SAHO global search
3,709 records
EventNamibian artist, John Ndevasia Muafangejo, dies
… humour. He did not live to see Namibian independence in 1990. The John Muafangejo Art Centre was established in …
2012 ANC National Policy Conference: Statement on the update of Conference Proceedings,28 June 2012
… We have a mini schedule for the media which is as follows: 11:00 President`s tour at the Progressive Business Foum …
Elections Programmes for Deputy President, Secretary General & Treasurer General, 16 May 2011
ANC Deputy President, Secretary General and Treasurer General will on Tuesday lead the movement`s election campaign in the Western Cape, Gauteng and the Free…
PlaceDiamond Hill Battle, Garden of Remembrance
… tps://magaliesmeander.co.za/news/the-battle-of-diamond-hill-11-12-june-1900/ …
PlaceTown Hall, 25 Market Street, Uitenhage
… competition. The Cornerstone was laid by Edward Dobson on 11 April 1881 and the building was officially opened on 7 …
EventProf. Hudson Ntsanwisi, former Chief Minister of Gazankulu, dies in Johannesburg
… was born in Shiluvane Mission Station in Tzaneen on 11 July 1920. He was the eldest of three children of Mlungisi …
EventPolice arrest members of Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) High Command at Lilliesleaf Farm
South African police raided the African National Congress (ANC) underground headquarters, the Liliesleaf Farm in Rivonia, just outside Johannesburg. Apparently…
EventAlan Paton is born
… On 11 January, 1903 Alan Steward Paton, author of Cry, the …
Event523 people die in the Black concentration camps of the Second Anglo Boer War
… On 11 October 1899 war was officially declared between Britain …
EventThe Vereeniging peace conference begins
… Anglo-Boer War (South African War), which had started on 11 October 1899, there were attempts to reach peace. On 15 … Cape Town: NASOU.P 396| Potgieter, D.J…
EventThe second Anglo-Boer war, also known as the South African war, breaks out
… issued an ultimatum to Britain and two days later, on 11 October war was officially declared between Britain and … ,[Online],Available at: www.sahistory.org…
EventSir John Frederick William Herschel dies
… On 11 May 1871 astronomer, Sir John Frederick William Herschel, …
EventMore than 400 miners killed in what was the worst mining disaster in South Africa
… were lowered, no signs of life were detected. After 11 days the rescue was called off. The majority of the miners …
PlaceDu Toit's Kloof Pass and the Huguenot Tunnel
… safer, faster (between 15 and 26 minutes) and shorter (by 11 km) than the old Du Toitskloof Pass travelling over the … before the Italian Prisoners of War ,…
PlaceThe South African Police Service Museum
… and old magistrate’s court was based. It opened on 21 June 1990 but closed a few years later due to damage to the …
EventGertrude Shope, former president of the ANC Women's League, is born
… the ANC's Internal Leadership Corps Task Force from 1990-1991. In 1994 Shope became a member of parliament in the …
EventWendy Botha, South Africa’s world champion surfer is born
… division winner in the annual Surfer Poll awards in 1990, 1991 and 1993.[viii] In 2009, Wendy Botha was inducted …
EventLlewellyn Herbert was born on this day
Llewellyn George Herbert was born on 21 July 1977 in Bethal, Mpumalanga.[i] Herbert was the South African 400 metre hurdle champion from 1996 to 2003.[ii] He…
EventMinnie Dlamini, the South African television personality is born
… Dlamini was born in Durban, KwaZulu Natal on 7 July 1990.[1] Minnie attended Northlands Girls’ High School and …
EventSouth Africa, Cuba and Angola Sign formal peace agreement, allowing Namibian independence from South Africa
… paved the way for formal Namibian independence in 1990. … coast, has enjoyed stability since gaining independence in 1990 after a long struggle against rule…
EventKaunda calls for Thatcher’s exclusion from talks on South African sanctions
In protest of the system of apartheid, economic sanctions against South Africa had been advocated from the 1960s onwards. However, it was only in the 1980s…
EventFreedom Day is celebrated in South Africa
… and other organisations were later unbanned on 2 February 1990, and a non-racial constitution was eventually agreed …
ArchiveCongress Resister 1983 - 1989
… and Economy Group. After the unbanning of the ANC in 1990, TIC leaders and activists became active in the …
ArticleA Short History of ESKOM, Part 2 (2001-2022)
… by a lasting breakdown in electricity generation”. [11] One of the central issues facing ESKOM was rapidly … Eskom, pp.43-45. [9] Ibid., p.46. [10] Ibid., pp…
National Arts Festival 2017
… Starting at the end of June/beginning of July, it runs for 11 days in the small university city of Grahamstown, which is …
EventKhoikhoi warriors defeat Portuguese thieves
… the raiders killing 64 of them including Almeida and 11 of his captains. This devastating defeat put pause to …
PlaceLions Bridge, Church Street, Arcadia, Pretoria
… Kirkness and was officially opened by President Kruger on 11 June 1894. It is the oldest existing bridge over the Apies …
EventUN concerned about Fischer’s arrest
… of Mr Black" for nearly a year, he was again arrested on 11 November 1965 and sentenced to life imprisonment in May …
EventMK hero cadre Solomon Kalushi (Khala) Mahlangu is executed
… country to be trained as an Umkhonto We Sizwe soldier. On 11 June 1977 Mahlangu and others returned to South Africa, …
EventNotorious role of Ferdi Barnard is disclosed
… (DCC). The commission seized various files in a raid on 11 November on the offices of Pan Afrik Industrial Investment …