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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 …
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…
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…
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…
BiographyJulius Sello Malema
… at the age of nine, where, according to Malema, their main task was to remove National Party posters placed outside …
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…
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…
PlaceMooivallei, Dairy Farm
… had been involved in dairying at Bonnievale since the mid-1970s. Christopher Forrest Rigg and the Breede River canal … that it was later covered with a layer…
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…
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…
The Black Conciousness Movement in South Africa in the late 1960s
… Black Conciousness Movement in South Africa in the late 1970s and 1980s …
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 …
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…
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…
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…
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 …
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…
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 …
ArticleThe Homelands
… itself independently without White intervention. In the 1970s, the South African government declared four of the …