SAHO global search
3,177 records
EventSA government threatens to pull out of the UN peace plan for Namibia
… (SWAPO) fighting near the northern border. In 1988, under a UN brokered peace initiative, the South African …
ArticleArmed Struggle, the anti-apartheid struggle accelerates 1984-1990
… questions raised during the three years of discussion. By 1988 he had even been allowed to communicate with the ANC in …
ArticleANC January 8th Statements
… - The Year of Mass Action for People`s Power January 8th, 1988 - The Year of United Action for People`s Power January …
ArticleThe Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) and the Anti-Apartheid Struggle
… had become the replacement for Boris Ponomarey. In April 1988, Joe Slovo and Chris Hani led an SACP delegation to … support for Operation Vula, which the ANC…
EventSA artist Anthony Nkotsi is born
… artist and the head of the Printmaking Department in 1988 at the Johannesburg Art Foundation, was born in …
EventThe Transvaal Indian Congress takes a stand on Fietas removals
… Malays, Coloureds, and Whites. However, between 1948 and 1988 more than 60% of the Pageview population was Indian and …
EventSchool boycott in Port Elizabeth ends
… to mid-1997, Westport: Greenwood. Reader's Digest. (1988). Illustrated History of South Africa: the real story, …
EventWinnie Mandela charged with kidnapping
… the murder of Stompie Seipei Moeketsi in December 1988. Moeketsi was a young activist and member of the …
ArticleNelson Mandela Awards 1960s - 2000s
… Marx University of the German Democratic Republic, Leipzig 1988 Awarded Bremen Solidarity Prize, Federal Republic of … bestowed by the Town Council of the…
Lionel Davis, SA artist, is born in Cape Town. He was a political prisoner on Robben Island between 1964 and 1971, where he c
… in New York and the Thupelo Workshop in Johannesburg. In 1988 he was deeply involved in community-based children's … Sack, S. (1988). The Neglected Tradition…
EventA booby-trapped TV kills Tsitsi Chiliza, wife of an ANC official in Harare, Zimbabwe
… one of many attacks aimed at ANC officials in Zimbabwe. In 1988, the ANC office in Zimbabwe was hit by a rocket. On … Associated Press May, 12, 1987 Zimbabwe…
Article1946 African Mineworkers Strike
… , describing the lives of black miners in 1914. On 12 August 1946 African mine workers of the Witwatersrand went … wage gap between the white worker and the…
ArticleIndian South Africans timeline 1920-1929
… Asiatics to trade and acquire fixed property in the Union. 12 May, the Asiatic Inquiry Commission, appointed in February … to discuss the repatriation of…
Introduction of A Crime Against Humanity
… collapse of apartheid power that became evident from 1988 to 1990 and opened the way to a negotiated transfer of … by the DPSC from its formation in 1981 to…
From Amsterdam with euphoria
… report in the South African Weekly Mail (15 January 1988). South (Cape Town, 14 January1988) wrote of CASA that … (and held in custody without trial from…
ArticleTimeline of the Marikana Massacre 2012 - 2013
… shot in the hostels in separate incidents, surface. 12 August, Five employees are shot and taken to hospital … death is found at Marikana, raising the death…
Covert operations
… the majority of South Africans. Phase 1 'Bomb the enemy' (12 June 1986-11 June 1987) The nature of repression during … or counter-revolutionary bases (11…
ArticleThe History of Education: 1658 to present
… opens for children of the colonists. The class comprises 12 white colonist children, 4 young slaves and 1 Khoikhoi … compulsory school attendance from all…
EventArchbishop Owen Cardinal McCann becomes South Africa’s first cardinal.
… as a human being is a kind of violence,” he stated. In 1988 Cardinal McCann accompanied the Pope on his visit to …
EventNkuma and Mahlalela sentenced to death
… Institute of Race Relations. (1989). Race Relations Survey 1988/89, Johannesburg: South African Institute of Race …
EventSouth Africa mandated to govern South
… was reached that was only to be resolved in December 1988. …
EventThe United Nations (UN) imposes sanctions on Libya
… story of the Pan Am flight 103 dates back to 21 December 1988, when a terrorist bomb exploded on board the plane, …
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 2000 -2010
… Doctorate of Law from the Glasgow Caledonian University. 12-15 July, President Thabo Mbeki gives the keynote address … voted ‘Newsmaker of the Year’ by the…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1970-1979
… They are the youngest members to sit on the committee. 12 February, Boy Mvemve (operating under the name John Dube) … and nine other ANC members starts in…
ArticleMohandas Karamchand Gandhi (Mahatma Gandhi) - Timeline: 1890-1899
… Gandhi's mother died. News withheld from him. January 12, Passed the examination with ease, but as he had not yet … to the Bar. June 11, Enrolled in the High…
EventSouth African Journalist, Zwelakhe Sisulu is abducted.
… and was only released 721 days later on 2 December 1988. …
EventDisbanding of Communist Party is announced
… Hoover Institution, v. 2, p. 408. Reader's Digest. (1988). Illustrated History of South Africa: the real story, …
EventWhite ministers and theologians of the DRC reject apartheid
… right wing Afrikaanse Protestante Kerk (APK). On 7 June 1988, the moderator of the DRC, Professor Johan Heyns, …
EventUN passes resolutions on South Africa
… a chronology on the UN and Apartheid Source: Fraser, R (1988). Kessing's Volume XXXIV, Longman: London, p. 35923. …
EventBomb in Benoni Wimpy kills Mary
… and an ambush outside Lindela Hostel in Katlehong in 1988. They alleged that they had targeted the Wimpy, because …