SAHO global search
30,888 records
EventSADF replace police on South West Africa’s northern border
… a dramatic move, Minister of Defence P. W. Botha announced the replacement of South African police by the South African Defence Force on the northern borders…
PlaceGlen Grey
… The village of Glen Grey was named in honour of Sir George Grey, Governor of the Cape 1854-61. On 17 July 1902 a fire broke out in the Glen Grey police…
ArchiveUrban Bantu Councils Act, Act No 79 of 1961
… The Act was to provide for the establishment of urban Bantu councils, the conferring on certain Bantu of civil and criminal …
ArchiveMemorandum van HSAW aan die Voorsitter van die SVR werkkomitee
… Memorandum from the Chief of the South African Defence Force to the Chairman, State Security Council, detailing guidelines …
ArchiveKorttermynstrategie vir Angola
… Memorandum from the Chief of the South African Defence Force to the Chairman, State Security Council, detailing guidelines …
EventFormer SA Cricket Captain, Hansie Cronje, dies
… On 1 June 2002 the former South African Cricket Captain, Hansie Cronje, died … in a Hawker Siddeley 748 - 372 aircraft which crashed into the Outeniqua…
EventLucas Ntuba Radebe, SA soccer hero, is born in Diepkloof, Soweto
… celebrated soccer legend was born in Diepkloof, Soweto. At the age of 15 his parents sent him to live in Bophuthatswana so could be safe from the political…
ArchiveReport of a meeting with Prof. Willem Kleynhans
… Handwritten report of a meeting between representatives of the African National Congress and Professor Willem Kleynhans of the University of South Africa to…
ArchivePretoria Minute
… Minutes of discussions between the South African Government and the African National Congress in Pretoria, 6 August, 1990. Re-committing themselves to the…
ArchiveWorld Vision International: what is it up to
… in which Jeffrey Marishane raises concerns regarding the real motives of the World Vision's presence in Southern Africa, in its history there are activities…
ArchiveImperialist conspiracy in Africa
… contains a collection of selected articles by I B Tabata, the president of the Unity Movement of South Africa. The articles range over a number of political…
EventSA musician Todd Matshikiza dies
… composer and writer, Todd Tozama Matshikiza, died at the age of 47 in Lusaka, Zambia after a sudden illness. He composed the music and wrote some of the…
ArchivePosition paper: Action on education
… Position paper presented at the 56th Annual Congress of the National Union of South African Students, held at the University of Cape Town, 24th - 30th…
ArchiveLong bitter struggle at Frame has ended
… The longest recognition struggle in South African labour … Nearly 2 000 National Union of Textile Worker members at the giant Frametex mill, the heart of the…
18. Narayanan searches for his wife and child
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans … who worked for a Port Shepstone sugar mill, wrote to the Protector on 7 September 1907…
ArchiveEmergency convocation of churches in South Africa: package of preparation material
… on and develop effective non-violent actions to pressure the government to the negotiation table and for the church to refuse to collaborate with the unjust…
ArchiveRace, culture and personality
… The fifteenth Heornle Memorial Lecture delivered by Dr. Simon Biesheuvel who was concerned with the social and political importance of race problems and more…
PlaceDutch Reformed Church, Weyers Street, Durbanville-Bergsig
… In the year 1824 a number of farm owners, living on the outskirts of Cape Town. Petitioned Lord Somerset, the Governor of Cape, for a church to be built for…
EventMusic teacher Dorothy Boxall dies
… writer and organiser of orchestral activities for the youth, died in Johannesburg. Following Boxall's death, the Children's Music Festival Society, the…
EventManne Dipico resigns from parliament
… Mbeki's parliamentary advisor, Manne Dipico, resigned from the National Assembly to concentrate his effort on the upcoming local elections scheduled for 1…
ArchiveExtension of University Education Act, Act No 45 of 1959
… The Act was to provide for the establishment, maintenance, management and control of unoiversity colleges for non-white persons; for the admission of…
ArchiveA survey of race relations in South Africa: 1954-1955
… and 1955 and includes chapters on: Policies and attitudes; The role of the SA Institute of Race Relations; Joint Councils and study … and powers of…
EventGeneral Gamal Abdel Nasser is officially elected President of Egypt
… was officially elected President of Egypt. He had been the effective leader of Egypt since 14 November 1954 as the Chairman of the Revolutionary Command…
EventSouth African man sets record for world’s deepest dive
… South African engineer, Nuno Gomes, entered the Guinness Book of Records for mankind’s deepest dive ever on 13 June 2005. Gomes’318.25m plunge beat the…
EventANC activists bribe warder and escape from prison
… detainees, Harold Wolpe, a listed Communist arrested on the Bechuanaland border, Arthur Goldreich, caught in the Rivonia raid, Moosa Moolla, accused in the…
EventBruce Fordyce is born
… Bruce Fordyce, legendary South African winner of the Comrades Marathon, was born in Hong Kong, then a city under English administration on the eastern side…
EventSouth African poet Vincent Oliphant is born
… in 1954 in Alicedale, a small town near Port Elizabeth in the Eastern Cape. His first book of poems, Bloed vloei in … in 1981, and comprised personal poems…
EventDe Klerk announces a referendum to test his political reforms
… de Klerk announced a referendum for 17 March to establish the opinion of White voters towards his political reforms. He … support for multiparty negotiations…
EventArchbishop Desmond Tutu is arrested
… Archbishop Desmond Tutu, a central figure in the fight against apartheid, was arrested outside parliament … while leading a protest march (one of many)…
Simon van der Stel is succeeded by his eldest son
… Simon van der Stel , who became commander of the Cape on 12 October 1679 and was promoted to governor in … van der Stel. Upon his retirement, Simon was one…