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BiographyJoseph 'Headman' Shabalala
Joseph Bhekizizwe Shabalala was born on 28 August in 1941 and town of Ladysmith (eMnambithi district) in the Kwazulu-natal region was a member of the…
EventBritish Airways prohibits smoking on all flights
… impose the first restrictions on smoking in public in the 1970s, but legislation was only applied to airlines during …
The Construction of Whiteness/Blackness And The Invention of Miscegenation In South African Literary Texts of the 1920s and 1930 by Itala Vivan
In an exploration of the attitudes taken by different cultures in different historical periods with regard to the cultural phenomenon of hybridity, I came…
ArticleBlack 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…
BiographyStanley Silwana
Stanley Silwana was one of the first African recruits to the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA), he joined the Young Communist League in 1923 and attended…
BiographyRoelof Frederik ‘Pik’ Botha
Pik Botha was born on 27 April 1932 in Rustenburg, Transvaal.His father was a school principal. Pik as he is affectionately known attended the Hoer Volkskool,…
Leonard Tshela Mohapi Matsoso, SA artist, is born in Pimville, Soweto. From 1962 to 1970, while still at school, Matsoso st
Leonard Tshela Mohapi Matsoso, SA artist, is born in Pimville, Soweto. From 1962 to 1970, while still at school, Matsoso st
BiographyEsther Franks
Franks studied at the University of the Witwatersrand and was a member of the first Student Representative Council of the University. In 1925 she was the…
BiographyHenry Daniel Tyamzashe
Henry Daniel Tyamzashe was born in Kimberley in 1880, the son of a prominent Xhosa minister in the United Free Church of Scotland. He completed secondary…
BiographyC. J. Mayekiso
Born in 1913 in Idutywa in the Transkei, Mayekiso was a textile worker and later became president of the African Textile Workers' Union. He was a trade…
BiographyMoses Mbheki Mncane Mabhida
Moses Mbheki Mncane Mabhida was born in Thornville near Pietermaritzburg on 14 October 1923,he was one of seven children in a rural family that was later…
BiographyJustice Sfiso Mkame
Justice Sfiso (called Sfiso) Mkame was born on 3 May 1963 in Durban. As a child Mkame drew on sand walls. In Standard 1 he did handicrafts and drawing at…
BiographyDorothy Masuka
Dorothy Masuka was born and raised in Bulawayo, Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), in 1935. Her father was originally from Zambia, and her mother, Liza Mafuyani, was…
BiographyViola Hashe
Viola Hashe was born in 1926, in Gabashane in the Orange Free State (now Free State Province). Hashe was a teacher by profession. Hashe became involved in…
BiographyBishop Mmutlanyane Stanley Mogoba
Stanley Mmutlanyane Mogoba was born on 29 March 1933 outside Polokwane, Limpopo. He was the last born in a family of six. His father Reuben Tshomoko Sethulane…
BiographyPatrick Mosell Molaoa
Born in Johannesburg in 1925, he grew up in Alexandra Township and attended schools in Basutoland, Johannesburg, and Kimberley until matriculation. He was one…
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 …
Conflict among civic organisations
… residing near Koeberg nuclear power station in the late 1970s. After finding employment at the plant which was still …
ArticleThe Society of Young Africa (SOYA)
… leaders were released almost a decade later in the mid-1970s, they continued to exert an influence in shaping the …
Black Student Politics
… recognised that mass popular struggles during the 1970s and 1980s played a pivotal role in eroding apartheid …
BiographyBrigalia Bam
Brigalia Bam was born in the former Transkei, in the Eastern Cape. She was formally educated in South Africa and abroad specializing in teaching, social work,…
BiographyWilton Zimasile Mkwayi
Wilton Zimasile Mkwayi was a trade unionist who served a life sentence for his involvement in Umkhonto We Sizwe. He was born into a peasant family near…
BiographyJock Leyden
He was born in Grangemouth, Scotland. He settled in Durban which was to be his home for the rest of his life. He attended part-time art classes at the Natal…
BiographyIsmail Vadi
Ismail Vadi was born in 1960 in Kliptown where the historic Congress of the Congress was held in 1955. He matriculated at the Trinity Secondary School in…
BiographyJan Hendrik Hofmeyer Hoogendyk
Jan Hendrik Hofmeyer Hoogendyk was born in 1911 into a strict 'dopper' home. Hoogendyk was married to Jackie, an accountant. He enlisted with the South…
BiographyDr Alfred Bitini Xuma
Alfred Bitini Xuma was born on 8 March 1893, in Manzana, Ngcobo District, in the Eastern Province (now Eastern Cape). Xuma was the seventh child of Abraham…
ArticleuMkhonto weSizwe (MK) in exile
… the 1960s was small compared to the period after the mid-1970s. Thus, MK military activities also inside South Africa … Lesotho until 1973. This changed…
![Freddie Mercury [Bulsara], singer and songwriter, is born in Zanzibar, Africa.](/sites/default/files/styles/saho_medium/public/event_pics/Freddie%20Mercury.jpg?itok=Vuq6ADKe)
EventFreddie 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 …
ArticleThe Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) and the Anti-Apartheid Struggle
… conference held in Khartoum in January 1970. The Early 1970s, Nadir of the ANC The early 1970s saw the ANC ranks becoming depleted, and those who had … a…