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EventThe South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) introduces its first national news service
… centres in South Africa. The SABC grew in the 1960s and 1970s as more radio stations, broadcasting in selected … of the Nationalist Party (NP) government…
BiographyMichael Alan Harmel
Michael Alan Harmel was born on 7th of February in 1915 in Johannesburg ,to Irish immigrant parents, became a radical socialist, fiercely opposed to racism…
ArchiveTheoria: a journal of studies in the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences No.35 1970
In the Embrace of the Night, 1970, hand printed fiber base silver gelatin print
ArticleUnited Democratic Front (UDF)
… Plain. Steps towards forming the UDF began in the late 1970s, and moved forward when Allan Boesak called for a … had little or no contact with each other. In…
Remaking African Politics in the 1950s: The “Indian Question” and the Origins of Non-Racial Nationalism
ArticleThe History of LGBT legislation
… the movement dwindled and eventually died off. The 1970s and 1980s: An atmosphere for change The 1970s and 80s marked a time of turmoil for the entire…
PlaceMofolo Arts Centre
… works during the Apartheid era. In its prime during the 1970s and 80s, the centre was active in the community, … would relocate to the Mofolo Arts Centre in…
BiographyStanley B. Lollan
Stanley B. Lollan was born in Johannesburg in 1925, he became one of the few significant coloured activists in the Transvaal in the 1950s. A clerk by…
BiographySurinarayan ‘Sonny’ Kala Venkatrathnam
Surinarayan ‘Sonny’ Kala Venkatrathnam was born on 27 July 1935 in Sea View, Durban, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal). He had 12 siblings. He grew up in very dire…
BiographyJames Edward April
James Edward April was born on 20th of March in 1940, in Bokmakeri Athlone, Cape Town, Western Province (now Western Cape).He is the youngest of seven children…
ArticleThe Black Consciousness Movement in South Africa
… of Black resistance that was to become a force in the 1970s. Influenced by the American Black Power movement, the …
BiographyLogan K. Ntlabati
Logan K. Ntlabati was a prominent member of the African National Congress (ANC) national executive committee in the 1940s, he was born in the Transkei and…
BiographyMzwakhe Mbuli
Mzwakhe Mbuli, the “People’s Poet,” was born into a poor Zulu family in Sophiatown on 1 August 1959. His parents were Roselinah Msuthukazi Mbuli, a Xhosa…
BiographyPaul Grendon
“I am interested in making large-scale paintings that can be used in public places with imagery that is totally accessible to everyone.” Paul Grendon…
BiographyMoses Mabhida
Moses Mbheki Mncane Mabhida was born in Thornville near Pietermaritzburg on 14 October 1923, into a poor family which was later forced off the land. Mabhida…
BiographyMangisi Pheneas Nene
African National Congress branch chairman in Alexandra Township in Johannesburg in the 1950s and one of the accused in the Treason Trial. He was born in Natal…
ArticleDevelopments leading to the New Dispensation
… By the late 1970s, and especially as a result of the June 1976 uprising , … the central features of Apartheid. From the late 1970s, informal settlements were…
Uwe Pfaff, S.A. artist, is born in Rye, Denmark. He emigrated to SA in 1970.
The Road to Democracy in South Africa: 1960-1970 by South African Democracy Education Trust
Nationalism, class and non-racialism in the 1950s and beyond: the search for convergence by David Everatt
An Appeal to Thinking South Africans by Johannesburg Joint Council of Europeans and Natives, 1930s, South Africa
Ida Fiyo Mntwana
Ida was born in 1903 and worked as a dressmaker. She was the first president of the African National Congress Women’s League and a leader of many mass women’s…
EventHelen Zille, former leader of the Democratic Alliance, is born in Johannesburg
… She went on to become a prominent journalist in the 1970s and 1980s. Zille became well-known after she exposed …
BiographyMoses Ndlovu
Moses Ndlovu was born in KwaSemane which is in the Otto Bluff area near Pietermaritzburg, Natal. His parents were farm tenants. Ndlovu attended primary school…
BiographyAudrey ‘Bobbie’ Cobden
Audrey ‘Bobbie’ (her childhood nickname) Cobden was born in Johannesburg, Transvaal Province (now Gauteng) on 15 April 1923. She grew up in Johannesburg and…
BiographyMohammed Tikly
Mohammed Tikly became involved in the liberation struggle in South Africa when he was in secondary school, in the 1950s. He lived in Pietersburg, (now…
BiographyMary Goitsemang Ranta
Ranta was born in 1922 and grew up in the Pretoria area. After leaving school, she worked as a ‘tea girl’ at the Pretoria mint, and later took employment as a…
BiographyRichard Granville Baloyi
Richard Granville Baloyi was born on 1897 and lived in Alexandra north of Johannesburg in 1922. His first job was that of a taxi driver but in 1925 he became a…
BiographyNokukhanya Luthuli
… back to Groutville, although the farms collapsed in the 1970s. [29] On 8 June 1966, Albert met US Senator for New …