SAHO is a non-partisan people's history project that provides a mass of information on different aspects of South African history. In a country that for a long period only promoted the history of the oppressor and sought to eliminate the history of the non-white majority of people, history has become an important means of recovering the past, of recording memory andovercoming the subjugation of African culture.

The site includes encyclopedic chronologies of South African history, profiles of people, events and key areas of arts and culture, interactive debates on past and present SA events and teaching aids. It also has an online bookshop. According to the website's authors SAHO's mission is to break the silence of our past and to create the most comprehensive online encyclopedia of South African history and culture. SAHO has committed itself to involve heritage and academic institutions as well as ordinary South Africans in rewritingthe country'shistory and in that way contributing to reconciliation, the building of a common humanity and a non-racial, non sexist and democratic society.SAHO is a valuable means of increasing knowledge and awareness of SouthAfrica, not just in the country but in all countries.

Read more at http://www.sahistory.org.za/

By Mark Waller

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