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EventNew Nation and South newspapers are banned
New Nation and South newspapers were banned and twenty-six English- language newspaper editors handed petitions to government, protesting against these…
EventBrenda Fassie, South African singer and diva, dies in her sleep at Sunninghill Hospital
Brenda Nokuzola Fassie was born in 1964 in Langa, a township near Cape Town. She was named after the American country singer Brenda Lee. The daughter of a…
EventSpecial Committee on Apartheid publishes its first Interim Report
The United Nations (UN) Special Committee on Apartheid published its first Interim Report, satisfied with the number of countries that had broken off…
EventAmy Mollison sets a new world record when she flies from England to Cape Town in 3 days 6 hours and 26 minutes
Amy Mollison (Nee Johnson) was an English Aviator who set numerous flying records during the 1930’s. She married fellow aviator Jim Mollison and the couple…
Event18,000 people have been detained since the declaration of the State of Emergency in March
The Government of the Republic of South Africa announced in Parliament that 18,000 people had been arrested and detained since the declaration of the State of…
Government tables the third Constitution of the Republic of South Africa before the House of Assembly
EventVictor Sidney Norton, journalist and first South African-born editor of the Cape Times, dies in Cape Town
Victor Sidney Norton was born in Johannesburg to an English father and a Swedish mother. His father Sidney Peter Norton was a journalist and would influence…
Episcopal Churchmen for South Africa, 1975
Open the Jail Doors -- We Want to Enter: The Defiance Campaign Against Apartheid Laws By Stuart A. Kallen
Latest in the SAHO archive: 17 April 2013 - 29 April 2013
EventGeneral Lord Roberts marches on Pretoria
In the middle of the South African War II (Anglo-Boer War II), General Lord Roberts left Bloemfontein and began the 'March to Pretoria' with nearly 44,000 men,…
Field-Cornet Jan Potgieter’s commando burns Chief Sikhobobo’s kraal at Qulusini
EventZAR’s last Cruesot ‘Long Tom’ is dynamited
During the Second Anglo-Boer War, the fourth and last Creusot 'Long Tom' of the state artillery of the Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek (South African Republic,…
EventVorster announces that the ‘homelands’ will be perfectly free to form a federation among themselves,
EventZambian plane crashes at Libreville, Gabon killing 18 national soccer team players
A Zambian Air Force De Havilland Canada DHC-5D Buffalo carrying the Zambian national soccer team crashed in the Atlantic Ocean just 500 meters offshore from…
EventSouth Africa’s first democratic elections
Following a series of tense negotiations and years of liberation struggle, the first democratic election was held in South Africa on the 27th April, 1994. This…
Free Nelson Mandela - Margaret Thatcher
SECRET & PERSONAL 10 DOWNING STREET THE PRIME MINISTER 31 October, 1985. Dear Mr President, Thank you for the message which you sent me on 28 October. Now that…