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Joseph 'Headman' Shabalala portrait

Joseph 'Headman' Shabalala

Tim Bruwer portrait

Tim Bruwer

… up with or knew, as a young man in the 1960s and early 1970s, came to an alternative view about racism and … years, namely why I, as a young Afrikaner in the 1960s and 1970s, perceived and responded to the injustice and brutality …

Stanley Silwana portrait

Stanley Silwana

This day in history

Sydney Vernon Peterson, one of the prominent SA poets of the 1940s, dies in Germiston. His poetry was translated into English,

Timothy Peter Jenkin portrait

Timothy Peter Jenkin

This day in history

South Africa, Botswana, Lesotho and Swaziland sign a new customs agreement in Pretoria, to come into operation on 1 March 1970.

Henry Daniel Tyamzashe portrait

Henry Daniel Tyamzashe

C. J. Mayekiso portrait

C. J. Mayekiso

Esther Franks portrait

Esther Franks

Roelof Frederik ‘Pik’ Botha portrait

Roelof Frederik ‘Pik’ Botha

The Japanese government announces that South Africans will no longer be granted visas to enter Japan

This day in history

The 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 …

Patrick Mosell Molaoa portrait

Patrick Mosell Molaoa

Es’kia Mphahlele portrait

Es’kia Mphahlele

Enuga Sreenivasulu Reddy portrait

Enuga Sreenivasulu Reddy

Black Student Politics

… recognised that mass popular struggles during the 1970s and 1980s played a pivotal role in eroding apartheid …

Dorothy Masuka portrait

Dorothy Masuka

Justice Sfiso Mkame portrait

Justice Sfiso Mkame

Viola Hashe portrait

Viola Hashe

Ismail Vadi portrait

Ismail Vadi

Wilton Zimasile Mkwayi

Jan Hendrik Hofmeyer Hoogendyk portrait

Jan Hendrik Hofmeyer Hoogendyk

Jock Leyden portrait

Jock Leyden

Brigalia Bam portrait

Brigalia Bam

Freddie Mercury [Bulsara], singer and songwriter, is born in Zanzibar, Africa.

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Freddie Mercury [Bulsara], singer and songwriter, is born in Zanzibar, Africa.

… Taylor. Queen was one of the most successful bands of the 1970s and 1980s. Mercury wrote most of the hit songs that the …

Black Consciousness and student revolt in the Cape

Black Consciousness and student revolt in the Cape

… (BPC), Steven Carulous and Jonny Iseel. By the mid 1970s the government began a crackdown on BCM leaders. For … prison terms in a series of Terrorism trials in the late 1970s. In October 1977, the Minister of Justice Jimmy Kruger, …

Justice Zac Yacoob portrait

Justice Zac Yacoob

Gordon Mbatha portrait

Gordon Mbatha

This day in history

Sydney Vernon Peterson, one of the prominent SA poets of the 1940s, is born in Riversdale, CP. His poems were translated into E

South Africa and Lesotho establish a consultative committee to resolve border disputes

This day in history

South Africa and Lesotho establish a consultative committee to resolve border disputes

… border. The relationship between the two countries in 1970s and early 1980s was fraught with friction. This was the …

Stanley Basil Lollan portrait

Stanley Basil Lollan