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ArchiveCommerce General 1980 A
ArchiveGold 1979 - 1980
ArchiveFinance General 1980 B
ArchiveFinance General 1980 A
ArchiveManufacturing Food 1980
ArchivePress 1979 - 1980
ArchiveOwnership & Control 1980
ArchiveNamibia General 1980 B
ArchiveNamibia General 1980 A
ArchiveEnergy 1980 - 1981
Letter to Defence and Aid Fund for the Rivonia Trial, from Richard Gill, 1960s
BiographyImam Abdullah Haron
Imam Abdullah Haron was born on 8 February 1924 in Newlands-Claremont, an area which in the late twentieth century became a very prosperous commercial centre…
ArticleHistory of elections in South Africa
… elections in the Bantustans/homelands stopped in the late 1980s. In 1994, Homelands stopped to exist and they were …
EventElephant poaching reaches an all time high
… lost almost all of their elephants to poachers in the 1980s. Overall, the elephant population in Africa plummeted from about 1.2 million to 600,000 in the…
ArticleAzanian People’s Organization (AZAPO)
… being made at the end of the decade and throughout the 1980s. It was at this time that the Freedom Charter, … Africa, entered the political discourse. Early…
EventHelen Zille, former leader of the Democratic Alliance, is born in Johannesburg
… went on to become a prominent journalist in the 1970s and 1980s. Zille became well-known after she exposed the real … of Black Consciousness Movement leader…
BiographyOupa Ronald Madondo
Oupa Ronald Madondo (known as MK Scorpion) was born on 20 May 1948 in Sophiatown, Johannesburg, Transvaal (now Gauteng). With the advent of forced removals…
BiographyZindziswa “Zindzi” Nobutho Mandela
Zindziswa “Zindzi” Nobutho Mandela was born on 23 December 1960 in Soweto to South African struggle icons Nelson Mandela and Winnie Madikizela-Mandela. It…
ArticleInkatha Freedom Party (IFP)
… were given flesh by a multi-racial Natal indaba in the mid-1980s, and received the backing of both the liberal … for disinvestments as an incentive for…
BiographyEric Magamana Lubisi
Eric Magamana Lubisi was born on 11 October 1946 in Highlands, near Eastwood in Pretoria, Transvaal (now Gauteng). He was the only son and had five sisters. At…
Ebrahim Badsha
Ebrahim Badsha was born on 13 March 1931, in Durban, Natal (now KwaZulu Natal). Badsha was one of the pioneer Black artists in Natal. He grew up in a large…
BiographyBasil Lewis (Dolly) D’Oliveira
Basil D’Oliveira (Dolly) was born on 4 October 1931, in Signal Hill, Cape Town of Indian-Portuguese heritage. According to South Africa’s racial laws, he was…
BiographyElizabeth Mafekeng
Elizabeth Mafekeng was born in 1918 in Tarkastad and attended school until Standard 7. Living conditions in her birthplace forced her to leave for Paarl in…
South Africa Communists Speak Documents from the history of the South African Communist Party 1915 - 1980
Contents Introduction by Dr Yusuf M. Dadoo (South African Communists speak 1915 - 1980) Section 1 Socialist and Internationalists: Introduction …
BiographyAbdool Karrim Essak
Abdool Karrim Essak was born in 1925 in India. He was the third child of Fathima and Ishaq Hashim. His father was an adventurer and left his family to seek…
BiographyLillian Diedericks
Lillian Diedericks was born in 1925 in the oldest part of New Brighton township, Red Location (near the railway line), in Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape. Her…
ArticleNational Union of South African Students (NUSAS)
… of the South African security branch. In the late 1980s NUSAS's offices were put under surveillances and it …
ArchiveReport on regional resettlement consultation held at St Peters, Hammanskraal on February 1-2, 1980
Report on regional resettlement consultation held at St Peters, Hammaskraal to discuss forced removals and how if affected people. It is argued in this speech…
BiographyReverend Mcebisi Osman Xundu
The Reverend Mcebisi Osman Xundu was born on the 11 June 1934, at Engcobo, Transkei, one of seven children of Regina and Amos Xundu. He attended the local…
BiographyAlpheus Madaba Madiba
Alpheus Madaba Madiba born in 1901, in Nzhelele in the northern Transvaal, into a Venda peasant family.He emigrated to Johannesburg when he was 17 and found…