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Trade Union Council of South Africa (TUCSA)
… TUCSA membership fees. This trend continued until the late 1980s when it was discredited as apartheid tool. …
ArticleInternational Rugby World Cup Timeline 1983-2011
… The history of the Rugby World Cup dates back to the 1980s with rugby becoming the last major sport to stage a …
Discovery of the Gold in 1884
… the general consensus that credit for the discovery of the main gold reef must be attributed to George Harrison, whose … workings were being opened up along…
EventThe Japanese government announces that South Africans will no longer be granted visas to enter Japan
… Due to South Africa’s Apartheid regime in the 1970s and 1980s, many countries were cautious to be seen as allies with …
EventSADF commandos bombs the ANC office in Maputo
… This was one of many cross border raids by the SADF in the 1980s. Some of the cross border raids include Matola, …
EventJohannes Kerkorrel, Afrikaans singer and songwriter, is born in Johannesburg
… on 27 March 1960. He started singing in the late 1980s while working for the conservative Afrikaner newspaper …
Black Student Politics
… that mass popular struggles during the 1970s and 1980s played a pivotal role in eroding apartheid and creating …
PlaceDistrict Six, Cape Town
… and internalise. District Six thus became one of the main urban targets for destruction in the city of Cape Town. … for many years . The Land remained vacant…
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. …
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…
EventLocal elections in Townships
… introduction of Black Township Councils in the late 1980s, which attempted to co-opt Black leaders into the …
EventNigeria cuts its diplomatic missions
… introduced emergency economic reforms. By the late 1980s, Nigeria's debt totalled 30 billion American dollars …
Sadecque Variava
Early life and schooling Sadecque Variava was born on 8 July 1949 in Pietersburg (now Polokwane), Northern Transvaal (now Limpopo), the fourth of seven…
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,…
EventZola Budd returns to SA
… and winning one world record after the other in the early 1980s. …
EventSouth Africa and Lesotho establish a consultative committee to resolve border disputes
… relationship between the two countries in 1970s and early 1980s was fraught with friction. This was the case …
EventA UN report estimates the number of people who have HIV/AIDS in Africa at 50,000
… in patients with weakened immune systems. Later in the 1980s, a blood sample taken in the Democratic Republic of …
A Place of Freedom
… and humiliated at any moment. In the 1960s through to the 1980s through states of emergencies and repression Phoenix …
ArticleHistory Grade 10 - Topic 3 Contextual Overview
While colonialism and slavery flourished in the 18th century, the foundations of modern democracy were also being established. It is important to consider the…
EventMemorandum on housing conditions in Fietas, Johannesburg
… leading to fierce resistance that continued into the 1980s. …
EventUp to 100 ANC members are reported to have been detained in Swaziland
… cache of arms in the north of the country was found. The 1980s period was one of bitter times in the history of the …
Chapter 3 - THE MOROGORO AFTERMATH
… seriously by the Party". According to this document whose main focus was on the "dissident" group, the Party's response … if their standard of education is…
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…
National OR Tambo Memorial Lecture series inaugural address by his excellency Dr Jacob G Zuma, President of the Republic of South Africa, OR Tambo International Airport, 24 October 2011
… who served under his leadership around the 1970s or 1980s did not at some point face OR`s sharpest tongue, as he … declared apartheid a crime against…
EventFietas, site of forced removal in Johannesburg, is renamed Pageview
… This led to fierce resistance that continued into the 1980s. Related SAHO feature on Fietas, Pageview. …
EventDorothy Fischer becomes the first South African woman to undergo a heart transplant
… rejection" of her transplanted heart. Only in the middle 1980s did researchers develop cyclosporin, an anti-rejection …
ArticleSpark: A Progressive Arts Project Publication
… languages, but these languages can be divided into two main categories - the language of the oppressed and the …
ArticlePan-Africanism
… particular popularity in the United States during the 1980s. The movement emphasizes African modes of thought and …