SAHO global search
6,773 records
EventSydney Bunting, labour union leader dies
… African communist and labour union leader, died at the age of 53 in Johannesburg, from stroke related disease. …
Independent Electoral Commission
… and at the provincial level for legislatures for all nine new provinces. Elections were held on 26-29 April 1994 under … mandate to sit as a Constitutional…
SAHO Milestones
… African City After Apartheid: Social Identities in the New South Africa Vol. 1 Edited by Abebe Zegeye (publication) After Apartheid: Social Identities in the…
Document 37 - “Communist Election Policy Defined: National Conference Decision”, The Guardian, 8 January 1948
… such as the Osscwa Brandwag, the Greyshirts and the Pirow New Order Group; condemned mass police raids on African … of the glorious Soviet Revolution: 'we…
PlaceMapungubwe Cultural Landscape, Joining South Africa with Zimbabwe and Botswana
… some 400 Years. Since its discovery in 1932, this Iron Age site has been excavated by the University of Pretoria . … wooden core. The Rhino, featured in one…
PlaceZululand District Municipality
… area which is rich in symbolism and tradition, and the age-old Zulu culture remains today, as visitors are invited … north of the u Thukela River in KwaZulu…
EventRay Simons dies
… unionist born in Latvia in 1914, died in Cape Town at the age of 91. Simons was instrumental in the formation of the …
The Convention for a Democratic South Africa (CODESA): CODESA 2
… lead in further constitutional reforms”. Furthermore, the new transitional executive would be subject to the control of … started on 2 February 1990 and…
Address of the President of the South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, at the 38th Commonwealth Parliamentary Association - Africa Region Conference (CPA), Cape Town 27 July 2007
… and the AU development and reconstruction programme, the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD). These … out of an historic process to translate…
Book 3: Migration, Land and Minerals in the Making of South Africa - Chapter 3 - The Socio-economic Impact of the Mineral Revolution on South African Society by Drusela Numvuzo Yekela
… or bar-keepers. Source: John Pampallis, Foundations of the New South Africa. Cape Town, Maskew Miller Longman, 1991, … his parents.” Source: John Pampallis,…
EventThelma Gutsche, a South African scholar, historian and film critic, dies
… but was privately tutored at home and matriculated at the age of 14. Two years after her matriculation she enrolled at … Gutsche died of emphysema on 5…
ArchiveThe Participation of Women in African Litterature Pre and Post-Colonialism: The Life of Micere Githae Mugo by Caroline Gathogo
… her Masters and Ph.D. in literature at the University of New Brunswick, in the US. [6] Mugo returned back home and … departed with two small daughters, both…
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 … Sonderling, N.E. (ed.) New Dictionary of…
ArchiveAppendix 6 Studies in Asia by Denis Goldberg
… deprivation of the Malay (Bumiputra) ethnic majority. The New Economic Policy which was the basis for positive … make it in the developing economy. The…
Pan-Africanism was Peter Abrahams’ Country by Tyler Flemming (Africa is a Country), 13 February 2017
… “to show the white man that he was equal to him.” By age 19, he had not only published a collection of poetry, A … witnessed the conditions of black South…
The Bill of Rights
… ethnic or social origin, colour, sexual orientation, age, disability, religion, conscience, belief, culture, … i. are inappropriate for a person of…
References and links: Learning from Leaders
… Leadership Lessons from Nelson Mandela, (Cape Town) New Word City Editors, (2010), Nelson Mandela's Leadership Lessons, (New York) Stengel, R., (2010),…
Address by the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki at the XIV Summit Conference of the Non-Aligned Movement, Havana, Cuba 14 September 2006
… attainable goals - and deliver the same! In this day and age we cannot afford the luxury of waiting for things to … the structures and methodology of our…
EventMac Maharaj announces his retirement
… first democratic administration, he retired at the age of 80 years old in April 2015. …
EventKing Hassan II of Morocco dies
… ruled Morocco for 38 years, died of heart failure at the age of 70 at the Avicenne hospital in Rabat. Hassan's death … Dies at 70; A Monarch Oriented to the…
75. 1960: We are at a turning-point in the history of our country
… time a proclamation was issued banning the publication of New Age and Torch. Delegates will know the attitude of the Government to New Age, which is the…
PlaceMelville Koppies Nature Reserve, Judith Road, Johannesburg
… We have no recorded evidence of how the Iron Age community on Melville Koppies was affected, but it was … and birds. The reserve also contains relics of iron…
ArchiveBiography of Bavumile Herbert Vilakazi
… a family of five boys, his politisation began at an early age he was living in Sharpville at the time of the Sharpville …
EventJomo Sono, South African soccer player and director, is born
… mother abandoned him. He was forced to work from a young age in order to help support the family. He began selling …
EventIdi Amin dies
… he had lived in exile for many years. Amin died at the age of 78 as a result of multiple organ failure. His … Amin, Brutal Ruler of Uganda in the 70s, dies "…
EventHeart specialist Dr. Chris Barnard dies
… transplant operation on Louis Washkansky, died at the age of 78 of an acute asthma attack in his hotel room in the …
Defining Black Consciousness
… from the normal which is white. It is a manifestation of a new realization that by seeking to run away from themselves … black. It seeks to infuse the black…
ArchiveInterview with Ambrose Makiwane
… Makiwane. Makiwane entered Fort Hare in 1955, when he was age 34. His family lacked the means to send him earlier, and …
An evaluation of South African novelist Nadine Gordimer (1923-2014) by Sandy English (World Socialist Website), 30 September 2014
… 1991 Nobel Prize for Literature, died on July 13 at the age of 90. …
EventSir Julius Jeppe, founder of the Witwatersrand Township Estate and Finance Corporation, dies in London
… Jeppe passed away in London on 2 September 1929 at age 70. He was a mining and property magnate who was knighted …