SAHO global search
5,078 records
EventNational Party wins general election
… a parliamentary general election, Verwoerd's last election before his assassination in office six months later. Of the …
EventFive ANC leaders are released from prison
… Motsoaledi. Three of the eight prisoners who were released before and after 1989 were, Dennis Goldberg (1985), Govan …
EventApartheid bomb kills Zimbabwean and injures six ANC members
… was paid Z$20.00 to drive the truck to the destination. Before he drove the truck, it was booby-trapped by Mr Kit …
EventPolice detain Valli Moosa and Murphy Morobe in Port Elizabeth
… and spent thirty-seven days in the American Consulate, before securing passports and flying out of the country. …
EventSamora Machel, president of Mozambique, dies in a plane crash
… that the South African authorities were to blame. A day before Machel’s death, Carlos Cardosa, Director of the …
EventThe General Assembly of the League of Nations meets in Geneva for the first time
… in which the League was installed in 1936, three years before the outbreak of World War II. On 26 June 1945, …
EventRailway line between Cape Town and Beira in Mozambique is completed
… Railway to Umtali was completed in February 1989, just before the South African War(Anglo-Boer War II, 1899-1902). …
EventJameson Raid starts
… that by a sudden advance he would reach Johannesburg before Boer forces could be mobilised to stop him. He was …
EventThe Birkenhead runs aground with 638 passengers
… allowed the women and children to escape in the boats before trying to save themselves. Of the 638 passengers, 445 …
EventPrime Minister Verwoerd’s assassin transferred from prison to a mental asylum
… of America and twice escaped from mental institutions before settling in South Africa. At his trial, he blamed his …
EventTodd Tozama Matshikiza, musician, composer and writer, is born in Queenstown, Eastern Cape
… children. His son John Matshikiza was a well known actor before his untimely death in 2008. …
EventConservative Party leader, Dr Andries Treurnicht, dies in Cape Town.
… with the assassination of Chris Hani. A few months before he died, he participated in the Multi-party …
EventThomas William Bowler, prolific painter at the Cape, is born
… Bowler spent five years studying and practising drawing before he reached master status in the craft. His subject …
EventPieter-Dirk Uys, SA activist, satirist, playwright and novelist, is born in Cape Town
… Town in 1945. He studied drama at UCT from 1965 to 1965 before going to study at the London Film School. During the …
EventThe Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland collapses
… Zimbabwe ) and Nyasaland (now Malawi ) was made. In 1959, before the fall of the federation, nationalist movements …
EventJacobus Johannes (Jim) Fouché is born in Wepener in the OFS.
… was initially elected as President; however Donges died before he could take his Presidential seat in office. …
Speech at Meeting to Commemorate South Africa Freedom Day and to Condemn the 600-year Alliance between Britain and Portugal by O. R. Tambo, London, 20 June 1973
… and then dragged to jail via the farcical formality of court judgments. Today, only three weeks before the 10th anniversary of the Rivonia arrests of our … -…
Indian passive resistance in South Africa: 1946 - 1948 by E. S. Reddy
… by the the General Assembly at its next session. Before the opening of the Assembly session, a national … of democracy. Dr. Naicker and Dr. Dadoo told the…
ArticleKKNK – Klein Karoo Nasionale Kunstefees
… for being a national arts festival, please, think again before using that term so loosely. It is an Afrikaner …
ArticleAfrikaner Jewry in South Africa
… Lithuanian immigrant who had arrived in South Africa just before the South African War [xv] . Lazarus’s maize (‘ mealie …
A Message to Every Voter from the African National Congress, April 1958
… This message was published early in April 1958, before the general elections. Sir or Madam, You may be …
ArticleThe Western Front
… a strategy whereby Germany would attempt to defeat France before the latter’s ally, Russia, could mobilise her armies …
ArticleNational symbols such as the Coat of Arms and the National Anthem
… van Suid Afrika” was the official anthem of South Africa before 1994. In today’s anthem the one verse is sung in …
Communique of the Second National Consultative Conference of the ANC, presented by O. R. Tambo at a Press Conference, Lusaka 25 June, 1985
… and whom Botha is still refusing to release. Shortly before it opened, we had received a message from the leaders … the conference the ANC will emerge far…
Second National Consultative Conference Communiqué, 25 June 1985
… and whom Botha is still refusing to release. Shortly before it opened, we had received a message from the leaders … the Conference the ANC will emerge far…
January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 102th Anniversary of the ANC by Jacob Zuma
… and non-racialism have been cornerstones of the ANC since before our formal establishment in 1912 and are succinctly … Africa is a much better place to live…
PlaceVredehoek
… amenities include a braai area, a swimming pool, a tennis court and a squash court. Overall, it cost R3 million to construct Disa Park. …
PlaceA History of Ottosdal and Letsopa
… lived in this area from 1700 until the early 1900s and before Ottosdal was established as a town, the area was … afford to pay the monthly amounts, they were…
Article50 Facts on Africa
… continent that people may not readily know. J.M. Coetzee (1940- ) J.M. Coetzee is a two-time Booker prize winner, known …
"Racial Problems in South Africa": Speech at the Second Pan-African Youth Seminar by O. R Tambo, Dar es Salaam, 5 August 1961
… antagonism presents itself. Its causes are various; but before I enumerate these it would be interesting to go back a … the relations between the…