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PlaceMcgregor Museum, Kimberley
… located in Chapel Street, but was moved in the early 1970s to a larger building, the old Kimberley Sanatorium – …
EventPolicewomen are enlisted as full members of South African Police Force for the first time.
… compiling of medical boards, etc. Only later in the 1970s and at the beginning of the 1980s were women allowed to …
ArticleNational Youth Uprising
… read on Down with Afrikaans Countdown to conflict: The main cause of the protests that started in African schools in …
ArticleGrade 7 - Term 4: Co-operation and conflict on the frontiers of the Cape Colony in the early 19th century
… on a boundary, such as a river or a mountain range. The main difference between a border and a frontier is that a …
Bantu Women’s League
… was raised again in subsequent years and was one of the main components of the women's struggle. …
ArticleThe History of LGBT legislation
… push forward Afrikaner revivalism (Thompson, 1990). The main objective of the nationalist movement was to establish … the movement dwindled and eventually…
ArchiveCHAPTER 2 - You only win once by Howard Barrell
… Thabo Mbeki served as RC assistant secretary in the early 1970s, 22 before being succeeded by Simon Makana. All of … Slovo an end to his isolation from the…
EventNiger's Independence Day
… 1974, after 14 years in power and with the pressure of the 1970s, Diori was removed from power in a military coup led by …
Launch of The Eye of the Needle by Richard Turner
… an excellent entry point for both historical reflection on 1970s South Africa and critical engagement with contemporary …
ArchiveFirst Mafika Gwala Lecture: The Arts of Resistance - Mafika Gwala and South African Poetry by Ari Sitas
… those times. I have kept my analysis of his poems of the 1970s and 1980s largely unaltered, hoping that I could expand …
EventThe last passenger boat of the Union Castle line, the Windsor Castle, leaves Table Bay
… phase out its money-losing passenger services during the 1970s, ending its shipping services altogether by 1977. …
EventHaile Selassi I, Emperor of Ethiopia, is born
… in 1936, he was restored to power in 1941. However, by the 1970s, his apparent indifference to the Wollo famine resulted …
ArticlePopular resistance and police brutality in democratic South Africa
… Though, the current wave of protests stretches back to the 1970s and 1980s, the rate of protests rose dramatically and …
PlaceObservatory
… 1821. It's an arty district locally known as ' Obs '. The main entertainment area is centered around the Lower Main Road. You’ll find quirky restaurants,…
University of York Student Submissions 2015
… its own forms of political philosophy. While Joshua’s main interest is Early Modern thought, much of his research … studying Politics and International…
PlaceElandsberg Nature Reserve, Western Cape
… in the reserve. The reserve, which was established in the 1970s, has abundant herds of eland, springbuck, black …
EventDiplomatic office of the ANC in Stockholm is bombed
… of a broader strategy of the apartheid government in the 1970s and 80s that sought to eliminate or neutralise South …
EventMlungisi Sisulu dies.
… interrupted by the political instability both in the 1970s and 1980s. As a youth, he joined the Congress of South …
1973: Neo-apartheid and the Sleeping the Giant by Mbuso Nkosi
… Michael Burawoy argues that the production politics of the 1970s saw the emergence of global hegemonic despotism where … Remaking South Africa's Apartheid…
BiographyNelson Rolihlahla Mandela
… the earlier passive resistance campaigns of the 1940s.The main Congress Alliance campaign was named the Defiance … celebrity status had grown internationally…
ArticleOvercoming Adversity from All Angles: The Struggle of the Domestic Worker during Apartheid by Bennett Gwynn
… a union and fighting for their worker’s rights. One of the main combatants of the domestic workers efforts were the laws … the domestic workers unionisation…
ArticleSpark: A Progressive Arts Project Publication
… languages, but these languages can be divided into two main categories - the language of the oppressed and the …
Citation for Saleem Badat by Professor Paul Maylam, 10 April 2015, Rhodes University
… at what was the University of Natal in Durban in the late 1970s, and then at UCT. A likely career, yes, but not a … addresses and guest lectures. One of…
PlaceClaremont, a Suburb of Cape Town
… and Lower Claremont become an official suburb Claremont Main Road quickly progressed into a commercial centre, thus … the rapidly-expanding shopping district…
EventWiehahn Commission Report tabled in parliament
… to control the proliferation of Black trade unions in the 1970s. Its recommendations were that government makes …
EventKing Moshoeshoe II is reinstated as King of Lesotho
… reign over Lesotho as he was twice dethroned, first in the 1970s when he was exiled from Lesotho and in 1990 when he was …
EventHaile Selassie, deposed Ethiopian emperor, dies
… in 1936, he was restored to power in 1941. However, by the 1970s, Emperor Selassie’s apparent indifference to a major …
ArticleYoung Communist League of South Africa (YCLSA)
… the ages of 14 and 28. This provided the Party with its main source of recruits. In 1922, the YCL played an important … Roux impressed upon their fellow YCL…
ArticleThe formation of SASO and the Black People’s Convention
… whites could play a role in the liberation of Blacks. “The main thing was to get black people to articulate their own … questioned and openly rejected by…
ArchiveWebinar Programme: Strategic Debates, the ANC - SACP alliance and the Soviet Union. Convenor: Tshepo Moloi.
… the armed struggle experience of the late 1960s to the 1970s, and on to arguably the golden era of the ANC’s armed … National Congress’s (ANC’s) armed…