SAHO global search
63,722 records
Event
Chad closes its air space to South African and Portuguese aircraft.
Event
The Central African Republics, Ghana and Guinea threaten to withdraw their troops from a security force unless the United Natio
Event
An earthquake in which sixteen people die strikes Cairo, Egypt.
Event
Willem Hendrik Adriaan Boshoff, S.A.artist, is born in Vanderbijlpark, Transvaal.
Event
Jeremy Cronin, South African Communist Party politician and former political prisoner in the Pretoria Maximum Security Prison,
Event
WWII: Italian forces begin an offensive into Egypt from Libya.
Event
Andries J. Bester (81), Boer commandant during Anglo-Boer War 2, dies in Paul Roux, OFS.
Event
Southern Rhodesia is formally annexed to the United Kingdom.
Event
Prof. Felix Lategan, first professor in Afrikaans and Dutch at the University College of the Western Cape, is born.
Event
The Victoria Falls Bridge is opened.
Event
The SA rugby team beats the British Isles for the first time in a rugby test series by winning the third test in Newlands 8-0.
Event
Anglo-Boer War 2: The governor of Portuguese East Africa, J.J. Machado, invites Pres. Kruger to stay in the official residenc
Event
The ‘Chartered Company’ hoists the Union Jack at what is now Harare, the capital of Zimbabwe.
Event
Cleopatra’s Needle, the obelisk of Thothmes II, is erected on London’s Embankment.
Event
Abraham Esau, Calvinian Coloured leader and martyr is born in Kenhardt, Cape Colony. He aided the British Imperial cause duri
Event
The chairman of the Central Road Board of the Cape Colony, P.B. Borcherds, opens Bain’s Kloof Pass to traffic. The pass was d
Event
Robert Biggar, SA trader and adventurer, is born in Cowpur, Scotland.
Event
Thousands are killed after terrorists crashed hijacked airliners into the World Trade Centre in New York and the Pentagon in Wa
Event
The opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) is officially formed in Zimbabwe.
Event
The Gauteng Lions win the Bankfin-Currie Cup by beating the Natal Sharks on King’s Park rugby field 32-9.
Event
His Majesty, the King of Malaysia, officially opens the Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur. Teams of South Africa also take par
Event
The Johannesburg and the Namibian Stock Exchanges sign an accord for the exchange of technology, skills and information.
Event
The Bafana Bafana, SA soccer team, loses 1-2 against France in an away game.
Event
The Chamber of Mines and the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) sign an agreement on wages and working conditions averting the
Event
South Africa signs agreement with Germany regarding technical cooperation; Treaty concerning Reciprocal encouragement and prote
Event
General Obasanjo and a delegation of sixteen Nigerians meet President de Klerk, Mandela, Buthelezi etc.
Event
Oregon State legislature rescinded 1987 legislation banning investment of State funds in companies doing business with SA.
Event
Electricity is cut off in Tumahole township because of a municipal and rent boycott. (Collinger, J. (1990). “Black out as provi
Event
Seven ANC political prisoners are released.
Event