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Schools language dispute began in 1974
Reaping the whirlwind 18 June 1976
PRP and UP calss to scrap rule 17 June 1976
Ministers visit Soweto 24 June 1976
Looting, burning as riots continue 17 June 1976
Child’s moment of Agony 17 June 1976
Education chief faces - Who to Blame - storm 20 June 1976
Children in revolt - Soweto strikers reject Afrikaans 13 June 1976
Cape Time’s articles 18 June 1976
Afrikaans rule not rigid, Blacks told 21 June 1976
The Riots Special Report Illustration
Launch of May I have this Dance by Connie Ngcaba
Pondoland’s heroes to be honoured
The New Radicals: A generational memoir of the 1970’s
EventLindiwe Sisulu is detained
On 13 June 1976, Lindiwe Nonceba Sisulu was detained for her involvement in political activities. The police suspected her of being in possessions of the then…
EventFour ANC members killed in an ambush near Piet Retief, eastern Transvaal
On 8 June 1988, Surendra Lenny Naidu, Lindiwe Mthembu, Makhosi Nyoka and Nontsikelelo Cothoza, all African National Congress (ANC) members were shot dead when…
EventPresident. F.W. de Klerk lifts the state of emergency
On 7 June 1990, former South African President, F W de Klerk, announced the end of South Africa’s four year old state of emergency. Immediately after that, he…
Kaizer CHIEFS Legend passes away at the age of 43
Latest in the SAHO archive: 21 May 2014 - 3 June 2014
EventSir James Liege Hulett dies in Durban, South Africa
Sir James Liege Hulett was born on 17 May 1838 in South Yorkshire, England. In 1857, at the age of 19, he came to South Africa. Sir Hulett founded Tongaat…
EventWife of detained Nigerian president is killed
On 4 June 1996, Kudirat Abiola the wife of Moshood Abiola, the detained Nigerian President, was gunned down at close range by three unknown men while she was…
EventChurch bombing kills 15 people in Nigeria.
On 3 June 2012, a suicide bomber forced his car, filled with explosives, through a checkpoint and exploded, killing people at the Living Faith Church in Bauchi…
EventNatal becomes part of the Union of South Africa
In 1844 Natal, annexed by Britain on 12 May 1843, became a district of the Cape Colony under a lieutenant-governor. It was proclaimed a British colony on 4 May…
EventWinnie Mandela’s jail sentence is suspended by the Appeal Court
The Appeal Court in Bloemfontein set aside Winnie Madikizela Mandela's sentence of five years' imprisonment for kidnapping four youths and a one year sentence…
EventCecil Edwin Frans Skotnes is born in East London, Eastern Cape
Cecil Edwin Frans Skotnes,a muralist and graphic artist, was born on 1 June 1926 in East London, Eastern Cape. In 1946 he studied drawing under Henrich Steiner…
Memories of Bram Fischer by Denis Goldberg
The Hidden History of South Africa’s Book and Reading Cultures
Review Essay: Crisis, History and the Challenge of Reinvention in the Postcolonial by Laurence Piper, March 2014
Statement by Neil Aggett
EventShaba War in Zaire comes to an end
The first Shaba war (also referred to as Shaba I) broke out on 8 March 1977 in the Democratic Republic of Congo, when Angola-based guerrillas of the Front for…