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ArchiveWork in Progress Issue 15 October 1980
ArchiveWork in progress Issue 13 July 1980
ArchiveWork in progress Issue 11 February 1980
”Split-Second”, Pretorai News. 28 January, 1980.
”Silverton Siege”, Pretoria News. 27 November, 1980.
”Silverton Siege”, Pretoria News. 21 November, 1980.
BiographyPhillip Qipu Vundla
Philip Vundla was born in 1901 and attended Healdtown for some years before finding work in Johannesburg as a mine clerk. In the mid-1940s he was an organiser…
BiographyCurnick Muzuvukile Ndlovu
Muzuvukile Curnick Ndlovu was born in 1932 in Matatiele. His family moved to uMkhumbane settlement in Durban in 1941. After the demolition of Cator Manor and…
ArchiveHousing Issues in Natal: Paper presented at National Conference 1980
Housing Issues in Natal- Paper presented at National Conference on 12 March 1980 discussing squatter areas, housing, Urban Areas Act, Chatsworth Housing Action…
ArchiveExtract from Minutes of State Security Council Meeting, 8 September 1980
Extract from the Minutes of a State Security Council Meeting held on 8 September 1980 in which a visit to Zambia by Mr Harry Schwartz, consignments of…
Richard Victor Selope Thema
Richard Victor Selope Thema was born in Ga-Mamabolo, Pietersburg district, in 1886. Both his parents were Pedi speaking but not originally belonging to the…
BiographyAhmed Essop “Quarter” Khota
Ahmed Essop "Quarter" Khota, was born on 5 July 1928. His friends affectionately knew him as “Quarter”, a name given to him by Nelson Mandela and Walter Sisulu…
BiographyDora Taylor
Dora Taylor was born in Aberdeen, Scotland in 1899. At the age of six her mother died of tuberculosis. She was rejected by her father who regarded her as an…
BiographyThabo Marcus Motaung
Marcus Motaung grew up in Diepkloof in the 1960s and 1970s. His family moved to the Township around the early to mid-1960s. They were part of families forcibly…
BiographyKgosi Abram Ramotshere Moiloa
Kgosi[Chief] Abram Ramotshere Pogiso Moiloa, a key figure in the Bahurutshe resistance of the 1950s, took office in 1932 at the age of 22. He went up ‘to…
BiographyDr Ahmed Ismail Limbada
Dr Ahmed Ismail Limbada grew up in Dundee, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal). He studied at Sastri College in Durban, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal) and Witwatersrand…
BiographyWilliam H. "Bill" Andrews
William H."Bill" Andrews was born in Suffolk, England, on 20 March in 1870 into a working-class family,he left school at the age of 13 years old,he immigrated…
BiographyJean Bernadt (nee Alkin)
Jean Alkin was born on 19 May 1914 in Panevezys, Lithuania. She was the eldest of four children. Jean’s family moved to South Africa when she was about six…
Hettie Du Preez
Hettie du Preez has made an outstanding contribution to the struggle against political and economic injustice in South Africa. She was a prominent figure in…
BiographyAbdullah Abdurahman
Abdurahman, who was born in Wellington (Cape Town ) on 18 December 1872 and graduated as a medical doctor from the University of Glasgow in 1893.He return to…
ArchiveCHAPTER 5 - Armed Propaganda and Non-Colaborattion, Rationalising weakness, August 1979 - December 1980 by Howard Barell
Introduction The ANC had concluded in 1979 that it had to take one step back in the conduct of armed operations if it was eventually to be able to mount a…
ArticleLiberation history Timeline 1980-1989
”The A.N.C. is Alive”, flyer by Mac Maharaj, 1960s
BiographyNimrod Sekeramane Nathale
Nimrod Sekeramane Sejake was born on 8 August 1920 in Evaton, south of Johannesburg, to Basotho parents. He attended a mission school in Evaton later went to…
BiographyMaqashu Leonard Mdingi
Leonard Maqhatshu Mdingi was born on 2 February1926. He grew up at his family homesteads first near Bizana, and then in Amadiba Location towards the coast in…
ArticlePolitical executions in South Africa by the apartheid government 1961 - 1989
… and sheer brute force. The period from the 1960s to the 1980s was punctuated by the enactment of security laws that … Prison. Two decades in particular – the…
BiographyBlanche la Guma
Blance la Guma (nee Blanche Herman) was born on 30 November 1927 in Athlone, Cape Town, Western Cape, the youngest of five children. Her parents were actively…
BiographyProfessor Hoosen Mahomed "Jerry" Coovadia
… Gumede Mosiua Lekota and many other activists. In the 1980s, he was part of a delegation to meet the ANC in Lusaka …
BiographyJohn Collins
… which became especially influential in the late 1970s and 1980s.With more arrests of people after uprisings in …
ArchiveExtract from Minutes of State Security Council Meeting, 22 September 1980
Extract from the Minutes of a State Security Council Meeting held on 22 September 1980 in which delivery of five consignments of armaments (76 containers) were…