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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…
ArchiveBlack Urbanisation In Natal/KwaZulu: 1980-2000
Work in Progress Issue 15 October 1980
ArchiveMayibuye Number 9 1980 Year of the Charter
Mayibuye, journal of the African National Congress.
ArchiveMayibuye Number 8 1980 Year of the charter
Mayibuye, journal of the African National Congress.
ArchiveMayibuye Number 7 1980 Year of the charter
Mayibuye, journal of the African National Congress.
Work in progress Issue 12 April 1980
ArchiveWork in progress Issue 12 April 1980
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.
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…
BiographyEsdras Lusiba Ntloko
Early life and the 1976 uprisingEsdras Lusiba Ntloko was born on 18 July 1954 in Queenstown (now Komani) in the Eastern Cape. He became active in student…
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…
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…
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…
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
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…
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…
”The A.N.C. is Alive”, flyer by Mac Maharaj, 1960s
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 …