SAHO global search
5,094 records
Event
Table Bay power station (Cape Town) goes into full commercial operation with what is then deemed to be its ultimate capacity.
Event
Aliens Act No 1, restricting and regulating the entry of certain aliens into the Union and regulating the right of any person t
Event
At the opening of Parliament, President F.W. de Klerk warns that South Africa will be plunged into a Yugoslav style civil war i
Event
The cockpit voice-recorder of the SAA Helderberg, which crashed into the Indian Ocean off Mauritius, is recovered from the airc
Event
Pretoria High Court Judge Nkola Motata is arrested for drunk driving after he drove into a wall north of Johannesburg. He resis
Archive
Commission of Enquiry into the Occurrences at Sharpeville (and other places) on the 21st March, 1960, Volume 2, Johannesburg, 15 June 1960
Archive
Commission of Enquiry into the Occurrences at Sharpeville (and other places) on the 21st March, 1960, Volume 1, Johannesburg, 15 June 1960
Event
EgyptAir Flight 990 bound for Cairo from New York’s Kennedy Airport plunges 10 000m into the Atlantic Ocean, killing all 217 pe
Event
EgyptAir Flight 990 bound for Cairo from New York’s Kennedy Airport plunges 10 000m into the Atlantic Ocean, killing all 217 pe
Event
Federal troops are sent into Biafra, the oil rich eastern region of Nigeria, which declared an intention to secede on 30 May.
Event
Because a select committee to inquire into and report on certain organisations has not completed its task at the end of the par
Event
Four men die instantly when a car swerves to avoid a second which was spinning on the Odi race track and ploughed into spectato
Event
The Korean War breaks out. Nearly 90,000 North Korean soldiers and hundreds of Russian-built T-34 tanks cross the border into S
Event
Dr Nnoseng Ellen Kate Kuzwayo, ANC politician and noted writer of Call me Woman (winner of CNA Award 1985 and translated into s
Event
This Day reports Premier S’bu Ndebele of KwaZulu-Natal has set up an urgent investigation into bombs discovered in the legislat
Event
The report of the inquiry led by Justice Richard Goldstone into the shooting by the police of eighteen demonstrators in the tow
Event
The report of the inquiry led by Justice Richard Goldstone into the shooting by the police of eighteen demonstrators in the tow
Event
The Neptune, carrying 282 convicts, sails into Table Bay. SESA gives the date as 19 September 1849 and the harbour as Simon’s B
Event
Justice van Wyk of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court is appointed as a one-man Commission to inquire into all aspects
Event
Sydney Vernon Peterson, one of the prominent SA poets of the 1940s, is born in Riversdale, CP. His poems were translated into E
Event
The United Nations (UN) comes into existence with the ratification of its charter by the first 29 (51?) nations. SA premier Jan
Event
The inquest into Dr. Aggett’s death is adjourned for the third time when police object to the use, as evidence, of a statement
Event
Death of Sir Henry Morton Stanley. Famous for his 1,500-mile safari into Central Africa in 1871 to find Dr Livingstone.
Event
Colin Mark de Sousa, who donned a SADF uniform and gained entry into the premises of the Wits Command to make a surveillance of
Event
The search for survivors from the Helderberg SAA 747 crash into the Indian Ocean off Mauritius is called off. No survivors have
Event
The report of the Snyman Commission into the disturbances on the campus of the University of the North at Turfloop, finds that
Event
The terms of reference of the Harms Commission, which is to inquire into alleged murders and unlawful acts of the security forc
Event
A Kenyan Airplanes plane crashes into the sea off Côte d’Ivoire, killing all but ten of the 179 people on board. (Mail &
Event
The National Library of South Africa Act, 1998 (Act 92 of 1998), comes into effect and creates the National Library of South Af
Event