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BiographyNell Kaye
Nell Kaye was born in Johannesburg, 1912. Nell Kaye's reputation rests on her work within a single genre with specific challenges and limitations - the bronze…
BiographyH. A. Naidoo
H. A. Naidoo was born in Durban in 1915 and was recruited into the Communist Party in the mid-1930s by Edward Roux. He became an active trade unionist, and…
Book 5: People, Places and Apartheid - Chapter 3 - Politics and Consciousness in Cape Town Communities, 1980-1985 by Sean Field
… in the Western Cape were highly politicised during the 1980s, a central issue faced by activists was expressed as … of the focus of this chapter on…
BiographyJordan Kush Ngubane
Jordan Kush Ngubane was born 15 November 1917 near Ladysmith in Natal, the son of a policeman. After receiving his early education in Ladysmith, he entered…
ArchiveReport of NUSAS President, October 31,1980
Report by the NUSAS President, 1980. Includes the chosen theme for 1980 of Total Strategy and reports on student support for NUSAS in various campuses around…
ArticleAfrican Peoples Democratic Union of Southern Africa (APDUSA)
… was to recur in the resistance movement in the 1970s and 1980s. By the end of the 1960s, when the Morogoro … only later assuming distinct identities. …
BiographyJonas Dinous Matlou
Jonas Dinous Matlou was born 2 June 1920 in Diepsloot north of Johannesburg. He became an early member of the African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL)…
BiographyPeter Hans Paul Gastrow
Gastrow became a politician shaped by the liberal politics of 1960s and 1970s South Africa. In 1971, his political views were strengthened by the forced…
George John Golding
George John Golding was born in 1906 in Ladismith in the Cape, he attended Zonnebloem College and became a teacher and school principal in Oudtshoon,Heidelberg…
ArchiveWinterfeld: Paper presented at National Conference 1980
Winterfeld -Paper presented at National Conference on 12 March 1980 discussing Squatter Settlements, housing, forced removals, migrant labour, homelands,…
ArchiveCrossroads: Paper presented at National Conference 1980
Crossroads -Paper presented at National Conference on 12 March 1980 discussing permanent residence eligibility, Urban Areas Act, homelands, migrant labour,…
ArchiveOxford : 1960s - 80s : State repression intensifies
Brown, red and black poster. Photograph of hundreds of rope nooses. Quote from Max Coleman. Photographs of Ahmed Timol, Neil Aggett who died in detention and…
ArchiveOxford: 1990s: the move to democracy
Brown, black, red and white poster. Photograph of De Klerk, Mandela and Mbeki, past, present and future presidents, with hands held high at Mandela's…
ArchiveANC Youth League in the 1990s
Paper following discussion between South African Youth Congress and the African National Congress Youth Section Secretariat regarding launching the youth…
ArchiveA study of strikes in the 1970s
ArchiveOxford: 1970s: the youth take charge
Brown, red and black poster. Large photograph of the Soweto Uprising in June 1976. Quote from Nelson Mandela. Short bits of history and photographs from 1970…
Liberation Struggle in South Africa 1950s
BiographyNelson “Nana” Mahomo
Nelson "Nana” Mahomo was born in 1930 in the Orange Free State, the son of a Dutch Reformed clergyman, he attended Kroonstad High School in the late 1940s…
BiographyJames “Sofasonke” Mpanza
James "Sofasonke" Mpanza was born in 1889. Mpanza was founder and leader from the mid-1940s of the Sofasonke Party of Orlando township, Johannesburg, and a…
BiographyThabo Mvuyelwa Mbeki
… the Zimbabwean government came under strain. During the 1980s, Mbeki became a leading figure in the SACP, rising to the party’s central committee by the mid…
The Durban Moment: Revisiting politics, labour, youth and resistance in the 1970s
The Durban Moment: Revisiting, politics, Labour, youth and resistance in the 1970s. 22-24 February, 2013 Rhodes University Grahamstown, South Africa The Â…
BiographyWolfie Kodesh
Wolfie Kodesh was born in Benoni on 18 October 1918. His paternal grandparents arrived in South Africa after fleeing the pogroms in Eastern Europe. His mother,…
ArticleA History of South African Literature, timeline 1824-2005
… bestseller in its day (and filmed several times up to the 1980s). Like subsequent novels such as Allan Quartermain and … and external pressure on the…
The impact of the collapse of the USSR on re-imagining African nations in the 1990s
BiographyGeneral Jan Christiaan Smuts
… such as fascism. However, holism was again taken up in the 1980s, and has been propagated as a “brilliant development” …
ArchiveAfra Report Number 7 December 1980
ArchiveAfra Report Number 6 October 1980
ArchiveAfra Report Number 5 October 1980
ArchiveAfra Report Number 4 October 1980
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