Skip to main content
Menu
♥ Donate

SAHO global search

17,291 records

Search results
Src
E-0074039event Rebel leader Laurent Kabila, after a plea from the United Nations, agrees to delay an attack on Zaire’s largest refugee camp. T10 Feb 2012✓
E-0079685event Ten African men and one woman receive prison sentences of from five to twenty years in the Pietermaritzburg Supreme Court.16 Mar 2012✓
E-0079658event Pres. P.W. Botha issues a certificate to prevent the Windhoek Supreme Court from trying six SA Defence Force personnel for the16 Mar 2012✓
E-0079541event The SA government announces that the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) will be requested to help in repatri16 Mar 2012✓
E-0079540event Authorities grant indemnity from prosecution to 2,605 anti-apartheid activists and also members of far right groups. The indemn16 Mar 2012✓
E-0079526event Indians in SA start a protest under Mohandas Gandhi against new legislation forcing all male members to carry passbooks and hav16 Mar 2012✓
E-0079489event A special interim report by Mr Justice J.H. Snyman, commissioner at the Paarl riot inquiry, urges swift government action to br16 Mar 2012✓
E-0079438event The Denel group and Aerospatiale of France sign an agreement to broaden co-operation in various fields, notably helicopters and16 Mar 2012✓
E-0079381event Janet Soga (neé Burnside) is born in Hutchesontown, Glasgow, Scotland. She married Tito Yoga, the first Black man to be16 Mar 2012✓
E-0076884event The former United States of America (US) Ambassador to South Africa, Mr Cameron Hume, hands over specialised anti-terrorism equ12 Mar 2012✓
E-0076876event In elections to the 100-member Lebowa National Assembly, Dr. Phatudi’s ruling Lebowa People’s Party wins more than three-quarte12 Mar 2012✓
E-0076874event The terms of reference of the Erasmus Commission are extended to investigate and evaluate, by 31 March 1979, the government’s p12 Mar 2012✓
E-0076823event The artillery bombards the strikers’ stronghold at Fordsburg Square during the Rand Revolt and it falls to the government. Befo12 Mar 2012✓
E-0076802event News 24 reports that South Africa’s ambitious HIV/Aids treatment plan is lagging as the government struggles to plug a shortage12 Mar 2012✓
E-0076765event TEC, SA to take over in Bop A joint Transitional Executive Council (TEC) and South African government delegation flew into Boph12 Mar 2012✓
E-0076762event Business Dayreports that Justice T. Spoelstra has sentenced four strikers to death four times each on charges of murder of non-12 Mar 2012✓
E-0076748event Gen. David Johannes (Ou Kat) Joubert, South African explorer to East Africa, dies of malaria near Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.12 Mar 2012✓
E-0076745event The Potchefstroom treaty between the South African Republic and the Orange Free State, binding each state to assist the other w12 Mar 2012✓
E-0076744event De Beers Consolidated Mines Ltd is founded to exercise control over virtually all of the diamond production in South Africa.12 Mar 2012✓
E-0076738event Seven street children are burnt to death and eleven seriously injured in a fire in Elim church, Sunnyside, Pretoria. The culpri12 Mar 2012✓
E-0076288event South Africa abolishes financial rand, effective 13 March. The value of financial rand is close to that of commercial rand.5 Mar 2012–
E-0076274event All South African policemen in Rhodesia are being confined to camps. South Africa is slowly disengaging from the settlement sit5 Mar 2012–
E-0076240event Proclamation R29 is gazetted, enabling Africans in towns on trust land to obtain full property rights, affecting and estimated5 Mar 2012✓
E-0076227event A rusty 1.4kg shell, dating back to 1901, explodes in the playground of a Johannesburg school, injuring more than thirty childr5 Mar 2012✓
E-0076196event Violence erupts when 75 000 people march to the Katlehong Town Council offices, protesting against high rent and electricity ra5 Mar 2012✓
E-0074771event The Harms Commission, appointed in December 1989 by the F.W. de Klerk government to investigate into state involvement in polit24 Feb 2012✓
E-0074734event In reaction to newspaper reports, Prime Minister P.W. Botha states through the media, that he will not be ‘blackmailed into a d24 Feb 2012✓
E-0074713event Johann Max Friedrich (Jean) Welz, painter and architect who emigrated to SA in the 1930s, is born in Salzburg, Austria.24 Feb 2012✓
E-0074697event It is announced at a Convention (2-3 March) that the United Democratic Front is to end its activities and will formally disband24 Feb 2012✓
E-0074693event The South West Africa Territory Force claims to have killed sixty Swapo insurgents in various skirmishes in the previous month,24 Feb 2012✓

Refine

Clear all