SAHO global search
10,500 records
BiographyVera Ponnen
Vera Ponnen (nee Vera Gwendoline Alberts) was born in 1915 in England. She came to South Africa in 1938 as a governess. The next year, she went to Johannesburg…
Ruth Gosschalk
Ruth Gosschalk was born on 27 July 1929 in Muizenburg, Cape Town. She was one of four children. Her parents were immigrants from Eastern Europe. Gosschalk’s…
Statement at the meeting of the Special Committee against Apartheid in observance of the International Day of Solidarity with the Struggle of Women in South Africa and Namibia, 11 August 1981
Mrs. Gertrude Shope On behalf of the Women's Section of the African National Congress and in the name of the entire oppressed and struggling people of South…
ArticleThe House in session
With the parties and their representatives elected, the Tricameral went into operation and the various houses sat for the first time on 1984. While the House…
BiographySelf Mampuru
Self Mampuru was born in 1908 into the leading family of chiefs of Sekhukhuneland. In the 1930s in Johannesburg he met William Ballinger, who helped him go to…
BiographyDavid Rabkin
David Rabkin was born in South Africa, but emigrated to Britain with his family. He holds a PhD in African Literature and had been employed as a sub-editor at…
BiographyTom Lebekoe
Tom Lebekoe was one of the six persons, alongside Jeremiah Mabe, accused of various offences arising from conflict in Mabieskraal (Pilansberg), Rustenburg…
BiographyCaswell Moloi
Caswell Moloi was described by the government as a leader of the ‘recalcitrant natives’ in the Witzieshoek Native Reserve, Harrismith District, Orange Free…
BiographyNtlabati Jojo
Ntlabati Jojo had been deposed of his status as headman in the late 1920s though by the 1940s, he was considered to be effectively the chief of a few locations…
ArticleDesmond Mpilo Tutu Timeline
19317 October, Desmond Mpilo Tutu is born in Klerksdorp, in the then Transvaal province of South Africa.1961Desmond Tutu is ordained as a minister in the…
EventSA artist, Bongiwe Dhlomo, is born
Bongiwe (Bongi) Dhlomo-Mautloa, South African artist, was born in Vryheid, Natal. She grew up in Bergville, matriculated in Ladysmith and obtained a National…
EventPFP Leader Colin Wells Eglin born
… Movement to form the Democratic Party (DP) on 8 April 1989 as opposition to the National Party (NP) in parliament. …
Biography: Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, Liberia's 'Iron Lady' by Alistair Boddy-Evans updated 08 August 2016
Date of birth: 29 October 1938, Monrovia, Liberia. Ellen Johnson was born in Monrovia, the capital of Liberia, amongst the descendants of original colonists…
EventFirst ANC Conference in SA in three decades
… convened in June 1955; the Defiance Campaigns of 1952 and 1989; the launching of the United Democratic Front in 1983; …
ArticleThe History of Education: 1658 to present
… under new regulations at Rhodes and Wits Universities 1989 COSAS and NECC declare themselves unbanned. SANSCO and …
Speech, on Behalf of the National Liberation Movements, at the Opening Session of the Sixth Conference of Heads of State or Government of Non-Aligned Countries by O. R. Tambo, Havana, Cuba, 3 September 1979
Your Majesties, Your Excellencies, Distinguished Delegates, Mr. Chairman, President Comrade Fidel Castro, I have been assigned the great honour, as…
ArticlePassive Resistance in South Africa
… Sharpeville Massacre, 21 March 1960 The Defiance Campaign 1989 …
Phambili
… publication comprising 3 issues published during 1988 and 1989. The aim of the publication was to stimulate debate and …
BiographyPhillip Qipu Vundla
Philip Vundla was born in 1901 and attended Healdtown for some years before finding work in Johannesburg as a mine clerk. In the mid-1940s he was an organiser…
BiographyDonald Thumamina Mboto
Donald Thumamina Mboto was born on 10 May 1987, in Harding near Port Shepstone on the KwaZulu-Natal South Coast. He was the ninth child of Thandiwe Daphney…
BiographyAlexander Kgobe
It was alleged that in 1958 Alexander Kgobe alias Malemane, from La Pucella, Potgietersrus District, Transvaal [now Mokopane, in Limpopo Province] wrote…
BiographyAlfred Mamagale Tebeila
The banishment of Alfred Mamagale Tebeila, Mamogase Sebei, Mashilo Tseke Nchabeleng, and Kgalabotwane Tseke from Sekhukhuneland, Lydenburg District, Transvaal …
Resistance Photography and Mobilization of the Resistance, 1946-1976
… The Drum Decade (Pietermaritz: University of Natal Press, 1989), 186. ↵ [22] Oswal Mtshali, The Finest Photos.... , … Drum Decade (Pietermaritzburg:…
Trade unions and Popular Resistance in the 1980s and New Alliances and the Different Unions Traditions by Kaizer Thibedi
This paper was submitted to the 1973 Durban Strikes Celebrating 50 Years Conference THE BRIEF: TRADE UNIONS AND POPULAR RESISTANCE IN THE 1980S AND NEW…
ArticleThe Anti-Pass Campaigns 1960
1959-1960: Formation, Sharpeville and Banning For many years there was tension inside the African National Congress (ANC) between those with more moderate…
EventUmkhonto We Sizwe, military wing of the ANC, claims responsibility for power station blast
Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK), translated as "Spear of the Nation", was the active military wing of the African National Congress (ANC). It was formed in co-operation…
BiographyStephanus Johannes Paulus Kruger
Paul Kruger is believed to have been born on 10 October 1825 on his grandfather's farm, Bulhoek, in the Cradock district, near the present day town of…
Statement by Oliver Tambo, on behalf of the Southern African Liberation Movements, at the closing session of the seventh summit meeting of the Preferential Trade Area for Eastern and Southern African states, 02 December 1988, Arusha
Your Excellency, President Ali Hassan Mwinyi, President of the United Republic of Tanzania, Vice-Chairman of Chama Cha Mapinduzi and Current Chairman of PTA…
EventSanctions are applied on Libya over Lockerbie bombing
… 1988 and the bombing of a French plane over Niger in 1989. However, Organisation of African Unity (OAU) countries …
EventFerdi Barnard is found guilty of killing Webster
… activist, David Webster. Bernard shot Webster in 1989, in front his home. Bernard was also found guilty of the …