SAHO global search
7,102 records
PlaceOost-Eind Primary School, 70 Meintjes Street, Trevenna, Pretoria
… those starting their first year at school. Parents from one of the Pretoria primary schools accused the school of not …
PlaceSouth African National Museum of Military History
… The Main Courtyard features several Memorials, including one honoring Airborne Forces of the South African Special …
PlaceLiberia
… means ‘freedom’ formerly known as the Grain Coast, is one of the few African countries including Ethiopia that were …
“No Room for Racialism at Natal University”: Statement, June 1956
… elite’ of Stellenbosch, it is most disturbing when one considers the position Dr Malherbe holds.. The general …
Address by ANC President, Nelson Mandela, to the International Solidarity Conference Johannesburg, 19 February 1993
… to prevent disintegration into a Yugoslavia. And one of the ways to do this is to hold free and fair …
Document 32 - League of African Rights, Petition, 1929
… Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew Document 32 - League of …
EventAssassination of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand
… to prevent a conflict of this nature from reoccurring. As one of the longest and deadliest conflicts in history, the … Kaapstad: Human & Rousseau.|Oracle…
EventJoaquim Chissano succeeds Samora Machel as president of Mozambique
… high profile murders, was found dead. It is suspected that one of the murders Nyimpine was implicated in was carried out …
EventSandra Reynolds, a South African tennis champion is born
… to reach a single’s final at Wimbledon.[vii] She is also one of only three to reach a Grand Slam singles final.[viii] …
EventUN peace-keeping troops deployed to the Republic of Congo
… finally seized power. His leadership was to signify one of the most dictorial and corrupt regimes on the African …
EventAll African People Conference is held in Accra, Ghana
… states, liberation movements and public organisations. One of African prominent political figure attended this …
EventViolence erupts during Defiance Campaign
… East London, where enraged Blacks killed two White people, one of then a Dominican nun whose body was mutilated. The …
EventThami Mazwai, former journalist and anti-apartheid activist, is jailed for two years
… Organisation (SASO). This suggests that Mazwai was one of the journalists Biko would have been prepared to talk …
EventThree British mercenaries are sentenced to death for their part in the Angolan civil war
… from the thousands of Cuban troops stationed in Angola. One of the reasons for this was that the MPLA was a left wing …
EventANC celebrates its 79th anniversary in Durban
… rest of our membership. We wish you all peaceful new year, one which should see our country take resolute steps forward …
EventThe possessions of Piet Retief are auctioned
… ready to grant land to Retief and his party, but had one condition: that they retrieve cattle stolen from him by …
EventLouis Trichardt, Voortrekker leader, is born near Oudtshoorn 225 years ago
… Louis Trichardt was one of the Voortrekker leaders. He was born near Oudtshoorn …
EventHundreds of thousands of people killed as tsunamis devastate large swathes of South and Southeast Asia, coming as far as South Africa
… result of the Tsunami). Measured in lives lost, this is one of the ten worst earthquakes in recorded history, as well …
EventBoeremag bomb blasts rock Soweto and Bronkhorstspruit
… million. More than 200,000 commuters could not go to work. One of the explosions flung a piece of railway line a few …
EventMzwakhe Mbuli is sentenced to 13 years in jail
… at his trial. His hearing was surrounded with spectacle as one of the arresting officers committed suicide, a bomb …
EventAllan Boesak’s plea for the acquittal on fraud charges is rejected and the case is postponed to the following year
… establishing the United Democratic Front (UDF), which was one of the largest anti-apartheid movements in South Africa. …
EventThe Rand Revolt breaks out
… a stronghold of the labour movement behind the strike. One of the long term consequences of the strike was increased …
EventWorld War I begins
… to prevent a conflict of this nature from reoccurring. As one of the longest and deadliest conflicts in history, the … Kaapstad: Human & Rousseau.|Oracle…
EventMembers of Bambathas homestead are pursued by policemen for refusing to pay the ‘hut tax’
… to colonial rule to be pursued by minor chiefs. By 1906, one of the most formidable of these chiefs, Bambatha, …
EventArrival of Chinese labourers in South Africa
… The development of the Gold mining industry was also one of Milner's plans to further development in South Africa …
EventField Marshal Lord Roberts is appointed British supreme commander in South Africa
… victories in Colenso, Magersfontein and Spionskop. And in one of these campaigns, Lord Robert's only son was killed in …
EventWorld Teachers Day - “Build the future: invest in teachers now!”
… We highly appreciate you having chosen this profession, one so fundamental to society, and the fact that you continue …
EventSouth Africa signs agreement with Switzerland to support the Reconstruction and Development Programme (RDP)
… The achievements of RDP include the building of over one million houses between 1994 and 2001, the provision of …
Nelson Mandela Correspondence around property and land
… better house. The house itself was originally a municipal one, and like all other municipal houses, the plan was drawn …
PlaceOliewenhuis Art Museum
… It is the only museum of its kind in the Free State and one of the youngest art museums in the country. Oliewenhuis …