SAHO global search
17,854 records
Event
Pule Herbert Isak Makgoe, ANC politician and member of Umkhonto we Sizwe, is born. He was arrested in 1986 and sentenced to fiv
Event
Two Libyan men plead not guilty to charges that they were involved in the Lockerbie bombing of Panama flight 103 in 1988. The c
Event
The Convention on Fishing and Conservation of the Living Resources of the High Seas, to which SA is a party, is signed in Genev
Event
Anglo-Boer War 2:A cease-fire between 12 p.m. and sunset is called to allow for a rugby match between the British and Boer forc
Event
James Earl Ray, who confessed to assassinating the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr in 1968 and later insisted he was framed, dies at
Event
Sheik Yusuf, Islamic leader and brother of the sultan of Macassar, who was banished to the Cape, arrives at the Cape on board t
Event
In the 1977-78 Budget introduced by the Minister of Finance, Senator Owen Horwood, the amount to be spent on defence is given a
Archive
Message from the President of South Africa to the AAM Archives Committee Symposium held at South Africa House, London, 25-26 June 1999
Event
Herbert Hayton Castens, first SA rugby captain and also captain of the first SA cricket team to tour overseas, is born in Somer
Event
A Soweto Action Committee is formed to back the plan for the future of Soweto proposed by the ‘Committee of 10’, most of whose
Event
The results of an opinion poll indicate that more than 160 000 White South African adults plan to leave the country within the
Event
The Congress of SA Trade Unions has urged its alliance partner, the ANC, to clarify its stance on political and human rights ab
Event
Police arrest 2,300 people in the Black township of Sebokeng in what is believed to be the biggest raid against Blacks living i
Event
Fires in Cape Town and the Western Cape are ‘out of control’. A woman and two teenagers have burnt to death in Khayelitsha, Cap
Event
Rebels of the Sudan Peoples Liberation Army spend the first day of their first-ever visit to Sudan’s capital since the civil wa
Event
Mr Mhleli and Dr Warren Zolile Nombe are acquitted in the Umtata regional court of charges relating to terrorism and the ANC on
Event
Joan Hoskyn Davies, archivist and the first woman to become head of an archives depot, is born on Robben Island, where her fath
Event
The British land a major force on l’Ile de France and capture the island from the French. They revert to the name Mauritius.
Event
George VI, who became king when his brother abdicated to marry Wallis Simpson, is born. He visited SA in 1947 with his family.
Event
The first group of 120 exiles returning to South Africa under the agreement reached in August by UNHCR and the South African au
Event
Dr Apollo Milton Obote is finally returned to power in Uganda. When it seemed like the opposition DP party might win, the chair
Event
Anglo-Boer War 2: The British under Methuen attempt to advance and are defeated by the Boers under Cronje as the Battle of Mage
Event
The Nobel Peace Prize for 1952, having been withheld in that year, is given to Albert Schweitzer. With the $33,000 prize money,
Event
Egypt’s first Aswan Dam is unveiled 950 kilometres (590 miles) south of Cairo. The 40 meter (130ft) high Aswan Dam, designed to
Event
Apartheid is to be tightened up at the Pretoria Zoo after a complaint from a visitor that the zoo was ‘over-run with Blacks’ on
Event
At a meeting in Durban City hall Zulu King Goodwill Zwelithini tells President de Klerk that he is prepared to set up a Zulu Ki
Event
Lord Kitchener meets with Gen. Louis Botha in an effort to end the Anglo-Boer War, but Botha finds the British conditions unacc
Event
South Africa beats the West Indies with 50 runs in the seventh one-day cricket match at Centurion Park, to clinch the series 6-
Event
It is reported in London that the British government will not issue a permit for the export of the ground-to-air missiles South
Event