SAHO global search
7,101 records
Speech by President Nelson Mandela at a banquet in honour of her majesty Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands Pretoria, 30 September 1996
… answers will come when the campaign begins. Until then, no-one knows. Source: Contact newspaper 19 March 1960. Patrick …
EventPortuguese sailors reach St Helena Bay
… sent them sheep, fresh vegetables and fruit; but when one of the Arab pilots jumped overboard as they were entering …
Reflections on the 1973 Durban strikes by Steven Freedman
… those in the factories, shops and offices enjoy – this is one cause of the troubles on the farms. It means also that …
Nelson Mandela Correspondence around financial problems
… the impression that many people and agencies unknown to one another are being used. 27 May 1979 Yesterday I also …
Document 36 - The first hearing on certification: a summary of the judgment of the Constitutional Court
… the aforementioned progressive organisations including a one week boycott of the banks We will also adjust our wage …
PlaceMozambique
… a power line over a 1 400 Kilometers long. This Dam is one of the largest dams ever constructed specifically to …
ArticlePort Elizabeth Timeline 1799-1986
… provisionally granted to Piet Retief. This was but one of the farms acquired by Retief at a time when he planned … 28 July, Port Elizabeth is declared a city…
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1980-1989
… the eve of the anniversary of the Sharpeville massacre. No one was injured. In April, together with Walter Sisulu , … by a car bomb in Maputo. He loses his…
Biography of Eli Weinberg by Karen Folz
… Rand Daily Mail three years earlier, Weinberg wrote, “As one of the many Jews whose families were exterminated in the … Ben Turok , a central figure in the…
January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee on the Occasion of the 106th Anniversary of the African National Congress presented by ANC president Cyril Ramaphosa, 13 January 2018
… which was quashed by the colonial authorities, was one of the earliest instances of organised multi-racial … year, we celebrate the 100th anniversary of the…
January 8th Statements -Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 99th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 2011
… that are foreign to our movement, such as engaging one another in public on internal matters. BUILDING THE … of our economic policies and this was translated…
January 8th Statements -Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 93th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 2005
… from the people, it remains still a people's Charter, the one basic political statement of our goals to which all … Tambo correctly described as "a people's…
ArchiveDeborah Matshoba’s fight against Apartheid by Alec Russo
… the system of injustice, however much of the praise missed one critical group to the anti-apartheid movement: the women. … trickiness of task at hand was…
PlaceGhwarrie Poort
… village in the country that is a National Monument from one end to the other. The town benefits from its proximity to … sandstone church is a National…
"Future of the Africanist Movement" Questions and Answers Y R. M. Sobukwe, in The Africanist, January 1959
… they are the members of the Africanist Movement. But, if one wishes to go deeper into the question, one would say that they are those Africans who believe…
ArticleAmersfoort Legacy - History of education in South Africa
… deployment in the cause of building a white identity. One might refer to this period as a period of state-building …
ArticleTimeline — Land Dispossession and Restitution in South Africa - 1995-2013
… inflating of prices by farmers on identified land on the one hand, and the falling into disuse of expropriated land …
PlaceMakhandra Aerodrome, Grahamstown
… in Port Elizabeth and East London. What was once hailed as one of the best Aerodromes in the Country and favoured as a …
EventThe Minister of Cooperation and Development, Dr. Piet Koornhof, announces the lifting of the '72-hour curfew'
… The '72-hour curfew' imposed on visiting blacks was one of the most hated apartheid laws. This curfew formed an …
Archive2003 - President Mbeki, State of the Nation Address, 14 February 2003
… gathered in our country, in Zimbabwe and Kenya, to test one another in a peaceful contest of human skill, ingenuity … and the fundamental transformation of…
PlaceNkandla, KZN
… transitional zone between mist and scarp forest. More than one hundred and fifty, different bird species have been … reasons for conserving this rare, Forest…
PlaceChristiana, North West
… time. The first, 'Residential Stands', were sold in 1870. One of the most popular attractions of Christiana is; the … back thousands of Years. The 'Diggers’…
PlaceCogmans Kloof Road (between Ashton and Montagu)
… period that Thomas built the Tunnel through Kalkoenkranz, one of his more challenging endeavors. In 1931 the Road was … is the way it cuts through the…
PlacePort Alfred
… One of the many difficulties faced by the 1820 Settlers , was … what is now known as the Royal Port Alfred Golf Club , one of only 5 “Royals” in Africa. With…
EventDale Steyn retires from Test cricket
… to retire in order to prolong his playing career in the One Day International (ODI) and TwentyTwenty (T20) formats. … be the greatest fast bowler of his…
PlaceSouth African College High School
… in the words of the School Song, have ‘swelled the fame…’ One of only four schools world-wide privileged enough to … the privilege of studies and sport…
PlaceNahoon River Point Nature Reserve
… Nahoon Point Nature Reserve in East London and is dubbed one of the most scenic coastal reserves in the country and is … Museum is renowned for the…
PlacePrincess Vlei Conservation Area
… in its waters. During the years of Apartheid , it became one of the few Natural Areas that people of colour could … to the Cape Flats by Group Areas Act ,…
PlaceLetsemeng Local Municipality, Free State Province
… and in the West by the Northern Cape Province. It is one of three Municipalities in the District, making up almost …
EventLabram, manufacturer of 'Long Cecil' is killed by shell from 'Long Tom'
… days it was shelling the Boer lines. Labram was one of the defendants when Kimberley was under siege by the …