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Newspaper Clippings relating to the 1980 Silverton Siege
This archive consists of Newspaper Clippings relating to the 1980 Silverton Siege
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…
ArticleFootball in South Africa
… Cracks in the edifice of apartheid emerged in the mid-1980s. Leading soccer officials Kaizer Motaung (founder in … backed the sport boycott movement…
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…
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…
ArticleMusic and culture as forms of resistance
… This form of control was maintained until the late 1980s and early in the 1990s, an observation that raises … the resistance content of musical forms of the…
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, 1970s
List of ANC and MK members killed in combat, 1960s
ArticleWomen, employment and the changing economic scene, 1920s
In the 1920s, with the First World War (1914-1918) over, the pattern of female employment began to change. The war and the protectionist policy of the Pact…
ArticleNatal Indian Congress (NIC)
… of the United Democratic Front (UDF) in the mid-1980s. The formation of Natal Indian Congress The Natal … the NIC was revived with a focus on civic work. In…
ArticleNelson Mandela Awards 1960s - 2000s
… Doctorate of Law, University of Lesotho, Maseru. Awards 1980s 1980 14 November, Awarded the Jawaharlal Nehru Award …
List of ANC and MK members killed in combat
… UMkhonto we Sizwe, MK Feature. Unknown | 1960s | 1970s | 1980s | 1990s MK Real Name MK Name Date Cause of death Place …
Conference Programme: The Durban Moment - Revisiting Politics, Labour, Youth and Resistance in the 1970s
Women’s Food Committees in Cape Town during the 1940s
The political importance of women’s food committees in Cape Town during the 1940s has been emphasised by both Cheryl Walker and Tom Lodge. According to Lodge,…
ArticleTransvaal Indian Congress (TIC)
… The Transvaal Indian Congress was revived in the early 1980s. In 1981, a meeting was held in Lenasia to discuss the …
Timeline of the Labour and Trade Union Movement in South Africa 1980 - 1990
ArticleAfrican Peoples Democratic Union of Southern Africa (APDUSA)
… was to recur in the resistance movement in the 1970s and 1980s. By the end of the 1960s, when the Morogoro … only later assuming distinct identities. …
ArticleA History of South African Literature, timeline 1824-2005
… bestseller in its day (and filmed several times up to the 1980s). Like subsequent novels such as Allan Quartermain and … and external pressure on the…
The impact of the collapse of the USSR on re-imagining African nations in the 1990s
ArticleHIV/Aids Origins
… recognised cases of AIDS occurred in the USA in the early 1980s (see timeline) and the origin of Aids and HIV has …
ArticleBoipatong massacre - 17 June 1992
… shacks as families increased numerically in the 1970s and 1980s before others moved out to establish homes in the … Slovo Informal Settlement came from…
ArticleYouth and the National Liberation Struggle
… following the Soweto uprising in the later 1970s and 1980s were carried out mainly by members of the June 16 … the imagination of South African youth…
ArticleA Short History of ESKOM, Part 1 (1923-2001)
… coal-to-liquid strategy. [40] During the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, ESCOM built 13 new coal-fired power stations. [41] The … Economic Reforms During the late…
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