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BiographyJeremiah Rakoko Mabe
There had been periodic unrest at Mabieskraal (Pilansberg), Rustenburg District, Transvaal (now North West Province) from the 1930s onwards. During the 1950s,…
ArticleNatal Indian Congress (NIC)
The NIC (Natal Indian Congress) was the first of the Indian Congresses to be formed. It was established in 1894 by Mahatma Gandhi to fight discrimination…
ArticleThe Land Act, Traditional Authorities and the Native Affairs Department (NAD) 1913-1953
… Act, chieftaincy in the 1930s through to the 1960s and 1970s was largely subjected to the authority of white …
Rustenburg the Segregated city
… grow, and new townships were established in the 1960s and 1970s. The Indians were moved out of the town centre to a … and Hartebeesfontein were established…
BiographyVincent Joseph Gaobakwe Matthews
Vincent Joseph Gaobakwe Matthews born in Durban, on 17 June 1929, Matthews was one of five children of Frieda and ZK Matthews, a professor, academic lawyer and…
ArticleJohannesburg the Segregated city
… two-tier motor-way structure through this area during the 1970s proved to be a powerful limiting factor to its … giving way to working class families, and by…
”Who Is Black?” Editorial by Steve Biko, SASO Newsletter, September 1970”
International Earth Day. Celebrated since 1970 on 20 or 21 March.
BiographySteven Eli Friedman
Steven Eli Friedman was born on 31 March 1953 in Johannesburg. In 1971 Friedman began studying at the University of Witwatersrand. While at University, he…
BiographyEulalie Doreen Stott
Eulalie Doreen Stott was born in Fish Hoek on 4 August 1922. Stott was the only child and after her parents’ divorce, when she was just three years old, she…
BiographyRobert M. Resha
Robert M. Resha was born in Bolotwe,Queenstown, Eastern Province [Now Eastern Cape] on 9 March 1920. He completed eight years of formal school and in his late…
BiographyAbdulla Ismail Kajee
Abdulla Ismail Kajee was born about 1896; Kajee was a politically moderate Moslem businessman and the dominant figure in the Natal Indian Congress (NIC) from…
Ken Funston, South African cricket batsman in eighteen tests during 1950s is born.
BiographyAlbertina Nontsikelelo Sisulu
… Movement (BCM) was very popular amongst students of the 1970s and Lindiwe Sisulu (Albertina’s 4 th child and first …
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…
BiographyKenneth Kaunda
Kenneth Kaunda was the first president of Zambia. He was born on 28 April 1924 at Lubwa Mission in Chinsali. (In what was then Northern Rhodesia.) He was the…
The South African liberation movements in exile, c. 1945-1970 by Arianna Lissoni
Cabaret Night and Day, 1970, hand printed fiber base silver gelatin print
Ricardo Rangel, Rua Araujo, 1970, hand printed fiber base silver gelatin print
The Revival of the Labour Movement, 1970–1980 by J. Sithole and S. Ndlovu
The South African liberation movements in exile, c. 1945-1970 by Arianna Lissoni
ArticleEOAN Group
… Cape Peninsula by the mid 1980s. Between 1956 and the mid 1970s, EOAN featured an ameteur opera group that was …
BiographyJürgen Schadeberg
Jurgen Schadeberg was born in Berlin, Germany on 18 March 1931. He was raised by his mother, Rosemarie, the only child in a single-parent family of limited…
BiographyFrank Chikane
Frank Chikane, the son of James and Erenia Chikane, was born on 3 January 1951 in Johannesburg. His father was a preacher in the Apostolic Faith Mission (AFM)…
BiographyDennis Brutus
Dennis Brutus was born in Salisbury, Rhodesia (present day Zimbabwe) on 28 November in 1924.His parents moved to Port Elizabeth where he grew up,at the age of…
BiographyLillian Diedericks
Lillian Diedericks was born in 1925 in the oldest part of New Brighton township, Red Location (near the railway line), in Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape. Her…
ArchiveUrban crisis and the apartheid state response: South African housing policy in the 1980s
A dissertation presented in partial fulfilment of the MSc in Urban Planning (Housing in Development), submitted to the University College, London (Development…
Letter to Defence and Aid Fund for the Rivonia Trial, from Richard Gill, 1960s
The Ideology of the Black Consciousness Movement
… movement that swept across the country in the 1970s can best be explained in the context of the events from …
BiographyJohn Maxwell Coetzee
J. M. Coetzee was born to German and English parents in Cape Town on 9 February 1940. Coetzee spent his childhood in there, as well as in Worcester, a…