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ArticlePoqo in the Western Cape and Transkei in the early 1960s
The formation of the Pan Africanist Congress’ (PAC) Africanist Task Force (ATF) preceded the formation of party’s military wing Poqo in February 1960. After…
ArticleTimeline of State Action Against the Press in the 1960s
1960 Mar- Norman Phillips of the Toronto Star was detained 3 and '/2 days for trying to cable a story about a police attack on Nyanga, Cape Town. The report…
Why did so few Black South Africans make films before the 1990s?
There are less than a handful of black directors who made films before the 1990s. The reasons for this are the same reasons that kept black people out of other…
ArticleMusic and culture as forms of resistance
… music was also heavily influenced in the 1940s and 1950s by American music and American movies. Hollywood's two … out a pennywhistle and begin to play…
ArticleTrade unionism blossoms and women become more assertive, 1930s
ArticleGrade 12 - How SA emerged as a democracy from the crises of the 1990s
During the 1980s, the apartheid government came under increasing internal pressure. The National Party attempted a political solution to the crisis it faced by…
ArticleCurries Fountain events timeline
… the naming of the stadium 'Curries Fountain'. 1920s-1950s Curries was used as a general sporting facility for …
ArticleThe banning of the South African Students Organisation (SASO) and student politics in the 1980s
In September and October 1977, the apartheid government stiffened its resolve to end the nationwide student unrest that broke out in Soweto in June 1976…
ArticleA change to armed struggle and the state’s intensified repression 1960s
With no discernable change in government policies, some members of the African National Congress (ANC) began to move away from peaceful protest. The ANC…
Rejuvenation of the ANC and intensification of the struggle 1940s
In 1940, Alfred Xuma was elected the new president of the African National Congress (ANC), and a period of greater action was introduced. Xuma was still…
List of ANC and MK members killed in combat, 1990s
List of ANC and MK members killed in combat, 1980s
List of ANC and MK members killed in combat, 1970s
List of ANC and MK members killed in combat, 1960s
ArticleGrade 12 - The impact of the Cold War in forming the world as it was in the 1960s
The Cold War was the period of conflict and competition between the capitalist United States and the communist Soviet Union, and their respective allies. From…
ArticleBanishment under the Suppression of Communism Act of 1950
A documentary history, Volume one 1907 ? 1950. Edited by Alison Drew.
ArticleThe development of Music in South Africa timeline 1600-2004
… across Natal, Transvaal and the Orange Free State. 1950s South African music came into International prominence … and Letta Mbulu gained fanatical followings…
ArticleThe South African Society of Artists and its exhibitors, 1902-1950
This catalogue and exhibition celebrate the founding, over 100 years ago, of the oldest surviving body for practising artists and the "advancement of art" in…
Growing social unrest: Community mobilisation, strikes and student protests in the Western Cape in the 1980s
The late 1970s witnessed increased labour unrest in the region of the Western Cape. For instance, the Fattis and Monis strike and boycott, Saldanha Bay fish…
ArticleFootball in South Africa
… people with little else to cheer about. Moroka Swallows (1950s) After the Second World War and the rise of apartheid, … into close contact with formal…
ArticleNatal Indian Congress (NIC)
… leadership in 1945. Due to more militant protests, by the 1950s and 1960s several of the NIC?s leaders were in jail. … in 1961. Due to these more militant…
Conference Programme: The Durban Moment - Revisiting Politics, Labour, Youth and Resistance in the 1970s
The impact of the collapse of the USSR on re-imagining African nations in the 1990s
ArticleA history of Kwaito music
… different rhythms from marabi of the 1920s, kwela of the 1950s, mbaqanga/maskhandi of the hostel dwellers, bubblegum … slums and mensetaal (People's language…
ArticleTransvaal Indian Congress (TIC)
… associated themselves with the non-racial policy of the 1950s Congress Alliance. The Transvaal Indian Congress was …
ArticleUrban Removals - the Destruction of Sophiatown
… Throughout the 1940s and during the first half of the 1950s more family migrants entered Orlando while single males … to a single room. Throughout the 1940s…
ArticleHIV/Aids Origins
… might have been introduced to humans in the 1940s or early 1950s. However, in January 2000 (San Francisco, California) …
ArticleSophiatown in Literature
… The experiences of Sophiatown's community in the 1940s and 1950s have been captured for posterity by Can Themba , Bloke … of Sophiatown and the stiffening of…
ArticleHarriet Bolton and the Garment Workers Industrial Union
… By the 1950s, Harriet Bolton began to help with organising work in …