Skip to main content
Menu
♥ Donate

SAHO global search

35,200 records

Search results
Src
E-0092689event Morné du Plessis, SA rugby captain and son of Springbok Felix du Plessis, is born in Vereeniging.28 Aug 2012✓
E-0092429event Frederick William Beyers, judge and SA minister of mining in 1924 is born in Paarl, Cape Colony.27 Aug 2012✓
E-0091853event Nigeria is granted full independence as a federation of three regions (northern, western, and eastern) under a constitution tha24 Aug 2012✓
E-0091847event Prof. Christiaan Engelbertus (Chris) Lampbrecht, choir master and adaptor of SA folk music, is born in Bloemfontein.24 Aug 2012✓
E-0090617event Thousands of "non-Whites" march and bathe at "Whites only" beaches in a nationwide defiance campaign in Sou14 Aug 2012✓
E-0090531event Mr Zwelinzima Vavi, regional secretary of COSATU’s Western Transvaal region is arrested and held in solitary confinement.14 Aug 2012✓
E-0090458event Anglo-Boer War 2:  Commandant Botha demotes Assistant Commandant-General Tobias Smuts because of his actions at Bremersdorp.14 Aug 2012✓
E-0090315event Nicolaas Georg (Klaas) Steytler (76), SA author and former editor of Die Huisgenoot, dies in Cape Town.10 Aug 2012✓
E-0090245event National Union of Mineworkers’ (NUM) general secretary Cyril Ramaphosa and president James Motlatsi are arrested in Newcastle,10 Aug 2012✓
E-0091704event Diederik Johannes Opperman, Afrikaans poet, dramatist and litterateur, is born near Dundee, Natal. Verwey: New Dictionary of23 Aug 2012✓
E-0091539event Austria announces that it is lifting most of its economic sanctions, including ban on investments, for a year.23 Aug 2012–
E-0091485event Col. Sir David Harris (90), soldier, politician, mining magnate and director of De Beers, dies in Kimberley.23 Aug 2012✓
E-0091210event Charles Robberts (Blackie) Swart, jurist, journalist, politician, farmer and first state president of SA, dies in Bloemfontein.23 Aug 2012–
E-0089824event Charles Robberts (Blackie) Swart, jurist, journalist, politician, farmer and first state president of SA, dies in Bloemfontein.10 Aug 2012–
E-0089773event Fulbert Youlou, first president (1960–63) of Congo (Brazzaville) is replaced by Alphonse Massamba-Debat, following a military10 Aug 2012✓
E-0089722event Anglo-Boer War 2: Boer General S.F. Oosthuizen dies of wounds received at Dwarsvlei on 11-07-1900.10 Aug 2012✓
E-0091071event Fulbert Youlou, first president (1960–63) of Congo (Brazzaville) is replaced by Alphonse Massamba-Debat, following a military14 Aug 2012–
E-0091070event Fulbert Youlou, first president (1960–63) of Congo (Brazzaville) is replaced by Alphonse Massamba-Debat, following a military14 Aug 2012–
E-0090894event Oregon State legislature rescinded 1987 legislation banning investment of State funds in companies doing business with SA.14 Aug 2012–
E-0090835event Assembly of White settlers in Kenya denounces government policy and advocates closer union with Uganda and Tanganyika.14 Aug 2012✓
E-0090740event Army troops drive Hutu rebels from their hillside positions outside Burundi’s capital after three days of fighting.14 Aug 2012–
E-0084043event Rival political and ethnic groups riot in Rwanda, killing at least five people ahead of peace talks.25 May 2012✓
E-0081997event A military court in Cairo sentences seven of forty-nine Islamic militants to death for attacks against tourists.23 Apr 2012✓
E-0081984event Allied forces take Bologna in Italy during World War II. Thousands of South Africans fought in Italy.23 Apr 2012✓
E-0081660event A Defence Amendment Bill provides for an alternative form of national service for conscientious objectors, who oppose military5 Apr 2012✓
E-0083561event Pres. Mengistu Haile Mariam of Ethiopia flees to Zimbabwe when Ethiopian Peoples’ Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) soldie18 May 2012–
E-0083560event Pres. Mengistu Haile Mariam of Ethiopia flees to Zimbabwe when Ethiopian Peoples’ Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) soldie18 May 2012✓
E-0082850event Tina Eboka, Director, Division of Textile Technology, Council for Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR), is born in Durba7 May 2012✓
E-0082507event Tanganyika gains full internal self-government from Britain (technically under a League of Nations Trustee mandate), prior to b30 Apr 2012✓
E-0082288event Eritrea gains independence from Ethiopia after thirty years of civil war following a United Nations (UN)-monitored referendum.23 Apr 2012✓

Refine

Clear all