SAHO global search
17,291 records
EventAt least 150 people die in clashes between the ANC and IFP
… Between 1985 and 1990, political violence was a common occurrence in South Africa, with Black townships … in the death of at least 150 people on 15 August…
EventFifty killed over three days during Inkatha
… members of the South African security establishment wished to destabilise and totally disrupt the negotiations between … and other political formations and…
EventUN passes resolutions on South Africa
… monitored system of sanctions against South Africa. A call for enforcement of bans on petroleum sales and direct … involving South Africa was also made…
EventBomb in Benoni Wimpy kills Mary
… Mary-Anne D'Oliveira Netto Serrano (21) was killed in a bomb explosion in the Wimpy Bar at the Benoni Plaza, Benoni … declared themselves as ANC members,…
EventThe first hearing looking into the mysterious death of Samora Machel begins
… Margo Commission, set up by the South African government to probe the mysterious death of Mozambican president Samora … Africa meet. The Mozambican president…
EventSamora Machel, president of Mozambique, dies in a plane crash
… Lebombo Mountains, South Africa, after allegedly following a false beacon. Machel was a prominent leader of the Front for the Liberation of … others…
EventBritish create the settlement of Sierra Leone, for freed slaves
… conceived by British philanthropists and abolitionists as a home for African slaves freed in England. A Temne king sold a strip of land on the north shore of…
EventThe General Assembly of the League of Nations meets in Geneva for the first time
… time. The League was an international body founded as a result of the signing of the Treaty of Versailles after … its Secretariat in the Palais Wilson, the…
EventSA author Hymne Weiss is born
… district, Orange Free State (now Free State). She was a daughter of Jozua Francois Naude and Johanna Zondagh Van … and Graaff-Reinet from 1916 until 1928,…
EventHendrik Witbooi, Chief of the Nama, dies
… Hendrik Witbooi was born into a prominent Nama family in 1830. He was educated at a Lutheran Mission and was fluent in a number of European … with the Herero…
EventGerman action in Herero Revolt is condemned in the Reichstag
… Africa. He demanded the termination of the war and refused to budget for its continuation. Bebel called the resistance of the Ovaherero a "justified…
EventAfrikaans author Mikro is born
… his BSc degree in Agriculture. KÁƒÂƒÂ¼hn taught for a while at Kuilsrivier and Ritchie. From 1930 to 1931 he wrote poems for the magazine Huisgenoot and ……
PlaceFort Beaufort
… fell under the district of Albany, and was proclaimed a separate division on 8 March 1848. At that stage its area … primarily upon sheep-farming although,…
EventSekhukhune successfully resists the Boers
… King of the Bapedi, successfully resisted the Boers during a protracted Boer/Bapedi land ownership dispute. On 16 May … and his followers. A Boer commando…
EventScientists find the virus that may cause Aids.
… On 23 April 1984 the discovery of a virus that may cause Acquired Immune deficiency Syndrome … that destroys blood cells, leaving its victims open series to…
EventConservative Party leader, Dr Andries Treurnicht, dies in Cape Town.
… thesis at the University of Cape Town. He was married to Engela Dreyer, they had four daughters. On 22 April 1993 Treurnicht passed away in a Cape Town…
Book 3: Migration, Land and Minerals in the Making of South Africa commissioned by The Department of Education
… interior and the British in their coastal colonies laid a foundation of both co-operation and conflict. The extension … power in the Cape, Eastern Cape and…
ANC welcomes Cde Mac Maharaj appointment as President Zuma`s spokesperson, 7 July 2011
… Congress welcomes the appointment of Cde Mac Maharaj, a veteran and stalwart of our movement, as President Jacob Zumas spokesperson. As a seasoned leader,…
PlaceHillbrow Tower
… The Hillbrow Tower (JG Strijdom tower) is a tall tower located in the suburb of Hillbrow in … after JG Strijdom, South African Prime Minister from 1954 to…
EventSouth African historian Charles van Onselen is born.
… published, both nationally and internationally. He chose to centre his already well documented research on the social, … 2011.↵ [iii] van Onselen, C.: The…
ArchiveAfrica South Vol.3 No.1 Oct-Dec 1958
… Pattern of Betrayal. Cartoon, David Marias. An Open Letter to the United Nations, Paramount Chief of the Hereros. South West Africa and the United Nations,…
PlaceFort Wynyard
… On June 11, 1795, a squadron of British warships anchored in False Bay. In reaction the commander of the Cape forces ordered that a new battery, Kijk-in-de…
EventFormer SA Cricket Captain, Hansie Cronje, dies
… Captain, Hansie Cronje, died along with two pilots in a Hawker Siddeley 748 - 372 aircraft which crashed into the … his cricket career was under spotlight as…
PlaceSt Michael and All Angels Anglican Church, Boksburg
… It was declared a National Monument under old NMC legislation on 20 September … between November 1911 and May 1912. It has been proclaimed a Provincial…
EventPolitical Activist and Advocate, Dumisa Ntsebeza, is born
… which he completed his law degree. Ntsebeza emerged as a commissioner in the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) in 1995. After the commission, he went…
EventGabon gains independence from France
… he was an autocratic ruler. Autocratic regimes continued to rule Gabon after she achieved independence, but early in the 1990s Gabon introduced a multiparty…
EventAndries Dreyer, church archivist and collector of Africana, dies
… studying at the Normal College in Cape Town, be became a teacher, and through private study he qualified as an N.G Kerk missionary in 1896. He went on to…
EventGriffiths Mxenge is murdered
… 19 November 1981. His murderers used three okapi knives, a hunting knife and a wheel spanner because they were ordered not to kill him with a gun. They…
EventThe death in police custody of Ahmed Timol, political activist and underground operative, is confirmed
… Indians in detention, died after he had plunged from a window on the tenth floor of John Vorster Square Police … had committed suicide. Timol became the…
EventWorld Population Day
… the United Nations Development Programme in 1989. It was a result of the interest generated by the marking of The Day … population reached the five billion…