SAHO global search
63,721 records
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
Lord Lugard, leading the expedition of the Royal Niger Company in West Africa, claims a protectorate over Nikki and Bussa.
Event
C. Lindenberg Letty, botanical artist who was commemorated in the botanical names Aloe lettae and Crassula lettae, is born in S
Event
The regular railway service between the capital of the ZAR, Pretoria, and Lourenço Marques starts.
Event
South African Amateur Athletic Union is founded in Johannesburg.
Event
The railway line from Germiston to Pretoria is opened to traffic.
Event
Sir Henry Bulwer, governor of Natal, turns the first sod of the Durban-Pietermaritzburg railway line.
Event
Johann Franz (Hans) Endler, composer, director and co-founder of the Stellenbosch music conservatory, is born in Mohrau, Austri
Event
President Thabo Mbeki joins several African leaders in Nairobi, Kenya, to witness the final signing of a peace accord between t
Event
Sudanese President Omar al Bashir and First Vice-President Ali Osman Mohamad Taha arrive with their National Party Secretary Ge
Event
Eight British tourists, five men and three women, are killed on their way to the Royal Natal National Park when their bus swer
Event
There are 194 infants with their mothers in prison.
Event
The Public Service employs 1 042 392 people – a decrease of 23 607 from December 1999. Seventy-one per cent of employees are
Event
Ernie Els, SA champion golfer, weds Liezl Wehmeyer in Stellenbosch.
Event
Algerian President Liamine Zeroual appoints Ahmed Ouyahia as prime minister to replace Mokdad Sifi.
Event
Frederick and Clifford Nissen, brothers of the ANC assistant secretary of the Western Cape, the Rev. Chris Nissen, is shot dead
Event
SA ratifies International Sugar Agreement.
Event
A total of twenty-one people are serving life sentences for offences against the security of the state, according to the minist
Event
Up to this date 5 483 187ha have been bought in terms of the Development Trust and Land Act of 1936 at a cost of R1,27bn for th
Event