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1990s: Women in the pre-election period
South Africa in the 1900s (1900-1917)
Introduction More than two and a half centuries prior to the birth of Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela, Jan Van Riebeeck and his expedition of Dutch Calvinist…
Poqo political trials and the execution of its operatives in the 1960s
Mass mobilization of the 1950s culminated in the Sharpeville massacre on 21 March 1960. Soon thereafter the apartheid government banned the African National…
ArticlePoetry and Resistance in the 1970’s
A multitude of African poetics has populated the constantly shifting maps of Africa throughout the twentieth-century and has inhabited the history of South…
Migrant Labour in Southern Africa: 1910-1970’s
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…
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…
Black South African Poets of the 1970’s and their Publications
Poet Critical Writings and Interviews Publications Date Keorapetsi Kgositsile The word is Here: Poetry from Modern…
ArticleTrade unionism blossoms and women become more assertive, 1930s
ArticleANC and the early development of apartheid 1948-1950s
In 1948 the Nationalist Party (NP) won the election, and began to introduce the policy of apartheid. The African National Congress (ANC) reacted immediately to…
ArticleLiberation history Timeline 1970-1979
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…
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…
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, 1960s
ArticleThe development of Music in South Africa timeline 1600-2004
… they had their first number one hit with "Timothy". 1970s Ibrahim managed to slip back into South Africa in the mid-1970s to make a series of seminal…
ArticleMusic and culture as forms of resistance
… about the resistance content of musical forms of the 1970s and 1980s. The Movies One of the major contributors to …
ArticleTransvaal Indian Congress (TIC)
… the activities of the TIC had declined and by the early 1970s it was virtually non-existent. The organization was … the activities of the TIC had declined…
ArticleAfrican Peoples Democratic Union of Southern Africa (APDUSA)
… they introduced. As was to become apparent in the early 1970s, this assault on political formations by the apartheid … This theme was to recur in the…
ArticleHarriet Bolton and the Garment Workers Industrial Union
… 1966, Harriet was voted on to the TUCSA executive. By the 1970s she was a national representative of TUCSA. Under … a 20 percent increase in wages, met. By…
List of ANC and MK members killed in combat
… struggle: UMkhonto we Sizwe, MK Feature. Unknown | 1960s | 1970s | 1980s | 1990s MK Real Name MK Name Date Cause of …
ArticleFootball in South Africa
… major changes that revolutionised world football in the 1970s and 80s. Inside South Africa, television sparked …
ArticleBlack Consciousness: Cultural Expression and Representation
… and cultural expression that emerged in the 1960s and 1970s not only reflected the situation of oppression, but … Fatima Duke and Winston Ntshona popularized…
The impact of the collapse of the USSR on re-imagining African nations in the 1990s
ArticleA History of South African Literature, timeline 1824-2005
… these charges were eventually acquitted June. 1970 In the 1970s, South Africa experienced a literary revival of black voices that had been silenced by…
ArticleHIV/Aids Origins
… the virus began to exist in the USA from the 1960s/1970s. HIV was found in tissue samples from a Norwegian …
ArticleA Short History of ESKOM, Part 1 (1923-2001)
… Simmerpan, Germiston. [37] Further growth in demand in the 1970s meant that ESCOM built new power stations, most of … Arnot (which still supply electricity…