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ArchiveUnemployment in South Africa: dilemmas and challenges for the 1990s
ArchiveViolence in South Africa: on the increase in the 1990s
Emma Thandi Mashinini
Emma Thandi Mashinini was born in Rosettenville, Johannesburg in 1929. In the early 1930s, she and her family were forcibly removed to Orlando in Soweto;…
BiographyTennyson Xola Makiwane
Born in 1933 into a prominent Transkei family Makiwane completed his secondary schooling at Lovedale in 1950 and entered Fort Hare University. Politicised…
ArticleBlack Consciousness: Cultural Expression and Representation
… Winston Ntshona popularized plays in the 1970s and early 1980s that included themes of township life and Black …
ArchivePaper delivered at the Annual Meeting of Diakonia on March 25, 1980
Article containing a paper delivered by Archbishop Tutu, General Secretary of the South African Council of Churches, at the annual meeting of Diakonia on 25…
BiographySantu Mofokeng
… anti-apartheid resistance and social conditions during the 1980s in South Africa. However, Mofokeng was an increasingly …
BiographySimon van der Stel
… the Company with wheat and vegetables. As early as the 1980s Simon van der Stel was faced with the difficult task of …
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…
ArticlePan-Africanism
… particular popularity in the United States during the 1980s. The movement emphasizes African modes of thought and …
Rustenburg the Segregated city
… supplier of gas and welding material, set up shop. By the 1980s, the price of platinum had climbed to unprecedented … Implats at first mined the Merensky…
BiographyBarend de Wet
Barend de Wet was born in Boksburg in 1956, and towards his untimely death had long become an emblematic figure of the artist, the possibilities of the…
BiographyJohn Koenakeefe Mohl
John Koenakeefe Mohl was born on 29 September 1903 in Dinokana, Zeerust in the North-West Province. Mohl's father was a carpenter who sculpted objects such as…
Nikiwe Deborah Matshoba
Deborah Nikiwe Matshoba was born in Munsieville, Krugersdorp, western Gauteng, in December 1950. She was the second eldest of four daughters and a brother. Her…
Interview with Oliver Tambo to Newsweek, 01 August 1980
Question: Your guerrillas recently blew up fuel tanks at South Africa`s oil-from-coal processing plant at Sasolburg, and there have been attacks on police…
ArchiveSouth African Labour Bulletin Volume 6 Number 2 and 3 September 1980
South African Labour Bulletin is a refereed journal which supports the democratic labour movement in South Africa. It is a forum for analysing, debating and…
ArchiveSouth African Labour Bulletin Volume 5 Number 6 and 7 March 1980
South African Labour Bulletin is a refereed journal which supports the democratic labour movement in South Africa. It is a forum for analysing, debating and…
”The drama in pictures”, Pretorai News. 26 January, 1980
”Crack Squad Stormed Bank”, Pretoria News. 28 January, 1980
ArchivePress 1980
BiographyHassim Mohamed Seedat
Hassim Seedat, was born in Newcastle, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal), in 1930. His family came to Newcastle as traders in the late 1880s. He attended St Oswalds…
ArchiveSoccer case back in Court, State to appeal over group areas case at Curries, 1960s
1960s, Soccer case back in Court, State to appeal over group areas case at Curries.
Esmé Berman
Esmé Berman, a Jewish South African art historian, author and researcher, was born in 1929. She enrolled at the University of Witswatersrand in 1946 and…
BiographyLillian Masediba Ngoyi
Lillian Masediba Ngoyi was born in Pretoria in 1911 to a family of six children, and obtained her primary schooling in Kilnerton. She later enrolled for a…
ArticleUrban Removals - the Destruction of Sophiatown
… was the case throughout the 1960s and 1970s. Early in the 1980s influx control regulations were scrapped Conclusion …
ArchiveNondweni or Some South African boat people: Paper presented at National Conference 1980
Nondweni or Some South African boat people -Paper presented at National Conference on 12 March 1980 discussing informal settlements, townships, living…
Mashwabada Victor ''Castro'' Mayatula
Mayatula was born in 1921 in Willowvale in the Transkei,attended Lovedale and was a member of the African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL) in the late…
BiographyWalter Kefuoe Fikeleph Chakela
… in numerous literary and artistic activities. During the 1980s, he became a prominent member of the Congress of South …
Sketch map of Pondoland and the Transkeian Territories in the 1880s
BiographyNancy Graham Dick
Nancy Dick was born in Durban, South Africa and was brought up in Cape Town. She was one of four daughters. Her father was a proponent of the Cape liberal…