SAHO global search
27,858 records
Bush Radio mourns, Professor William T. McClain (1923-2011)
… One of Bush Radio’s board members and a strong anti-apartheid … William Tilden McClain passed away on Sunday the 02nd of October 2011. We at Bush Radio …
EventSouth African Defence Force (SADF) attacks a Namibian refugee camp in Cassinga, Angola
… when close to 400 paratroopers were dropped near the town of Cassinga. The airborne troops bombed the South West Africa … (SWAPO) refugee camp and People’s…
EventIndia complains in 1946 against racism in South Africa
… For an excellent background history of this complaint by E. S. Reddy, and how it was taken to the … United Nations, read article. For chronological details…
EventPupils refuse to return to school before Soweto Uprisings
… return to class following a walkout to protest the use of Afrikaans as a medium of instruction. This marks a turning point and leads to the 16 June 1976…
EventMozambique gains independence
… rulers, Mozambique became independent as People's Republic of Mozambique. Mozambique was colonised by the Portuguese … launched in 1962, was spearheaded by…
EventPresident de Klerk warns General Bantu Holomisa
… Speaking after the publication of a report on the Azanian People's Liberation Army (APLA) by … issued a stern warning to General Bantu Holomisa, leader of…
EventSABC is allowed to broadcast Thatcher Case
… In a precedent-setting judgement, a full bench of the Cape High Court, comprising of Judges Van Zyl, Essa Moosa and Dan Dlodlo, ruled in favour of the…
EventTwo policemen are killed in poll tax resistance
… Two policemen were killed by a group of Zulus near Richmond, Natal, following local resistance to the collection of poll tax, which became payable on 1…
EventP.W. Botha announces that all South Africans will take part in a constitutional conference
… 1984 saw P.W. Botha elected to the position of President, having abolished the position of Prime Minister in 1983. These two events were preceeded by … would…
Letter from Neville Curtis, NUSAS, to Dear Sir
… Letter from Neville Curtis, President of NUSAS, reporting on the reason for opposition to the sale of "instruments of violence" to the Nationalist Government…
ArchiveFrom conscience politics to the battlefield
… and took its active opposition beyond the boundaries of parliamentary politics . Members of the Natal Division played a leading role in this shift. The party…
ArchiveStaffrider Vol.10 No.3 1992
… Laat Losbars, Stephen Samuels. Essays: The Politics of Feminism in South Africa, Desiree Lewis; Robben Island … Now': Filling the Void, Danny Schechter; The…
PlaceKoeberg Nuclear Power Station, Cape Town
… Construction of Koeberg began in 1976 and Unit 1 was synchronized to the … 25 July 1985. It is situated at Duynefontein, 27km North of Cape Town on the…
PlaceTown Hall, 25 Market Street, Uitenhage
… the 1820’s there was a strong move locally for the Capital of the Colony to be situated in Uitenhage. When the Town Hall … rose again. The huge Wild Fig Tree…
PlaceDutch Reformed Church, Zoutpansberg
… The Nederduits Gereformeerde congregation of Zoutpansberg was established at Renosterpoort, by S … lived to be 91 years old. The photos portray what the area…
PlaceIrish House, Polokwane Museum
… Right in the centre of the city of Polokwane is Irish House, a Victorian building that was … and upon his release he found the building in a state of…
PlaceThe Wilds Park, Houghton Estate, Johannesburg
… In 1925 the Township owners of Houghton Estate, the Johannesburg Consolidated Investment Company Ltd. Donated the original portion of The Wilds to the…
EventThe SA author and journalist, Herman Charles Bosman, shoots and kills his stepbrother David Russell during a quarrel
… He was educated at Jeppe High School and the University of the Witwatersrand (WITS), and later appointed to a teaching post in the Marico district of the…
EventButhelezi snubs ANC and homeland leaders
… (ANC) and other five homeland leaders to discuss ways of ending the violence. It was essential for Buthelezi to attend such a meeting since members of both…
EventMigrant workers ransack Phola Park
… In the middle of the night, a group of migrant workers aligned with the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) ransacked the Phola Park squatter camp of East Rand…
EventNamibia gains Independence
… under the South African administration by the League of Nations after the First World War. When the United Nations … Prime Minister, General Smuts argued for…
EventBlast opposite the Athlone Magistrate’s Court and police complex kills two people
… Court and police complex, which took the lives of two African National Congress (ANC) activists. Two … the underground cell Williams and Waterwitch were…
PlaceDurban Natural Science Museum
… on Biodiversity Conservation, and Ecology. The mission of the Durban Natural Science Museum is to acquire and … its history, and life on Earth, both past and…
EventJohn Langalibalele Dube is born
… 11.02.1946) was born at the Inanda Mission station of the American Zulu Mission (AZM) in Natal to James and Elizabeth Dube. His father, James Dube was one of…
PlaceAdelaide, Eastern Cape
… A rural Town some 91 km North of Grahamstown , Eastern Cape . The Area of Adelaide, was first inhabited by Bushmen , estimated about … there and named it…
PlaceAddo Heights, Uitenhage
… than it's vertical profile. Despite its very long length of 18,7 km and a respectable altitude variance of 286 m, it only has 10 bends, corners and curves…
PlaceMaclear/Nqanqarhu
… India.) The route they followed passed a few miles South of Maclear. According to all Historical records they were the first Europeans ever to enter the Area…
EventFormer African Springbok captain, Welile Nkohla dies
… James Nkohla, also known as ‘Bomza’, died at the age of 71 years of age in Livingstone Hospital in Port Elizabeth, after a … 1946. He started playing…
EventFirst Indian workers arrive in South Africa
… grew rapidly in the late 1800s in Natal as a result of very cheap “indentured labour” sourced from India. The first group of Indian workers arrived in Durban…
ArchiveAfrica South Vol.2 No.3 Apr-Jun 1958
… Marais. The Fight is on, Rev. Joost de Blank, Archbishop of Cape Town. The Widow of the Reserves, Phyllis Ntanala. Bethal Case-Book, Ruth … Multi-Racial…