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South Africa's political landscape, as visual poetry: Haunting images have understated, dry elegance by Mark Feeney, 20 February 2011
… with the 22-minute video about Goldblatt, made in the mid-’80s, that’s part of the exhibition. The offscreen interviewer …
Sadecque Variava
Early life and schooling Sadecque Variava was born on 8 July 1949 in Pietersburg (now Polokwane), Northern Transvaal (now Limpopo), the fourth of seven…
ArticleSpark: A Progressive Arts Project Publication
… languages, but these languages can be divided into two main categories - the language of the oppressed and the …
ArticleOvercoming Adversity from All Angles: The Struggle of the Domestic Worker during Apartheid by Bennett Gwynn
… a union and fighting for their worker’s rights. One of the main combatants of the domestic workers efforts were the laws … the domestic workers unionisation…
ArticleYoung Communist League of South Africa (YCLSA)
… the ages of 14 and 28. This provided the Party with its main source of recruits. In 1922, the YCL played an important … Roux impressed upon their fellow YCL…
ArticleThe formation of SASO and the Black People’s Convention
… whites could play a role in the liberation of Blacks. “The main thing was to get black people to articulate their own … questioned and openly rejected by…
ArticleMarxism-Leninism
… the state itself. Class structures should be abolished. A main difference between socialism and communism is that a …
Statement by Oliver Tambo on the tenth anniversary of the Soweto uprising, 16 June 1986
… Africa in this decade of liberation, the decade of the 80s. The time has come for a showdown with the forces of …
"The Count-Down has Started": Statement on the Tenth Anniversary of the Soweto Uprising by O. R. Tambo, 16 June 1986
… Africa in this decade of liberation, the decade of the 80s. The time has come for a showdown with the forces of …
ArchiveDavid Goldblatt Revisits "On the Mines" by Jeffrey Ladd, 5 December 2012
… subject. In addition, in the late 60s and in the 70s and 80s I did quite a lot of color photography underground for …
BiographyAlbertina Nontsikelelo Sisulu
… contact with the ANC leadership in Botswana . The cell’s main activity was to help ANC members to leave the country … that John Mavuso was a police informant…
ArticleDavid Goldblatt Timeline
… [struggled]. There were a few press photographers on the main papers, the Rand Daily Mail, The Star, the Sunday Times, … been banned in South Africa and, on…
ArticleThe Zulu kingdom and the colony of Natal
… plan put in place for the invasion of Zululand. The main objective was to occupy the Zulu royal kraal at Ulundi … Zulu tactic of attacking from three sides…
ArticleThe Market Photo Workshop
… artistic context of Newtown. Social documentary was the main focus at first as it could provide the students with an …
Port Elizabeth an Overview
… Casalis, Smith and Livingstone. In time this became the main route to the Kimberley diamond fields. Port Elizabeth …
ArticleHistory of South African National Orders and Awards
… history and experience of Africa with South Africa as the main point of reference. The collective outcome of this …
ArticleThe Contentious Relationship Between Ngqika And Ndlambe
… in a web of royal lineage. Although lineage was the main determinant to leadership, this was kept in check by … number of conflicts are hard to gage, as well…
BiographyMarcus Solomon
… Maintaining that human beings make themselves, Marx’s main focus was how people develop. Activists need to …
BiographyKgalema Petrus Motlanthe
… 1997 to 2002, Motlanthe adheres to the principle that his main responsibility was to maintain the unity of the …
BiographyMafika Pascal Gwala
… collective will of the people. These themes provided the main framework for his criticism of Black Consciousness. …
ArticleThe History of LGBT legislation
… push forward Afrikaner revivalism (Thompson, 1990). The main objective of the nationalist movement was to establish … 1970s and 1980s: An atmosphere for…
ArticleRace and ethnicity in South Africa
… . This Act divided the South African population into three main racial groups: Whites, Natives (Blacks), Indians and … several thousand people in Southern…
Conflict among civic organisations
… the third was concentration of electric cables under the main control room. Wilkinson and his girlfriend Gray dug up … devices hidden under his work overalls…
ArticleFreedom Charter timeline 1948-1961
… Planning Council (made up of representatives from all the main anti-apartheid groups) is chaired by Moroka on the day … proposes the drawing up of the…
EventUnited Party disbands
… The United Party, main political opposition party in South Africa, was formally … and the ruling National Party (NP). Subsequently, the main group decided to…
The South African War
… town, which took place some 21km to its south before the main body of Republican forces retreated to Pretoria. To the …
Zweli Mkhize denies Redi Tlhabi’s book allegations, says he hasn’t read it, 18 - September - 2017
… mark in my life. Comrade Mthethwa, who passed away in the 80s was married to Sis Beauty, Fezeka’s mother, and we later … to take the initiative to engage…
ArticleRivonia Trial 1963 - 1964
… a month later. Aerial shot of Liliesleaf Farm showing the main house and out-houses. Source: South African National … that Arthur Goldreich and his family…
ArticleA History of the South African Film Industry timeline 1895-2003
… 10 times. 1980 The industry was further fragmented in the 80s: on the one hand there was a blossoming of independent … American films. The tax scheme…
Marikana Commission of Inquiry
… the State president on 31 March 2015. The Commission’s main findings and recommendations The report absolved the key …