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ArticleWhat has been the impact of the democratic transformation on the position of women within South African society? by Lucy Doyle
Abstract Through the efforts of a dominant women’s movement in apartheid, the democratic transition in South Africa has enshrined gender equality within the…
EventEfforts by a pro-sanctions lobbyist group against SA debt rescheduling prove unsuccessful
… enough money to pay off its debts. Reference: Fraser, R. (1989). Keesing's Record of World Events, Longman: London, p. …
EventCharles Taylor wins presidential election
… civil war, launched from neighbouring Cote d'Ivoire in 1989. He secured more than 70% of votes. In addition, his …
EventWalter Sisulu secretly attends a meeting at the house of George Xorile with F. Van Rensburg
… Island, where he spent 25 years before being released in 1989. …
ArticleSweet Food and Allied Workers Union (SFAWU)
The Sweet Food and Allied Workers Union (SFAWU) was established in 1974 with the help of the Urban Training Project (UTP). Amongst its founder members…
EventStanley Bongani Nkosi, SA artist, is born in Newcastle, Natal
Stanley Bongani Nkosi was born on 25 November 1945 in Newcastle, Natal (now kwaZulu Natal). When Nkosi was three years old his family moved to Dukathole near…
EventTrevor Manuel, Minister in The Presidency: National Planning Commission, is born
Trevor Andrew Manuel was born in Kensington, Cape Town on 31 January 1956.Manuel first became involved in politics when he joined the Labour Party Youth in…
ArchiveDavid Goldblatt photographie les zones grises sud-africaines by Le Monde, 15 June 2017
… une école sans discrimination raciale qu’il a fondée en 1989, et d’où est sortie la fine fleur des photographes …
BiographyPule Mabe
Puleng Peter Mabe (Pule Mabe) was born on 19 March 1980 in Namakgale, Phalaborwa, Northern Transvaal (now known as Limpopo Province). He was raised by a single…
BiographyBoy Mvemve
Boy Adolphus Mvemve died a very violent death in exile in Zambia in 1974. He was 43 years of age at the time, operating under the nom de guerre John Dube (or…
BiographyMabel Palmer
Dr Mabel Palmer (nee Mabel Atkinson) was born on 22 May 1876 near Stocksfield in Northumberland, England. Her father, J.B. Atkinson, was a mine inspector, and…
BiographyElizabeth Komikie Gumede
Recorded as one of the most tortured women political prisoners under the apartheid regime, Elizabeth Komikie Gumede was born in 1921. Gumede served as an…
Chapter 3 - SASO: The Ideology and Politics of Black Consciousness
For white South Africans the late 1960s was a time of political calm, rising living standards, prosperity and sharing in the sustained economic boom of that…
Articlehoz tab example
… are Tenderness of Blood (1987), A Rainbow on a Paper Sky (1989), The Naked Song and Other Stories (1997), The Memory of …
ArchiveMandla Mandela wants inquest into deaths of Stompie Seipie, Dr Asvat, 19 January 2018, South Africa
… activists Stompie Seipei and Abu-Baker Asvat in 1989. He made the call in a statement welcoming a Supreme …
EventFrederik Willem de Klerk is elected President of South Africa
… De Klerk had been Acting State President since 15 August 1989, following the resignation of President P.W. Botha on 14 … [Accessed: 23 August 2013]| O…
ArticleThe Group Areas Act of 1950
The National Party was elected in 1948 on the policy of Apartheid ('separateness'). This 'separateness' put South Africans of different racial groups on their…
BiographyArchie Mafeje
Archibald (also known as ‘Archie’) Mafeje was born in Ngcobo in South Africa on 30 March 1936. Both of his parents were involved in education; his father was a…
BiographyMimi Coertse
Mimi Coertse was South Africa's first operatic prima donna."Prima donna", in its true sense, properly indicates the chief female vocalist in an opera company…
BiographyBob Hepple
Professor Sir Bob Hepple was born on 11 August 1934 in Johannesburg, Transvaal (now Gauteng). His father, Alex Hepple, was a trade unionist and Labour Party…
BiographyFred Carneson
Fred Carneson was born on 13th January 1920 in Goodwood, Cape Town to Anthony and Annie Carneson, a poor Catholic working class family, the sixth of nine…
ArticleNew Africa Theatre Project
The New Africa Theatre Association (NATA), founded in 1987 by Mavis Taylor the head of University of Cape Town Drama Department and professional theatre…
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Trouble in Natal - 20 00 Women rioted in Cato Manor over living conditions and government beerhalls and passes for women. Photo by Drum photographer © Baileys…
EventSouth African Journalist, Zwelakhe Sisulu is abducted.
Zwelakhe Sisulu was a prominent journalist in the apartheid era who fought for justice and freedom. Sisulu was the founder and editor of the New Nation…
EventMilner proposes conditional voting rights for ‘non-Whites’ in SA
A year after the Treaty of Vereeniging, which signalled the end of the Anglo-Boer War 2, the British High Commissioner to South Africa, Lord Alfred Milner,…
EventThe Government Gazette publishes a Proclamation that dissolved KaNgwane Legislative Assembly
The Government Gazette published a Proclamation by which the forty-two member KaNgwane Legislative Assembly was dissolved. Together with the Ingwavuma…
EventYoweri Kaguta Moseveni becomes president of Uganda
Uganda experienced a number of changes of government since it attained its independence from British rule in 1962. In December 1980 Apollo Milton Obote, from…
From the 1973 Durban strikes to the Marikana massacre and De Doorns conflict: How trade unions acquired their power and what has gone wrong with employment relations in South Africa subsequently by Johann Maree
Forty years ago during January and February 1973 mass strikes by African workers in Durban broke out in protest against low wages. In total 61,000 workers went…
EventF.W. De Klerk is inaugurated
… De Klerk had been Acting State President since 15 August 1989, following the abdication of President P.W. Botha in …
EventThe SA government presents a promotion of Constitutional Development Bill
… on the principle of one person, one vote. In December 1989, de Klerk met with the imprisoned leader of the African …