SAHO global search
1,470 records
Memorandum on the Pass Laws and Influx Control by The Black Sash, September 1974, South Africa
The significance of the Bulhoek massacre today by Sam Matiase, 11 May 2015, South Africa
Sam Matiase says the ongoing struggle to reclaim stolen land is epitomised by the events of 1921 This Land, is ‘Holy Grounds’, Marking the 94th Anniversary…
BiographyLawrence Folley
Born in Benoni in 1928, Lawrence started voice training with Alan Webster and music theory with Gillian Davies who trained the Benoni Orpheus Choir. Lawrence…
BiographyNgoako Abel Ramatlhodi
Ngoako Abel Ramatlhodi was born on 21 August 1955 at Tauyatswala small village near Polokwane, in Northern Transvaal (now Limpopo Province). Ramatlhodi's…
South African Student Organisation Leaders
Steve Biko 1st president 1968 -1969, 1970-1971 Publications Vuyelwa Mashalaba General Secretary 1970 - 1971. Charles Sibisi vice president international…
Cecil Higgs, one of SA’s foremost painters, is born in Thaba Nchu, OFS.
Frederick William Fitzsimons, pioneer of SA’s school museum service, is born in Ireland
EventBafana Bafana, SA’s National soccer team, wins the Africa Cup of Nations Final
South African were the host of the Africa Cup of Nations Tournament in 1996. It was the national team, Bafana Bafana’s second appearance in the tournament…
BiographyDorothy Cleminshaw
Dorothy Cleminshaw (nee Mullany) was born in Cape Town on the 15th of September 1922. She went to Ellersie College in Sea Point and matriculated with a full…
EventUnrest breaks out at Naledi High School as Security police confront learners
… of the local branch of the South Africa Students Movement (SASM). In retaliation students stoned the police and burned …
EventPhambili Ka Ntloko, national organiser of AZAPO, is born
… became involved in the South African Students’ Movement (SASM), a black consciousness organisation for high school …
ArticleBlack Consciousness Movement Timeline 1903-2009
… of national liberation South African Students’ Movement (Sasm) launched, a high school-based youth organisation 3 May, … from Soweto schools meet at the…
ArchiveInside the longest war in SA’s history, by Thula Simpson, 5 March 2016
ArchiveReimagining unity: The imperative of National Dialogue 2.0 in SA’s political crisis
The story of the Black Sash: The Women`s Campaign for Justice and Good Government in South Africa
Report of Fort Hare Local Committee to SASO annual General Students’ Council, by Pumzile Majeke, July 1973
Fourteen people, including leading members of the South African Students Organisation (SASO) and the Black People’s Convention
SASO Executive and Staff: Minutes of the meeting held in Durban at Head Office, 23 March 1974
The meeting discussed the business affairs of the branches of the South African Students Organisation
Letter from Steve Biko to Colin Collins, regarding arrangements for a SASO and UCM Conference.
EventNaledi High School is founded
… of the local branch of the South Africa Students Movement (SASM), Enos Ngutshane. In retaliation students stoned the …
Armed struggle & the advancement of the student and labour movements, 1967-1976
… at a meeting of the South African Students’ Movement (SASM) convened at Naledi High School, the Soweto Students’ … Representative Council (SSRC) was formed,…
Citrusdal in the southwestern Cape becomes SA’s first officially recognised non-racial local authority.
Johan Botha wins the 800 m in Japan and becomes SA’s first indoor world champion.
SA’s first commercial service television station depending solely on advertising, e.tv, starts broadcasting.
Sam Shaffishuna Nujoma, first president of Namibia, is born in Ongandjera, South West Africa.
Bulelani Ngcuka, SA’s first National Director of Public Prosecutions is born in Middledrift, Transkei.
EventAfrikaner women march to the union buildings in protest of SA’s involvement in WW2
About 10 000 Afrikaner women, led by Mrs H.C. Steyn, wife of former President M.T. Steyn, marched to the Union Buildings to protest about the South African…
EventSA national soccer team, Bafana Bafana, win the SA’s first ever FIFA sanctioned match.
South Africa had been suspended by FIFA in 1961 and formally expelled in 1976 because apartheid law forbade mixed-race sport. For three decades, generations of…
EventResolute Treurnicht rejects waiving language policy
… up under auspices of the South African Student Movement (SASM), which later evolved into the formation of the Soweto …
BiographyDr Gurunathen (Guru) Kistnasamy
Guru Kistnasamy was born on 28 December 1947 in Felixton, Zululand, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal). His father, Thaniachallam Kistnasamy Naicker, worked as a…