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… to as "National Service by the apartheid regime. In the 1980s, white men were called up for two years of compulsory … and played a major role in the…
BiographyReggie Vandeyar
… generation of TIC activists and community leaders. The 1980S saw countrywide schools boycotts in the Indian and …
BiographyProfessor Carel Boshoff
Carel Boshoff was born on 9 November 1927, a second child from the second marriage of his father. He spent his early life on a cattle farm in the Waterberg…
BiographyKaiser Daliwonga Matanzima
Kaiser Daliwonga Matanzima was a chief of the Thembus. Matanzima was born June 15,1915 in Qamata in Eastern Cape. When the South African government introduced…
BiographyHilary Mutch
Hilary Mutch (née Hilary Claire) was born on 4 November 1941 in Erith, south-east London into a Jewish family. Her father, a South African worked as a doctor…
BiographyAchmad Cassiem
Imam Achmad Cassiem was born 12th of December in 1945 and grew up in an Islamic environment. He became politicised in the 1960s when the Pan Africanist…
BiographyDr. Mantombazana ‘Manto’ Tshabalala-Msimang
… community, including mental illness and malaria. In the 1980s, the department would address the issue of HIV/AIDS …
A history of Volkskas and the Absa Banking group
… of power by the Nationalist Party in 1948.’ By the 1980s, Volkskas was no longer that dependent on state … Pieter Morkel, managing director of Volkskas in…
BiographyHenry Gordon ‘Squire’ Makgothi
Henry Gordon "Squire" Makgothi was born on 25 December 1928 to Walter Mokowa, a school teacher and Martha Makgothi, a domestic worker,died when he was five. He…
BiographyArthur Goldreich
Arthur Goldreich was born in Johannesburg on 25 December 1929. He grew up in Pietersberg in the Northern Transvaal (now Limpopo). One morning, his secondary…
Interview with Oliver Tambo to New African, 05 January 1980, London
Unity in Action Decisive Question: How would you assess the Lancaster House Conference on Zimbabwe, and the implementation up to now of what was agreed? …
Abdullah Ibrahim and the Politics of Jazz in South Africa
… progressive organizations”. Indeed, for musicians, the 1980s was a period characterized not by any single stylistic … and his exile in New York in the…
In summary: Factors resulting in the crisis
… democracy in the 1990s The crisis of apartheid in the 1980s Factors contributing to the crisis: * A global economic crisis: In the 1980s there was a global…
ArticleThe History of LGBT legislation
… movement dwindled and eventually died off. The 1970s and 1980s: An atmosphere for change The 1970s and 80s marked a … front to battle homophobia as well as…
ArchiveImages of defiance: South African resistance posters of the 1980`s
”Accused’ Not Responsible’ For Attack”, Pretoria News, 22 November, 1980
”Nightmare lives on for Hannelie”, Pretoria News. 28 January, 1980.
”Grenade Blast in Veld recalled”, Pretoria News. 10 September, 1980.
”Silverton Accused wait for Sentence”, Pretoria News. 26 November, 1980.
ArchiveExtract from Minutes of State Security Council Meeting, 9 June 1980
Incomplete Minutes from a State Security Council Meeting in which the situation in Zimbabwe was discussed.
ArchiveExtract from Minutes of State Security Council Meeting, 3 February 1980
Incomplete Minutes of a Meeting of the State Security Council in which Mr Ian Smith participated and discussions revolved around the forthcoming elections in…
ArchiveFree Enterprise and Home Ownership: Mitchells Plain Style, Paper presented at National Conference 1980
Free Enterprise and Home Ownership: Mitchells Plain Style -Paper presented at National Conference on 12 March 1980 discussing homeownership, State-owned…
Statement of the African National Congress by Oliver Tambo, 18 March 1980
Forward to a People`s Government! On March 9, 1980, the racist Prime Minister of South Africa, P.W. Botha, surprised the world with the announcement that his…
BiographyArnold Selby
Arnold Selby was born on 14 November 1918 in South Africa. He joined the liberation struggle in the 1940s. His experience as a miner brought to light the…
BiographyRaymond Basil van Staden
Raymond Basil van Staden was born on 27 January 1961 at the coastal town of Amanzimtoti in KwaZulu-Natal. He studied Security Management, Forensic…
BiographyRobert Gabriel Mugabe
Robert Gabriel Mugabe was born on 21 February 1924, in Katama, a Jesuit mission station in the Zimbambe district, about 60km from Harare. He was the son of…
BiographyCloete Breytenbach
Breytenbach was born in 1933 and grew up in Bonnievale in the Cape Winelands. His father was a farmer. Later the family moved to Wellington in Cape Town. As a…
ArticleHistory of Women’s Struggle in South Africa
… today. Apartheid crumbles - Women in the turmoil of the 1980s ↵ Women from the Crossroads squatter camp demonstrate … Notice: Guy Tillim / South Photos /…
BiographyEzrom Legae
Ezrom Kgobonyane Sebata Legae was born in Vrededorp, Johannesburg in 1938. He attended school at St. Cyprians and Madibane High School. In 1959, Legae studied…
BiographyStella Margaret Nomzamo Sigcau
Stella Margaret Nomzamo Sigcau was born on 4 January 1937, she was the eldest of the three children of Paramount Chief Botha Sigcau of East Pondoland who…