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PlaceUniversity of Cape Town
… number of Black Students remained relatively low until the 1980s and 90s, when the Institution, reading and welcoming … and Planned Process of Internal…
EventFormer Minister of Defence and others are charged with murder
… J. A. et al (1999). Southern African Political History: A Chronology of Key Political Events from Independence to …
EventAnglo-Boer War 2: The British evacuate Rustenburg to occupy Commando Nek and Silkaatsnek
… References: Cloete, P.G. (2000) The Anglo-Boer War: a chronology. Pretoria: Lapa. Copley, I.B. "The Battle of …
History of Muslims in South Africa: Introduction by Ebrahim Mahomed Mahida
… Mahida This book, History of Muslims in South Africa: A Chronology, probably the first of its kind to be published, …
ArticleHistory Grade 10 - Topic 4 Essay Questions and Answers
… South Africa. It was initially believed that Shaka was the main cause of the Mfecane. [2] This has since been debated by … Pondoland.” In African societies,…
ArticleOvercoming Adversity from All Angles: The Struggle of the Domestic Worker during Apartheid by Bennett Gwynn
… a union and fighting for their worker’s rights. One of the main combatants of the domestic workers efforts were the laws … the domestic workers unionisation…
ArticleTransport and General Workers Union (TGWU)
… Advisory and Coordinating Council (TUACC) in 1974. By the 1980s its membership exceeded 20 000 in the transport sector. …
ArticleYouth and the National Liberation Struggle
… following the Soweto uprising in the later 1970s and 1980s were carried out mainly by members of the June 16 … the imagination of South African youth…
ArticleNdebele
… by the noun which dominates the sentence. There are three main groups of Ndebele people: The Southern Transvaal Ndebele … who pressed for KwaNdebele…
BiographyPixley ka Isaka Seme
… its function. In the context of the time, chiefs were the main source of potential funding. This critical factor is …
BiographyJohannes Henricus Brand
… become independent in 1854. Brand was confronted by three main issues during his presidency: Firstly, the conflict …
EventThe SA Constitutional Court abolishes the death penalty
… L.E. (eds)(1999). Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to …
EventBeyers Naudé is served with his second banning order
… L.E. (eds) (1999). Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to …
EventNumber of banned persons in South Africa totals 936
… L.E. (eds) (1999) Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to …
BiographyVivian Fitzsimons
… exhibits, in a new Marine Hall, built in 1930. But his main interest was in snakes, which had started in Natal and …
Natal Performing Arts Council (NAPAC)
… the Loft Company and the Musicals department. In the late 1980s reductions in state funding and pressure from political …
List of ANC and MK members killed in combat
… UMkhonto we Sizwe, MK Feature. Unknown | 1960s | 1970s | 1980s | 1990s MK Real Name MK Name Date Cause of death Place …
ArticleAfrican Peoples Democratic Union of Southern Africa (APDUSA)
… was to recur in the resistance movement in the 1970s and 1980s. By the end of the 1960s, when the Morogoro … only later assuming distinct identities. …
Apartheid - A Crime Against Humanity: The Unfolding of Total Strategy 1948-1989
… following this introduction, the reader will find a chronology of major events, which occurred during this …
The historical significance of COSATU’s Workers’ Charter Campaign
… Introduction During the late 1970s and early 1980s the issue of drawing up a Workers’ Charter became a … in South Africa and explores why the call in the…
ArticleFootball in South Africa
… Cracks in the edifice of apartheid emerged in the mid-1980s. Leading soccer officials Kaizer Motaung (founder in … backed the sport boycott movement…
PlaceVolksrust, Mpumalanga
… 1904, is the Commercial center of a District of which the main products are maize, wool, sorghum, sunflower seed, beef … was known as Dukuza (which means -…
ArticleBoipatong massacre - 17 June 1992
… shacks as families increased numerically in the 1970s and 1980s before others moved out to establish homes in the … Slovo Informal Settlement came from…
ArticleAfrapix
… popular uprising against white minority rule in the 1980s. Initially, the Inter-Church Media Project (IMP) … the unfolding political drama that was South…
EventSASOL plant under attack
… L.E. (eds)(1999). Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to …
EventThe apartheid government reportedly pays compensation for death of Steve Biko
… L.E. (eds) (1999). Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to …
BiographyDorothy Adams
Dorothy Adams was born in 1928 in Wellington, 72 kilometres north-east of Cape Town. Wellington had been declared on the farm of Champagne in 1840, and it grew…
The Freedom struggle in Rustenburg
… fast-growing mining industry in Rustenburg. By the early 1980s, NUM established branches in the town and in the … the beginnings of the negotiations process…
Chapter 4 - The Township Uprising, September-November 1984
… factories and rural areas. The insurrection of the 1980s was fundamentally different from previous struggles … the growth rates of many industrialised…
Book 5: People, Places and Apartheid - Chapter 4 - The Township Uprising, September-November 1984 by Noor Nieftagodien
… factories and rural areas. The insurrection of the 1980s was fundamentally different from previous struggles … the growth rates of many industrialised…