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ArchivePublic Sector Government General 1975 - 1979
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ArchivePublic Sector Government BAD 1975 - 1981
ArchiveMigrant Labour Pass Laws 1988 - 1993
ArchiveMigrant Labour Family Life 1975 - 1986
ArchivePublic Sector Government Prisons 1975 - 1980
ArchiveUniversals Rugby Football Club 1960 - 1982
ArchiveCOSAW Transvaal Regional Journal, November 1988
ArchiveA Crime Against Humanity - Analysing the Repression of the Apartheid State edited by Max Coleman
… Introduction Part A: The unfolding of total strategy 1948 - 1989 1. The many faces of apartheid repression 2. The …
EventLesotho’s Foreign Affairs Minister reveals details of agreement with Pik Botha
On 4 December 1981 Lesotho's Foreign Affairs Minister, Mr Mooki Molapo, told The Star of an agreement reached with the South African Minister of Foreign…
ArticleThe influence of apartheid
The Ndebele and the apartheid state When the Nationalist Party was elected to power in 1948 by a minority of the white electorate, their platform promised…
ArticleKenyan Timeline
… leaders including Kenneth Matiba are jailed without trial. 1989 Political prisoners are freed. President Moi burns 12 …
ArchiveBiography of Flora Nwapa by Emily Coolidge
… literature, Nwapa’s popularity at home grew abundantly. In 1989 she was appointed visiting professor of creative writing …
BiographyConny Braam
In 1971 Conny Braam, together with some others, broke away from the Comite Zuid-Afrika (CZA) to form the more radical Anti-Apartheidsbeweging Nederland (AABN)…
James E. Kwegyir Aggrey
James E. Kwegyir Aggrey was born in 1875 into a family of chiefs. A Ghanaian-born educator and clergyman, and one of the most eminent Africans of his day, he…
BiographyGabriel Kee Kuboni
He was born in Durban. From 1950 to 1959 he attended the Lourenco Marques High School, which changed its name first to Sibonenlo High School, and which is…
BiographyMary Fitzgerald
Fitzgerald was born in Ireland in 1882, and came to South Africa as a typist for the British Army. She worked in the Castle in Cape Town, and then moved to…
BiographyJohnson Ngwevela
Johnson Ngwevela was a longtime activist in the African National Congress (ANC) and the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA) in the Western Cape, and in the…
BiographyJonathan Ngwenya
Col Jonathan Ngwenya received his basic military training as APLA activist in Conakry, Guinea in 1977. He completed his Instructor Course at Kwame Nkrumah…
EventArchibald Gumede, former President of the United Democratic Front, is born in Pietermaritzburg.
Archibald Archie Gumede was born on 1 March 1914 in Pietermaritzburg. He studied at the South African Native College (now University of Fort Hare), but…
BiographyAndrew Clement Verster
Andrew Vester was born in Johannesburg in 1937. He obtained a National Diploma in Design (1959) from the Camberwell College of Art, London, and an Art Teacher…
BiographyMary Susan Malahlela-Xakana
Mary Susan Malahele-Xakana was born in Polokwane (then Pietersburg). Her father had been ostracized by the BaPedi for becoming a Christian and for refusing to…
BiographyPieter Dirk-Uys
Pieter Dirk Uys was born in Cape Town in 1945. He studied drama at UCT from 1965 to 1965 before going to study at the London Film School. During the 1970s and…
BiographyVernom ‘Rogers’ Nkadimeng
Vernom Nkadimeng was born in 1958 to the African National Congress(ANC) activist and trade unionist John Nkadimeng. Nkadimeng skipped the country…
BiographyRonnie Levitan
Levitan was born in Johannesburg where he graduated as an architect in the 1950s. He moved to Cape Town in the late 1970s where he worked as an architect in…
BiographyAnneke Laurie
Laurie was born in Zimbabwe, where her father was a missionary doctor. Shortly after her birth, the family was forced to leave the country because of the civil…
ArticleNobel Prizes and South African Laureates
..to those who, during the preceding year, shall have conferred the greatest benefit on mankind. Winning a Nobel Prize is one of the highest international…
BiographyJohn Langalibalele Dube
John Langalibalele Dube was born at Inanda Mission station of the American Zulu Mission (AZM) in Natal on 22 February 1871 to James and Elizabeth Dube. …
ArchiveA critical look at the role of the Muslim Judicial Council in the struggle for liberation in South Africa from 1960 to 1994
… such as the 1976 Uprising, 1985-1986 Mass Mobilisation, 1989-1990 Defiance Campaign, inter alia. …