SAHO global search
2,986 records
EventBishop Ambrose Reeves returns to South Africa
… while Black rallies were called to protest against the action taken against him. Reeves was lovingly called 'our …
EventBlacks are making bonfires of their “passes” in Johannesburg
… bonfires of their reference books in Johannesburg. Their action was the latest gesture of defiance against the pass …
EventAfrican leaders issue a call for African unity
… inspired by common principles and a common programme of action for the achievement of the liberation of the African …
EventEleven people are killed in eSikhawini township
… northern Natal by unknown killers armed with pump action shotguns. The massacre took place a few hours after …
EventMandela suspends talks in the wake of Boipatong Massacre
… Tokyo, that his government had a plan to counter mass action. That plan included mobilisation of the army, the …
EventSebe seeks International Court of Justice to mediate in the ‘Kei dispute
… for interfering in Ciskei internal matters calling its action "terrorism and abduction". Ciskei demanded their …
EventTobacco Products Control Ammendmant Bill passed
… outrage by cigarette manufacturers, who threaten court action against the legislation. Critics (Manufacturers, …
The Wider Significance of the Judgement of the Constitutional Court on the “Nkandla Matter” by Thabo Mbeki, 11 April 2016
… make it possible for all concerned to take such corrective action as might be necessary. The eminent ConCourt Judgement … to the National Assembly how to…
ArticleThe Bambatha Rebellion begins
… white settlers demanded that the colonial government take action to deal with it. In February martial law was …
ArticleAngolan Civil War (1975-2002): A Timeline of Events
… attacks Cuando-Cubango and the MPLA threatens military action. 7 June 1980 SADF launches an invasion …
Black Peoples Convention - National Leadership
… Students Representative Council (SSRC) Soweto Teachers Action Committee (STAC) Transvaal Youth Organisation (TRAYO) …
ArticleWhat was the Great Depression and why did it start in the USA?
… in 1932. Roosevelt was a bold experimenter and a man of action. Early on in his administration he assembled the best …
ArticleAZAPO’s Women’s Wing - Imbeleko
… Movement's emphasis on self-reliance and practical action. The organisation runs skills training programmes in …
EventWinnie Madikizela Mandela, a stalwart in the fight against apartheid, passes away
On 2nd April 2018, Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, also known as the mother of the nation, passed away at the age of 81, at Milpark hospital in Johannesburg. She…
EventSA government threatens to pull out of the UN peace plan for Namibia
… of the United Nations (UN) peace plan for Namibia unless action was taken against the South West African People's …
Inqaba ya basebenzi
… minimum wage and exploitation of workers. Trade union action in the struggle for power by united workers is …
EventMK soldiers threaten armed struggle
… responded with a strongly worded statement promising firm action against anyone who would become involved in such a …
BiographyTim Bruwer
Odd one out Over the years many people have asked me how it came about that I, amongst all the Afrikaners that I grew up with or knew, as a young man in the…
ArchiveArt Fair forced to reinstate Mabulu painting after Goldblatt threat by Matthew Krouse (Mail & Gurdian), 28 September 2013
… who claimed that he had done so on his own initiative. The action was apparently taken in order to avoid offending the … veteran photographer David Goldblatt…
Book 5: People, Places and Apartheid - Bibliography
… Johannesburg, Maskew Miller Longman, 1998. Bundy, Colin. “Action, comrades, action!” The Politics of Youth-Student Resistance in the …
ArticleSudan’s Revolution
… called for a day of street cleaning instead of protest action, and entreated upon women in particular because they …
ArchiveMandla Mandela wants inquest into deaths of Stompie Seipie, Dr Asvat, 19 January 2018, South Africa
… that there was an unreasonable delay in instituting legal action. Madikizela-Mandela was implicated in Seipei's death …
EventDefiance campaign leadership meets with SAIC
… with a commitment to militant African nationalism and mass action and to tactics of boycotts, strikes and civil …
EventThe SACBC urges that lawful means be used to resist Apartheid
… police. At the end of the conference, a twenty-one point action programme was issued for directions to be taken in the …
EventChief Cyprian Zulu warns his people not to participate in the Defiance Campaign
… December 1952 it was decided, "to embark on mass national action, based on non-cooperation, against certain specified …
EventUDF organises boycott of Coloured and Indian parliamentry elections
… and 3 million individuals and in that years mass action had rendered SA ungovernable. This led to a state of …
EventANC Consultative Conference comes to an end
… process" and announced that 1991 would be a "year of mass action". It rejected a call to relax international sanctions …
EventSudanese-born basketball player and political activist, Manute Bol is born
… sport for basketball. An American coach spotted Bol in action and convinced him to move to the United States. In …
EventTwo former Soweto student leaders, Khotso Seathlolo and Mary Loate are given long term sentences
… Jefferson Lengane Paul Langa Hector Pieterson (killed in action) …
EventA two-day All-in African Conference starts in Pietermaritzburg, Natal
… Mr. Nelson Mandela was appointed secretary of the National Action Council. The conference was held four days after the …