SAHO global search

This day in history

Algeria demands that France negotiate on ending nuclear testing in Algerian Sahara.

This day in history

Relative calm returns to Algeria after cease-fire, ending seven years of warfare between French and Algerian Nationalists.

This day in history

Lt.-Col. Hermanus Christiaan (Manie) Bredell, chief adjunct commissioner of the SA Police, dies on his farm Zonneheuwel, near M

This day in history

The publishing company, Afrikaanse Pers Beperk, is established in Pretoria.

This day in history

Jack Hindon (44), the man after whom the SA medal for outstanding service is named, dies in Pretoria.

This day in history

Thomas Thornton becomes the first air passenger in SA when he pays Albert Kimmerling £100 for a short flight from Sydenham Hil

This day in history

Anglo-Boer War 2: Commandant Gideon Scheepers executes two armed Coloureds of a group that has fired at his commando from a fa

This day in history

Scot of the Union Shipping Line sails from England to South Africa in a record time of 14 days, 18 hours and 57 minutes.

This day in history

Nqwiliso (also Nowiliso), tribal chief of Western Pondoland and eldest son of Ndamase, signs a treaty with Cape Governor H.G. E

This day in history

War against the Basuto is declared in Bloemfontein.

This day in history

Dr David Livingstone, SA explorer and missionary, generally accepted to be the first White man to see the Victoria Falls is bor

This day in history

Bob Woolmer, 58, Pakistani cricket coach and former South African coach, is found unconscious in his hotel room during the Worl

This day in history

Egypt’s highest court clears democracy activist Saad Eddin Ibrahim on charges of defaming Egypt and illegally accepting foreign

This day in history

Senior US officials say that a high-ranking member of exiled Saudi multimillionaire Osama bin Laden’s al-Qaeda terrorist networ

This day in history

The Department of Health declines the offer of a large donation of HIV test kits made by Guardian Scientific Africa Incorporate

This day in history

Aid arrives in Mozambique where flooding leaves as many as 700 people dead and destroys the homes and jobs of another 2-million

This day in history

The World Health Organisation reports that without urgent action against tuberculosis, 1-billion people will be infected and 70

This day in history

Israel freezes military contracts and imposes cultural and tourism sanctions on South Africa.

This day in history

The Five Freedoms Forum an alliance of White anti-apartheid organisations is launched in Johannesburg.

This day in history

The PAC announces in Dan es Salaam that it has reinstated seventy-two members expelled from the movement in July 1978.

This day in history

The government admits responsibility for the death of the Black leader, Joseph Mdluli on 19 March 1976 and agree to pay damages

This day in history

President Marien Ngouabi of the Congo is assassinated in a military coup and replaced by Colonel Yhombi-Opango.

This day in history

Herbert Chitepo, 52, ZANU leader, is killed in Lusaka when his car blows up in an explosion.

This day in history

All activities of the South African Students’ Organisation (SASO) are suspended until further notice.

This day in history

The Minister of the Interior, Connie Mulder, announces that senior officials of the World Council of Churches (WCC) have been b

This day in history

The Deputy Leader of the Herstigte Nasionale Party (HNP), Jaap Marais, is committed for trial in the Pretoria Supreme Court on

This day in history

Minister of Defence, P.W. Botha, attends the launching in France of the first of three Daphne class submarines being built for

This day in history

The Defence and Aid Fund is banned as an unlawful organisation under the Suppression of Communism Act. It is an autonomous Sout

This day in history

The nuclear reactor Safari at Pelindaba goes critical – and South Africa enters the nuclear age.

This day in history

War of independence is launched against Portugal in Guinea-Bissau.

Search Results

Algeria demands that France negotiate on ending nuclear testing in Algerian Sahara.

Relative calm returns to Algeria after cease-fire, ending seven years of warfare between French and Algerian Nationalists.

Lt.-Col. Hermanus Christiaan (Manie) Bredell, chief adjunct commissioner of the SA Police, dies on his farm Zonneheuwel, near M

The publishing company, Afrikaanse Pers Beperk, is established in Pretoria.

Jack Hindon (44), the man after whom the SA medal for outstanding service is named, dies in Pretoria.

Thomas Thornton becomes the first air passenger in SA when he pays Albert Kimmerling £100 for a short flight from Sydenham Hil

Anglo-Boer War 2: Commandant Gideon Scheepers executes two armed Coloureds of a group that has fired at his commando from a fa

Scot of the Union Shipping Line sails from England to South Africa in a record time of 14 days, 18 hours and 57 minutes.

Nqwiliso (also Nowiliso), tribal chief of Western Pondoland and eldest son of Ndamase, signs a treaty with Cape Governor H.G. E

War against the Basuto is declared in Bloemfontein.

Dr David Livingstone, SA explorer and missionary, generally accepted to be the first White man to see the Victoria Falls is bor

Bob Woolmer, 58, Pakistani cricket coach and former South African coach, is found unconscious in his hotel room during the Worl

Egypt’s highest court clears democracy activist Saad Eddin Ibrahim on charges of defaming Egypt and illegally accepting foreign

Senior US officials say that a high-ranking member of exiled Saudi multimillionaire Osama bin Laden’s al-Qaeda terrorist networ

The Department of Health declines the offer of a large donation of HIV test kits made by Guardian Scientific Africa Incorporate

Aid arrives in Mozambique where flooding leaves as many as 700 people dead and destroys the homes and jobs of another 2-million

The World Health Organisation reports that without urgent action against tuberculosis, 1-billion people will be infected and 70

Israel freezes military contracts and imposes cultural and tourism sanctions on South Africa.

The Five Freedoms Forum an alliance of White anti-apartheid organisations is launched in Johannesburg.

The PAC announces in Dan es Salaam that it has reinstated seventy-two members expelled from the movement in July 1978.

The government admits responsibility for the death of the Black leader, Joseph Mdluli on 19 March 1976 and agree to pay damages

President Marien Ngouabi of the Congo is assassinated in a military coup and replaced by Colonel Yhombi-Opango.

Herbert Chitepo, 52, ZANU leader, is killed in Lusaka when his car blows up in an explosion.

All activities of the South African Students’ Organisation (SASO) are suspended until further notice.

The Minister of the Interior, Connie Mulder, announces that senior officials of the World Council of Churches (WCC) have been b

The Deputy Leader of the Herstigte Nasionale Party (HNP), Jaap Marais, is committed for trial in the Pretoria Supreme Court on

Minister of Defence, P.W. Botha, attends the launching in France of the first of three Daphne class submarines being built for

The Defence and Aid Fund is banned as an unlawful organisation under the Suppression of Communism Act. It is an autonomous Sout

The nuclear reactor Safari at Pelindaba goes critical – and South Africa enters the nuclear age.

War of independence is launched against Portugal in Guinea-Bissau.