SAHO global search
28,029 records
EventNational Party wins national elections
… first time in SA politics. Hertzog accused Smuts' party of supporting racial equality, and represented a Nationalist … [Accessed 09 June 2010] Chronology of…
EventThe Ben Schoeman freeway is opened
… Johannesburg and Pretoria, named after the then minister of transport, was opened on this date. In the forty years of its existence, traffic volume has…
EventSA writer, Nadine Gordimer, wins Nobel Prize for Literature
… and the seventh woman laureate in the near-century history of the Nobel Prize. Gordimer is the author of ten novels and more than 200 short stories; her work…
EventSA TV Producer reported killed in Air crash
… six crew members and 111 passengers from different parts of the world, including British and US diplomats. The … through an electrical storm. President…
EventTrevor Manuel predicts SA economic growth
… which begins on April 1, would see growth in excess of 4 percent," Manuel said at the World Economic Forum (WEF) … to sustain the growth rate and to cut a…
EventGlaxoSmithKline to reduce AIDS drugs price
… Britain's GlaxoSmithKline PLC, the world's largest producer of AIDS drugs, announced it would reduce the price of its popular AIDS medication. Combivir, a…
EventA strike by White mineworkers turns into open rebellion
… martial law and entered Johannesburg with detachments of the army, supported by the air force. Within four days the revolt was crushed. 153 people, including…
EventSir Abe Bailey, Rand mine magnate and politician, marries Mary Westenra, pioneer aviatrix
… altitude record for light aircraft, by reaching a height of 18, 000 ft. (m). She was also the first woman to fly … the International Aviation League, for…
EventXhosa Chief Sandile is killed
… J. Lonsdale. Sandile was a son from the Great House of Ngqika. During the Seventh Frontier War (1846-47) Sandile … place as paramount chief. In 1878 Sandile,…
EventFrance tests an atomic bomb in Algeria
… control. The test, code named Gerboise Bleue, had a yield of 60-70 kilotons. This test put France in the same atomic … the USSR and Great Britain. The test…
EventDr Max Theiler, first South African to receive the Nobel Prize, is born in Pretoria
… 1899 in Pretoria. He studied medicine at the University of Cape Town Medical School from 1916 to 1918. He graduated at the London School of Medicine in 1922…
EventTwo former Soweto student leaders, Khotso Seathlolo and Mary Loate are given long term sentences
… day, more than 20 000 learners marched against the use of Afrikaans as a medium of instruction in Black secondary schools. Seatlholo faced … included leaving…
EventGeneral Christiaan de Wet attacks Rooiwal railway station during the South African War
… Free State. At this point he was the commando-in-chief of the greater part of the Free State commandos. A day before the assault De Wet, … a few gun shots,…
EventThe Johannesburg Meteorological Observatory opens
… Innes moved from Cape Town to become the first director of the centre. It was officially opened in 1905 and the first … in 1906. The Observatory sits on a…
SABC CEO quits after about-turn by Shain Germaner (Cape Times), 28 Jun 2016
… at the SABC is wrong and I can no longer be a part of it,” he wrote. Last week, however, media reports contained … glowing affidavit on the SABC for a…
EventThe first detainees are held under the apartheid regime’s 90-day Law
… were given the authority to arrest anyone they suspected of involvement in an act against the State, and to hold them … to any information, even the identity…
EventNamibian artist, John Ndevasia Muafangejo, dies
… Namibian artist John Ndevasia Muafangejo died suddenly of a heart attack at his home in Katutura Township, Windhoek. … KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. There,…
PlaceElephant House, Ridge Road, Durban
… hunting lodge. The house became known to the people of Durban as the Elephant House after surviving numerous … water from the Greyville Marshes, which are…
EventNjabulo Ndebele was born on this day
… Swaziland in 1966 and went on to study at the universities of Botswana, Lesotho, Swaziland, Cambridge and the University of Denver where he obtained his PhD…
PlaceGroot Drakenstein
… Simon van der Stel, arguably the first coloured Governor of the Cape, was a farming development visionary, who simply from a position of strength declared…
EventMarsha Cox, the South African hockey player is born
… 1983. She is a South African hockey legend. Marsha is one of the world’s most capped hockey players, with more than 330 … South African team was in 2001…
ArchiveInterview with Amabutho members
… which refers collectively to quasi-military formations of township youth who were also often known as "comrades" or … who supported the United Democratic…
EventSpringboks lose to the Lions
… (Lions) toured South Africa again, winning more than half of their normal matches, as well as the third test match in Newlands, Cape Town, South Africa, with…
EventAt a summit SA Trade Unions resolve to defy apartheid and labour laws
… 1950s. Non-racial unions agreed to continue their defiance of Apartheid laws, specifically labour laws. The summit … passed resolutions condemning: The legal…
EventSASO leader, Abram Tiro is assassinated
… Onkgopotse Abram Tiro, a leader of the South African Students' Organisation (SASO), was … form to continue his studies through the University of South Africa…
EventSpringboks wallop their Australian counterparts
… Springbok rugby team, nicknamed Amabokoboko, national team of South Africa under mentorship of Nick Mallett, registered an important victory over the … the…
EventThe railway line between Cape Town and George is opened.
… development, as it allowed for the effective transport of heavier freight loads. It also allowed for easier passenger travel. Until then, the main form of…
EventKenyan independence hero Bildad Kaggia dies after a long illness
… He later joined and sat on the central committee of the Mau Mau. When Kenya gained independence, Kaggia became a member of parliament and served as minister…
EventWomen’s Memorial is unveiled in Bloemfontein
… in Bloemfontein, on the same day as the celebration of Dingaan's Day upon which the Voortrekker victory over the … camps. Many politicians were impressed by…
Russian poster.
… Multicoloured artwork of a cross section of a tree. …