SAHO global search
3,754 records
PlaceBurundi
… . Similar violence broke out in 1988 ending with the death of about 3.000 Tutsi and around 20.000 Hutu people … displaced up to 1 million people [lxxvii] …
EventShaka Zulu is murdered
… brief period as king of the Zulu people, from 1816. His death came a year after his mother's death. …
Observatory - Steeped in History and Heritage by Patric Mallet
… is what you came to do... Brothers, we are drilling the death drill. I, a Xhosa, say you are my brothers, Swazis, … our assegais in the kraal, our voices are…
ArchiveThe Story of Jean Middleton by Grant Rohrmann
… even says that all black prisoners could suffer a violent death. Although black men are the only ones that are taken …
EventThe “Sharpeville Six” narrowly escape executions
… Mayor Jacob Kuzwayo Dlamini, who was beaten and burnt to death by an angry mob on 3 September 1984. They faced … arrested, tried and sentenced. They spent…
EventTRC releases documents revealing plot to kill UN Secretary
… world what might have transpired prior to Hammarskjold's death. The documents were disclosed in TRC meetings with the … in Zambia, killing them instantly. At…
Biography of Eli Weinberg by Karen Folz
… government provided him with political asylum until his death in 1981. [viii] As illustrated through almost half a … racism, particularly with the advent of…
EventThe hijacking of an Egypt Air passenger jet to Malta ends in bloodshed.
… and a third, also Israeli, later in the day. Two more bodies - both killed on board the plane - were also pushed …
ArticleBureau of State Security (BOSS)
… Keith Wallace, who was allegedly killed by BOSS’ Secret Death Squad, also known as the Z- Squad. A.H. Bouwer was … Mr, Mike Kuhn. Z- Squad The Z- Squad,…
ArchiveCHAPTER FOUR: The Revival Of Alliance Politics, 1982-1984 by Kumi Naidoo
This chapter comes from the book
Southern Methodist University Partnership Project - 2017 submissions
… Project: Phakamile Mabija Margaret Philpott Project: The Death of Tshifhiwa Muofhe Christopher Washington Project: …
ArchiveThe romantic rewriting of Haile Selassie’s legacy must stop by Dr Yohannes Woldemariam, 4 February 2019
… Ethiopia is Zion and the Promised Land and in 1948 Selassie granted them land in the Rift Valley for a … in his palace. His overthrow in 1974 and subsequent…
PlaceSani Pass, KwaZulu Natal
… scenery, changing weather conditions. On 26th October, 1948, Godfrey Edmonds (an ex Royal Air Force , Spitfire …
ArticleTimeline of the German and Herero, Nama War and Genocide
… von Lindequist, arrives to take his place. After the death Hendrik Witbooi, the Witbooi finally surrender to the … camp in South-West Africa. It is given the…
PlaceRondevlei Nature Reserve
Rondevlei Nature Reserve lies in Grassy Park, which makes it sound like a rather large grassy area when in fact the nature reserve is anything but. Rather, it…
V - The Funeral
… speaker after speaker warn the government that Biko's death had pushed blacks further towards violence in their … he was a good father, but above all he was…
ArticleThe spread of these ideas to Europe and Australia
… all soon die out. Apart from loss of access to land, and death by violent force of arms, infectious diseases like … placed on public display. In 1976, on the…
ArticleThe Influenza epidemic
… epidemic followed a series of calamities that included the death of 26 000 women and children in the Anglo-Boer War, the … friends and relatives for having…
BiographyMafika Pascal Gwala
… the 1950s and into the 1960s due to bannings, exile and death. Since all Black resistance and action was under …
XI - The Verdict
… in which he stated that no one could be blamed for the death of Biko: Van Lieres: The real inquiry at this inquest … the police, doctors or prison officials,…
EventAmy Biehl is murdered in Cape Town
… a township just outside Cape Town, and stabbed to death. Biehl was driving three co-workers to their homes in … on the head with a brick. Amy was beaten and…
ArticleNon-European Unity Movement (NEUM)
… Voters Association (CAVA), and the Transkei Organised Bodies. Its supporters abroad, at one stage, included such … elements, including the main architects of…
Country Divided in Black and White by Holland Cotter, 1 July 2010
… South African facts. A resonant survey of his work from 1948 to 2009 at the Jewish Museum, records the everyday … “South African Photographs: David Goldblatt…
Chapter 20. Malan’s Road to a New South Africa - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
… or workers' organisations. Mr. B. J. Schoeman, who in 1948 when the Nationalist Government came to power, was … the poorer for it". (Hansard, Vol. II, Col…
Term 1:THE HUNTER GATHERERS OF SOUTHERN AFRICA
… Historically the Khoisan used Buchu to anoint their bodies and chewed the leaves to relieve stomach complaints. …
EventSifiso Nkabinde is shot dead by assassins
… (ANC) in the Natal Midlands and at the time of his death secretary-general of the recently formed United … self admitted 'warlord' terrorising the Richmond…
EventAmnesty application of Gideon Nieuwoudt fails
… police officer Gideon Nieuwoudt, for his role in the death of Steve Biko in 1977. In a seven page decision of the … who applied for amnesty in connection…
Growing social unrest: Community mobilisation, strikes and student protests in the Western Cape in the 1980s
… Community organisations, trade unions and student bodies combine forces to challenge the government. Although …
ArticleThe Langa March, 30 March 1960
… leaders, but still the mass action raged. By 9 April the death toll had risen to 83 non-White civilians and three …
ArticleMahatma Karamchand Gandhi Timeline 1930-1939
… Prison). Started at noon a perpetual and fast unto death, from food of any kind, save water with or without salt …