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Chapter 4 - The Township Uprising, September-November 1984
… students embarked on the largest stayaway since the early 1960s. This remarkable action had a huge impact on South … the growth rates of many industrialised…
Book 5: People, Places and Apartheid - Chapter 4 - The Township Uprising, September-November 1984 by Noor Nieftagodien
… students embarked on the largest stayaway since the early 1960s. This remarkable action had a huge impact on South … the growth rates of many industrialised…
ArticleSpark: A Progressive Arts Project Publication
… languages, but these languages can be divided into two main categories - the language of the oppressed and the …
ArticleGrade 12 - The Cold War
… and the liberation struggles in southern Africa from the 1960s until the 1990s, when the Union of Soviet Socialist …
ArticleWomen and The Food and Canning Workers’ Union
… Coloured people from the voters’ roll. Throughout the 1960s Bibi maintained some level of political work, mainly … vulnerable to government harassment during…
EventGeorge Msimang, artist, is born
… 1985 to 1986. Msimang's work particularly from the late 1960s is known for recording township scenes and addressing …
EventJournalists’ first visit to Robben Island
… new maximum-security prison was established in the early 1960s. The living conditions were, particularly in the early … L.E. (eds)(1999). Southern African…
EventElephant poaching reaches an all time high
… which decimated elephant populations across Africa. In the 1960s, raw ivory prices remained between $3 and $10 per …
EventFirst Tramway Company in Cape Town commences operations, with a horse
… by petrol, diesel and trolley bus systems by the early 1960s. In 1985 a tram service was reintroduced in Kimberley …
ArticlePaper abstracts and biographies of speakers
… time period, located exclusively in the past (ie. roughly 1960s-1990), hides and depoliticises historical processes of … to political eduation and was always…
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…
EventConnie Mulder announces banning off WCC officials from SA
… the Council's Executive or Central Committee. During the 1960s the WCC created a programme to fight racism. They …
EventDouglas Portway, European-based South African artist, is born in Johannesburg
… part of the British abstract movement of the 1950’s and 1960s. Portway’s work is often classified as abstract …
ArticleThe History of LGBT legislation
… and even during the contemporary times, that is until the 1960s (Sanders, 1997). However, missionaries were quick to … in the gold mines of South Africa…
Biography of Bessie Emery by Elizabeth Venditti
… significant effects of apartheid in South Africa in the 1960s, including censorship on political writing. Emery’s … divorce was the source. Head’s…
ArticleMarxism-Leninism
… the state itself. Class structures should be abolished. A main difference between socialism and communism is that a …
ArticleAbstracts presented for the 1973 Durban Strikes Conference
… in the retail and distributive trade in the late 1960s and 1970s by Bridget Kenny “I want to live not …
ArchiveInterview with Absolom Zithulele Cindi
… he attended Orlando West High School in Soweto in the late 1960s. In 1972 he joined the Black People's Convention [BPC] …
EventDr Abrahams to be returned to Bechuanaland
… border abductions in this period, dating from the early 1960s when a number of opposition activists who had taken …
EventThe Azanian People’s Liberation Army (APLA) disbands
… of the Pan African Congress (PAC). APLA was formed in the 1960s, after the banning of the PAC and other political …
Biographical contribution on Nozizwe Charlotte Madlala-Routledge
… in her life to becoming an activist. By the end of the 1960s her political career was taking shape. In 1968 Stephen … and its affiliation with the newly…
Centenary of the 1913 Land Act By Colin Bundy, 18 April 2013
… land, peasant families and communities paid rent in three main forms. There were outright cash tenants (often referred … to the mines) became entrenched, the…
PlaceNyanga Township
… shops and informal traders and fruit sellers, line the main streets. Essentially Nyanga was created as a result of … for the removals in the Cape during the…
BiographyNelson Rolihlahla Mandela
… the earlier passive resistance campaigns of the 1940s.The main Congress Alliance campaign was named the Defiance … afield as South West Africa (modern day…
ArticleTowards a people’s culture - Art and Resistance under Apartheid
… Africans. The Liberation Struggle in South Africa from the 1960s to the 1990s gave rise to a number of schools of …
ArticleThe Zulu kingdom and the colony of Natal
… plan put in place for the invasion of Zululand. The main objective was to occupy the Zulu royal kraal at Ulundi … Zulu tactic of attacking from three sides…
PlaceNZASM Goods Office, Railway Street, Pretoria
… October 1981. The building was again restored in the early 1960s. However, before this it was vacant and as a result …
EventKader Asmal, political activist and future Member of Parliament, is born
… member of the ANC for the rest of the 1950s. Early in the 1960s, following the banning of the ANC, PAC and SACP, Asmal …
EventNamibia gains Independence
… Organisation (SWAPO) led by Andimba Toivo ja Toivo. In the 1960s Toivo ja Toivo and others were arrested for defiance …