SAHO global search
63,739 records
Event
Stompie Sepei is taken from the Methodist manse in Orlando by Jerry Richardson, former coach of the Mandela United football tea
Event
Twelve residents are killed in a KwaNdebele vigilante attack on Moutse, KwaNdebele.
Event
The study privileges of Sisulu and Mandela are permanently withdrawn.
Event
Donald Woods, editor of the East London Daily Dispatch, escapes to Lesotho through the Caledon River on his way to London.
Event
The Centre against Apartheid is established in the United Nations Secretariat, with E. S. Reddy, Chief of Section for African A
Event
With effect from this date the New Zealand government terminates all tariff preferences previously granted to South Africa.
Event
For the first time in the history of the South African Police Force (SAP) policewomen are enlisted as full members of the force
Event
The University College of Zululand, formerly affiliated to the University of South Africa, attains full academic autonomy as th
Event
The Weights and Measures Bill, providing for the metrification of weights and measures, thereby introducing the metric system,
Event
SA signs multilateral Sugar Agreement of 1958.
Event
Bosman de Kock is appointed director of the Performing Arts Council of the Transvaal (PACT).
Event
President David Dacko of the Central African Republic is ousted in a military coup by army commander Jean-Bédel Bokassa.
Event
In a New Year message, Prime Minister Verwoerd emphasises that South African policy is one of non-interference in the issues be
Event
Maruping Sebastian Bonokwane, trade unionist and MEC for Economic Affairs and Tourism in the Northern Cape Provincial governmen
Event
Thousands of Commonwealth citizens resident in South Africa, mostly Britons, become technically aliens through failing to apply
Event
Rwanda is granted internal self-government by Belgium.
Event
Cameroon declares independence from France.
Event
Sudan is declared an independent republic.
Event
Black Education Act No 47 commences.
Event
Victoria Nonyamezelo Mxenge, civil rights lawyer and political activist, is born in King William’s Town, Eastern Cape.
Event
Johannes Frederik Janse van Rensburg (Hans) is appointed as leader of the Ossewabrandwag (OB), an Afrikaner cultural movement,
Event
Albert John Luthuli acts as elected Chief at Groutville after resigning his teaching post in 1935. In 1952 he was deposed as Ch
Event
Italian colonies of Tripoli, Cyrenaica and Fezzan are merged as Libya.
Event
Coalminers strike because of lowered wages.
Event
Job Patja Kekana, S.A. sculptor, is born in Potgietersrus, Transvaal.
Event
Percy Fisher, born in 1891 in Durham, England, miner and unionist who was regarded as the main leader of the 1922 miners’ strik
Event
Dr Benedict Wallet Vilakazi, poet and writer and first Black South African to receive a doctorate in literature, is born in Gro
Event
The poll tax of £1 per head on all adult male inhabitants of Natal, except indentured Indians and married Blacks, imposed by t
Event
British protectorates of Northern and Southern Nigeria are established.
Event