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ArticleCommemoration, remembering and memorialising June 16 Soweto uprising
… the June 16 Soweto uprising started in the early 1980s. One of the projects involved the construction of a …
ArticleYoung Communist League of South Africa (YCLSA)
… the ages of 14 and 28. This provided the Party with its main source of recruits. In 1922, the YCL played an important … Roux impressed upon their fellow YCL…
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 …
ArticleThe formation of SASO and the Black People’s Convention
… whites could play a role in the liberation of Blacks. “The main thing was to get black people to articulate their own … questioned and openly rejected by…
PlaceCrossroads Township
… and opposition movements during the late 1970s and 1980s. Tension mounted within the shanty town between … his former vice-chairman, Oliver Memani, in the…
ArticleMarxism-Leninism
… the state itself. Class structures should be abolished. A main difference between socialism and communism is that a …
EventThe European Community announces that it will lift economic sanctions against South Africa
… the growing social unrest and state brutality in the 1980s forced these countries to impose sanctions. In …
![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.
… was one of the most successful bands of the 1970s and 1980s. Mercury wrote most of the hit songs that the band …
BiographyOliver Tambo
… both the civil and the corporate world. Already by the 1980s, he had met with American multinationals in order to …
A brief history on South African prisons and prisoners
… early 1900s, but after ‘Pretoria Central’ was built. The main entrance was Potgieter Street. Pretoria Local housed … Central Prison to await execution. From…
ArticleThe Contentious Relationship Between Ngqika And Ndlambe
… in a web of royal lineage. Although lineage was the main determinant to leadership, this was kept in check by … number of conflicts are hard to gage, as well…
EventMinister promises relaxation of apartheid rules and elimination of racial segregation in sports
… Minister of Cooperation and Development in the early 1980s was in charge of forced removals. Many would remember …
ArchiveReflections on life in a rearview mirror by Jo Ractliffe, 27 Jun 2011
… The photograph is a second-order manifestation. The main manifestation is to see something there that I can … and it was an important place for me personally…
ArticleThe Zulu kingdom and the colony of Natal
… plan put in place for the invasion of Zululand. The main objective was to occupy the Zulu royal kraal at Ulundi … Zulu tactic of attacking from three sides…
ArticleMangosuthu Buthelezi was a man of immense political talent and contradictions
… in supportive journalists and political analysts. In the 1980s, he drew finances for innovative and convincing … Coming just before the political manoeuvres…
EventCiskeian police disrupt residents’ meeting
… Africa. This was one of the great rural victories of the 1980s and it gave all other people living in Ciskei …
EventArtist, Thomas Trevor Motswai , award-winning South African artist is born
… with the artist's documentary of a period from the early 1980s to the present. His colourful, bold and often …
EventPieter-Dirk Uys, SA activist, satirist, playwright and novelist, is born in Cape Town
… to study at the London Film School. During the 1970s and 1980s he was associated with the Space Theatre in Cape Town …
Chapter 10 - The Character, Role and Significance of SANSCO
… of popular politics during the late 1970s and early 1980s, is that by J. D. Brewer in his After Soweto: An … a respectably large organisation constituted, in…
ArchivePik Botha: sympathetic obits fail to recognise that he protected apartheid by Alet Pretorius, 23 October 2018
… policy of aggression towards neighbouring states in the 1980s. Known as “destabilisation”, the policy caused … Security Council during the turmoil of the…
BiographyChristopher “Dali” Daluxolo Mpofu
… Parliament and Minister in the Government, since the mid-1980s. [19] Owing to his veteran status, history of …
ArticleThe Market Photo Workshop
… artistic context of Newtown. Social documentary was the main focus at first as it could provide the students with an …
ArticleHistory of South African National Orders and Awards
… history and experience of Africa with South Africa as the main point of reference. The collective outcome of this …
BiographyKgalema Petrus Motlanthe
… 1997 to 2002, Motlanthe adheres to the principle that his main responsibility was to maintain the unity of the …
BiographyMafika Pascal Gwala
… collective will of the people. These themes provided the main framework for his criticism of Black Consciousness. …
PlaceClaremont, a Suburb of Cape Town
… and Lower Claremont become an official suburb Claremont Main Road quickly progressed into a commercial centre, thus … the rapidly-expanding shopping district…
EventAdriaan Vlok is born
… an assassination attempt by state agents in the late 1980s, to ask his forgiveness. His symbolic act of washing …
EventThe last sitting of an all-white Parliament
… Republic. Intense debate over legislative issues in the 1980s led to the adoption of a new constitution for the … L.E. (eds) (1999). Southern African…
Book 5: People, Places and Apartheid - Chapter 3 - Politics and Consciousness in Cape Town Communities, 1980-1985 by Sean Field
… in the Western Cape were highly politicised during the 1980s, a central issue faced by activists was expressed as … of the focus of this chapter on…