISER Seminar Room* When Lewis Nkosi passed away on September 6, 2010 at the age of 73, South Africa lost an intellectual and literary voice as unique for its lucidity as its peerless range. Novelist, essayist, critic, playwright, editor, journalist, and scholar, Nkosi earned each [...]

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Dear Valued Stakeholder Statement by Acting President, Kgalema Motlanthe on the Health of Former President Nelson Mandela Cape Town – Acting President Kgalema Motlanthe on Thursday night released an official statement on the health of former president Nelson Mandela. “There has been mounting concern about the health of the former president Nelson Mandela. We wish [...]

SACP Press Statement Malesela Maleka, 24 May 2009 The SACP Central Committee met in Johannesburg on the 22nd and 23rd May 2009.This was the first plenary CC meeting after the April 22nd elections, and the Political and Organisational Reports and ensuing discussion devoted considerable time to assessing the election campaign and the way forward. The [...]

ANC PRESS RELEASE ANC urges public debate on a Roadmap for Education 16 November 2008 Since April 2007, the ANC Health and Education Committee has been involved in a major policy review of education, implementing the resolutions of the ANC’s 52nd National Conference, held in December 2007. The conference declared education and health major priorities [...]

Press Release 17 June 2008 HISTORY MATTERS RESPONDS TO JAY NAIDOO’S CALL FOR NATIONAL CONVERSATION History Matters, the new blog established by South African History Online, applauds Jay Naidoo’s call for a national dialogue. SAHO’s CEO Omar Badsha argues that it is not enough to just have a “national conversation” but that there is an [...]