SAHO global search
17,855 records
ArchiveWe have survived!
Yellow, red, black and white poster. Notice of an Aboriginal Poster Exhibition. Commemorating 200 years of Aboriginal Resistance in Australia - 1788 - 1988…
ArchiveInterview with Ambrose Makiwane
Oral interview, conducted at Cala, with Ambrose Makiwane. Makiwane entered Fort Hare in 1955, when he was age 34. His family lacked the means to send him…
ArchiveRemember June 16: victory is certain
White poster with black lettering. Image of black cross with hand raised in centre surrounded by nine small black crosses. Victory is certain in white letters…
ArchiveCan Africa come of age?
The sixteenth Hoernle Memorial Lecture delivered by Professor C.W. de Kiewiet in which he discusses Africa and it's political situation as seen from the rest…
PlaceGoudini Health Spa
Positioned beautifully on the mountainside as you go along to Worcestor, is a health resort! This region in the Worcester district is noted for its medicinal…
Interview with Omar Badsha by Marian Nur Goni
An email interview with Omar Badsha in 2009 conducted by Marian Nur Goni for a masters theses. Afrapix: Some Questions Email interview with Omar Badsha in…
PlaceThe Pretoria Synagogue
Click on image to enlarge The Old Synagogue Building in Pretoria. It is now no longer used as a Synagogue but is now a Grade II Provincial Heritage Resource…
EventColdest day in Pretoria
The Coldest day in Pretoria in recent history was on 12 June 1963. The temperatures plummeted to a minimum of -3, 6 and a maximum of 7, 5 degrees Centigrade…
EventEngenas Barnabas Lekganyane is buried in Morija
Engenas Barnabas Lekganyane (also called Enginasi or Ignatius), ambitious and charismatic founder of the Zion Christian Church (ZCC), was laid to rest in Moria…
EventThe United Party is formed
The United South African National Party, also known as the United Party, was officially formed after a merger between the National Party, under the leadership…
EventSir Julius Jeppe, founder of the Witwatersrand Township Estate and Finance Corporation, dies in London
Sir Julius Gottlieb Ferdinand Jeppe passed away in London on 2 September 1929 at age 70. He was a mining and property magnate who was knighted for his…
EventMoses Kotane receives Isitwalandwe/Seaparankoe
Three years before his death Moses Kotane, member of the South African Communist Party (SACP) and the African National Congress (ANC), was awarded the ANC's…
EventThe Ruth Prowse Art Centre is opened
The Ruth Prowse Art Centre was opened in The Retreat as an art and cultural centre with artist Erik Laubscher as first head. The house was formerly an…
EventEuropean Community observers arrive in SA
The first group of European Community (EC) observers, including some police officers, lawyers and economists, arrived in South Africa to assist in preventing…
EventJRR Tolkien born in Bloemfontein
J.R.R. Tolkien was born in Bloemfontein, Orange Free State. His parents, Mabel and Arthur Tolkien, were British but worked in a bank in South Africa. He was a…
EventSA architect Gerard Moerdijk is born
Gerard Leendert Pieter Moerdijk, of Dutch descent, was born in the Waterberg district, Transvaal (now Limpopo Province). He was one of the first Afrikaans…
EventMadikizela Mandela is accused of misuse of funds
South Africa's deputy minister of arts, culture, science and technology and the ANC Women's League president, Nomzamo Nobandla Winnifred Madikizela-Mandela …
EventNelson Mandela is inaugurated as South Africa’s first black president
After South Africa's first national democratic elections held in April 1994, the president of the African National Congress (ANC), Nelson Mandela, was sworn in…
Lost in Transformation? Reviewing 20 Years of Transformation in South Africa
As South Africa prepares to celebrate 20 years of democracy, the Ahmed Kathrada Foundation will be hosting a conference titled Lost in Transformation?…
EventKenya becomes a one party state
Almost a year after Kenya gained independencethe Kenya African National Union (KANU) under Jomo Kenyatta and its main opposition party united to form a party…
ArchiveProfile of a Death Row Prisoner: Paper Presented at the Black Sash National Conference 1989
Profile of a Death Row Prisoner: Paper Presented at the Black Sash National Conference on 4 March 1989 discussing political and ordinary prisoners on death row…
ArchiveStudents and action in society
Papers presented at the 9th NUSAS National Seminar held at Howick, April 24-28 in 1971. The 8 papers presented were as follows: Approach to student power;…
ArchiveEducation, development and change in Africa
The speech delivered by Murphree places emphasis on education and educating the people of Africa as part of the liberals function in ensuring a positive socio…
The Freedom Charter
Black poster with copy of Freedom charter in white block with black lettering, in English with small parts in African languages. Copies of the Freedom Charter…
EventThe Anglican Bishop of Johannesburg, Rev. Ambrose Reeves is secretly deported
On 12 September 1960, the Anglican Bishop of Johannesburg, Rev. Ambrose Reeves was secretly deported through Jan Smuts Airport. The Bishop’s departure did not…
EventThe national Chairman of SABRA warns of sour relations in the Union
“Recent events in Africa have robbed the Union of precious time. This country now has less than 10 years to adjust its race relations.”This was a warning by…
ArchiveMinutes of the National Conference of the Black Sash held in Port Elizabeth
Minutes of the National Conference of the Black Sash held in Port Elizabeth from 14 to 17 March 1985, discussing: Minutes of previous conference, magazine,…
PlaceAmajuba, a Mountain in Natal
Mountain 14 km South-West of Volksrust and 32 km North of Newcastle. The scene of a Historic Battle in the First Anglo-Boer War. The name is derived from Zulu…
EventDF Malan mentions the term 'Apartheid' in Parliament for the first time
This day in history marks the first time the term Apartheid was mentioned in Parliament by Dr Malan. For Dr Malan, Apartheid was a practice and an ideology to…
ArchiveWorking in the apartheid city: worker struggles in Durban, 1959-1979
Thesis has been submitted for the degree of Master of Arts in the Department of History, University of Natal, Durban, 1994. According to the author, his study…