SAHO global search
1,845 records
EventFirst postage stamp in Africa is issued in the Cape Colony
… on a rectangular stamp in sepia and vermillion. Related: Colonial Post and Telegraph Diary of the Cape of Good Hope …
PlaceQuadrant House, 114-115 Victoria Embankment, Durban
… `Berea Style' which arose from local interest in Spanish Colonial Architecture as found, on the West Coast of North …
Document 19 - The D. F. Malan Accord
… strongly reflected the interests of the indentured and colonial-born Indian. Together they resisted inroads, pleaded …
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1866-1909
… to the hut tax which was imposed on the Zulu by British Colonial rule. The SANC and the Transvaal Native Congress …
PlaceOatlands, Simonstown
… and the whole whitewashed. On 22 December 1787, the Colonial Secretary , Mr A. Barnard, gave orders that Mr Trail … of defects. On receipt of this…
Say It out Loud - The Education Bill, 1906
… that when Sir Lewis Mitchell, in the capacity of Acting Colonial Secretary circulated his letter wherein he asked for … some points in it. You will also…
Adapted from De Rietfonteyn: Founding of Grahamstown By Elron Kleinhans
Q: How did we get a place called Grahamstown? A: Before there was a town, the place was called Egume by the local people. Then the British came and named it…
EventSA's Fifa membership reinstated
… racist policy on sport. Previous to this, in keeping with pre-apartheid segregation, leagues had been divided according …
Special Screening of Wat Was Hie? Followed by an engaging discussion with filmmaker Luke De Kock
… and Khoi peoples and confronts the harsh legacy of Dutch colonial slavery through poetic reenactments, asking: WHAT …
Chapter 2 - No equality under the Union Jack, 1900 - 1910
… intellectual gifts, Harriette’s constant battle against colonial prejudice towards the Africans won her the respect … found herself the object of contempt at…
Introduction
… strongly reflected the interests of the indentured and colonial-born Indian. Together they resisted inroads, pleaded …
EventPrime Minister, B.J.Vorster, states that South Africa is still committed to granting independence to Namibia before the end of 1978
… Versailles, Germany as a former Axis Power ceded all its colonial possessions to the Allied Powers. However, after the …
EventThe first known reference to Antjie Somers, a South African bogy figure, is made in The Friend
… Somers was the state executioner and torturer in the Cape Colonial government. When capital punishment and the torture …
Conference: African Indigenous Knowledge Systems
… Perspective v Indigenous Systems of Governance and Post-Colonial Africa: The Case of Barotseland v Indigenous …
EventSir Patrick Duncan, Governor-General of the Union of South Africa, is born
… of the Transvaal. In South Africa, Duncan was appointed as colonial secretary for the Transvaal. He held several other …
Statement at the Freedom Rally Organised by the Irish Anti-Apartheid Movement by O. R. Tambo, Dublin, 26 January 1979
… who know as intimately what it means to suffer under colonial domination and imperialist plunder. It is fortunate … of national liberation and democracy on…
Document 65 - Z. Sanders (Zena Susser), “Aspects of the Rural Problem in South Africa”, lecture delivered to the Johannesburg Discussion Club on 1 December 1952, Viewpoints and Perspectives, 1, 1, 21 February 1953 [....]
… and powerful class, e.g. landowners, and because the rigid colonial institutions have prevented the emergence of any … workers. The first handicap of the…
From Protest to Challenge: Documents of African Politics in South Africa 1882-1964 Volume 1
… reviewed by Comrade DG Wolton, who stressed the growth of colonial liberation movements and the colonial workers' growing unity with the workers of the home …
35. Colour legislation in the Orange River Colony
… all, subordinate to, and under the direct control of, the Colonial Office, can defy the head of that Office and … River Colony towards Coloured persons, and…
ArticleHistory Grade 11 - Topic 1 Essay Questions
… and agricultural collectivisation during the pre-war years allowed for the repel of German forces and the …
A.I. Kajee His Work for the Southern African Indian Community - Chapter 2
… political body which called itself the Indian Settlers and Colonial-born Association. This Association was largely Hindu … Commission infuriated thouÂsands…
ArticleHistory Grade 10 - Topic 2 Essay Questions
Impact of Slave Trade and Colonisation on Indigenous Societies at the Cape Based on the 2012 Grade 10 NSC Exemplar Paper: Grade 10 Past Exam Paper …
![B J Vorster [John Vorster] portrait](/sites/default/files/styles/saho_medium/public/bio_pics/vorster_bj.jpg?itok=ySN_t7b3)
BiographyB J Vorster [John Vorster]
… policy of destabilisation against states in the region. To pre-empt UN-sponsored elections in SWA in 1979, Vorster …
BiographyAlbertina Nontsikelelo Sisulu
… ANCWL work. The Pietermaritzburg Treason Trial began with pre-trail proceedings some time before the trial date of 21 …
PlaceAG Bain Monument, Grahamstown
… innovation and inquisitive mind make him an unforgettable colonial character, and his writings fascinating and enduring …
Placem'Bashe Lighthouse
… and Port St Johns. It was back in 1890's that the Cape Colonial Lighthouse Commission, originally recommended … entire cost of coast lighting being provided…
PlaceHarbour Board Building, Port Elizabeth
… in 2021, with the aim to distance South Africa from its colonial past and represent the authentic South Africa, the …
EventOver 400 Kikuyu suspected to be part of the Mau Mau movement are arrested in Kenya
… under French rule in 1892. After almost seventy years of colonial rule, Mali was renamed the Sudanese Republic, …
EventSlachter’s Nek rebels are hanged
… Prinsloo, organised an uprising against the British colonial power. The rebellion was quickly quashed, with a …
EventRenewal of land acquisition programme in Zimbabwe
… the drain in a split second. Mugabe even challenged former colonial ruler Britain, saying that if she wanted to see the …