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History of Muslims in South Africa: Introduction by Ebrahim Mahomed Mahida
… Mahida This book, History of Muslims in South Africa: A Chronology, probably the first of its kind to be published, …
ArticleEnd Conscription Campaign (ECC)
… In the late 1970s four young men publicly refused to obey their army … national service - prison terms of up to six years. In the 1970s, objections to…
ArticleThe banning of the South African Students Organisation (SASO) and student politics in the 1980s
… in political activities during the first half of the 1970s. In April the entire executive committee of the Soweto … of teacher training colleges in the…
ArticleThe Youth Struggle
… attend school or could be linked to the boycott. From the 1970s onwards school riots began to take shape once more. In … . 1976 - June 16 and Youth Politics…
BiographyTim Bruwer
… up with or knew, as a young man in the 1960s and early 1970s, came to an alternative view about racism and … participate in various anti-Apartheid…
BiographyPixley ka Isaka Seme
… its function. In the context of the time, chiefs were the main source of potential funding. This critical factor is …
BiographyJohannes Henricus Brand
… become independent in 1854. Brand was confronted by three main issues during his presidency: Firstly, the conflict …
ArticleHistory of elections in South Africa
… men could be elected to Parliament. However, during the 1970s, the Apartheid government of South Africa granted …
EventThe SA Constitutional Court abolishes the death penalty
… L.E. (eds)(1999). Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to …
EventBeyers Naudé is served with his second banning order
… L.E. (eds) (1999). Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to …
EventNumber of banned persons in South Africa totals 936
… L.E. (eds) (1999) Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to …
The historical significance of COSATU’s Workers’ Charter Campaign
… Introduction During the late 1970s and early 1980s the issue of drawing up a Workers’ … charters in South Africa and explores why the call in the 1970s and…
BiographyVivian Fitzsimons
… exhibits, in a new Marine Hall, built in 1930. But his main interest was in snakes, which had started in Natal and …
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…
Apartheid - A Crime Against Humanity: The Unfolding of Total Strategy 1948-1989
… following this introduction, the reader will find a chronology of major events, which occurred during this …
ArticleUnited Democratic Front (UDF)
… Plain. Steps towards forming the UDF began in the late 1970s, and moved forward when Allan Boesak called for a … had little or no contact with each other. In…
ArticleTransvaal Indian Congress (TIC)
… the activities of the TIC had declined and by the early 1970s it was virtually non-existent. The organization was … the activities of the TIC had declined…
EventRonald Harwood , Oscar winning screenwriter, is born in Cape Town, South Africa
… the latter two films feature once again musicians as their main characters. Harwood is the quintessential man of … and work in the Unfashionable Theatre …
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…
EventSASOL plant under attack
… L.E. (eds)(1999). Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to …
PlaceKhami Ruins, Zimbabwe
Khami Ruins National Monument and World Heritage Site, is located to the west of the Khami River, 22 km from the City of Bulawayo. The property, located on a…
BiographyDorothy Adams
Dorothy Adams was born in 1928 in Wellington, 72 kilometres north-east of Cape Town. Wellington had been declared on the farm of Champagne in 1840, and it grew…
The Durban Mystery Unraveled: An empirical analysis by Eddie Cottle
… of technology and the changes to the labour process as the main causal factor, these scholars could not explain the … industries within the changing economic…
BiographyWangari Maathai
… in co-chairing its Jubilee 2000 Africa Campaign. [xvi] The main purpose of the Campaign necessitates the cancellation of …
BiographyGuy Tillim
… Territories, RAY Photography Triennial, Frankfurt Rhein-Main, Germany Ex Africa, Banco do Brasil Cultural Center, São …
The Fruits of the 1973 Durban Strikes: A Powerful Black Trade Union Movement. Are they still on track or are they off the rails? by Johann Maree
… founding and early growth period of the unions during the 1970s and early 1980s. These principles included democratic … founding and early growth period of…
ArticleBlack Consciousness and 16 June – The birth of a new generation
… students, who were to become student leaders in the 1970s, were already questioning the domination of White … Black student politics had shifted dramatically…
PlaceFietas Museum, Johannesburg
… of the 20th century Fietas was famous for its bustling main street, 14th Street, which was one of the most popular … shoppers from all racial and economic…
ArticleArt South Africa Today exhibitions
… South African government. As Erica Clark notes , by the 1970s there was a feeling among many in the art community … at least visually ambiguous ‘Swing’ as…
ArticleAbstracts presented for the 1973 Durban Strikes Conference
… in the retail and distributive trade in the late 1960s and 1970s by Bridget Kenny “I want to live not survive”: the … America and the South African Worker…