SAHO global search
8,212 records
BiographyRafique (Rafs) Mayet
… the African Photography Festival in Bamako, Mali and had his first solo exhibition at the NSA Gallery in Durban. It …
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1800-1899
… 1800: Historical Context Nelson Mandela traces his lineage back to the Thembu Chief Nxeko, one of the early … to the Fish River. The emergence of Zulu King…
BiographyAbel Ntwana
… people, was keen to banish Abel Ntwana, claiming that his presence at Manzimale Location, Xhalanga District, …
BiographyNongqawuse
… said they refused to see him [Ngubo] as he had not killed his cattle or destroyed his corn … This did not satisfy him, so he went to the place … Bomvana…
BiographyHarry Mphahlele
… Natal [now KwaZulu-Natal] on 19 February 1953. His order was revoked on 18 September 1962. …
BiographyNamedi Mphahlele
… Namedi Mphahlele was banished on 19 February 1953 from his residence in Pietersburg District, [Northern] Transvaal …
BiographyIsaac Molife
… Xhalanga District, Eastern Province [now Eastern Cape] His order was revoked on 7 September 1962. …
Political revolution between 1820 and 1835
… child, Shaka Zulu was in exile from the Zulu kingdom while his father, Shaka Senzangakhona ruled the Zulu kingdom. Shaka … and became a soldier in the…
EventAnti apartheid activist Dr. Richard Turner is assassinated
… Dr. Richard Turner was assassinated. Turner met his untimely death on the night of 8 January 1978 when he was shot through a window of his home in Durban and…
BiographySebitji Frans Matlala
… in. I got a shock. He collapsed. Then he struggles to his feet and asked, ‘How are you?’ I asked him how he had … While in banishment, hesuffered paralysis…
BiographyPule Mabe
… 2014 [3] . Mabe is also a very controversial figure, with his name linked to several scandals. In 2013 he was part of a … two-million-rand worth of assets…
BiographyPepsi Mahlangu
… and killed by an unknown gunman in KwaThema, Springs on his return from exile in July 1991. …
BiographyBalelekeng Sam Masemola
… National Congress (ANC) in 1949 and helped to steer his branch in Alexandra Township away from 'hamba kahle' …
People Against Gangsterism and Drugs
… of attacks from PAGAD. He was also not prepared to turn his footage over to the police. Rashied Staggie, the brother … dealer, fled to a safer location, but…
EventApartheid police officers admit to the killing of Biko before the TRC
… government, led to international demonstrations. After his death, local and international pressure forced the government to launch an inquest into his death…
BiographyHermione Stephanie Lombard Faure
… who was a civil servant of the Transvaal Republic, and his wife Talitha Cumi Lombard. Faure received her early …
BiographyMartha Helena Cillie
… (SA). She was the daughter of Charl Daniel Cillié and his wife, Martha Helena Marais. She came from an illustrious …
Basetsana Julia, aka “Bassie” Kumalo
… African celebrities. This included Dr Nelson Mandela and his wife Graca Machel . Three years later she gave birth to …
BiographyPenelope Jane Dunlop
… she wrote a song for him which she also performed at his birthday in 2003. Amongst the guests were Former US …
BiographySophia Theresa Williams de Bruyn
… at number 17 Thumbler Street, in Villageboard with his older brother. She started primary schooling in the …
ArticleTimeline of the German and Herero, Nama War and Genocide
… waterhole of Osombo-Windimbe, Lothar von Trotha reads out his infamous extermination order in which he informs the … the Kaiser finally tells Lothar von…
BiographyBafana Mkhize
… George Msimang. He mainly uses railway sleepers for his sculpture. He has participated in many group …
BiographyMatsiketsane Mashile
… Soon after his birth, in 1927 at Maripeskop near Klaserie in the eastern …
BiographyThomas Madikwe Manthata
… November 29,1939 in Soekmekaar in the Northern Transvaal.His parents had no formal education.He completed teacher … teacher who encouraged political debates…
BiographyElijah Nkwenkwe Loza
… Loza was born in 1918 near Alice in the Ciskie,where his father was tribal headman.After completing secondary … Bureau,which later became the General…
BiographyThabang Sampson Phathakge Makwetla
… in 1974. Makwetla fled South Africa in the middle of his matriculation examinations in 1976 and matriculated from … Province from 2001 to 2004. This later…
EventLansana Conte’ leads a coup that deposes Guinea’s interim government
… president of Guinea. On 3 April 1984, a week after the death of President Ahmed Sékou Touré, Conte’ who was a … of Guinea. Conte’ was president of Guinea up…
BiographyKuben Naidoo
… in 1981, the South African press published a photograph of his ten-year-old son, Kuben Naidoo, holding up a banner …
BiographyPeter Kaya Selepe
… and of the African National Congress . At the time of his arrest for treason, he was living in Dube Township in …
BiographyW Mati
… during the Defiance Campaign for defying unjust laws after his arrest for organising the illegal May Day meeting in Port …