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ArticleYouth and the National Liberation Struggle
The participation of young people in the liberation struggle preceded the student uprising of June 16, 1976. Before the establishment of the African National…
Indian Slaves in South Africa: Notes for monograph, 26 June 1995
… Middletown, Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press, 1989. Freund, W. M. "Race in the Social Structure of South …
BiographyRajes Pillay
Rajaluxmi Pillay (also known as Rajes) was born on 4 August 1944 in Pietermaritzburg, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal – KZN). Her parents were from Kimberley in the…
Biography of Lionel Ngakane by Rod Reyna
… economic situation in Nigeria with Nigerian Transition (1989). [xix] Ngakane also made, what is likely, the first … matters, including A Dry White Season …
ArticleGrade 12 - The impact of the Cold War in forming the world as it was in the 1960s
… (policy of openness, and transparency). In December 1989, after more than four decades, Gorbachev and President …
BiographyElizabeth Mafekeng
Elizabeth Mafekeng was born in 1918 in Tarkastad and attended school until Standard 7. Living conditions in her birthplace forced her to leave for Paarl in…
BiographyJames Ford
James Ford was born in Cornwall, England. He is listed as a member in the SASA Exhibition of Pictures catalogue of 1904, but there is no record of him ever…
ArticleAfrikaans: the Language of Black and Coloured Dissent
… Victoria Falls conference in Zimbabwe took place in July 1989 , attended by predominantly [White and Coloured] …
BiographyViolet Weinberg
Violet Weinberg was born in Johannesburg, South Africa, the daughter of a Jewish refugee who fled from Latvia, then a part of the Soviet Union, where Anti…
ArchiveBiography of Buchi Emecheta by Alphonce Baraza
… The Rape of Shavi published in 1983, Gwendolen, published 1989 (was published in the US as The Family); Kehinde, …
A City within a city: Vestiges of the socio-spatial imprint of colonial and apartheid Durban, from the 1870s to 1980s by Leonard Glenn Rosenberg
Parts of it have been referred to as the "Imperial Ghetto" (Badsha: 2001) or the "Duchene" and "Casbah" (Hassim: 2009) or simply "town" by the many who have…
ArticleUnited Nations and Apartheid Timeline 1946-1994
… to further entrench white minority rule and apartheid. 1989 16 January, The Security Council, in response to the 22 … for the independence of Namibia would…
Concluding Remarks
… view of Sue Williamson's Resistance Art in South Africa (1989). She writes: "...this book concerns the way artists of … same oversight occurs in African Art…
January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 68th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 1980
Let Us Rise to the Occasion Speech by Comrade President, O.R. Tambo on the occasion of January 8th, 1980, 68th anniversary of the African National Congress…
ArticleHermanus Loots aka James Stuart Timeline
1936 Hermanus Loots is born in the Kat River area of the Eastern Cape (19 July).[i] 1954 Matriculated from John Bisseker High School, in East London,…
The Story of PR Pather, the grand old man of Indian politics in South Africa: Bibliography
From the book: The Story of PR Pather, the grand old man of Indian politics in South Africa - by Riashnee Pather Bibliography Primary Sources Interviews …
ArchivePolice station operations, 1986, Sprag given 25, Sowetan, 7 November 1986
ArchivePolice station operations, 1986, Sprag guilty of treason, Argus, 3 November 1986
ArchivePolice station operations, 1986, Marion Sparg_s letter to her mother, 1986
BiographyAudrey ‘Bobbie’ Cobden
Audrey ‘Bobbie’ (her childhood nickname) Cobden was born in Johannesburg, Transvaal Province (now Gauteng) on 15 April 1923. She grew up in Johannesburg and…
BiographyBabette Brown
A tireless advocate for justice and equality in South Africa, the United Kingdom (UK), and all over the world, Babette Brown was born in 1931 in Johannesburg,…
ArticleLesotho Timeline
Pre-1804 Khoisan hunter gatherers are the first inhabitants of the region, before Sotho-Tswana peoples colonized the general region between the third and…
EventJani Allan, South African Journalist, is born
… as a columnist for the Sunday Times between 1979 and 1989. Her work as a journalist became so popular that she was … leader Eugène Terre'Blanche was also…
BiographyMadi Gray
Madi Gray was born in Cape Town, where she grew up, attended school and went to university. Her parents were immigrants from Germany, who came to South Africa…
BiographyMargaret Roach Killie Campbell
Margaret Roach Campbell (Killie Campbell) was born at Mount Edgecombe on 9 September 1881, the second of four children of the Natal senator and sugar magnate,…
BiographyGordon Sprigg
Early Life John Gordon Sprig was born in Ipswich, England in 1830, the son of a pastor. He schooled at Ipswich and at other private schools before taking up…
The historical significance of COSATU’s Workers’ Charter Campaign
… create it. Proposals on the Workers Charter: On 12 July 1989 COSATU held its third congress at the Nasrec and the …
Albie Sachs: SA Constitutional Court Judge interviewed by Rupert Taylor and Aubrey Lekwane, 24 March 1998, Johannesburg Constitutional Court
Albie Sachs SA Constitutional Court Judge interview with Rupert Taylor and Aubrey Lekwane Johannesburg, Constitutional Court, 24 March 1998 Taylor: The…
Statement by Oliver Tambo at the plenary meeting of the United Nations General Assembly, 09 November 1982, New York
Defeat those who subvert United Nations Decisions Four days ago, in commemorating the twentieth anniversary of its singularly important decision calling on…
Address by Oliver Tambo to the joint session of Parliament of Trinidad and Tobago, Port-of-Spain, 2 July 1987
Honourable Speaker, President of the Senate, Honourable Prime Minister Arthur Napolean Robinson and members of the Cabinet, Honourable Members and Senators,…