SAHO global search
28,036 records
ArchiveVerbatim Minutes: Meeting, Cape Town, 7th April 1977
… Minutes of an international meeting with the South African Prime Minister, Minister of Foreign Affairs and the Ambassadors of Canada, France, Federal…
Treasurer General`s PBF Breakfast and Networking, 24 March 2009
… Durban- the Treasurer General of the ANC, Dr Mathews Phosa was the keynote speaker at a PBF … Treasurer General spoke about the Road Ahead and the plans of…
EventGideon Scheepers executed
… and found guilty by a British military court on charges of murder, arson and demolishing of trains. Scheepers admitted during his trial that he had committed…
EventSir John Frederick William Herschel dies
… astronomer Frederick William Herschel, the discoverer of the planet Uranus.From 1816 Herschel began a collaboration … many double stars discovered during his…
Conference: African Indigenous Knowledge Systems
… the following topics: v Towards the Commercialization of Traditional Knowledge and Bio-Diversity based products and … Knowledge Systems Perspective v …
EventLord Charles Somerset arrives in the Cape as Governor
… Lord Charles Somerset was the Governor of the Cape Colony from 1814 to 1826. He arrived in the Cape … and to improve conditions for the inhabitants. He was…
ArchiveBlack consciousness and white liberals in South Africa: paradoxical anti-apartheid politics
… in accordance with the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Literature and Philosophy in the subject of History at the University of South Africa. This…
August 9: National Womens Day: 25th Annivers
… from newspaper. Black lettering and illustrations. Notice of August 9th workshop in Durban. Description of origin of Women's Day with two photographs of…
EventFirst World Haemophilia Day
… Day was first celebrated in 1989 to increase awareness of haemophilia and to bring the needs of those affected by the disorder to the attention of the wider…
EventLand beyond the Great Berg River is annexed
… The district of Clanwilliam celebrates its second centenary on 1 February 2008. On 1 February 1808 the territory north of the Great Berg River, at the foot…
EventDigging for gold is officially authorised and fortune hunters flock to the Witwatersrand
… Digging for gold in the Witwatersrand (now city of Johannesburg and surroundings) was authorised in September 1886 and further accelerated the influx of…
Emissaries from Russia
… 1. I have received the response of Mr F. W de Klerk to a memorandum which I addressed to him on the 26th June 1992. I enclosed the statement of the Emergency…
PlaceGanesha Temple, Mt Edgecombe
… be the oldest surviving ‘solid’ temple in Africa and one of the finest examples of temple architecture in South Africa , the ' Ganesha Temple … vault, the…
EventMilitary service becomes compulsory for White South African men.
… young men, was passed on 9 June 1967 - with the support of the opposition. Conscription was instituted in South Africa in the form of 9 months of service for…
EventDr Robert Broom is born
… Broom was educated as a doctor, specializing in the field of midwifery, he was fascinated by the origin of mammals and used his medical profession to support…
David Goldblatt: oblique apartheid look by Kenneth Baker, 5 December 2012
… Billy Monk," which opened at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art last weekend, will induce simmering discomfort in its viewers as its record of South…
Keeping a cool head amid flying bullets: A tribute to Juda Ngwenya by Joseph Oesi (City Press), 26 October 2016
… Your death has come way too soon; none of us could say, with a straight face, that we were prepared … we are ill prepared. Juda, I am sad and shocked to hear…
Address by President Mandela at a Masakhane rally in Vosloorus Katorus, 21 September
… Renewal of Katorus In 1993 when I toured the Katorus area with Adrian … were going about their daily lives. The "No Go" districts of the past appear to have…
PlaceMarket Theatre
… by Mannie Manim and Barney Simon. Now based in the center of the Newtwon Cultural Precinct, The Market Theatre was … The Market Theatre won the bid for the…
PlaceMatjiesfontein
… fortification during The Anglo-Boer War, as headquarters of the Cape Command, refuge for Jamieson Raid reformers, and the venue of controversial war crimes…
EventA fishing trawler off the South African Coast catches a coelacanth
… two-year-old Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer was the curator of a small museum in the port town of East London, northeast of Cape Town, South Africa. She had an…
Copyright, Disclaimer & Privacy policy
… many people as possible. However, there are various types of information on our site so please read the terms and … before reproducing any material found on…
ArchiveRobert Shell: A tribute By Martin Plaut, 05 February 2015
… Martin Plaut writes on the passing of the foremost scholar of slavery in the Cape Robert Shell: my friend Today I learnt … the news in an email. All day I…
PlaceAdderley Street, Cape Town
… 's main street, running from the foreshore to the foot of Government Avenue . In 1850, its name was changed to Adderley Street in honour of Charles B…
ArchiveHow a slave from Mauritius led a rebellion in Cape Town by Nigel Worden (Ground Up), 30 March 2016
… In this drawing of Greenmarket Square in Cape Town in 1764, a slave in chains appears to be driven by a master on the left side of the image. Some four…
How I have cooperated with the Hawks by Pravin Gordhan (Times Live), 01 September 2016
… that he was not obliged to do so. He said in paragraph 3 of his answer that‚ “I wish to co-operate fully with any investigation of the Hawks into the…
Statement by Oliver Tambo on the struggle continues and grows more intense, 23 August 1984
… confrontation with the Botha constitution. Thousands of millions of people around the world, including the Security Council of the United Nations, are…
Excerpts from Priscilla Jana’s book 'Fighting for Mandela' that relate to Solomon Mahlangu
… the right thing to do, just as using every possible angle of the law to fight cases and win acquittals was the right … in the work I took on. So when the…
PlaceMpumalanga
… Mpumalanga means ‘Place of the Rising Sun’ and is the name given to the new Province in Eastern Transvaal in 1993. It includes part of the old Transvaal and…
South Africa: Basic Education Hosts 2016 Inkosi Albert Luthuli Oral History Programme, 4 to 7 October
… Oral History Programme celebrates heroes and heroine of the liberation struggle The 2016 edition of the iNkosi Albert Luthuli Oral History programme is on…