SAHO global search
13,724 records
ArticleRock Art
… conflict with the new arrivals. Most rock art in South Africa is found in the South-western and southern Cape, the …
PlaceDutch Reformed Church, Bosman Street, Pretoria
… members and 29 ministers in the presbytery. In this time all the congregations of the presbytery flourished. Arcadia …
PlaceBraamfontein, a Suburb of Johannesburg
… rebels and young creative types, Braamfontein has it all – great Museums and Theatres, exciting nightlife, …
PlaceMahaking, formerly known as Mafikeng
… offers some interesting and diverse displays that take in all of the above. A retired steam locomotive outside the …
PlaceBarton Keep, Jacob Mare Street, Pretoria
… Holland where the design and final plans were completed. All the material used was imported from England and Holland …
PlaceSada
… leg of a sheep alone, with no salt (it’s not ayoba at all). The Landscape is beautiful and the Mountains seem to … Forced Removals In South Africa – The…
PlaceDoornkop/Doornsluiten
… of two boreholes for water on the property. In spite of all this, the tenants remained under threat of eviction due …
PlaceWaaihoek Farm
… the area vividly remembered the eviction, and explained: All those who came to Waaihoek were farm evictees and some …
PlaceChatsworth, Suburb of Durban
… in Derbyshire, England. In the 1950s, Indians from all over Durban were moved to Chatsworth under the Group … of South African Place Names, p.53 |Soccerphile…
PlacePilgrims Rest
… surrounding Area was densely populated with prospectors all hoping to make their fortunes in the second of the …
PlaceAthlone - or Cape Flats, Cape Town
… churches, evangelical Christian churches, and southern Africa's largest Muslim community (drawing its oldest roots … other notable figures within the Muslim…
PlaceEzakheni Township of Ladysmith
… 1970s. African people in Roosboom, Good Hope and Welcome- all adjacent ‘black spots’ about 11km from Ladysmith, were all forcibly removed in 1976. The forced…
ANC-KZN flabbergasted by DA’s denigration of Oliver Tambo, 11 July 2006
… of the greatest freedom fighters ever produced by South Africa, Oliver Reginald Tambo. Speaking on SABC’s PM Live … Tambo in the founding of the non-racial…
EventMacassar Gas Disaster (AECI stockpile catches fire)
… Evaluation of Exposures from a Large Sulfur Fire in South Africa. [Online]. Available: … d_Evaluation_of_Exposures_from_a_Large_Sulfur_Fire_in_South_Africa ↵…
Launch of The Eye of the Needle by Richard Turner
… was inspired by the events of 1968, and returned to South Africa increasingly influenced by Steve Biko and the Black … entry point for both historical…
ArchiveStaffrider Vol.7 No.1 1988
… his Art by Barbara Lindop; Socialist Explorations in South Africa by Martin Trump; Contemporary Popular Music in South Africa by Gary Rathbone. Poetry: A…
EventRudolph Lewis, South African road racing cyclist is born
… was born on 12 July 1887 in Pretoria.[i] Rudolph was South Africa’s second world class athlete after Laurens S Meintjes.[ii] He represented South Africa at…
EventNatal is formally separated from the Cape Colony
… THE HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE SUPREME COURT OF SOUTH AFRICA’from The Justice Department Republic of South Africa [online] Available at www.justice.gov.za…
PlaceGazebo, Civic Square
… this type of Concord coach is known to survive in Southern Africa, the one above at the Natural History Museum in Bulawayo and the other in the Museum Africa…
EventSS Mendi sinks in the English Channel on the way to France
… of the SS Mendi on 21 February 1917 became one of South Africa's worst tragedies of the First World War (1914-1919). … ... so let us die like brothers. We…
EventKenneth David Kaunda wins Zambian elections
… Kaunda allowed liberation movements from Angola, South Africa, Mozambique, Namibia and Zimbabwe to use his country … for his role in the struggle against…
EventThe Berlin Airlift, which delivered food and fuel to West Berliners during a Soviet blockade, and in which the SAA took part, comes to an end
… countries of the British Commonwealth, including South Africa, offered their assistance. These Commonwealth … countries provided crews to fly RAF aircraft…
EventUDF members challenge the government to arrest them on charges of high treason
… largest and most powerful legal opposition force in South Africa. Its membership and especially its goals approximated … Star, 28 February (Available at…
EventArmscor’s Chairman announces the production of a record breaking South African artillery system
… March 1982, the Chairman of Armscor announced that South Africa had developed a 155mm artillery piece that outranged … was the direct result of the arms…
EventThe last passenger boat of the Union Castle line, the Windsor Castle, leaves Table Bay
… of a vital communications link between Europe and Southern Africa, the RMS Windsor Castle was the last of the Union … liners and freighters had helped…
EventMembers of the ANC and SACP are detained due to Operation Vula
… this operation were to smuggle freedom fighters into South Africa and maintain open communication links between the ANC … plot, the ANC had infiltrated key…
EventSusanna Kok, SA medical missionary whose work led to the effective diagnosis and treatment of leprosy, dies
… basis of her professional life. After returning to South Africa to obtain a diploma in public health care, she went to … dispelled. She continued to travel…
EventThe Azanian People’s Liberation Army (APLA) disbands
… (SACP). APLA supported the PAC ideology of iZwe ngelethu, "Africa is Ours", and Mayibuye iAfrika, "Bring back Africa". APLA was associated with attacks on…
EventAn application to the Pretoria Supreme Court, to declare the Freedom of Choice to Terminate Pregnancy Law unconstitutional, fails.
… Pregnancy Law unconstitutional, fails. In 1998 South Africa's liberal abortion law was challenged in court by … the recognition of reproductive rights by…
EventBeginning of the Anglo-Zulu War, 10 January 1879
… Frere was appointed British high commissioner to South Africa in 1879 to realise the policy of confederation (policy … them more of a threat to peace and…