SAHO global search
11,632 records
EventHastings Banda, former president of Malawi, is born.
… He declared Malawi a one party state led by the Malawi African Congress. The congress made him its president for …
EventConstruction of the Victoria Falls Bridge and the railway line are completed
… armed cadres of liberation movements, particularly of the African National Congress’s (ANC) uMkhonto we Sizwe and …
EventKenya is granted independence
… the 1940s before Kenyatta became the leader of the Kenya African Union (KAU) in 1947 and birth of the Mau Mau rebel …
EventTwo psychiatrists give evidence on the proceedings of David Beresford Pratt’s case
… farmer was accused of the attempted murder of the South African Prime Minister, Dr. H. F. Verwoerd at the Milner Park …
PlaceWarriors Gate: MOTH Museum of Militaria
… and M.O.T.H. Shrine was Built in 1936 and focuses on South African involvement in the two World Wars. It has Military …
Foreword
… Committee wishes to express its appreciation to the South African Commissioner and the staff of South Africa House for …
EventPolice increase their presence in Soweto
… guns and carbines, patrolled the vast township. The South African Defence Force army was also on standby in case the …
ArticleCOVID-19: The Whens and Whats of the Deadly Virus
… The first “big” change was initiated by South African President, Cyril Ramaphosa , on 15 March 2020 when the President addressed the South African nation and…
ArchiveCHAPTER 9 - Tactics of talks, Tactics of confrontation, The Road to Vula, July 1985 - December 1986 Insurrection cannot be led from afar. by Howard Barrell
… that the ANC was under pressure to talk to the South African government (something he denied eight months later). 12 Subsequently, a prominent white South…
82. The President’s Council
… reproduced here. Throughout, he insists that he is a South African and wishes to play his rightful role as a full … members, I have the honour to stand among…
ArticleSouth Africa’s 2019 General Election - Post Analysis
… important since the dawn of democracy in 1994. The ruling African National Congress (ANC), which won the election, was … pro-market, and vowed to privatise…
ArchiveAhmed Timol and the return of The Light by Kevin Bloom (Daily Maverick), 28 October 2016
… obvious: because the gods, whether Roman or Greek or African, have always been ciphers for Truth. Take the death … team “to study all TRC cases in possession…
Statement by Oliver Tambo on the tenth anniversary of the Soweto uprising, 16 June 1986
… of the state of emergency. The stark reality of the South African situation is that the people are inexorably, … of the biggest world conferences to deal…
"The Count-Down has Started": Statement on the Tenth Anniversary of the Soweto Uprising by O. R. Tambo, 16 June 1986
… state of emergency. The stark reality of the South African situation is that the people are inexorably, … of the biggest world conferences to deal with…
Media briefing statement by ANC National Chairperson, Comrade Baleka Mbete, following the occasion of the Republic of South Sudans 9th July Independence Day Celebrations
… General Council took a resolution, encouraging the South African government to appoint a Special Envoy for Sudan. … July 2011 as part of our mission to…
A Brief History of Mali by US Department of State updated 01 October 2015
… Mali is the cultural heir to the succession of ancient African empires – Ghana, Malinké, and Songhai – that occupied the West African savannah. These empires…
ANC Gauteng Centenary Month to celebrate Oliver Tambo, 18 October 2012
… years, the City of Reggio Emilia provided support to the African National Congress. This historical relationship was … and others. The ANC in collaboration…
PlaceEswatini (formerly Swaziland)
… other's security interests. Swaziland would deport all African National Congress (ANC) members to South Africa. This did not prevent raids by the South…
PlaceNiger
… the spread of Islam , was also the source of some of these African country names. Niger officially; 'Republic of Niger'. Is landlocked by 7 other western…
Baroness Castle of Blackburn opened an exhibition on the history of the Anti-Apartheid Movement at the opening session of the Symposium
… say 'Where are these from?' knowing that they were South African. 'Oh! South African, no thank you' walking out as though the shop stank. … of the Community…
Archive2008 - President Mbeki, State of the Nation Address, 8 February 2008
… Deputy President of the Republic and President of the African National Congress; Our esteemed Chief Justice and … of international relations, with particular…
ArticleThe Founding of the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF)
… his public statements had gotten him suspended from the African National Congress (ANC) for 5 years. Malema was found …
ArticleWorld War I Timeline 1916
… Wood, part of the Somme Offensive takes place. A South African Brigade of 3 150 men, attached to the 9th Scottish …
Oration by the President of the Republic of South Africa, Kgalema Motlanthe, at the funeral service of the late Cleopas Mododa Nsibande, 3 January 2009, Benoni
… Members of the National Executive Committee of the African National Congress Ministers and Deputy Ministers … the objectives of a just, equal and prosperous…
Address by President Nelson Mandela at the inauguration of the National Council of Traditional Leaders Cape Town, 18 April 1997
… to do: to defeat, to subjugate and to dispossess the African people;to plunder their land and usurp its wealth. We … of the fact that, valiant though their…
ArchiveWebinar Programme: Debating Socialist Lineages. Convenors Shahid Vawda and Lungisile Ntsebeza
… Crain Soudien was educated in the fields of education and African Studies at the Universities of Cape Town, South … at Buffalo. His PhD dissertation from…
ArchiveBiography of Dorothy Nyembe by Thomas Boatman
… defying the unjust laws and confronting the daunting South African regime from a young age. She was an active leader in the African National Congress ,…
ArchiveSpeech by President Nelson Mandela to the Angolan National Assembly Luanda, 29 April 1998
… Led by the founder of liberated Angola, that great African patriot and internationalist, Agostinho Neto, you … development. The first state visit to Angola…
ArchiveThe Black Consciousness Movement and Steve Biko By Jonathan Ansumana
… see themselves as inferior. Steve Biko was a black South African and advocate of anti-apartheid. He is known for … but inferior educational opportunities to…
ArchiveApartheid - a vigilant witness
… the first published book of photographs by a black South African]. Apartheid is violence. Violence is used to … years. A good starting point in the history…