SAHO global search
906 records
PlaceElandsberg Nature Reserve, Western Cape
Elandsberg is a Mountain and is located in the Swartland District, near Riebeeck Kasteel, in the Western Cape. The estimate terrain elevation above seal level…
Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents compiled by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer - 1948 - Press Reports on the Campaign
… was debated in secret and the officials promised them a declaration of policy in relation to the Nationalist … time came and the officials neatly shifted the…
Tribute to the United Nations Special Committee Against Apartheid - Statement at the Meeting of the Special Committee on its Tenth Anniversary by O. R. Tambo, New York, 2 April 1973
… clutch of rebels would never have dared their unilateral declaration of independence because then there would be … embodied in the United Nations Charter and…
Memorandum To The United Nations Special Committee Against Apartheid, April 1964
… very root of the United Nations Charter and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. It is also a matter of pride for … to play its true role in accordance…
Document 20 - Advance to national democracy: guidelines on strategy and tactics of the ANC
… Declaration The conference took place against the background …
PlaceOhrigstad
Ohrigstad was founded in 1845 by Hendrik Potgieter, the well-known "Voortrekker" leader. He named the Town after himself and George Ohrig: Andries-Ohrigstad…
PlaceNatures Valley, Garden Route
Nature's Valley, and the surrounding Coastline, was occupied by Old Stone Age or Paleolithic, 1 Million Years ago. Paleolithic man lived in the Area in caves…
EventThe Natal Indian Congress is formally revived
… was a press statement which highlighted the possible declaration of the Grey Street area as an Indian commercial …
EventOne-fifth of SA's military infected with HIV virus, so HIV positive people are no longer accepted into their ranks
It was announced that at least one-fifth of South Africa's military was infected with the HIV virus that causes AIDS. Therefore on 7 October 2003 the Defence…
EventDr Chris Barnard performs the world's first human heart transplant
On 3 December 1967, South African doctor, Dr Christiaan (Chris) Barnard, performed the world's first human to human heart transplant at Groote Schuur Hospital,…
PlaceSomerset Hospital, Cape Town
The Somerset Hospital in Green Point opened in 1864 and has been declared a National Monument. The Hospital replaced one of the same name in Cape Town which…
PlaceQueenstown, now known as Komani.
Queenstown was founded in 1853. It was intended to be a Military Outpost designed to protect the British subjects from attack during the time of the Frontier…
Passive Resistance in South Africa by O. R. Tambo - Extract from "Southern Africa in Transition by Davis, John A. and James K. Baker"(Pall Mall Press), London, 1966
… - an issue that challenged the principles enshrined in the Declaration of Independence. To the honour of his name, his … in violation of the principles…
Opening Address to the ANC’s 48th National Conference by O. R. Tambo, Durban, 2 July 1991
… These consultations resulted in the adoption of the Harare Declaration by the OAU in 1989, the endorsement of this declaration by the Non-Aligned Movement…
Address at Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, 11 December 2001
… Jiang Zemin in April 2000 during which the Pretoria Declaration was signed. The Declaration confirmed the five principles of Sino-Africa … African continent…
Introduction of A Crime Against Humanity
From: A Crime Against Humanity - Analysing the Repression of the Apartheid State edited by Max Coleman This is a book about repression. More specifically, it…
PlaceMthatha, Eastern Cape- previously known as Umtata
Mthatha, founded in 1879, was declared the Capital of the Transkei, the homeland of the Xhosa during the Apartheid era. The former Transkei is now part of the…
EventGermany signs an unconditional surrender which ends World War II
In the early hours of 7 May 1945, the Chief-of-Staff of the German Armed Forces High Command, General Alfred Jodl, signed unconditional surrender documents to…
PlaceSchmidtsdrift
Schmidtsdrift is a Town, in Pixley ka Seme District Municipality, in the Northern Cape Province. (Situated 80 km West of Kimberley). It was originally a Fjord,…
Lecture by the President of the ANC, President Jacob Zuma, on the occasion of celebrating the life and times of the tenth President of the ANC President Nelson Mandela, 10 July 2012, Limpopo
… for combatants. In March 1961, in response to the pending declaration of South Africa as a republic, the All-in Africa … the African people would embark on…
Apartheid power in crisis
… attacks on people and property. Until Article 21 of the UN Declaration of Human Rights is implemented in South Africa … from Angola, is to be seen in its…
Make South Africa ungovernable: Broadcast on Radio Freedom: Oliver Tambo, 10 October 1984
… forces, to fight against conscription. It was a clear declaration by millions of our compatriots that, if need be, …
Make South Africa Ungovernable: Broadcast on Radio Freedom by O. R. Tambo, 10 October 1984
… forces, to fight against conscription. It was a clear declaration by millions of our compatriots that, if need be, …
Freedom Charter sold out the dispossessed by Motsoko Pheko (The Sowetan), 2 Feb 2012
… to circulate the draft carefully. The result is that the declaration in the Charter is uneven." In 1984, General …
Chapter 20. Malan’s Road to a New South Africa - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
… plea in support of Hitler Germany and opposed the declaration of war on Germany by South Africa. His government …
PlaceEcho Caves, Limpopo
On the border of Limpopo and Mpumalanga, South Africa. The caves, today are declared a National Monument. These Caves are found near Ohrigstad and were opened…
ArticleSouth African Coloured Peoples Organisation (SACPO)
Like all other Black ethnic groups, the Coloureds also fell victim to segregation and repressive legislations enacted by Colonial and successive governments…
ArticleAfrica’s Millennium Development Goals
… 2000 [ii] in the midst of the United Nations Millennium Declaration, and officially implemented in 2001. [iii] The … not on track to meet any of the goals of…
ArticleThe Crackdown on the Black Consciousness Movement in 1973
… did. This resolve, which became known as the Alice Declaration , prompted students at every black campus to go …
Message to the People of South Africa on the 67th Anniversary of the ANC by O. R. Tambo, 8 January 1979
… June 26, 1980, under the banners of a people united in the declaration of the Freedom Charter, which says that "South … of the people of South Africa". In…