SAHO global search
23,915 records
EventBritain refuses Uganda’s request for independence
… 1800's. The interior was penetrated by Arab slave traders in the 1830's, soon followed by British explorers and … William Mackinnon's Imperial British East…
Book 1: Ancient Civilizations and Global Trade - Introduction
… by The Department of Education This first volume in the series, Turning Points in History, highlights two important events that occurred prior to the arrival…
PlaceStanford, Western Cape Overberg
… Stanford is a small Riverside Village, in Overberg District Municipality, Western Cape. Located only … Town is also known for its rich History, that’s tied…
EventThe Dutch Reformed Church decides that Afrikaans may be used alongside Dutch during services
… The Afrikaans language has its origins in Dutch. It developed amongst Dutch-speaking settlers and slaves in South Africa in the 17th century, and has many…
EventDavid Livingstone “discovers” Lake Nyasa
… Born in Scotland in 1813, Livingston was a renowned explorer, doctor and … he is most remembered for his exploits as an explorer. In 1858 the British…
EventKwame Nkrumah is released from jail
… for leading a disturbing ‘positive action’ campaign in Ghana against British rule in 1950. He was released to lead the newly formed government … process…
Canon Collins Memorial Lecture by Oliver Tambo, 28 May 1987, London
… for justice and liberation, a dependable ally in the struggle to abolish the system of apartheid. Yet, such … a "foreign, meddling priest," Canon Collins did…
PlaceGrahamstown, now known as Makhanda
… a few decades Grahamstown was the most important city in the Cape Colony after Cape Town. In 2018 the city changed its name to Makhanda. Makhanda was a … and…
Analysis: Is South Africa doing enough to prevent heritage flight? by Rebecca Davis (Daily Maverick), 07 March 2017, South Africa
… Modern Art. Despite the fact that Goldblatt’s work hangs in some of the world’s most prestigious galleries, however, … he is an artist whose work has always…
ArchiveDavid Goldblatt Revisits "On the Mines" by Jeffrey Ladd, 5 December 2012
… : I was drawn to photograph the mines not by any metaphor in which they might be seen but by their overwhelming presence in the life and landscape into which…
PlaceGroote Kerk, Adderley Street, Cape Town.
… There is probably no building in South Africa that is better known than the Groote Kerk. … and the practice of this religion played an important part in the…
Oliver Tambo, Southern Africa, South Africa and the ANC replies to questions by Sechaba, 01 April 1968
… these missions arises directly from the unfolding crisis in southern Africa. After all we are not fighting an … At the moment the greatest problem facing…
Presidential Address, by Dr. A.B. Xuma, 14 December 1941
… are basic to the Welfare of South Africa are attended to." In the founding of the African National Congress in 1912, African leaders of that day displayed a…
Document 26 - S. P. Bunting, Statement on the Kuusinen Thesis1 , presented at the Sixth Comintern Congress, 20 August 1928
… spoken on colonial or at least on South African matters in general but in the limited time must confine myself to a controversial … affecting our South…
Document 127 - 6 Point Communist Programme f c. 7 941)
… by Allison Drew The people of the world are on the march in a great crusade against Fascism. Fascism is not something found only in Germany and Italy. Hitler…
Statement submitted to the United Nations Special Committee against Apartheid, on the occasion of the Day of Solidarity with South African Political Prisoners, 11 October 1979
… of Solidarity with the South African Political Prisoners. In welcoming the opportunity to address you I am deeply … to the millions of toilers and their…
Extract from a speech at the opening of the academic year at the University of Stellenbosch on 22 February 1971
… On this occasion. Adv. Vorster expounded in a most original way the responsibility of being a student. … South Africa and the responsibility awaiting each…
Address by ANC President Jacob Zuma at the South African Communist Party Policy Conference, 27 September 2008, Randburg Towers
… takes place at the end of one of the most momentous weeks in the history of our country. The events of the past week … of the Republic, Comrade Thabo Mbeki…
PlaceRobertson Division
… of Tulbagh, whose drostdy was transferred to Worcester in July 1822. It was proclaimed a separate division in about 1858. The region is well-watered with…
Document 28 - Negotiations: a strategic perspective
… to have the possibility of recourse to protest strikes, in particular where aimed at criticising a Government's … The Commission also accepted this principal…
Archive2015 - President Zuma, Response to the State of the Nation Address, 19 February 2015
… Delivered by President Jacob Zuma on Thursday in response to the State of the Nation Address Debate 19 … democratic and prosperous society, as expressed in…
2. Potchefstroom: A Fighting Location
… In the mid-1920s African protest escalated throughout the … farms, stock restrictions and Pass Laws, and Africans in countryside towns, weary of tightened…
Cape Town Book Sale 2017
… Waterfront will become the centre of the literary scene in Cape Town, when the biggest bookstores in the city meet under one roof in the name of bargain…
EventDurban magistrate rules the death of Dr Haffejee accidental
… death of a young dentist, Dr. Hoosen Haffejee, who died in police custody in August 1977. It was ruled that he had committed suicide. The death of Dr Hoosen…
EventSouth African Communist Party leader Abram Fischer is sentenced to life imprisonment on charges of communism
… of the Communist Party of South Africa (later SACP). In 1943, he helped A. B. Xuma revise the African National … was charged with incitement during the…
EventThe National Party (Transvaal) is founded
… The Union of South Africa was established in 1910. Although South Africa was no longer a British … when the National Party (NP) was founded by JBM Hertzog in…
EventMarcus Garvey, Jamaican-born Black nationalist who advocated the departure of African-Americans back to Africa, is born.
… Pan-Africanism and the Rastafari Movement. He was born in Jamaica on 17 August 1887, and as a young man developed a … At the age of 14, Garvey went left for…
January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 77th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 1989
… continued to suffer reverses both within South Africa and in the region . The Decade of Liberation Today`s anniversary ushers in the last twelve months of a…
Message of the National Executive Committee of the ANC, delivered by Mr. Tambo, at the funeral of Dr. Yusuf M. Dadoo, 01 September 1983, London
… a comrade and friend who devoted most of his life in the service of his people, a communist of world … internationalist who has played an effective role in…
Appendix II: About Dr. Dadoo, delivered by Oliver Tambo
… a comrade and friend who devoted most of his life in the service of his people, a communist of world … internationalist who has played an effective role in…