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BiographyAlfred Toto Metele
Alfred Toto Metele was born to farmworker parents,in the farming area of Qumhra, Eastern Cape. He attended school at Mooiplaas, outside East London, where he…
ArticleBoipatong massacre - 17 June 1992
… providing new houses in black townships in the 1960s and 1970s, overcrowding became inevitable. Residents erected … backyard shacks as families increased…
ArchiveThe United Democratic Front and the crisis in South Africa in the 1980s
Summary of research proposal by Ineke van Kessel of the Department of Political and Historical Studies, African Studies Centre in Leiden. This research…
ArchiveThe African Communist No 43, Fourth Quarter 1970
ArchiveThe African Communist No 42, Third Quarter 1970
ArchiveThe African Communist No 41, Second Quarter 1970
ArchiveThe African Communist No 40, First Quarter 1970
ArchiveSouth African sugar mill labour during the 1970`s
ArchivePro Veritate Volume 08 Number 12 April 1970
ArchivePro Veritate Volume 09 No 8 December 15 1970
The New Radicals A Generational Memoir of the 1970’s
The New Radicals: A generational memoir of the 1970’s
BiographyKevin Dowling
Kevin Patrick Dowling was born in Pretoria and was ordained as a priest of the Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer on 9 July 1967. He was appointed the…
BiographyDawood Parker
Dawood Parker was the Chairman of the Wynberg Civic Association. He played a prominent role in local civic affairs. He was a leading voice in the struggle…
BiographyHelen Zille
Helen Zille attended school at St. Mary's Waverley in Johannesburg. She obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of the Witwatersrand. A…
BiographyFreda Levson
Freda Levson was born on 21 November 1911 in Pretoria, South Africa. Her father was a prominent physician in Johannesburg. She was educated in England from the…
BiographyFlorence Barbara Ribeiro
Born on the 3rd November 1933, community worker Florence Barbara Ribeiro was the fourth of five children. Her father, Henry Mathe, was a labourer in a Coal…
BiographyPius Nkonzo Langa
Pius Nkonzo Langa was born in Bushbuckridge in the eastern Transvaal (now Mpumalanga), South Africa, on 25 March 1939, the second of seven children. In 1957,…
BiographySefako Mapogo Makgatho
Sefako Mapogo Makgatho was born at GaMphahlele, in the Pietersburg district in Transvaal (now Limpopo province) in 1861. He was the son of Chief Kgorutlhe…
BiographyEdward “Eddie” Roux
Edward Roux was born in the northern Transvaal in 1903, the son of an English mother and. an Afrikaner father. He grew up in Johannesburg, where his father…
ArticleThe History of Separate Development in South Africa
… university moved into its modern Westville campus. As the 1970s and ‘80s unfolded, the campus became a major site for … and ensured that Whites graduates got…
BiographyWinnie Madikizela-Mandela
… being the feisty wife of Nelson Mandela. Up until the 1970s, the years of constant police harassment, jail time and … Soweto Uprising and another Banning…
BiographyJohannes Jacobus Degenaar
Johannes Jacobus Degenaar was born on 7 March 1926 in Ladysmith. As a young man he was sent to the Cape to study at the University of Stellenbosch, where he…
BiographyMilwa Mnyaluza “George” Pemba
Mnyaluza Pemba was born on 2 April 1912 at Hill’s Kraal in Korsten, Port Elizabeth. Although art classes were not offered at the Van der Kemp Mission Primary…
Politics and Class in the Cape Province during the 1920s
Lessons of the 1950s By Richard Monroe, March-May 1984
ArchiveUnemployment in South Africa: dilemmas and challenges for the 1990s
ArchiveViolence in South Africa: on the increase in the 1990s
BiographyWendy Heather Woods
… including George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four. By the 1970s, as the Woods’ involvement in anti-apartheid resistance …
BiographyAdriaan Vlok
Adriaan Vlok was born on 11 December 1937 in Sutherland, Cape Province to Betty Oliver and Nicolaas Vlok. He grew up on a smallholding close to the Orange…