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Formation and launch of the UDF
… Town. Source: http://www.nelsonmandela.org In the late 1970s moves to form united front against apartheid were set …
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 …
ArticleA History of South African Literature, timeline 1824-2005
… these charges were eventually acquitted June. 1970 In the 1970s, South Africa experienced a literary revival of black voices that had been silenced by…
ArticleWomen and the struggle against Apartheid
… such process was on 23 September 1913 (see our Women's Chronology) when women in the Free State, organized by …
ArticleBlack Consciousness and student revolt in the Cape
… (BPC), Steven Carulous and Jonny Iseel. By the mid 1970s the government began a crackdown on BCM leaders. For … prison terms in a series of Terrorism trials…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Youth League (ANCYL)
… to fight against apartheid. Thabo Mbeki during the 1970s. Source: www.docstoc.com [Accessed: 05 January 2012] … with Mbeki as leader in Britain. The ANC YSS…
ArticleThe Women of Marikana
… - farming tobacco and maize amongst other crops. In the 1970s, platinum mining was introduced and it rapidly grew to become the main industry in the region…
PlaceDefence Force HQ, Pretoria- Artillery Barracks
… The entire complex was declared a national monument in the 1970s and was scheduled by the Department of Public Works for … is flanked by two recessed, simple…
PlaceDimbaza, Eastern Cape
… in Dimbaza arrived in December 1967 by truck. The main influx of people occurred between December 1968 and … ex-Robben Islanders were banished to Dimbaza in…
BiographyJulius Sello Malema
… at the age of nine, where, according to Malema, their main task was to remove National Party posters placed outside …
The Black Conciousness Movement in South Africa in the late 1960s
… Black Conciousness Movement in South Africa in the late 1970s and 1980s …
ArticleThe Black Sash: A History of Transformation
… up offices throughout country. Between the 1960s and 1970s the offices were packed with thousands of people … and protest against such unlawful acts. One of…
ArticleA Short History of ESKOM, Part 1 (1923-2001)
… Simmerpan, Germiston. [37] Further growth in demand in the 1970s meant that ESCOM built new power stations, most of … Arnot (which still supply electricity…
ArticleSouth Africa’s Foreign Relations during Apartheid, 1948
… an effective and peaceful means of pressure. However, the main trading partners of South Africa continually voted … the policy, mandatory sanctions were…
EventThami Mazwai, former journalist and anti-apartheid activist, is jailed for two years
… that had gripped the country in the second half of the 1970s. It is therefore possible that the student leaders were … charged with offenses relating to…
ArticleArts and Cultural Organisations
… Mofolo Arts Center (Mofolo Cultural Bowl and Arts Centre) (1970s) Natal Society of Arts Gallery - KZNSA Natal Visual …
Soweto forty years on: The Black student rebellion of 1976 by Professor Noor Nieftagodien
… government insisted on its implementation from the early 1970s. At the time, the apartheid rulers felt emboldened by … they caught many by surprise…
ArchiveNUSAS in the 70s. Official opening address at the 46th Annual Congress of the National Union of South African Students, July 1970
… questions about the direction the Union should take in the 1970s. The alienation of Black students was of particular …
EventDefence minister Mosioua Lekota born
… field. Lekota joined anti-apartheid movements in the early 1970s. He served six years on Robben Island after being found …
ArchiveInterview with Ntsizi Elijah Moremi
… Elijah Moremi who was a refugee in Kenya in the late 1970s. An adherent of the black consciousness movement, he …
ArticleBoipatong massacre - 17 June 1992
… providing new houses in black townships in the 1960s and 1970s, overcrowding became inevitable. Residents erected … backyard shacks as families increased…
Chapter 2 - THE RECONSTRUCTION PERIOD
… the comrades from Hull will keep the CEC informed on the main outline of what Jane is doing both inside and outside … allocation to the SACP was to cause…
Chapter 6 - The Birth of SACTU
… by state repression. But South African workers - as the 1970s showed vividly - have found methods of laying … existed after 1955 for SACTU to organise many…
BiographyDr Yusuf Mohamed Dadoo
… on 27-28 August where the Asiatic Land Tenure Act was the main topic of discussion. At this conference, Dadoo began to … Square. In the statement, Dadoo said…
ArticleThe Homelands
… itself independently without White intervention. In the 1970s, the South African government declared four of the …
EventHarry Frederick Oppenheimer is born in Kimberley
… his views on political issues. During the 1960s and 1970s Oppenheimer oversaw expansion of the diamond industry … to provide financial support for the party…
BiographyFrank Alexander Landman
… ‘fine body of men’ of the ‘MK contingent’ he had met. His main political task was a ‘study and analysis of the Coloured …
BiographyMzwakhe Mbuli
… representative of the sentiment towards Mbuli as the main orchestrator. After Mbuli was detained in January 1988, …
BiographyGovindasamy Krishnasamy Thambi Naidoo
… negotiate with him and sign an agreement acceding to the main demands of the Satyagraha. Together with others, he then …
BiographyDr James Sebe Moroka
… a speech at Freedom Square in Johannesburg. But the main campaign began on 26 June 1952, and reached its peak …