SAHO global search
7,042 records
EventA few days after deciding to establish a Dutch newspaper in South Africa, the name De Burger is chosen
… which, at first, supported the nationalist cause and apartheid, and was the mouthpiece of the National Party of …
Event19 die at Shell House massacre
… The ANC saw it as a power struggle as the demise of apartheid was finalised. The IFP is based on a Zulu cultural …
EventJohn Koenakeefe Mohl , SA artist and founder member of Artists Under the Sun, dies in Soweto
… to South Africa and opened an art school in Sophiatown. Apartheid laws forced Mohl to close the school, after which …
EventSuppression of Communism Act 44 of 1950 severely limits what the media could report
… One of the most infamous of all security laws during the apartheid era, it severely limited what the media could …
EventPassbook laws relaxed
… first state of emergency and the banning of a host of anti-apartheid organisations, including the African National …
PlaceSani Pass, KwaZulu Natal
… Everest.) A company then formed in Motkhotlong, (a City and seat of Mokhotlong District , in the mountainous …
PlaceBloubergstrand, Tableview -Cape Town
… Bloubergstrand is a Suburb of Cape Town , 25Km North of the City! The beach at Bloubergstrand is a popular location for a … Bloubergstrand is a Suburb of…
ArchiveThe women's suffrage movement: The politics of gender race and class by Cheryl Walker
… women could be roused to public demonstration over certain issues.3 Also in 1913, numbers of Indian women participated … or in the burgeoning locations and…
ArchiveThabo Mbeki, Jacob Zuma, Cyril Ramaphosa: The people who killed Eskom over 25 years by Ferreira, Harper and Saba (Mail and Guardain), 20 January 2023
… international sanctions of the middle 1980s as a result of apartheid. The administration of Nelson Mandela also brought …
First National Consultative Conference: Report on the Strategy and Tactics of the African National Congress, 26 April 1969, Morogoro
… acts of sabotage which occurred in most of the main urban centres on the 16th. The Move to Armed Struggle Why was … not economic demands, proved the growing…
PlaceCape Winelands Airport, Fisantekraal
… The fact that this airport is located in the North of the City (a distance from the existing airport) will add more … of Africa-(The Mall of Africa is…
Chief Albert Luthuli Centenary Lecture by President Jacob Zuma, 7 September 2012, Kimberley, Northern Cape
… 1948, this racial discrimination would be formalized as Apartheid when the Nationalist Party came to power. In 1951, … mass protests which were met with…
Devout domesticity? A century of African women's Christianity in South Africa by Deborah Gaitskell
… in the twentieth century in the very different urban setting of the Witwatersrand. In the third section, … became a British colony after the South African…
ANC President Jacob Zuma to speak at the Imvuselelo one Million Membership Countdown Launch, 16 July 2011
… Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) was arrested during the height of apartheid. President Zuma will speak on the Imvuselelo one …
ANC-KZN flabbergasted by DA’s denigration of Oliver Tambo, 11 July 2006
… the mobilization of the international community against apartheid for almost thirty years. His entire excellent …
Grassroots
… oppression and injustice, and building opposition against apartheid. …
EventNational Arts Festival celebrates 37 years in Grahamstown
… for political and protest theatre during the height of the apartheid era, and it still offers an opportunity for …
EventKenneth David Kaunda wins Zambian elections
… Council in 2007 for his role in the struggle against apartheid in South Africa. …
EventDr Abrahams to be returned to Bechuanaland
… in its Report of the Special Committee on the policies of apartheid of the Government of the Republic of South Africa …
EventGeraldine Fraser is born
… such as Geraldine Fraser-Moleketi in the struggle against apartheid is celebrated. …
EventThe African National Congress (ANC) calls a meeting to chart a way forward for the Defiance Campaign
… 'defiers' were imprisoned for peacefully refusing to obey apartheid laws. The campaign, which carried on into 1953, …
EventANC adopts the Programme of Action
… party and its determination to implement a policy of apartheid. The ANC, inspired by the desire to achieve …
EventRichard J. Goldstone, former Justice of the Constitutional Court of SA, is born
… judge of the Transvaal Supreme Court. Towards the end of apartheid, Goldstone headed a commission to investigate …
EventUDF members challenge the government to arrest them on charges of high treason
… I did in helping found the UDF and in speaking out against Apartheid and the government was treason, then I should be …
EventCar bomb explodes outside Air Force headquarters
… was considered to be purely cosmetic. In retaliation, the apartheid government launched an attack on the Mozambiquan …
EventArmscor’s Chairman announces the production of a record breaking South African artillery system
… of the arms embargo imposed on South Africa due to its Apartheid policies and due to the performance of the South …
EventA car bomb explodes at Ellis Park Rugby Stadium
… a message to the White community regarding the futility of apartheid as a system. Ellis Park was chosen as a target as …
EventMazizi Maqekeza, ANC member, is shot dead whilst in hospital in Maseru, Lesotho
… A Crime Against Humanity: analysing the repression of the apartheid state, Johannesburg: Human Rights Committee, p. …
EventSA President P.W Botha meets with leaders of independent homelands
… to their race. This meeting was held at the time when the apartheid government was put under extreme pressure as unrest …
EventJan van Riebeeck visits Robben Island for the first time
… Dutch, then British colonial officials. It was under the Apartheid regime that Robben Island gained international …