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Abdullah Ibrahim and the Politics of Jazz in South Africa
… following the Sharpeville Massacre. The 1960s and 1970s were a difficult period for jazz within South Africa. …
Call for Papers ‘Rethinking “Apartheid’s Golden Age”: South Africa, c1966-1979’, Colloquium to be held at the University of Pretoria, 20 June 2016
… of Pretoria will host a colloquium on South Africa’s ‘long 1970s’, defined as the period stretching from the death of …
ArticleInkatha Freedom Party (IFP)
… under the control of the central government. By the late 1970s, the idea of economically viable homelands system had …
BiographyLeonard Tshela Mohapi Matsoso
Leonard Tshela Mohapi Matsoso was born in Pimville, Soweto. From 1962 to 1970, while still at school, Matsoso studied at the Jubilee Art Centre under Cecil…
ArticleBlack Consciousness and 16 June – The birth of a new generation
… students, who were to become student leaders in the 1970s, were already questioning the domination of White … Black student politics had shifted dramatically…
BiographySathima Bea Benjamin
Sathima Benjamin was born into a humble family in Claremont, Cape Town in 1936. Deeply influenced by the cosmopolitan culture she grew up with in the shadows…
BiographyChief Hendrik ‘Hennie’ van Wyk
Hendrik ‘Hennie’ van Wyk was born in Vredendal, Cape Province (now Western Cape) on 14th July 1936. His childhood witnessed the final days of colonial rule and…
ArticleThe Black Sash: A History of Transformation
… up offices throughout country. Between the 1960s and 1970s the offices were packed with thousands of people … and informational meetings. Throughout the late…
ArticleZulu
… capital, pending completion of buildings at Ulundi. The 1970s also saw the revival of Inkatha, later the Inkatha …
ArticleThe Youth Struggle
… attend school or could be linked to the boycott. From the 1970s onwards school riots began to take shape once more. In … . 1976 - June 16 and Youth Politics…
BiographyNerine Constantia Desmond Fial
Nerine Constantia Desmond Fial was born in Constantia, Cape, 1908. She studied graphics at London's Central School of Art in 1938, but was otherwise largely…
BiographyVictor Mhleli Ntoni
Victor Mhleli Ntoni was born in Langa in 1947, Western Province (now Western Cape) learning music from his mother, a locally recognised singer and his uncle,…
BiographyAndré Philippus Brink
Brink is a distinguished South African novelist, playwright, literary critic and academic who challenged the apartheid government. He is now Professor of…
EventDemonstrating Clergymen are arrested in central Johannesburg
… was a rapid expansion of education during the 1960s and 1970s, but the momentum dropped in the 1980s. One of the …
ArticleNational Party (NP)
… few remaining White-ruled nations of Africa. In the early 1970s, increasing numbers of whites (especially students) … verkrampte [Afrikaans,=narrow-minded]…
BiographyChris Qwazi
Chris Qwazi, a photo-journalist, started out as a freelancer in the 1980s at a time of increased resistance against Apartheid in Port Elizabeth, and the…
ArticleA history of Kwaito music
This genre of music started emerging in the 1990s. It is a mixture of a number of different rhythms from marabi of the 1920s, kwela of the 1950s, mbaqanga…
BiographyElizabeth "Rocky" Mafekeng
Elizabeth Mafekeng was born in 1918 in Tarkastad and attended school until Standard 7. Living conditions in her birthplace forced her to leave for Paarl in…
Johann Max Friedrich (Jean) Welz, painter and architect who emigrated to SA in the 1930s, is born in Salzburg, Austria.
BiographyLivingstone Mqotsi
Livingstone Mqotsi (Livie) was born in the village of Rabula in the Keiskammahoek district in the former Ciskei, now Eastern Cape, on 18 April 1921. Mqotsi…
Dr Georg Siegfried Johannes Kuschke, industrialist and president in 1970 of the Industrial Development Corporation, dies in Joh
Elza Dziomba, S.A sculptor, is born in Dt’Eylau, West Prussia, Germany. He died in 1970, in Johannesburg.
Formation and launch of the UDF
… Town. Source: http://www.nelsonmandela.org In the late 1970s moves to form united front against apartheid were set …
ArchiveHow the apartheid regime burnt books – in their tens of thousands, 24 October 2018
… On the advice of the State Librarian one fine day in the 1970s, a truck transported thousands of books and magazines … in furnaces across South Africa from…
ArticleThe Ndebele in history
… of ceremonial female dress. During the 1960s and early 1970s the people of KwaMsiza were to enjoy a period of … to earn money on a constant basis. However,…
BiographyGeorge Msimang
George Msimang was born on 26 October 1948 in Durban. Msimang's interest in art began at school although art was not offered as a subject. He left Lamontville…
BiographyRuben Xulu
Ruben Xulu, born deaf on 10 May 1952 and attended school in Mgangatho from 1955 to 1961. He began carving with Bernard Gcwensa at Hiabisa mission station and…
BiographyPeter Hain
Peter Gerald Hain was born on 16 February in 1950 in Nairobi Kenya but he grew up in Pretoria after his south african born parents returned home in 1951.His…
ArticleBlack People’s Convention (BPC)
… this reason that many of the campaigns undertaken in the 1970s are associated with formations that fully recognised …
Chapter 4 - THE PARTY AND THE “SOLDIERS OF LUTHULI”
… of the operations that were to be undertaken later in the 1970s such as Operation J. The augmented meeting not only saw … wholly inadequate resources.4…