Skip to main content
Menu
♥ Donate

SAHO global search

17,938 records

Search results
Src
E-0089285event Work is stopped at the Kimberley mine after forty-three years when it becomes uneconomical to operate at a depth of 1 083 m.31 Jul 2012✓
E-0089269event Swaziland’s King Mswati III has summoned his 1 million subjects to a gathering at Ludzidzi on August 10, at which he is expecte27 Jul 2012✓
E-0089267event Relations between SA and the USA becomes strained by SA’s announcement that it is going to normalise full diplomatic ties with27 Jul 2012✓
E-0089264event Delegates from some 100 nations agree at the United Nations on a global treaty to prevent over-fishing on the high seas.27 Jul 2012✓
E-0089197event Anglo-Boer War 2:  Lord Roberts sends his Chief of Staff, Lord Kitchener, to take overall command of the forces engaged agains27 Jul 2012✓
E-0089165event SA signs treaty with the Federal Republic of Germany relating to the visit of the German nuclear-powered vessel Otto Hahn.27 Jul 2012✓
E-0089159event (Sidney) Robey Leibbrandt, SA Olympic boxer in 1936 who was later condemned to death (but reprieved) because of his Nazi sympat27 Jul 2012✓
E-0086481event Archduke Frans Ferdinand, Austrian heir to the throne, and his wife are shot and killed by a student in Sarajevo.   This lead22 Jun 2012✓
E-0086313event Sir Leander Starr Jameson, in charge of affairs in Rhodesia, refuses entry to 110 Trekkers of the Adendorff trek, who congregat22 Jun 2012✓
E-0086272event Durban is renamed. Capt. Allen F. Gardiner and fifteen residents decide to re-name the mission station Berea, D’Urban, in honou22 Jun 2012✓
E-0086219event Esther Franks, physician and first woman ophthalmic surgeon to practise in SA, dies in Pretoria. She was a pioneer in the fight15 Jun 2012✓
E-0086214event A spokesman for the World Council of Churches says in Geneva that the government has refused permission for Bishop Zulu to atte15 Jun 2012✓
E-0086211event Speaking at a prayer meeting in New Delhi, Mahatma Gandhi calls on the South African government to stop the hooliganism of Whit15 Jun 2012✓
E-0086204event Electricity comes to Durban when the mayor, Mrs George Payne, pulls a switch and parts of the town are bathed in light.15 Jun 2012✓
E-0086162event Leonard Tshela Mohapi Matsoso, SA artist, is born in Pimville, Soweto.   From 1962 to 1970, while still at school, Matsoso st15 Jun 2012–
E-0086161event Leonard Tshela Mohapi Matsoso, SA artist, is born in Pimville, Soweto.   From 1962 to 1970, while still at school, Matsoso st15 Jun 2012✓
E-0086153event Following the introduction of a bill to provide a national flag for the Union of South Africa (in 1925 by DF Malan), Afrikaner15 Jun 2012–
E-0086152event Following the introduction of a bill to provide a national flag for the Union of South Africa (in 1925 by DF Malan), Afrikaner15 Jun 2012✓
E-0086118event Twelve Africans (eleven men and one woman) appear in court in Pretoria accused of setting up a transport route to smuggle recru15 Jun 2012✓
E-0085961event A four-day conference (16-19 June) to examine racism, colonialism and apartheid in South Africa is held in Lisbon, Portugal, or15 Jun 2012✓
R-0089093archive ”Urban Native Legislation”. Memorandum to the Minister for Native Affairs from the Location Advisory Boards’ Congress of South Africa, September 8, 193020 Jul 2012–
E-0088982event Dr Wouter Basson testifies before the Truth and Reconciliation Commission that he had to help keep Nelson Mandela alive in gaol20 Jul 2012✓
E-0088970event The first person to be banned under the 1976 Internal Security Act, Fatima Meer, is banned again for a further five years.20 Jul 2012✓
E-0088938event The Minister of Arts, Culture, Science and Technology, Dr Ben Ngubane, is to resign from the government of National Unity follo20 Jul 2012✓
E-0088935event The South African government and ANC leaders hold talks, brokered by the United Nations Special Envoy to South Africa, Cyrus Va20 Jul 2012✓
E-0088911event The Rev. Edward Jacannathan Manikkam, minister of the Reformed Church in Africa and first Indian to be ordained in the family o20 Jul 2012✓
E-0088897event South African President F.W. de Klerk demotes two Cabinet ministers in charge of security, Magnus Malan and Adriaan Vlok, to de20 Jul 2012✓
E-0088843event The Alabama, American raider of the Southern states during the American Civil War, arrives in Saldana Bay to load provisions an20 Jul 2012✓
E-0088782event The Waratah, passenger ship that disappeared mysteriously in 1909 with 211 passengers on board, leaves Durban on her way to Cap20 Jul 2012✓
E-0088717event Rwandan refugees trickle into Zaire now Congo after the border is opened, to escape filthy, crowded camps where death from chol20 Jul 2012✓

Refine

Clear all