SAHO global search
3,316 records
10. Seedat writes to his brother in India
… sent you money. Previously I sent a £40 draft, from which £15 was for Aunt Rasool's Ahmed, and the balance was for … But, bhai [brother], you must not worry…
ArticleThe Politics Behind Water
… caused the construction of African housing to standstill. [15] By 1944 many urban African workers became squatters, who … South Africa”, Water History, 2017 …
BiographyThabo Mvuyelwa Mbeki
Thabo Mvuyelwa Mbeki was born on June 18 1942, in Mbewuleni (meaning ‘place of seed’), a tiny village in Idutywa in Transkei (now Eastern Cape). His middle…
A growing urban African population
… that absorbed the majority of the new arrivals. By 1950, the population of the Western Areas as a whole had …
ArticleBloemfontein Timeline 1824-2010
… the convention is opened by the Mayor of Bloemfontein. 1950 18 March, The University of the Free State is founded. …
Frances Baard Launch of the ANC Volunteer Corps, 11 July 2013
The African National Congress in the Frances Baard Region will be launching the Luthuli Volunteer Corps on Sunday 14 July 2013. The Programme will include a…
Open Textbooks for Africa Summit
You have been invited to the first Open Textbook Summit: physics & astronomy Textbooks prices have skyrocketed globally, but as the rand takes a hit so does…
Denis Goldberg: Freedom Fighter and Humanist
… 14 "We are witnesses"(24): for Denis Goldberg Chapter 15 Denis Goldberg - a Face of Africa Chapter 16 More than a …
PlaceMcgregor Museum, Kimberley
Longtime museum with diverse exhibits including: Paleontology; Ethnography & Zoology collections. The McGregor Museum was originally located in Chapel Street,…
PlaceJutten Island, Saldanha Bay
… 1600s. The number of coins found in the 1970s was around 15,000 and is believed to be nowhere near all of the treasure …
EventHiroshima is targeted by a WWII atomic bomb
… warfare. Six days after the bombing of Nagasaki, 15 August, Japan surrendered to the Allied Powers, ending …
EventSix PAC members are sentenced for the killing of PAC leader David Sibeko
… exactly two years later, 6 PAC members were sentenced to 15 years imprisonment by the Tanzanian High Court for …
EventS.P. Botha, Minister of Water Affairs, proposes new schemes to ease the Western Cape’s water supply problem
… 150 000 litres of potable water to Beaufort West on 15 December 2010. … Transport Water to Beaufort West' ,From: Cape Gate Way , 15 December 2010, [online]…
EventRain Queen Makobo Modjadji VI, dies after a sudden illness
On 12 June 2005, Rain Queen Makobo Modjadji VI died in a hospital in Polokwane, Limpopo Province. Rain Queen Modjadji VI is a direct descendent of one of the…
EventThe Nigerian state of Kano resumes polio vaccination after an eleven
… Dates' (2004) Focus on Africa, October to December, v. 15 no. 4, p. 8 'Nigerian state resumes polio vaccinations: 31 …
EventSimon Mann pleads guilty in a Zimbabwean Court to attempting to purchase dangerous weapons
… Guinea. In 2009, Mann was released after serving 15 months of the 34 year sentence he received after being …
EventQueen Victoria issues charter for the formation of the British South Africa Company
… model (BEIC), in which this goal could be achieved. On 15 October 1889, Queen Victoria issued such a charter, and …
EventAmerican troops withdraw from Somalia
The civil war in Somalia during 1980-1990 resulted in an enormous humanitarian crisis with more than 300 000 people killed and 1.5 million people displaced…
EventEleven African demonstrators are shot dead by Rhodesian police in Salisbury
… 1975, eleven African demonstrators were shot dead while 15 were left wounded when Rhodesian police opened fire on a …
ArchiveThe Participation of Women in African Litterature Pre and Post-Colonialism: The Life of Micere Githae Mugo by Caroline Gathogo
… to disregard African culture and think it archaic. [15] Women writers should also take advantage of language … Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, (2012) ,Pg…
13 notable women in Cape Town’s history, 6 August 2015
… to leave her native Latvia in Eastern Europe at the age of 15 for fear that she would be arrested for her socialist … 1823. At the age of 43, Lady Anne…
PlaceKruger National Park
… , Satara and Skukuza (then known as Sabi Bridge ) In the 1950's, the emerging of Scientific researchers began … PLEASE READ UPDATES IN FURTHER READING By…
Chapter 5 - The Indian Tobacco Workers Strike of 1920: A Socio-Historical Investigation by Evangelos A. Mantzaris
… March 1917 in Durban under the chairmanship of Gordon Lee. 15 The union became very active during 1917 -1918 with a … with Naidoo. Also interview with Raj…
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1980-1989
… Parliament . 24 November, Carl Niehaus is sentenced to 15 years in prison and his fiancée, Johanna Lourens, to four … down the release proposal offered by…
ArticleCuba and the struggle for democracy in South Africa
… MPLA, Jonas Savimbi’s UNITA, and Holden Roberto’s FNLA on 15 January 1975. A temporary government consisting of leaders … Guinea-Bissau. The four heads of…
PlaceAlgiers, Capital of Algeria
Presumed to be named after the Harbour City, on the West side of the Bay of Algiers, Capital City of Algeria. Algiers is the urban area of Ganyesa, which is a…
EventThe Defiance Campaign against apartheid laws begins
Following the adoption of a Programme of Action in the 1949 annual congress, the ANC began the 1950s with mass action campaigns marked by boycotts, strikes and…
Document 45 - Letter from the International Secretariat of the International Left Opposition to Cape Town comrades, 23 October 1932
… Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew Document 45 - Letter from the …
Document 37 - Letter from S. P. Bunting to E. R. Roux, 29 November 1930
… Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew Document 37 - Letter from S. P. Bunting … Radical Tradition a Documentary History…
The Indians of Natal: Resistance to Apartheid, 1971-1985 by Davinder S. Dhillon
ABSTRACT OF THESES This thesis highlights the ebbs and flows of the Indian minority's struggles against the systematic and unjust segregation of mankind…