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ArticleCurries Fountain events timeline
… Queen Elizabeth visits Durban, the parade was at Currie's. 1960s-1970s Soccer became the dominant use in 60's and 70's …
ArticleJohn Maxwell Coetzee timeline 1940-2003
… 1940 Born in Cape Town. 1960s Graduates from the University of Cape Town with …
ArticleWestern Cape Civic Association (WCCA)
… of the ANC campaigns in the 1950s and MK activities in the 1960s. Some of the leading members who were instrumental in …
Abdullah Ibrahim and the Politics of Jazz in South Africa
… bring people closer together, yet in South Africa in the 1960s things seemed to be going from bad to worse. Apartheid … the repression following the…
Indian Community in Lenasia
… and electricity. A Post Office was erected in the early 1960s, and a telephone exchange followed soon after. The … soccer teams. A fierce rivalry developed…
PlaceThe Mead and Meadway, Pinelands-Cape Town
… Racially-Mixed Middle Class Suburbs, in Cape Town. The Main Road is called Forest Drive and the Suburb contains two … flowed through a large Concrete…
PlaceSprings
… gold on the farm Geduld and the further discovery of the main reef in 1902. In April 1904 The Springs was proclaimed a … gold and 9% of its uranium. However,…
ArticleJohannesburg the Segregated city
… Streets had already entrenched themselves as the town’s main shopping areas, stretching from the centre to the more … peripheral segment was the site of a…
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BiographyB J Vorster [John Vorster]
… John D’Oliveira: ‘Look, we knew that Fischer was our main target (in the CPSA), that if you wanted to break … that he initiated what he called his Outwards…
BiographyRobert Gabriel Mugabe
… days in Politics. Robert Mugabe rose to prominence in the 1960s when he became influential in Zimbabwean nationalist …
Jonas Malheiro Savimbi
… Roberto, and Agostinho Neto, as leaders of the three main political movements in Angola, went to Portugal in …
BiographyKasturba Gandhi
… of children was an accepted and common practice. Two main reasons justified child marriages at the time. First, … in the book. For him, Ruskin's message…
AAM and UN: partners in the international campaign against apartheid
… as well as a growing number of governments, which in the 1960s was able to secure the active involvement of the United … apartheid, especially in the…
ArticleChief Albert John Mvumbi Luthuli timeline 1800 - 1967
… Historical Context to Chief Luthuli Chronology While Chief Luthuli himself preferred another … at the Cape, large meetings are held in the country's main…
National Theatre Organisation (1947)
… the Southern parts of the country came to a head in the 1960s. Coupled with financial problems and rebellion by …
ArticleHarriet Bolton and the Garment Workers Industrial Union
… to help with organising work in the unions. From the late 1960s Harriet Bolton was an executive committee member of …
ArchiveWebinar Programme: Debating Socialist Lineages. Convenors Shahid Vawda and Lungisile Ntsebeza
… The South West African National Liberation Front in the 1960s by Asher Gamedze This paper-in-process is interested in … liberation struggle in southern…
ArticleArt South Africa Today exhibitions
… at least visually ambiguous ‘Swing’ as the winner of the main award, a preference for abstractions of political … of works submitted after 1971 registered…
ArticleKingdoms of southern Africa: Great Zimbabwe
… and 20 000 people. Most of them lived far away from the main stone buildings, with only 200 to 300 royals and advisers living inside the main city, which was…
PlaceWaaihoek Farm
… worked on land rights and agrarian reform in Natal. Its main aim was to assist Black rural people whose tenure was … South African Development Trust (SADT)…
The National Arts Festival
… Gaol on Somerset Street. Upon its inception, there were 64 main events on the programme, ranging from theatre … craftwork and craft artists. The NAF is…
ArticleNatal Indian Congress (NIC)
… in 1945. Due to more militant protests, by the 1950s and 1960s several of the NIC?s leaders were in jail. Although the … Due to these more militant protests,…
Article1970s: Black Consciousness Movement in South Africa
… resistance was passive and non-violent up until the early 1960s. What is racism? South Africa's population was divided … Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) in…
ArticleThe influence of apartheid
… did not change radically for the next twenty years, by the 1960s its dialectic had begun to move from its crude … provided for the racial segregation of the…
BiographyAdam Small
Professor Adam Small was born on 21 December 1936 in Wellington, Cape Province (now Western Cape) to a mother of Muslim Indian heritage and a slave descendant…
References and links: Local History
… ShowMe, (2014), “A Journey through Pretoria’s Main Attractions” from ShowMe, 12 December [online], … //showme.co.za/pretoria/tourism/a-journey-through…
BiographyDr. Mantombazana ‘Manto’ Tshabalala-Msimang
… drug Virodene on HIV-positive soldiers in Tanzania. The main active ingredient of the drug was a lethal industrial …
ArticleThe Namibian struggle for independence – 1966 – 1990 – a historical background
… During the 1960s most of Africa’s countries had gained independence … (PLAN), and an armed insurrection started. During the 1960s, Angola was a Portuguese…
ArticleFootball in South Africa
… contact with formal resistance politics. In the 1950s and 1960s, the daunting obstacles faced by African footballers in … an active role. (Women's football…
ArticleDecember 16, the reflection of a changing South African heritage
… people in South Africa. However, in the 1950s and early 1960s the South African government reinforced repressive … the struggle for freedom and equality. In…