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Museum Night Cape Town 2016
… We're excited to announce the full Museum Night Cape Town 2016 programme, … including 15 museums sites from the District Six Museum to the Cape Town…
EventZola Budd of SA and Mary Decker of the USA collide accidentally during the 3000m in the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics
… South African, was competing under British citizenship due to apartheid laws in South Africa, and Decker,was representing the US. Both athletes were to…
EventEfforts by a pro-sanctions lobbyist group against SA debt rescheduling prove unsuccessful
… by a pro-sanctions lobbyist group in Southern Africa to persuade banks in the United States (US) not to allow debt rescheduling against South Africa were ……
EventCoup attempt on S Doe’s government in Liberia
… Quiwonkpa, a faction of the Liberian military failed to take power from Samuel Doe. It was a third coup attempt … first elections ever held in Liberia…
EventBritish troops land in Madagascar.
… The British were afraid that the French, would allow Japan to set up military bases on the Island. If this happened, it would have seriously threatened its…
PlaceRosebank, Johannesburg
… working, shopping and entertainment environment. Due to its compact size, visitors, residents and workers are able to walk the area, enjoying the outdoors…
Document 5 - “Trade Union Notes”, The Bolshevik, March 1920 (Extract)
… of the Mine Workers' Union in calling upon the miners to scab upon the striking native workers is the limit of treachery to the working class. It is craft…
EventGeneral Barry Hertzog, former South African Prime Minister, dies
… by the British colonial government and attempted to challenge this injustice through the study of law. Upon his return to South Africa, he worked as an…
EventMapungubwe is ‘discovered’
… from Messina. One thousand years ago, Mapungubwe appears to have been the centre of the largest known kingdom in the … thrived as a sophisticated trading…
EventThe British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) announces that a mysterious epidemic (AIDS) is causing increasing concern in the United States
… December is known worldwide as AIDS Day due to the epidemic's existence worldwide. Research into AIDS has … in homosexual men in the United States. The…
EventA group of six White and several Black rebel army troops mounted another coup attempt on 21/22 November in Transkei, a Black ‘homeland’
… capital of the Transkei . The coup was allegedly intended to be bloodless, but eighteen people were reported killed in … second in command Colonel Craig Duli…
EventInauguration ceremony of the South African College School (SACS) takes place
… (SACS) was inaugurated at the Groote Kerk, giving impetus to the formation of the first school in Cape Town. The idea … Jacob Abraham Uitenhage de Mist,…
EventThe first family at the Cape moves into the fort
… Barentz Wijlant and his wife became the first people to move into the semi-completed fortress, the Fort de Goede … of the Dutch East India Company (VOC). His…
PlacePhoenix Settlement and Gandhi Trail
… his journey of transforming from a successful Lawyer to a simple Peasant with a passion for liberation, … South Africa in 1903 and in 1904 he moved the…
EventF.W. de Klerk announces the release of Nelson Mandela and unbans political parties
… The announcement by President F.W. de Klerk to release Nelson Mandela and unban the African National … was at St George's Cathedral with his congregation…
EventState of emergency declared in 27 townships
… in the Vaal Reef area embarked on a mass stay-away to protest the unprecedented levels of violence in townships. … as "unrest areas", the police were granted…
PlaceThe Fourth Raadsaal, Bloemfontein
… stands in President Brand Street, is the fourth such to have been Built by the old Republic of the Orange Free … it took another 20 years before the…
67. The Xuma-Naicker-Dadoo Pact, 1947
… a conference of the South African Indian Congress resolved to explore ways of achieving co-operation with the African … free South Africa full franchise…
PlaceBraamfontein, a Suburb of Johannesburg
… Bordering the City Centre and joined to Newtown by the Nelson Mandela Bridge – Joburg’s landmark … way, but its long history starts off as a Farm in 1853 to…
PlaceStatue of President Paul Kruger, Pretoria
… calls for the removal of the statue from its location due to it being viewed as an "Icon of Apartheid" by some African … retracted this when the City of…
PlaceMozambique
… shoreline stretching more than 2000 km, from South Africa to Tanzania . "Mozambique is not easy to miss on a map!" But due to its troubles in the past, it…
Links & Partnerships
… All of the below links are to websites that SAHO recommends (and uses) for further … - The Children’s Resource Center was started in 1983 to help children…
Statement on naming of OR Tambo International Airport, 31 October 2006
… roles in the successful renaming of Johannesburg Airport to OR Tambo International Airport. The renaming process, … the period of public consultation, has…
PlaceJesser Point Lighthouse
… Turtles, which emerge from the sea in December and January to lay their eggs on the beaches. Sodwana lies within the … South Africa's, first World Heritage…
EventEgyptian President Anwar Sadat, Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and President Carter begin a Middle East peace conference at Camp David, Maryland
… by other Arab states. Under the agreement, Israel agreed to return the Sinai to Egypt, a transfer that was completed in 1982. The two nations also agreed to…
EventRenewal of land acquisition programme in Zimbabwe
… President Robert Mugabe renewed his pledge to persist with his government's controversial land … Through this programme the government was not going to…
EventKitchener succeeds Roberts as Commander-in-Chief
… On Lord Roberts' return to England in November 1900 Lord Kitchener succeeded him as … affairs and was extreme in his views of what it would take to end the…
EventBattle of Vaalkrans begins
… Boer War), 1899 - 1902, was that the Afrikaners attempted to assert their independence as a nation in the face of … the discovery of such mineral wealth…
PlaceRainbow Restaurant and Jazz Club, Durban
… called “White” area under the infamous Group Areas Act , to be granted a license to sell food and sorghum beer to Africans; this, after having had to seek…
"Our struggle is for progress": Statement by Albert Luthuli, 15 June 1962
… said that it was no coincidence that he has chosen New Age to make this statement. "New Age has already been threatened … under the Sabotage Bill with…