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ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1910s
… Works Amendment Act No 27 of 1956 Albert Luthuli starts his education at the Groutville School 3 January, The … mine after one of their fellow-workers is…
PlaceFirst & Second River Temple's
… worth a visit. In the Hindu faith, New Life comes after death! So the cremated ashes of the dead are given New Life …
EventAmy Biehl’s murderers receive amnesty from TRC
… in the head with a brick and then beaten and stabbed to death. Amy was 26 years old at the time of her murder. Read …
EventuMkhoto weSizwe (MK) launches its first acts of sabotage
… Bongco, the Border regional commander who was sentenced to death in August 1963 and Vuyisile Mini in October 1964. In …
ArchiveCHAPTER 6 - Towards a Broad Front and Other Desirable Accidents, January 1981 - January 1983 by Howard Barrell
… boycotts, etc... Molefe now discloses that behind his call lay much clandestine discussion. There had been an … in 1981 to about 39, while it suffered the…
ArticleThe International Criminal Court: Origins, Jurisdiction and the ‘African Bias’
… Libya received arrest warrants for Gadaffi and two of his upper-echelon leaders. Following the death of Gadaffi, Libya conflicted with the ICC over where ……
PUBLIC RESPONSE TO SAHO WEBSITE
… the latter day Gandhi Square. At the time of Babla's death I don't think John Vorster Square existed. Regards, … pretoria state prison where Robert Mcbride…
James Stewart - the ANC fighter who spoke truth to power by Martin Plaut, 1 February 2016
… This is the obituary of Hermanus Loots, better known by his nom de guerre, James Stewart, who exposed the atrocities … executed. In February 1984 Tambo sent…
Black Power by Richard (Rick) Turner
… imposed by the whites. The black man is taught to reject his own skin and hair, to experience his own body as inferior. At school the child is given a … if…
Patric Tariq “de Goede” Mellet
… Last updated: July 2008 Patric Tariq Mellet has written his own biography for the SAHO archive. This memoir speaks of … of a black man, the son of an African…
Document 91. ‘April 6: People’s Protest Day’. Flyer issued by the ANC (Transvaal) and the Transvaal Indian Congress
… offence, July 21, 1952 Your Worship has just pronounced his verdict in a case in which I and fifty-one other … Government [Governor-General] with unbridled…
Book 5: People, Places and Apartheid - Chapter 2 - The Soweto Uprising of June 1976: A Turning Points Event by Phil Bonner
… next two days. By the end of February 1977 the official death toll stood at 575 - 75 coloured, 2 white, 2 Indian AND … land and would not easily join those…
Chapter 2 - The Soweto Uprising of June 1976: A Turning Points Event
… next two days. By the end of February 1977 the official death toll stood at 575 - 75 coloured, 2 white, 2 Indian AND … land and would not easily join those…
ArticlePeter Magubane Timeline 1932-
… assaulted by the police on many occasions. Subsequently his nose was broken by a police club and he was hospitalised … again detained with other black…
The South African History Online (SAHO) Graduate Internship Programme
… at the University of the Western Cape. He completed his B.A at UWC in 2010, and finished his B.A Honours (Cum Laude) in History at UWC in 2011. During his…
Document Center at UKZN. “Burning of the Passes” from the collection of Ela Gandhi, MP. Assention no. 1889-23
… also wrote to Sir George Farrar, as he considered it his duty to lay before the Leader of the Opposition the gravity of the situation and to set out his…
Address by President Mandela at the 53rd United Nations General Assembly New York, 21 September 1998
… They have, as yet, not attained their freedom from fear of death that would be brought about by the use of weapons of … violent strife on our Continent. We…
ArticleThe Freedom Charter by Norman Levy
… Bernstein who was present at that first meeting, noted in his autobiography that as he listened to Professor Z.K. Matthews expounding his ideas, “a small…
PlaceMitchell Park Zoo, Durban
… became hugely popular for giving rides to children. But his was a tale of tragedy. The summer of 1913/14 was … had an effect, Bob turned rogue and took the…
ArticleSouth African major mass killings timeline 1900-2012
… Diamond mine, after a fellow-worker is kicked to death by a White overseer. White employees join in brutally … for illicit liquor. They were stoned and…
ArticleNamibian Timeline
… Bartholomew Diaz, a Portuguese explorer on his sail around the southernmost part of Africa, visits the … and Walvis Bay. Klaas Afrikaner…
ArchiveThe sad secret kept by the trailblazing South African Steve Mokone
… Tom Egbers first decided to find out what happened to his father’s footballing hero, he could never have imagined … “At that stage nobody had really taken…
Article1946 Mine Workers Strike timeline 1867-1987
… Rhodes already extremely wealthy from diamond mining, set his ambitions north of the Limpopo and tricked Lobengula, the King of the Ndebele into handing over…
PlaceSA Army College, Roberts Heights, Pretoria
… Roberts as a form of control of the families whose farms his forces had destroyed, began to degenerate rapidly as the … medical care, leading to rampant…
EventHistory of December 16
… gunshot meant for the leaders of the CPSA resulted in the death of one civilian. Subsequent to the meeting, a general … first MK casualty occurred when a…
Documents, speeches, Awards, and articles relating to Desmond Tutu
… , is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize . The award recognised his unifying role in the fight against apartheid. The Nobel Peace Prize Committee made specific…
Document 24 - “Wreckers at Work”, (Editorial), Liberation. 18, April 1956
… Dr. Xuma should have sent such a letter. Since the end of his term as President he has shown no interest in Congress at … the Doctor, who is a Sophiatown…
Address by Oliver Tambo to the joint session of Parliament of Trinidad and Tobago, Port-of-Spain, 2 July 1987
… path pursued by the white minority has brought suffering, death and destruction to the people of South Africa, and to … served only to harden our resolve…
Concluding Remarks
… as SASO) and its publications, was banned. The violent death in detention of SASO's first president, Steve Biko, … Charles Nkosi's remarkable vision of…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1500s
… (the Table Cape) on account of its shape. 1510 1 March, On his way back to Portugal the Viceroy of Portuguese India, … An English admiral, Francis Drake,…