SAHO global search
5,792 records
| Src | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| A-0122711 | article | Drafting of the Final Constitution | 30 Jan 2017 | – |
| R-0112488 | archive | Historical perspectives and the effects of uprootal | 22 Feb 2016 | – |
| B-0124272 | biography | Sunny Girja Singh | 1939-2025 | – |
| P-0066030 | place | Yukon, Bezuidenhout Valley, Johannesburg | 14 Jul 2011 | – |
| A-0096848 | article | The Causes of World War I | 13 Jan 2014 | ✓ |
| R-0088175 | archive | Bibliographical Data | 11 Jul 2012 | – |
| B-0122793 | biography | Dali Tambo | 1961 | ✓ |
| B-0125758 | biography | Stephen Marais | 1956 | – |
| B-0099557 | biography | Kay Hassan | 1956 | ✓ |
| B-0008496 | biography | John Matshikiza | 1954-2008 | ✓ |
| B-0008339 | biography | Anton Theodor August Wilfried Lubowski | 1953-1989 | – |
| B-0094714 | biography | Charles Nupen | 1950 | ✓ |
| B-0068433 | biography | Hotep Idris Galeta | 1941-2010 | ✓ |
| P-0066208 | place | Pretoria High School for Girls, Park Street | 14 Jul 2011 | ✓ |
| B-0009188 | biography | Jan van Eck | 1943-2009 | – |
| B-0009262 | biography | Bishop Alphaeus Hamilton Zulu | 1905-1988 | – |
| B-0098687 | biography | Frantz Fanon | 1925-1961 | ✓ |
| B-0099734 | biography | Norman Stewart Middleton | 1921-2015 | – |
| B-0008142 | biography | Michael Alan Harmel | 1915-1974 | ✓ |
| B-0093854 | biography | Roger Meintjes | 1963 | – |
| E-0011739 | event | Bhawani Sannyassi Dayal dies | 16 Mar 2011 | – |
| E-0074131 | event | SS Mendi sinks in the English Channel on the way to France | 16 Feb 2012 | ✓ |
| A-0059191 | article | Port Elizabeth the Segregated city | 30 Mar 2011 | – |
| B-0141691 | biography | Griffiths Mlungisi Mxenge | 1935-1981 | ✓ |
| B-0149445 | biography | Anthony Richard Stubbs | 1923-2004 | – |
| B-0149433 | biography | Wessel Johannes “Hansie” Cronje | 1969-2002 | ✓ |
| B-0150398 | biography | Audrey ‘Bobbie’ Cobden | 1923-2016 | ✓ |
| B-0150940 | biography | Thembi Shange Nobadula | 1927-2021 | ✓ |
| P-0151585 | place | Land Claims Court of South Africa, Randburg | 13 Apr 2022 | ✓ |
| B-0084103 | biography | Dr. Abu Baker Asvat | 1943-1989 | ✓ |
ArticleDrafting of the Final Constitution
Introduction The transition from the Apartheid era to the new democratic dispensation was a powerful and fundamental process for South Africans. With many…
ArchiveHistorical perspectives and the effects of uprootal
… just before the Lifaqale, the review of the effects of the 1913 Native Land Act and subsequent related legislation is …
BiographySunny Girja Singh
Sunny Girja Singh was born in Cato Manor (uMkhumbane), Durban, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal), in 1939 to a working-class family. His father, Girjabaksh, came to…
Yukon, Bezuidenhout Valley, Johannesburg
This imposing dwelling was completed in 1911 for TF Allen, who subsequently became Mayor of Johannesburg from 1917 to 1919. It is a testament to the high…
ArticleThe Causes of World War I
In the years immediately preceding the First World War all the European countries were facing increased political dissent from the growing working class. The…
Bibliographical Data
In the preparation of the introductory essays in this volume, heavy reliance has been placed on the documents collected by the editors and the interviews conÂ…
BiographyDali Tambo
Dali Tambo is the son of the late former ANC President Oliver Tambo and his wife Adelaide Tambo, He has two sisters, Nomathemba and Tselane Tambo. When…
Stephen Marais
Stephen Marais was born in Stellenbosch in 1956. My mother-tongue is English, my ouma-taal Afrikaans. He was nine when Verwoerd was assassinated in 1966 and…
BiographyKay Hassan
Kay Hassan was born in the Johannesburg township of Alexandra in 1956. His mother brewed traditional beer at a shebeen, defying apartheid laws and repeated…
BiographyJohn Matshikiza
John Matshikiza was born in Sophiatown, Johannesburg in 1954. Sophiatown was soon after demolished to make way for the White suburb of Triomf (Triumph)…
BiographyAnton Theodor August Wilfried Lubowski
Anton Theodor August Wilfried Lubowski was born on 3 February 1953, in South West Africa (now known as Namibia), the second child of Wilfried Franz and Molly…
BiographyCharles Nupen
Charles Nupen was born on 19 June 1950 in Durban. After starting a medical degree at the University of Natal, he switched to studying for a Bachelor of Arts…
BiographyHotep Idris Galeta
‘Cecil Galeta’ was born on 7 June 1941 and grew up in Cape Town, South Africa. However, he was more commonly known as Cecil Barnard; Barnard was his father's…
PlacePretoria High School for Girls, Park Street
Pretoria High School for Girls was started by Lord Milner in 1902 as part of his efforts to anglicise the Transvaal under British Occupation. And so it was…
BiographyJan van Eck
Van Eck was born in Holland on 18 December 1943, the first born of five children. He came to South Africa when he was five years old with his mother and…
BiographyBishop Alphaeus Hamilton Zulu
Alphaeus Hamilton Zulu was the only son of Johannes and Miriam Kolo Zulu (nee Hlabisa). His father was a policeman and a farmer. His father died when he was a…
BiographyFrantz Fanon
Early years He was born on the 20 July 1925, in the Caribbean Island of Martinique. He was fifth of the eight children; his family belonged to the middle…
BiographyNorman Stewart Middleton
Norman Stewart Middleton was born in January 1921, in Sophiatown, Johannesburg, Transvaal (now Gauteng) and moved to Pietermaritzburg, Natal (now kwaZulu-Natal…
BiographyMichael Alan Harmel
Michael Alan Harmel was born on 7th of February in 1915 in Johannesburg ,to Irish immigrant parents, became a radical socialist, fiercely opposed to racism…
BiographyRoger Meintjes
Roger Meintjes was born in Cape Town, Western Province (now Western Cape) in 1963. Meintjes was very interested in photography and bought a second-hand…
EventBhawani Sannyassi Dayal dies
… the Indian strike led by Mohandas Gandhi at Newcastle in 1913, and was a representative of the Natal Indian Congress …
EventSS Mendi sinks in the English Channel on the way to France
The sinking of the SS Mendi on 21 February 1917 became one of South Africa's worst tragedies of the First World War (1914-1919). A total of 616 South Africans,…
ArticlePort Elizabeth the Segregated city
Contents 1910-1950 Apartheid ideology and implementation from 1950 Conclusion 1910-1950 By 1950, the population of New Brighton had grown from 3,650 in…
BiographyGriffiths Mlungisi Mxenge
Griffiths Mlungisi Mxenge, the eldest son of Johnson Pinti and Hannah Nowise Mxenge, was born in 1935. His parents were well-respected peasant farmers of Rayi,…
BiographyAnthony Richard Stubbs
Anthony Richard Peter Stubbs was born in the United Kingdom (UK) in 1923, and educated at Eton, at Balliol College, Oxford, and at the College of the…
BiographyWessel Johannes “Hansie” Cronje
Wessel Johannes "Hansie" Cronje was born in Bloemfontein on 25 September 1969 to Ewie and San-Marie Cronje. He attended Grey College in Bloemfontein, a…
BiographyAudrey ‘Bobbie’ Cobden
Audrey ‘Bobbie’ (her childhood nickname) Cobden was born in Johannesburg, Transvaal Province (now Gauteng) on 15 April 1923. She grew up in Johannesburg and…
BiographyThembi Shange Nobadula
A stalwart of the African National Congress (ANC) and the liberation movement, Thembi Shange Nobadula was born on 23 December 1927. She was a woman who…
PlaceLand Claims Court of South Africa, Randburg
… 100 years ago, the Natives Land Act of 1913 created socio-economic injustice in terms of poverty and … people claiming back land taken away from them after…
BiographyDr. Abu Baker Asvat
This article was written by Michelle Hayman and forms part of the SAHO Public History Internship The ‘People’s Doctor’ ‘He struggled to liberate…