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Emma Thandi Mashinini
Emma Thandi Mashinini was born in Rosettenville, Johannesburg in 1929. In the early 1930s, she and her family were forcibly removed to Orlando in Soweto;…
BiographyGerald Patrick Kearney
Gerald Patrick ‘Paddy’ Kearney was born in Pietermaritzburg, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal) on 28 August 1942. He was educated at Catholic schools and for some…
BiographyElizabeth Adriana (Nanna) Abrahams
Liz Adriana Abrahams (nee Joseph) was born on 19 September 1925 in Paarl, in the Western Cape. She was born into a large family of 8 children, and attended a…
ArchiveSechaba Volume 4 Number 11 and 12 November/December 1970
Regional Formation Schools.” Report in SASO Newsletter, September 1970
I AM DIRECTED by the All-In African National Action Council to address your Government in the following terms: The All-In African National Action Council was…
Correspondence with the prison authorities concerning Mandela’s health, 1970
ArchiveBantu Homelands Citizenship Act, Act No 26 of 1970
Act to provide for citizenship of certain Bantu homelands and for the issue of certificates of citizenship to Bantu persons;in connection therewith to amend…
History of Muslims in South Africa: 1970 - 1978 by Ebrahim Mahomed Mahida
From the book: History of Muslims in South Africa by Ebrahim Mahomed Mahida 1970 Trusteeship of West Street Masjid extended 102 Prior to 1970, the…
BiographyNancy Graham Dick
Nancy Dick was born in Durban, South Africa and was brought up in Cape Town. She was one of four daughters. Her father was a proponent of the Cape liberal…
ArticlePan-Africanism
… manifestations of the Black Power movement. By the early 1970s it had become relatively common for African Americans …
ArchiveSoccer case back in Court, State to appeal over group areas case at Curries, 1960s
1960s, Soccer case back in Court, State to appeal over group areas case at Curries.
BiographyBarend de Wet
Barend de Wet was born in Boksburg in 1956, and towards his untimely death had long become an emblematic figure of the artist, the possibilities of the…
BiographyMazisi Raymond Kunene
Mazisi Raymond Kunene was born in Durban on May 12, 1930, at McCord's Hospital. His mother Eva Kunene (nee Ngcobo) was a teacher and his father, Mdabuli Albert…
BiographyJoseph Johannes Marks
Joseph Johannes Marks was born on 22 April 1936 in Mossel Bay, where his father, a fisherman, was also born. He grew up in Pacaltsdorp near George in the…
ArchiveAfrapix - Social Documentary Photography in 1980s South Africa by Amy McConaghy
BiographyNarriman Gadija Bazier Samuels
… context of Mitchells Plain's history. Created in the 1970s as a segregated "model suburb" for coloured people …
BiographyAdam Small
… His thinking and writing started taking a new shape in the 1970s and he joined the Black Consciousness Movement (BCM) …
ArticleHistory of Women’s Struggle in South Africa
… of the previous years – women began to regroup in the 1970s' (Walker 1991:275). New resistance stirs: Student … and assertiveness. The movement came to…
Esmé Berman
Esmé Berman, a Jewish South African art historian, author and researcher, was born in 1929. She enrolled at the University of Witswatersrand in 1946 and…
ArticleUrban Removals - the Destruction of Sophiatown
… the husband. This was the case throughout the 1960s and 1970s. Early in the 1980s influx control regulations were …
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BiographyB J Vorster [John Vorster]
… hotels, libraries, parks and museums from the mid-1970s. The Information Scandal To correct the bad press SA … the Afrikaners were in an untenable situation…
ArchiveEastern Rugby Football Club and SEDRU in the 1970's
ArticleThe history of labour movements in Namibia
… organisations outside of SWAPO before the end of the 1970s. In December 1971 to January 1972, 15 000 to 20 000 … access to a bigger slice of the profits. In…
Article1976-1983: Mass Democratic movements
Introduction
ArticleMass Democratic movements, 1976-1983
… in politicising Black communities. By the end of the 1970s, Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) cadres were being infiltrated … MK unit to enter the country in the second…
BiographyMmapula Mmakgoba “Helen” Sebidi
Mmapula Mmakgoba Helen Sebidi was born in Marapyane, near Hammanskraal,on 5th March in 1943. She developed a life-long love for the designs of traditional arts…
BiographyPoonoosamy Ruthnam Pather
Poonoosamy Ruthnam Pather (PR) was born in Mauritius in 1895. His grandfather settled in that country after emigrating from Tanjore in India in the 1840s. PR…
BiographyProfessor Fatima Meer
… Gandhi , Mahatma Gandhi ’s daughter-in-law. During the 1970s, Fatima was one of the leading anti-apartheid voices in …
BiographyArthur Goldreich
Arthur Goldreich was born in Johannesburg on 25 December 1929. He grew up in Pietersberg in the Northern Transvaal (now Limpopo). One morning, his secondary…
Nelspruit the Segregated city
… for the Indian population, came into being in the early 1970s. Infrastructural developments proceeded apace. An … lock anti-apartheid activists behind closed…