SAHO global search
23,915 records
ArchivePostscript Ante by Howard Barrell
… In July 1990, five months after the South African government had unbanned the ANC, security police in Durban raided a local house. An informer had tipped…
“Let Me Live - Letter to a European”: June 1946
… 1946 8 Dear friend, I am addressing this letter to you in the hope that you would read it with sympathy and consideration. Indians have been in South Africa…
PlaceSprings
… what is now known as the Metropolitan area of Ekurhuleni , in the Gauteng Province. It was founded as a coal and gold mining town in 1904, but its History…
How the “Long walk to Freedom” began by E.S. Reddy
… In March 1939, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru wrote a series of eight articles which were reprinted in a pamphlet and later included in his book The Unity of India …
PlaceGugulethu Township
… Pride'. This township was established along with Nyanga in the 1960's. The Group Areas Act (1950) reinforced the policy of land dispossession and segregation…
ArchiveCourt Transcript of statement from the Dock of Nelson Mandela, Pretoria Supreme Court, 20 April 1964
… statement from the dock at the opening of the defence case in the Rivonia Trial I am the First Accused. I hold a Bachelor`s Degree in Arts and practised as…
Chapter 7 - ‘We Are Also People’
… returned at 8 am saying Zakes had been murdered. One day in her life was too little, too soon, to impress on Le Rona … Graham Mdlankomo and he was born on…
Chapter 2
… African Convention should be viewed as one further step in the political development of the African people. In order to appreciate this step more fully, let…
Statement by Oliver Tambo on ANC`s seventieth anniversary: Appeal to the world, 02 December 1981
… liberation struggle to join with the South African people in commemorating the 70th anniversary of the formation of the … Committee has proclaimed 1982 as…
ArchiveUnlike The Gambia’s Jammeh, Mugabe may not disappear, 22 November 2017, AZAD ESSA
… In the central lobby of the Banjul International Airport, a … president of The Gambia, adorns the ceiling. Jammeh, in his characteristic white, free…
PlacePretoria High School for Girls, Park Street
… Pretoria High School for Girls was started by Lord Milner in 1902 as part of his efforts to anglicise the Transvaal … Staats Model School walked hopefully…
PlaceSierra Leone
… Sierra Leone is found in West Africa, fronting onto the Atlantic Ocean , and … National Park and the Tiwai Island Wildlife Sanctuary, in Sierra Leone. Gola…
Edendale and the birth of the ANC, 06 January 2012
… 1912 is a number that ought to be deeply etched in the minds of all Africans. For during 1912 achievement … Oliver Tambo and Anton Lembede, who later took…
PlaceNamaqualand
… With a Magisterial District of 47 962 sq km, in the North-Western Cape . This region is sometimes referred … so as to distinguish it from Great Namaqualand…
Say It out Loud - The 1935 Presidential Address, Cape Town, 2nd January, 1935
… dawned upon the world. I feel sure you will join with me in hoping that the present year would bring brighter days … I shall bring to your attention some of…
ArchiveClass Consciousness and Migrant Workers by David Hemson (University of Warwick)
… This thesis is the product of exile but it was developed in the hothouse of internal resistance during the late 1960s … notes on working together with the…
ArchiveCHAPTER 6 - Towards a Broad Front and Other Desirable Accidents, January 1981 - January 1983 by Howard Barrell
… criterion for the building of a popular political alliance in the legal and semi-legal spheres. There would, however, be no improvement in the ANC's ability…
PlaceDutch Reformed Church, Wellington East
… The foundation stone of this church was laid way back in 1838. The first section of the building which comprised of the nave only was taken into use in 1840…
PlaceRuth Prowse School of Art
… With the death of Ruth Prowse in 1967, her Mansion Property “the Retreat” located on … She was also the Curator of the Michaelis Collection, in Cape Town…
ArchiveInterview with Duma Nokwe
… the ANC from 1958 to 1969. Born to working class parents in Evaton, he studied at St. Peter's School in Johannesburg, Fort Hare, and the University of the…
EventNigerian Political Scientist Professor Claude Ake is born
… University where he taught political science. Ake died in a plane crash in 1996 when the airplane that he was travelling in crashed into a lagoon in a…
Address by President Nelson Mandela to the 1995 National Conference of IDASA Cape Town, 18 August 1995
… assets is the vibrant civil society that its people forged in the struggle for freedom. On its continued vibrancy … here does not signify any relaxation of…
Address by President Nelson Mandela to a joint sitting of both houses of the parliament of Lesotho Maseru, 12 July 1995
… victories as our own. The achievement of your forebears in holding colonial forces at bay was emulated, in our own time, apartheid regime encircling your…
PlaceJubilee Art Centre
… The Jubilee Art Centre in central Johannesburg joined these alternative art education centres in the 1970s but was forced to relocate to the Mofolo Art…
EventTwo ANC members convicted of terrorism training
… Isaac Giwu and Mr Sivuyile Botwe Qegu were convicted in the Supreme Court in Bisho for terrorism training and being in possession of firearms and explosives…
PlaceAlbany, Eastern Cape
… was established on 7 January 1814 by Sir John Craddock, In 1811, he was appointed Governor of the Cape Colony and commander of the forces on that station,…
Statement by Olive Tambo at the freedom rally organised by the Irish Anti-Apartheid Movement, 26 January 1979, Dublin
… Botswana, Lesotho, Zambia with whom we are involved in a struggle against the fascist regime of Vorster/Botha and … It is quite appropriate that this rally…
EventStander gang hits 3 banks
… On 19 January 1984, the Stander gang robs three banks in less than an hour in the Johannesburg city centre. The Stander gang was a group … and even during…
EventMilitary service becomes compulsory for White South African men.
… the support of the opposition. Conscription was instituted in South Africa in the form of 9 months of service for all white males … anti-apartheid activists…
A French minister, Pierre Simond, joins the Huguenots at the Cape by order of the Heeren XVII (Lords Seventeen)
… Pierre Simond, a Huguenot minister, was born in 1651 in Nion (Dauphine). After studying theology he became a … of the reformed Huguenot religion, he fled to…