SAHO global search
2,931 records
EventInkatha becomes a political party
… with democratic safeguards for all people. To harness the great resources of the country to fight the real enemies of …
EventCiskeian police disrupt residents’ meeting
… Peelton people land in South Africa. This was one of the great rural victories of the 1980s and it gave all other …
EventVasco da Gama’s expedition reaches St Helena Bay
… Helena Bay), after the Religious Mother of Constantine the Great. Close to, or near the mouth of the Berg River, the …
EventM.K. Gandhi is forcibly removed from a whites-only train carriage
… 7 June 1893, M.K Gandhi , later known as "The Mahatma" or "Great Soul" was forcibly removed from a whites-only carriage …
PlaceFort Beaufort
… well-wooded hills and deep ravines, which were used to great advantage by the amaXhosa during the frontier wars of …
EventNelson Mandela celebrates his 90th birthday.
… over the next year will publish a full history of this great South African, as well as histories of the movements …
EventThe Birkenhead runs aground with 638 passengers
… due to the gallantry of her men, who, in the face of great danger, allowed the women and children to escape in the …
EventRoger Joyce Bushell, Auxiliary Air Force pilot famous for his escape from the German prisoner of war camp, is born in Springs, Transvaal (now Gauteng)
… was shot dead. This incident has come to be known as the Great Escape. … letters reveal the story behind the mastermind of The Great Escape Roger Bushell…
EventThe Government Gazette publishes a Proclamation that dissolved KaNgwane Legislative Assembly
… and Development. This was despite the opposition of the great majority of the Legislative Assembly. Five months …
EventPolice increase their presence in Soweto
… in case the student and community reaction became too great for the police to handle. However, the police presence …
Address by President Nelson Mandela of South Africa to the 49th session of the General Assembly New York, 3 October 1994
… It surely must be one of the great ironies of our age that this August Assembly is … historic change has come about not least because of the great efforts in…
PlaceTranskei
… no alternative but to yield the fertile region between the Great Fish and the Keiskamma Rivers. Initially this was known … Governor D'Urban extended the…
56. The Cape Town Agreement is welcomed
… You will recollect that we looked upon this decision with great suspicion, so much so that we called an emergency … they so willingly and unselfishly did for…
The Battle of Square Hill
… first gun captured on the Palestine front during Allenby’s great push’ [xliii] and resulted in Lance-Corporal Thimm … [lix] The 20th September 1918 was later…
South African and World leaders
… it is today. Some of them were good leaders, others even great. But there have also been leaders who abused their … young talent and the future stars. Sport…
ArticleCongress of Traditional Leaders of South Africa
… and should have in a post-apartheid South Africa. Another great example of this is that upon the release of Nelson … society and so traditional chiefs and…
Say It out Loud - The 1923 Presidential Address, Cape Town, 3rd April, 1923
… our last Conference, and in that brief period so many great events of tragic importance to us have occurred that it … therefore, be advisable for me to…
ArticleCo-operation and conflict on the Highveld
… moves to Thaba Bosiu The 1820s and 1830s were a time of great upheaval. There were many wars about land which caused … some of the Boers got together. They…
Oliver Tambo interview to Sechaba, 01 March 1976
… end of a period of eight or nine months which witnessed a great demonstration of international solidarity and the … invading forces. The 27th of March was…
Racists Humiliated - O. R. Tambo Interviewed by Michael Wolfers, Sechaba, March 1976
… end of a period of eight or nine months which witnessed a great demonstration of international solidarity and the … invading forces. The 27th of March was…
PlaceFort Cox
… socio-economic and biological heritage. It is a place of great historic interest. Fort Cox featured prominently in the … Fort Cox. 1926: Under the influence…
Speech by Oliver Tambo on the occasion of the award of an honorary Doctorate to Nelson Mandela by the Karl Marx University of the German Democratic Republic, 11 November 1987, Leipzig
… after the celebrations to mark the 70th anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution. This event, more than any … Nelson Mandela, who is unable to…
Speech on the Occasion of the Award of an Honorary Doctorate to Nelson Mandela by The Karl Marx University of the German Democratic Republic by O. R. Tambo, Leipzig, 11 November 1987
… after the celebrations to mark the 70th anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution. This event, more than any … Nelson Mandela, who is unable to…
Our Greatest Indian Leader since Gandhiji -Tribute to Dr. Gangathura Mohambry Naicker (From: Sechaba, second quarter), 1978
… the ideas of united struggle advance by leaps in the three great mass-based campaigns launched by the black people: the great African Mineworkers` Strike,…
“Our Greatest Leader since Gandhiji”, By Dr Yusuf Dadoo
… the ideas of united struggle advance by leaps in the three great mass-based campaigns launched by the black people: the great African Mineworkers` Strike,…
ArticleAfrikaner Jewry in South Africa
… reports at the time rendered South Africa as a land with a great deal of affluence [vi] in an attempt at populating …
Turning-point elections in South Africa, 1910 - 2009
… limited powers. The Cape Colony is considered “one of the great paradoxes of South African history for having spewed …
A Message to Every Voter from the African National Congress, April 1958
… what this has to do with us, who have no votes. It has a great deal to with us. Parliament makes laws which govern …
The armed struggle and state repression of the 1960s
… of sabotage. Without an internal structure the ANC had great difficulty in planning and executing infiltration into …
ArticleSources task: The Berlin Wall
… with the East Berliners? Source H The Wall was a great backdrop for speeches too. American President John …