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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…
BiographyGuy Tillim
… Territories, RAY Photography Triennial, Frankfurt Rhein-Main, Germany Ex Africa, Banco do Brasil Cultural Center, São …
PlaceSão Tomé and Príncipe
… on the Equator in the Gulf of Guinea. It consists of two main islands—São Tomé and Príncipe—and several rocky islets, … Centuries! São Tomé Peak , the…
PlaceDiepkloof, Soweto
… is located on the Eastern Border of Soweto and is close to main Transport routes into Johannesburg. The three main Areas in Diepkloof are each characterised…
ArticleRivonia Trial 1963 - 1964
… a month later. Aerial shot of Liliesleaf Farm showing the main house and out-houses. Source: South African National … that Arthur Goldreich and his family…
The people armed, 1984-1990
… struggle against the National Party government in the 1980s. This decade witnessed an increase in the armed … speaking at the launch of the UDF © Rashid…
Article1960 - 1994: Armed Struggle and Popular Resistance
… struggle against the National Party government in the 1980s. This decade witnessed an increase in the armed … speaking at the launch of the UDF © Rashid…
ArticleHistory of elections in South Africa
… elections in the Bantustans/homelands stopped in the late 1980s. In 1994, Homelands stopped to exist and they were …
ArticleUnited Women’s Congress (UWCO)
… also played an important role in setting up civics in the 1980s and as one of the few organisations that existed at the …
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…
Biographical contribution on Nozizwe Charlotte Madlala-Routledge
… to AZAPO were secretly members of the then banned ANC. The 1980s were probably the most traumatic in Madlala-Routledge’s … and its affiliation with the newly…
Citation for Saleem Badat by Professor Paul Maylam, 10 April 2015, Rhodes University
… joining the Release Mandela Committee. Then during the 1980s becoming even more deeply involved in the … Grassroots . This involvement during the turbulent…
ArticleNational Party (NP)
… the National Party, and to lay down its principles. The main aim was to direct the people’s ambitions and beliefs … groups made the SAP's rule more difficult…
Abdullah Ibrahim and the Politics of Jazz in South Africa
… or need for myself now, because Allah has blessed me. My main concern is for others, for the liberation of my people, … progressive organizations”. Indeed,…
ArticleGrade 12 - The Cold War
… of the world, and drew to a close by end of the late 1980s / early 1990s. Towards the end of the 1980s, Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev held conferences with…
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…
BiographyWinnie Madikizela-Mandela
… in South Africa began to reach fever pitch in the late 1980s, with international calls for Nelson’s release … her intentions might have been in Soweto in the…
ArticleCurries Fountain events timeline
… National basis. 1964 Currie's gets floodlights. Late 1970s-1980s-early 1990s Up until the late 1970s the predominant use …
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…
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…
ArticleThe History of LGBT legislation
… push forward Afrikaner revivalism (Thompson, 1990). The main objective of the nationalist movement was to establish … movement dwindled and eventually died…
Speech delivered on the condolence motion in honour of the late Ebrahim "Cas" Saloojee in the national assembly – 5 February 2009
… the apartheid system and Nationalist Party rule. In the 1980s, Cassim Saloojee was one of the founders of ACTSTOP, a … its President during the State of…
ArticlePopular resistance and police brutality in democratic South Africa
… current wave of protests stretches back to the 1970s and 1980s, the rate of protests rose dramatically and most of the … the government’s pass laws , 1976…
ArticleUnited Democratic Front (UDF)
… struggle. The UDF character however changed in the mid-1980s with the people?s insurrection, and some organisations … he continued to call for united…
A common purpose: the Commonwealth’s support for the AAM
… old Commonwealth of white Dominions prevailed. One of its main tenets was non-interference in internal affairs, which … of a free Zimbabwe, and where his…
Rafique Mayet
… exhibitions at the Market Photo Gallery during the 1980s as well as the Zabalaza Festival in London, 1990; …
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…
Class, Consciousness and Organisation: Conclusion by Kumi Naidoo
This chapter comes from the book