SAHO global search
2,083 records
EventFive power stations are blown up as tensions rise during WWII
… African government, who supported the Allied forces led by Britain, France, the Soviet Union and the United States of …
ArticleFootball in South Africa Timeline 1862-2012
… white sides. 1924 Whites only South Africa side tours Britain. 1929 The English Football Association sends an … as the sole governing body of soccer in South…
EventAfrikaner women march to the union buildings in protest of SA's involvement in WW2
… South African involvement in World War 2 on the side of Britain. Mrs H.E.C. Armstrong, one of the organisers, wrote a …
EventLibya becomes independent
… and one each for Egypt, France, Italy, Pakistan, Britain, and the United States - were to guide the country …
EventSpringboks lose to the Lions
… rugby team became known as the Springboks on their tour to Britain in 1906. Since those early years, teams from abroad …
![Freddie Mercury [Bulsara], singer and songwriter, is born in Zanzibar, Africa.](/sites/default/files/styles/saho_medium/public/event_pics/Freddie%20Mercury.jpg?itok=Vuq6ADKe)
EventFreddie Mercury [Bulsara], singer and songwriter, is born in Zanzibar, Africa.
… seventeen he and his family left Zanzibar and settled in Britain. In 1970, he formed the band Queen with guitarist …
EventTwenty-four Kikuyu tribesmen are sentenced to death for the Lari massacre in Kenya
… 10 years before the independence of the country from Britain in 1963 and aggravated an already bleak political …
Hastings Banda, the early years by Angela Thompsell updated 01 March 2016
… of work in the mining sector. Doctor : United States, Britain, and Ghana However, he came to be there, it is known … known), but after receiving his degree…
PlaceTogo
… eastern Togoland to France and the western portion to Britain. In 1946 the British and French governments placed …
EventTanganyika becomes a member of the UN
… came five days after the country gained independence from Britain on 9 December 1961. At the time Nyerere was a Prime …
EventThe Second General Election is held in the Union of SA
… issue was whether South Africa should continue to support Britain's war effort and the results was a clear indication …
EventEmily Hobhouse travels to South Africa
… in the camps caused her to be severely criticised in Britain. On her second arrival in Table Bay in October 1901, …
EventRhodes asks Charter for British South Africa Company
… to manage the mineralogical resources to the benefit of Britain. The company was vested with power to maintain law …
EventDennis Brutus is born
… the Olympic Games. He was arrested in 1964 and fled to Britain upon his release. He later returned to South Africa …
ArticleYusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1930 - 1939
… . Gandhi has high hopes in the belief that India and Britain will act in order that an 'honourable settlement' in … to support Smuts Government’s proposal to…
Sierra Leone’s Pre-colonial and Colonial era military and security forces
… be found." [32] Courses at Sandhurst and Eaton Hall in Britain only admitted a handful of Sierra Leoneans. The … on 2 August 1960, and Sierra Leone became…
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1960-1969
… April, The Anti-Apartheid Movement (AAM) is formed in Britain with the re-naming of the Boycott Movement. The AAM … , the opposition leader in Kenya. May,…
ArticleSouth African Coloured Peoples Organisation (SACPO)
… of Coloured Affairs (UCCA), which was set up later in 1959, to advise the government on matters concerning … as the Coloured People Congress (CPC) after its…
EventNigerian Federal troops begin a major offensive in Biafra.
… was eight years into its independence which it gained from Britain in 1960. At the time of the civil war the official …
EventThe Minister of Justice, Police and Prisons, Jimmy Kruger, received a report of a police investigation into Steve Biko's death
… governments, including the United States of America and Britain, condemned the South African police service and …
EventNigeria becomes the first Anglophone independent state in Africa to become an associate member of EEC
… a decade after the country gained its independence from Britain in October 1960. The EEC came into being on 25 March, …
EventMembers of the AAM hand over a memorandum to Verwoerd's private secretary about Apartheid policies
… of the South African United Front. The AAM was one of Britain's most triumphant international solidarity movements. …
EventLondon hosts an international conference on the protection of the African elephant and rhinoceros
… of South Africa, Belgium, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Egypt, Spain, France, Italy, …
EventMilner proposes conditional voting rights for ‘non-Whites’ in SA
… to vote in the country's local elections. In the treaty, Britain promised to return the two former colonies to …
EventBuilding of Delagoa Bay railway line is completed
… restoration of the Transvaal Republic after annexation by Britain in 1877. This rail link between Transvaal en Delagoa …
EventBritish mission to subdue Sekhukhune is abandoned
… country was included without any question under Britain's new possessions. Sekhukhune did not accept British …
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)
… in 1932, he joined the 601 Squadron Auxiliary Air Force in Britain. Bushell became squadron leader in 1940. He was shot …
EventThe Eureka Diamond is sold in London for 5 700 Pounds
… and sold it for £ 500. The diamond made its way to Britain where it was displayed until 1967. The discovery of …
EventKenya is granted independence
… Kenya gained its independence from Britain with Jomo Kenyatta as the country’s first Prime …
EventThomas William Bowler, prolific painter at the Cape, is born
… with famous watercolourist J.D Harding on a brief visit to Britain and brought back this knowledge to share with his …