SAHO global search
3,747 records
EventMiriam Makeba returns to South Africa
… to perform and serve as a goodwill ambassador until her death on 9 November 2008. …
ArchiveMandla Mandela wants inquest into deaths of Stompie Seipie, Dr Asvat, 19 January 2018, South Africa
… action. Madikizela-Mandela was implicated in Seipei's death but has consistently maintained her innocence. …
EventMaxwell Mlilo, South African actor, dies of diabetes
… dramas like Tsha Tsha and Home Affairs. Just before his death, Mlilo was well known for his role as Ngconde in the …
EventAbdullah Abdurahman, medical doctor and Cape community leader, dies in Cape Town
… member of the Cape Town City Council (from 1905-1940). His death raised concern within the Black, Coloured and Indian …
EventZulu King Dingane orders the execution of Piet Retief’s men
… had been killed there. Retief and his men were clubbed to death. It is alleged by some that the reason why they were …
EventElisabeth Eybers, South African poet, is born
… She moved to Amsterdam in 1966, and lived there until her death in 2007. Her poetry was mainly written in Afrikaans, …
EventFormer Prime Minister H.F. Verwoerd is born
… and prime minister on 2 September 1958, following the death of Adv. J.G. Strijdom. On 3 September, in his first …
EventXhosa Chief Sandile is killed
… was defeated and fled to Denge, where he met his untimely death. …
January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 78th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 1990
… since the end of the Second World War. It has meant the death of millions of people through hunger and deprivation … that are a direct result of this system…
Excerpts from Priscilla Jana’s book 'Fighting for Mandela' that relate to Solomon Mahlangu
… unit. I visited him often over the years until his death in October 2006. He was never aware of Mahlangu’s fate … the public wanted more and the State was…
VI - The Inquest
… instituted in the Steve Biko affair. Two months after his death the inquest on Steve Biko began on 14 November in the … a magistrate; its purpose is to…
’Appeal for action to stop repression and Trials in South Africa’, Statement at the meeting of the Special Political Committee of the General Assembly, New York, 8 October 1963
… Nations and which has as its primary aim the punishment by death of people who are among South Africa`s most outstanding … show that a person accused of…
EventZelda la Grange was born on this day
… Aide-de-camp and Manager of his private office until his death on 5 December 2013. In 2014, she published her memoirs …
EventThe Soweto Uprising leaves 174 blacks and two whites dead following 10 days of rioting
… in Afrikaans. In just 10 days of rioting, the official death toll was 174 Blacks and two Whites. The number of …
EventPoqo members arrested
… Tshweni's men charged at the police, resulting in the death of seven attackers with three constables seriously …
EventPalaeontologist Mary Leakey discovers one of the oldest hominid skulls in Tanzania
… head of excavation at Olduvai, and after her husband's death, began to train her son, Richard, in the field. …
EventNovelist and historian Bessie Head is born
… learners in various schools in South Africa. Her untimely death in 1986 cut her career short. Some of her material was …
EventSharpeville Deputy Mayor killed
… The Deputy Mayor of Sharpeville, Sam Dlamini was hacked to death by a group of youths, and doused in petrol and burned. …
EventJournalist and anti-apartheid activist M.P. Naicker dies
… on a flight from London to Berlin. At the time of his death Naicker was also a journalist for the ANC journal …
EventSASO leader, Abram Tiro is assassinated
… investigation into the circumstances surrounding his death. …
EventClarence Mlokoti is shot dead by hijackers
… He was rushed to Lesedi clinic where he died. Mlokoti's death, which came at the time when South Africa was bidding …
EventBrett Kebble, SA millionaire and director of mining companies, linked to several cases of alleged fraud, is born
… car on the way to dinner with his business associates. The death of Kebble opened a can of worms exposing corruption in …
EventHamilton Naki, a laboratory assistant to cardiac surgeon Christian Barnard, dies
… surgery work on animals quite effortlessly. After his death, it was claimed that he had assisted Dr Chris Barnard …
Descom Bulletin
… under the custody of the security police. It was after his death that with the increase of political prisoners that …
EventLady Diana Spencer is killed in a car accident in Paris
… tumultuous marriage ended in 1996. At the time of her death they had two sons. A year later, Diana got involved …
![Freddie Mercury [Bulsara], singer and songwriter, is born in Zanzibar, Africa.](/sites/default/files/styles/saho_medium/public/event_pics/Freddie%20Mercury.jpg?itok=Vuq6ADKe)
EventFreddie Mercury [Bulsara], singer and songwriter, is born in Zanzibar, Africa.
… just admitted to having the disease the day before. His death made him even more popular with Queen’s music sales sky …
EventEthnic violence in Rwandan capital Kigali is spreads throughout the country
… of the Tutsis. The genocide followed the day after the death of the Rwandan president, Juvénal Habyarimana. …
EventPhambili Ka Ntloko, national organiser of AZAPO, is born
… boycotts and burning of structures following Steve Biko’s death. Ntloko completed his Matric while in prison, and was …
No.46 - Steve Biko by Hilda Bernstein, 1978, South Africa
… The Life of Steve Biko III - Black Consciousness IV - The Death of Steve Biko V - The Funeral VI - The Inquest VIII - …
Document 136 - “Report on the Relationship of the Party to other Workers’ Organisations in South Africa”, Freedom 5, 4 August 1946
… non-European libratory organisations, and all progressive bodies and groups, with a. view to securing * a united … of contesting elections for Parliament and…