SAHO global search
15,289 records
Resolution of the Executive Committee of the AAC, February 15, 1936 46
… touched rock bottom before you came and now a more buoyant spirit is in the air. The boys are recovering. Big propaganda … of educating +organising the…
Address to the Joint Session of the houses of Congress of the U.S.A. Washington, D.C., June 26, 1990
… whose creation and integrity many men and women lost their lives in the war of independence, the civil war and the war … went to prison, for which many have…
BiographyRev. Aldin Grout
… Aldin Grout was born on 2 September 1803 in Pelham, Massachusetts in the United … other missionaries and their wives, arriving in Cape Town on 5 February…
Dr Mamphela Ramphele interviewed by Rupert Taylor, 16 April 1998, Cape Town
… to fall into the same trap. Taylor: I have already written on that issue, because I agree very much that there is a … that...the problem was not apartheid…
Archive2003 - President Mbeki, State of the Nation Address, 14 February 2003
… who are with us here today, the first time in their lives that they have visited this seat of democracy, for … tip of Africa that houses our national…
Archive2002 - President Mbeki, State of the Nation Address, 8 February 2002
… is not with us today because he had to attend a summit on NEPAD in France, at the invitation of President Jacques … of the United States. These are Marco…
Acceptance speech of the President of the ANC, Nelson Mandela, at the Nobel Peace Prize Award Ceremony Oslo, Norway, 10 December 1993
… and fellow laureate, State President F.W. de Klerk, on his receipt of this high honour. Together, we join two … both inside and outside our country, had the…
Introduction - The anti-Apartheid Movements: a 40-year perspective
… On 26 June 1959, over five hundred people attended a meeting … going to win!' declared Nyerere.* Exactly 40 years later, on Friday 25 and Saturday 26 June…
BiographyJacob Sello (Jackie) Selebi
… Jacob (Jackie) Sello Selebi was born on 7 March 1950 in Johannesburg. Selebi was the African … Human Rights Commission and the Oslo Diplomatic Conference on…
BiographyThabo Marcus Motaung
… as a medium of instruction at schools and Bantu Education on 16 June 1976, protests continued and spread across the country with more schools joining. On 4…
ArticleA History of the Springbok Legion
… and white servicemen by embarking educational programs on communism and socialism, trade unionism, ‘Native, Indian … This was aimed at attempting to educate…
ArchiveAppendix 5.1 The First Anniversary of the Declaration of the State of Palestine by Denis Goldberg
… organisation, the Palestine Liberation Organisation, on this most important occasion. We look forward to the day … declare for all our country and the world…
BiographyGlenn Moss
… Glenn Moss was born in Pretoria on 5 May 1952, the second son of Solly Moss, a salesman, and … Primary School and then attended Pretoria Boys High. On…
BiographyCurtis Nkondo
… Curtis Nkondo was born on 1st February 1928 in Louis Trichardt, Northern Transvaal … father, completed high school at La Maria and went on to qualify as a…
Invitation to the TB Davie Memorial Lecture
… Lecture, where Professor Mahmood Mamdani will speak on “Decolonising the Post-Colonial University”. The lecture is to be held at 17:30 for 18:00 on Tuesday,…
EventFirst sextuplets in the world to survive their infancy are born in Cape Town
… bore the first sextuplets known to survive their infancy on 11 January 1974, in Cape Town, South Africa. The three … 6 oz (2.0 kg) Only one of the six…
EventA school bus with seventy-six learners plunges into the Westdene dam, killing forty-two
… into the Westdene Dam .The children were on their way to their homes when the driver blacked out as he … the dam. Residents, teachers and other pupils risked…
BiographyJacob Gedleyihlekisa Zuma
… Gedleyihlekisa Zuma (Msholozi – his praise name) was born on 12 April 1942 at Nkandla in northern Natal (now … to arrest the group. In June 1963, as the…
BiographyAntjie Krog
… Antjie was born on 23 October 1952 on a farm in the Free State . She completed her BA degree … the University of the Orange Freestate and then she went on to…
BiographyThelma Gutsche
… Philosophy and Psychology. After graduating she went on to complete her Master of Arts (M.A.) in Ethics, Logic and … 1937 and 1950 Gutsche also wrote a…
BiographyEric Mtshali
… Republics (USSR) and Cuba to receive military training. On his return Mtshali became Chief of Personnel in MK in … The group crossed the river in three…
Address by Nelson Mandela to the National Consultative Conference, 14 December 1990
… It is a signal honour for me to be addressing you on the occasion of the first ANC conference inside the … in the early 1960s you laboured to rekindle the…
ArchiveOne hundred years of an air force inspired by General Smuts, by John Kane-Berman (PoliticsWeb), 18 July 2018
… (RAF). Nearby in Parliament Square stood the statue of Jan Christiaan Smuts, often described as the founding father … 300 people were killed when German…
BiographySamuel Alfred (Taffy) Long
… with the 29th Division which moved to the Dardanelles on active service. He was transferred to the Arabian desert … Because of his injuries he was discharged…
BiographyMkhuseli Joseph Kettledas
… the Pan African Congress ( PAC ) in 1961. He was arrested on 8 April 1963 for sabotage and sentenced to ten years in prison. He served his sentence on Robben…
BiographyIsaac ‘Ike’ Osler Horvitch
… Isaac 'Ike' Osler Horvitch was born on 9 October 1920, in Cape Town, South Africa. Ike Horvitch's … and sold the left-wing independent newspaper The Guardian…
EventOver 60 people are killed by RENAMO in Mozambique
… On 28 November 1987 more than 60 people were killed, and … Resistance Movement (RENAMO). The ambush happened on a Saturday on the main road, 32 kilometres…
BiographyReverend Walker Stanley Gawe
… Walker Stanley Gawe was born in 1899 on 30 November in the Herschel district of the Cape, where … in the Defiance of Unjust Laws Campaign in 1952, and went…
BiographyYetta Barenblatt
… Yetta Barenblatt was born on 24 September 1913, in Dublin, Ireland, to Basna and … to prepare for the Congress of the People, in June 1955. On 5 December…
BiographyJohannes Maisha (Stanza) Bopape
… Stanza Bopape was born on 26 April 1961 in Mamelodi East. He began high school … being a communist and a dangerous influence. Despite being on the run, he…