SAHO global search
17,291 records
PlaceLovedale Missionary School
… of the 19th and early 20th century—from Tiyo Soga to Thabo Mbeki to Steve Biko — were to be educated. Lovedale … around the Thyume Valley . Lovedale…
Isitwalandwe / Seaparankoe the Highest Award of Honour, 1955 - 2014
… is the highest honour awarded by the ANC to those who have made an outstanding contribution and sacrifice to the liberation struggle. Isithwalandwe,…
Remember Soweto 16 June 1976
… invited attend the conference ’#ApartheidMustFall to #RhodesMustFall?: The Soweto Uprising of 16 June 1976’, … UK and South Africa sharing the views and…
PlaceRhodes Cottage, Main Road, Muizenberg
… used by Cecil John Rhodes, stands on the main road to Simonstown, between Muizenberg and St James. Formerly … moved here. Unfortunately he resided here for…
PlaceGeorge Division
… part of the district of Swellendam, and was proclaimed a separate district on 23 April 1811. Over the next 66 years various portions of its territory were…
Say It out Loud by Mohamed Adhikari
… PART I: PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESSES TO THE AFRICAN PEOPLE'S ORGANISATION The 1906 Presidential … Bill, 1906 The Coloured People and the Franchise, 1906 A letter…
PlaceRoodepoort Town School, Rex Street
… was established in the 1890s and its premises, including a School Building and a Hall, were opened on 8 October 1913. In 1914 the Building … as Barracks and…
PlaceHector Pieterson Memorial and Museum, Soweto
… on the 16 June, 1976! Which has now become Youth Day, a public holiday in South Africa. The museum is next to the Hector Pietersen Memorial, and the whole…
EventJoost Van Der Westhuizen, Springbok rugby scrum-half and captain, is born
… personal life got thrown into the limelight when a video tape showing Joost and a woman who claimed to be his on and off mistress in a compromising position…
EventAdriaan Vlok is born
… thereby becoming head of the security forces. President F.W. de Klerk moved him to the less controversial position of minister of … (ANC) insisted on his…
EventCall for a stay-away in Black townships
… A stay-away by Black workers in the industrial areas of the … The Association of Chambers of Commerce estimates that 75 to 100 percent heeded the call for a…
EventA Whites-only referendum in SWA gives a support on Black majority.
… A White-only referendum in South West Africa /Namibia gave an … percent of them supporting an interim government leading to independence. Before the apparent…
EventResolute Treurnicht rejects waiving language policy
… by government authorities on 4 June, who reported it to the Minister of Bantu Administration and Development and … equal use of English and Afrikaans in…
EventFourteen are killed in Phola Park violence
… Phola Park, East Rand: As township warfare spreads, a woman grieves over her husbands death, following a night attack by residents of nearby Zulu hostel. She…
EventHarms releases his report
… Harms, headed the commission. Ironically enough, with a wave of assassinations sweeping the country targeting … of the government, the commission found no…
EventElephant poaching reaches an all time high
… several centuries, the exploitation of elephant herds on a massive scale began in the 1970s. Organized gangs of … tons of elephant tusks through several…
EventSheik Yusuf arrives at the Cape of Good Hope
… leader and brother of the sultan of Macassar, was banished to the Cape by the Dutch East India Company (DEIC). He … retinue; they were forty-nine people in…
EventNelson Mandela is voted the greatest South African
… Nelson Mandela, was voted the Greatest South African in a TV show that had the country nominate their 100 most … The ranking of the rest of the top 10 had…
EventHome Affairs Minister Mapisa
… during anti-terror operations. The meetings, expected to continue until the end of the week, also concerned … two immigration services. Mapisa-Nqakula…
PlaceCape Maclear, Malawi
… Cape Maclear or Chembe is a town in the Mangochi District of Malawi's Southern Region. … the busiest resort on Lake Malawi. Cape Maclear is close to the…
EventChristoffel Coetzee de Villiers (37), compiler of South African genealogical registers, dies
… Location: back to this day in history search archive Christoffel Coetzee de … as the de Villiers/Pama system, after it was refined in a new edition in 1966…
EventLiberia is established
… Declaration of Independence was signed and Liberia became a sovereign nation. The story of Liberia is different from … for Africa. Slaves freed from slave…
EventSouth Africa joins the OAU
… 53rd member of the Organisation of African Unity (OAU) at a summit, held in Tunis, Tunisia. The South Africa delegation … consisting of AU member states. The…
EventFour ANC members killed in an ambush near Piet Retief, eastern Transvaal
… them and ran away when the Security Police opened fire on a vehicle which they had been transported in across the … four anti –Apartheid activists believed…
EventMbhazima Shilowa, former premier of Gauteng, is born
… (now Limpopo Province.) After High School, Shilowa moved to Johannesburg, where he found a job at the Anglo-Alpha cement company. In 1982, he led a strike,…
EventRev. Michael Scott besiege the UN for justice regarding Herero people
… On 29 December 1948, a well known human rights activist Rev. Michael Guthrie … was banned in South Africa and Namibia. Rev. Scott was not a stranger to the…
PlaceGreen Lodge, 81 St George Street, Bloemfontein
… (sometimes also called the Bloemfontein Convention) was a convention whereby the United Kingdom formally recognised … boundaries between the Basotho kingdom…
EventA wave of strikes hits Durban and spread countrywide
… downed tools after the employers rejected their demand for a wage increase from R8,97 to R30 per week. Subsequently, workers in various sectors … working…
ArchiveThe current situation inside SA
… of regime's repression. Demonstrates refusal of the people to submit to Inkatha or the Government. …
ArchiveHelp Our Children Grow
… children dancing around flower text: Let's find new ways to help our children grow! Come to the Children's resource centre …