SAHO global search
28,036 records
EventCommunity leader James Sofasonke Mpanza is born
… meaning We shall all die), community leader, founder of the Sofasonke Party and a champion for better housing for … Johannesburg's Blacks, was born in…
EventDe Klerk calls for stringent safety measures
… President F.W. de Klerk announces the calling up of military reservists to curb political violence will top the agenda of the forthcoming multiparty…
EventLansana Conte’ leads a coup that deposes Guinea’s interim government
… Lansana Conte’ was the second president of Guinea. On 3 April 1984, a week after the death of President Ahmed Sékou Touré, Conte’ who was a Lieutenant … to…
EventZimbabwe is suspended from the commonwealth
… Zimbabwe was suspended from the Commonwealth of Nations after the country’s 2001 elections were found to … motivated violence. The announcement was made by a…
EventSouth African model, Candice Swanepoel is born in Mooi River, KwaZulu-Natal
… 20 October 1988 She grew up on a farm and had aspirations of becoming a ballerina. Swanepoel did not think of herself as beautiful, even though she was thin…
EventSA Artist, Andries Johannes Botha, is born in Durban
… 1952 in Durban. He studied Fine Arts at the University Of KwaZulu-Natal and later went on to teach the subject at … years. Botha’s first job as a lecturer…
EventThe second elections to the Coloured Persons’ Representative Council result in the Labour Party holding the majority seats
… anti-apartheid Labour Party (LP). The LP won thirty-one of the fourty elective seats in the Council.. The leader, … as complete economic and political…
ArchiveFifth Annual Symposium on Ethnomusicology
… Cream poster with brown lettering. University of Cape Town Faculty of Music Notice of a Symposium. Artwork of cave men paintings. …
ArchiveWhy vote?
… Black and white background of people. Small blocks of multicoloured artwork of various voting scenes and one of a white dove. …
Nelson Mandela Correspondence around birthdays and anniversaries
… and Winnie Mandela at their wedding in 1957. © A copy of Alf Kumalo’s photograph I remember 14 June nostalgically. In spite of the difficult times, we went…
Apartheid
… Netherlands anti-apartheid campaign. Map of Southern Africa. Photographs of scenes of South Africa. Photograph of a pass book. Information on …
They will answer to God - Ahmed Timol’s brother, News24 in Politics Web online, 27 June 2017
… the High Court in Johannesburg during the first sitting of the inquiry looking into Timol’s death, Mohammed, who is younger by seven years, said the…
ArchiveStaffrider Vol.7 No.3 and No.4 1988
… Jacobs; Go Away, We're Asleep by J. Makunga; The Spirit of Two Worlds Jayapraga Reddy. PHOTOGRAPHY: Staffrider and … by Nkathazo Mnyayiza; There is by Mafika…
ArchiveSecond Definitive Series 1993-10-01: butterflies
… White background with artwork of outlines of butterflies on it. Coloured replicas of postage stamps of butterflies, issued in 1993. Windhoek, …
Nelson Mandela
… Red, black and white poster. Photograph of Nelson Mandela. Notice of a concert in Sweden in aid of the ANC. List of artists. …
ArchiveSoweto Township
… Multicoloured poster. Artwork of a map of Soweto. Words of The Freedom Charter around border. Artwork of new South …
ArchiveWhose tomorrow is tomorrow?: whose world is the world?
… Multicoloured poster. Artwork of the world in the centre of the poster, sketches of royalty and leaders, photographs of people in communities. …
ArchiveMinneskonsert for Johnny Mbizo Dyani
… Black and white poster. Rainbow of black, green and yellow at top. Notice of a concert in aid of ANC. List of artists. …
SA's Zuma 'showered to avoid HIV' (BBC News), 05 April 2006
… an HIV-positive woman, thinking this would reduce his risk of being infected. This emerged as he was cross-questioned … and taken a shower because this …
PlacePilrig House, 1 Rockridge Road, Parktown, Johannesburg
… "In 1902, Baker was a lucky man - he had the patronage of Lord Milner, and he was invited to the Transvaal to design … hadused - mud, reed, rocks, with…
PlaceGannahoek Farm
… Province. In 1894, the McFie family took possession of the farm until 1990. Evictions View Larger Map The … labour tenancy system for survival which gave…
EventSandra Smith is the last woman to be executed in South Africa
… her boyfriend Yassiem Harris for the robbery and murder of Jermaine Abrahams. The two broke into Abrahams’ house with the intention of robbing her, having…
PlaceStanford, Western Cape Overberg
… Municipality, Western Cape. Located only 16 km East of Hermanus and 22 km North-East of Gansbaai. Once awarded; 'South Africa’s Favourite … known for its…
PlaceHarbour Board Building, Port Elizabeth
… at the Cape from 1820 to 1821 during the absence of Lord Charles Somerset . In honour of his late wife, Donkin declared he the Settlement name; … but…
EventUSA drops atomic bomb on Nagasaki
… The Second World War broke out with the German invasion of Poland in 1939. By 1941, the Japanese had launched a … and proceeded to bomb 67 cities across…
EventNongqawuse’s unfulfilled prophecy
… A period of hardship set in for the AmaXhosa after their defeat in the Eighth Frontier War (also called Eighth War of Dispossession). Their political…
18. Narayanan searches for his wife and child
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and … name is Narayanan, no. 128851. I arrived here in January of…
PlaceTable View
… Further North of Cape Town’s City Centre , across the Rietvlei Lagoon which … , is lined with Apartment blocks, Restaurants, plenty of pubs and entertainment…
ArchiveSister : We bleed and we sing
… A portfolio of six signed prints of images of South Africa by artist Shelley Sacks. White poster with …
ArchiveReagans war!
… Solidarity Campaign poster and logo. National Union of Students, London, logo. Artwork of dead bodies. Artwork of a row of children in chairs. …