SAHO global search
1,259 records
PlaceLuthuli House Museum, KwaDukuza
The mission of this Museum is to conserve, uphold, promote and propagate the life, values, philosophies and legacy of the late Chief Albert Luthuli in the…
ArticleRemembering and Celebrating South Africa’s Iconic LGBTQI+ Women
The shards of South Africa’s fragmented history share a common thread throughout; at the core is a struggle for equality and visibility. Over the course of the…
Cape Flats Details - Life and Popular Art in Cape Town’s Townships
… Ledochowski’s painstaking and brilliant photographs document the wall decorations and murals drawn by artists in …
PlaceLutheran Church, New Germany
… that time, the membership stood at 321 and was growing. A document signed on that day gave thanks to the Lord of the …
EventAfrican National Congress Youth League is founded
… reading: Constitution of the ANC Youth League, 1944' (document in SAHO library) Freedom in our lifetime, the …
5. Muslims of Durban complain about the vexatious curfew law
… after 9 p.m. at certain times of the year. In the document reproduced here, dated 26 March 1877, Muslims …
ArticleIndustrial and Commercial Workers Union (ICU)
… Communist Party members from ICU membership ( official document released by the SACP after the expulsion ). Clements …
ArticleThe Wragg Commission (1885-1887)
… Henry Francis Richardson. The Commission's Report was a document of the prevailing legislation in the Colony of Natal …
EventDurban Declaration is published denouncing Thabo Mbeki's AIDS denialism
… AIDS Conference being held in Durban that year. The document was signed by people with doctorate level … qualifications including 11 Nobel Laureates. Despite…
BiographyIsaac Williams Wauchope
… Will of Eliza Tshona but which was not a valid and legal document, (b) representing the signatories to the alleged …
BiographyThabo Mvuyelwa Mbeki
… signatories petitioning in support of ‘Spies for Peace’, a document that revealed secret information about Britain’s …
Address by President Jacob Zuma at the celebration of 60th Anniversary of the Freedom Charter, Kliptown, Johannesburg, 26 June 2015
… history of our country 60 years ago, when the visionary document, the Freedom Charter, was adopted by the Congress of … non-racial value system. It is an…
ArticleMandela and the South African Communist Party
… While MK was intended as an autonomous organisation, a document in a Ghanaian archive written by Mandela, Oliver … the Freedom Charter of 1955 – the ANC’s…
ArticleThe Natal Workers Theatre Movement Timeline
… The large scale staging is unsuccessful. The DWCL drafts a document on its aims and principles, and the potential role … Workshop is cancelled and Hlatshwayo…
EventGermany signs an unconditional surrender which ends World War II
In the early hours of 7 May 1945, the Chief-of-Staff of the German Armed Forces High Command, General Alfred Jodl, signed unconditional surrender documents to…
ArticleCongress of South African Trade Unions 1994 - 2014
… One Step Forward, two steps Backward”, argued that the NGP document failed to locate itself within the historical …
ArticleThe Arrival of Jan Van Riebeeck in the Cape - 6 April 1652
… the Council of Policy, Van Riebeeck came equipped with a document called the ‘Remonstrantie’, drawn up in the …
ArticleGrade 9 - Term 3: Turning points in South African History, 1960, 1976 and 1990
… that are attributed to each inpidual within a single document, hence the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. This document aimed to be the fundamental…
Dr. Nelson Mandela’s acceptance address at the Clark University Investiture Atlanta, Georgia, 10 July 1993
… was in the balance, the ANC adopted the African claims, a document inspired by the Atlantic Charter, in which we set … international acclaim as an…
PlaceBergtheil House, 16 Queen’s Avenue, Westville
… and workshop implements, whilst photographs and records document the gradual growth and success of the boroughs as …
ArchiveChapter 7 - Planning for people's war `Blow on the embers and it will catch alight', January 1983 - March 1984 by Howard Barrell
… engaging in partial and general uprisings. Since 1979, the document asserted, the `broad base' of support for the ANC … with greater frequency'. The…
EventAfrican's Claim is presented at the conference
… African National Congress (ANC) held in Bloemfontein, the document the African's Claim in South Africa, presented by …
A celebration of 70 years of ‘African Claims’ - ANC by Zizi Kodwa, 11 May 2015, South Africa
… Document adopted by the ANC in 1943 following the Atlantic … Charter ANC CELEBRATES THE 70 YEARS OF AFRICAN CLAIMS DOCUMENT AND DEFEAT OF FASCISM AND NAZISM…
ArticleThe Drafting and Acceptance of the Constitution
… approve the draft as received; instead, it referred the document back to the Constitutional Assembly for revision and …
ArticleSouth Africa’s Key economic policies changes (1994 - 2013)
… As was first articulated in the original 1994 RDP document the ANC government sought " to mobilize all our …
Harry Snitcher 1, Unite Against Segregation! Condemn the C.A.C. [1943]
… 1, Unite Against Segregation! Condemn the C.A.C. [1943] Document 1 In spite many leading representatives of the …
Letter to Americans by Albert Luthuli, distributed by the American Committee on Africa with the "Appeal for Action", 4 November 1962, New York
… this call to action. The Appeal must not remain merely a document; it must become the base of an international …
PlaceOld House Museum, 31 Diakonia Street, Durban
… the transport means of the time; clocks and china document the culture of the time . An embroided cloth …
PlaceBophuthatswana, was Previously a Homeland
… the release of political prisoners in 1991 Please add this document to our resources page. In March 1994 Bophuthatswana …