SAHO global search
23,177 records
EventJailed ANC leader Nelson Mandela sends message to Mangosuthu Buthelezi
On 2 June, Nelson Mandela sent a message through his attorney after he had read media reports that Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi proposed to visit him in…
Bolt Number 10 May 1974
EDITORS Mike Kirkwood and Tony Morphet, Contents: Poetry, Imprisoned by the Dictators of Apartheid Ahmed Timol considers the art of Eduardo Paolozzi by Sarat…
PlaceDe Beers Building, 88 St Georges Street, Simonstown
This sandstone structure dates from 1902 when it was designed by Herbert Baker for De Beer Cold Storage Syndicate, a meat outlet in Simonstown owned by Cecil…
EventSouth African Springbok rugby tour in UK is disrupted by anti-apartheid demonstration.
The South African Springbok rugby tour in the United Kingdom (UK) was disrupted by an anti-Apartheid demonstration. The team was made up entirely of Afrikaners…
EventThe Excelsior, biggest diamond till then, is found in the Jagersfontein mine, OFS
The Excelsior Diamond was discovered by a miner while loading a truck in on 30 june 1893. The diamond, which is described beingas being shaped like half a loaf…
EventDjibouti, France’s last colony, gains independence
Djibouti is a very small country located on the horn of Africa. It is so small that it has an estimated population of less than a million, one of the least…
EventThe U.S. vetoes Angola’s application for membership of the United Nations Security
Council For the fifteenth time the United Sates (US) vetoed Angola’s application for membership of the United Nations Security Council. The move to prohibit…
EventKenya lifts ban on sports links with South Africa
On 20 June 1991 the Kenya National Sports Council sent a letter to its 39 affiliated associations informing them that they were now free to invite South…
Event12 people are killed after Kenyan jets bombed Somali town
At least 12 people were killed when two Kenyan jets bombed the southern Somali town of Jilib. This was an attempt by east African nation to rid Somalia of the…
EventElectric lights are installed in Adderley Street, Cape Town.
Adderly Street is possibly the most historically rich street in Cape Town. It gets its name from the man who vehemently opposed a proposal by the British to…
EventThe first regular jet flight leaves London for Johannesburg
The British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC) was the British state airline from 1939 until 1946, and the long-haul British state airline from 1946 (later…
EventMethane gas explosion kills 68 mine workers
30 years today, sixty-eight mine workers were killed after an underground methane gas explosion at the Hlobane coal mine near Vryheid in Kwazulu-Natal . The…
EventGovernment’s final consolidation of ‘homelands’
The Nationalist party government announced its intention to consolidate the total number of separate 'homeland' areas from 113 to 36. The homelands were…
EventRhodesia withdraws from Summer Olympic Games
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) asked Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) to withdraw from the 20th Olympic Summer Games held in Munich, Germany. The request…
EventTripartite Alliance plans mass action
The Tripartite Alliance, consisting of the African National Congress (ANC), South African Communist Party (SACP) and Congress of South African Trade Union …
EventSanctions are applied on Libya over Lockerbie bombing
Governments across the world applied United Nations (UN) sanctions against Libya because of its alleged involvement in the destruction of a Pan Am airliner…
EventSouth Africa sends troops to Ciskei
On 4 March 1990 Brigadier Oupa Gqozo of the Ciskei Defence Force (CDF), and a former member of the South African Defence Force (SADF), leads a coup in the…
EventNelson Mandela was issued with his first passport after being released from prison
Nelson Mandela was issued with his first South African passport on 19 February 1990, 8 days after he was released from prison. It was this passport (with his…
EventUpington 14 are sentenced
Justice J. Basson handed down death sentences on fourteen Blacks (Upington 14) for the murder of Lucas Tshenolo Sethwala, a Black police constable who fired at…
EventPresident P.W. Botha suffers a stroke.
On 18 January 1989, P W Botha suffered a mild stroke at the age of 73. He was scheduled to meet with Namibian political leaders on 20 January 1989, but could…
EventSouth African President Thabo Mbeki hails Liberian President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf for making history by becoming Africa’s first elected woman president in post-war elections
South African President Thabo Mbeki hails Liberian President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf for making history by becoming Africa's first elected woman president in…
EventThe Gift Of The Givers Foundation helps tsunami victims
Gift Of The Givers Foundation logo Dr Imtiaz Sooliman, national co-ordinator of the Gift Of The Givers Foundation, announced in Johannesburg that the…
EventEgyptian women files divorce under new law
Thirty-two year old Egyptian women, Waffa Mossaad Gabr, was the first to file for divorce under a new and highly opposed law that doesn't require women to…
EventBrian Duddy dies
Fifty-five year old senior manager at Standard Bank Home Loans and second victim of the Planet Hollywood bomb blast, Brian Duddy, died at the City Park…
EventBafana Bafana lose to Egypt in the African Cup of Nations final
The South African national football team Bafana Bafana, under tutelage of the hastily appointed caretaker coach Jomo Sono, lost 2-0 against their Egyptian…
EventPolitical parties call for Constitutional changes
Political parties in parliament tabled more than 300 amendments to the constitutional legislation. The New National Party (NNP) strove for the insertion of a…
EventThe inauguration of the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) is celebrated
The inauguration of the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg (Wits) was celebrated a few months after the University College, Johannesburg was granted…
EventDe La Rey is persuaded not to speak to the Burghers
On 12 August 1913, Koos De La Rey, a South African War II General, was ordered to meet with Generals Jan C Smuts and Louis Botha in Pretoria. The trio was…
EventEducationist Godfrey Nakene is born
Educationist and school principal, Godfrey Nakene, in whose honour Orlando High School was renamed Nakene High School, is born in Ga-Ramokgopa, Pietersburg…
EventPolitical violence claims 100 lives in KZN
About 100 people were declared dead as a result of the political violence that continued in KwaZulu-Natal. The political violence rages on in spite of the…