SAHO global search
35,204 records
PlaceLovedale Missionary School
… The missionary school where so many Black intellectuals of the 19th and early 20th century—from Tiyo Soga to Thabo Mbeki …
EventNathaniel Nakasa, South African journalist and writer, dies in exile
… Ndazana Nathaniel Nat Nakasa was awarded the The Niemann Fellowship to study journalism at Harvard … be allowed to return to South Africa. Nakasa was part of…
EventSeven impalas are trapped in a camp and viciously beaten to death at Skukuza, Kruger National Park
… for meat in Skukuza, Kruger National Park. Witnesses saw the four men lock the bucks in a camp before beating them to death with sticks … charged with…
EventChief Albert Luthuli is banned for a further five years
… Chief Albert Luthuli, President General of the African National Congress (ANC), led the Defiance Campaign in 1952, a non- violent protest against … (1999)…
EventPrime Minister Verwoerd’s assassin transferred from prison to a mental asylum
… On 30 June 1994, the Minister of Correctional Services in South Africa, Dr Sipho Mzimela, announced that Dimitri Tsafendas, the parliamentary messenger who…
Zindzi Mandela is born
… Zindziswa (Zindzi) Nobutho Mandela, second daughter of African National Congress (ANC) leader Nelson Mandela and … was born in a year of turmoil, during…
EventCardoso’s murderers convicted in Mozambique
… Six men accused of killing Mozambican investigative journalist Carlos … convicted and sentenced to lengthy prison terms. One of the suspects, Anibal dos…
ArchiveANC Perspective on models for South Africa's future constitutional dispensation
… Report of a Group A, Commission 5 on the African National Congress's … future Constitutional dispensation, prepared after the 1985 Kabwe Conference. Examines…
EventJames Sebe Moroka is born
… landowner and politician who was elected president-general of the African National Congress (ANC) from 1949 to 1952, was … Free State. He was a great…
EventTwo men are sentenced to death for petrol executions
… Maowasha and Alex Mashaba Matsepane were found guilty of burning Solomon Maake and his son in September 1985, after they were accused of being police…
EventNelson and Winnie Mandela travel to Canada.
… to Canada a few months after his release from 27 years of imprisonment. The visit was part of a six week tour of 14 nations in Africa, Europe and North…
EventRobert Mugabe returns to Rhodesia after being in exile for five years
… On 27 January 1980, the Rhodesian nationalist leader Robert Mugabe returned to … Mugabe had been trying to gather support for his party the Zimbabwe African…
EventANC’s Nelson Mandela in a historic political rally
… 's deputy president Nelson Mandela addressed a crowd of 300 000 in Port Elizabeth in what was described as South … biggest ever political rally. Mandela…
EventNelson Mandela was issued with his first passport after being released from prison
… as "Rolilahla") that he used to embark on a tour of some of the African states that had supported the South African liberation struggle, including Zambia, …
EventPresident P.W. Botha suffers a stroke.
… On 18 January 1989, P W Botha suffered a mild stroke at the age of 73. He was scheduled to meet with Namibian political leaders on 20 January 1989, but could…
EventArchbishop William Barnett issues a statement condemning Apartheid
… The Anglican Church joined the growing confrontation between church and state, when the Archbishop of Cape Town, Rev. William Barnett issued a statement ……
EventGeneral De la Rey releases General Lord Methuen after his wounds are treated
… Towards the end of the Second South African War (Anglo-Boer War 2), General De … had been forced to reverse his decision by the burghers of his Commando…
ArchiveLetter from John Daniel, President, to SRC Presidents and others
… General circular letter from John Daniel, President of NUSAS, suggesting ways of commemorating the 20th anniversary of the signing of the Universal…
EventUN Special Envoy visits SA
… Following the unanimous adoption of resolution 765 by the UN Security Council, Cyrus Vance was dispatched to South …
EventUpington 14 are sentenced
… down death sentences on fourteen Blacks (Upington 14) for the murder of Lucas Tshenolo Sethwala, a Black police constable who … attacking his home with…
EventSA Artist, Andries Johannes Botha, is born in Durban
… on 22 September 1952 in Durban. He studied Fine Arts at the University Of KwaZulu-Natal and later went on to teach the subject at Techinkon Natal. He…
ArchiveMalopoets: David Kramer concert
… Black and yellow background; images of map of Africa; with text in white. Notice of a music concert by David Kramer in support of the Leyland and Wilson…
ArchiveDokumente van belang
… List of documents found by the South African Police at Plot No 9, Travallyn, in the district of Krugersdorp on 8 July 1963 and on "Liliiesleaf" Farm in …
PlaceGlenara, Burg Street, Rondebosch
… impressive Victorian double-storeyed house was designed by the architect AW Ackerman, and built by one Mannix for Louis Antony Vintsent in 1882-3. The…
EventDefence minister Mosioua Lekota born
… The second Black minister of defence, Mosiuoa Gerard Patrick Lekota is born in Kroonstad, Free State (the former Orange Free State). Lekota is commonly known…
EventFormer IFP chairman Jiyane register Nadeco with IEC
… chairman, Ziba Jiyane, registerd a new political party, the National Democratic Convention (Nadeco), with the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC). His…
EventPresident Paul Kruger in an appeasement move
… In an effort to solve the 'Uitlander' grievances regarding voting rights, President Paul Kruger of the Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek (ZAR) (South African ……
Place'Angra das Vaccas', Mossel Bay
… Inlet on the Coast of the Indian Ocean, South-West of Mossel Bay. Old name for Vleesbaai. It was given its name … New Dictionary of South African Place Names…
ArchiveInterview with Amabutho members
… which refers collectively to quasi-military formations of township youth who were also often known as "comrades" or … "young lions." Mainly active in urban…
Open Talk with Grada Kilomba
… The Goethe-Institut is hosting an open talk and community … with gender, race, trauma, memory and post-colonialism. The audience will be invited to engage in…