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BiographyMoyisile Douglas Tyutyu
Moyisile Douglas Tyutyu was born in 1935* in KwaZakhele, Port Elizabeth, Transkei (now Eastern Cape Province). His interest in politics was sparked from a…
Reverend Makhenkesi Arnold Stofile
Makhenkesi Arnold Stofile, the son of Simon Stofile and Miriam Ngcongcobela, was born on 27 December 1944, in the Winterberg District of Adelaide, Eastern Cape…
BiographyMichael Alan Harmel
Michael Alan Harmel was born on 7th of February in 1915 in Johannesburg ,to Irish immigrant parents, became a radical socialist, fiercely opposed to racism…
ArticleUnited Democratic Front (UDF)
… struggle. The UDF character however changed in the mid-1980s with the people?s insurrection, and some organisations … he continued to call for united…
ArticleExhibition: Celebrating 40 Years of Women's Day, Durban 1980
ArchiveVergardering van die Werk Komitee van die Staatsveiligheidsraad in die Uniegebou, Pretoria, op 14 Januarie 1980, om 14h00
Minutes of a meeting of the State Security Council Works Committee, held in Pretoria on 14 January 1980 in which
The Freedom struggle in Polokwane
… Resistance politics, the re-emergence of resistance in the 1980s, and political developments after apartheid. …
Nelson Mandela Letter to Mrs. Manorama Bhalla, secretary of the Indian Council for Cultural Relations, 3 August 1980
Robben Island, 7400 Republic of South Africa 3 August 1980 Dear Mrs. Bhalla, I am writing to express my sincere thanks and appreciation to the Indian…
From Survival to defiance: Indian Hawkers in Johannesburg 1940-1980 edited by Coco Cachalia
ArchiveTheoria: a journal of studies in the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences No.55 1980
ArchiveTheoria: a journal of studies in the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences No.54 1980
Sir Seretse Khama, first president of Botswana (1966–1980), is born in Serowe, Bechuanaland.
ArchiveMaps of the Ciskei: 1975 Consolidation proposals showing 1980 van der Walt Commission proposals
Maps showing the proposed dermacations for resettlement areas
BiographyStanley B. Lollan
Stanley B. Lollan was born in Johannesburg in 1925, he became one of the few significant coloured activists in the Transvaal in the 1950s. A clerk by…
Remaking African Politics in the 1950s: The “Indian Question” and the Origins of Non-Racial Nationalism
ArticleThe Youth Struggle
… the imagination of South African youth organisations. The 1980s was also a period of serious student protests and … the national profile of student politics…
BiographyLogan K. Ntlabati
Logan K. Ntlabati was a prominent member of the African National Congress (ANC) national executive committee in the 1940s, he was born in the Transkei and…
BiographySipho Samuel Hashe
Sipho Samuel Charles Hashe was born in Middledrift, Ngcabasa Village (Eastern Cape) in 1934. He relocated to Port Elizabeth in the 1950s. During this period…
BiographyCharles Nupen
Charles Nupen was born on 19 June 1950 in Durban. After starting a medical degree at the University of Natal, he switched to studying for a Bachelor of Arts…
ArticleCape Town the Segregated city
… families that still remained were forced to move in the 1980s. Over the course of the forced removals, people were … The growing civil unrest in the…
Article1973 Durban Strikes – TUCSA – Harriet Bolton
… organise African unions on an industry-wide basis. In the 1980s, TUCSA unions, to which the majority of Indian workers … the Natal garment union, battled to…
BiographyMangisi Pheneas Nene
African National Congress branch chairman in Alexandra Township in Johannesburg in the 1950s and one of the accused in the Treason Trial. He was born in Natal…
BiographyChief Albert John Mvumbi Luthuli
Chief Albert John Mvumbi Luthuli, Africa’s first Nobel Peace Prize Laureate in 1960, was President-General of the African National Congress (ANC) from December…
Poonoosamy Ruthnam Pather
Poonoosamy Ruthnam Pather (PR) was born in Mauritius in 1895. His grandfather settled in that country after emigrating from Tanjore in India in the 1840s. PR…
ArticleInternational Rugby World Cup Timeline 1983-2011
… The history of the Rugby World Cup dates back to the 1980s with rugby becoming the last major sport to stage a …
ArticleYusuf Dadoo Timeline
… of communism and his untimely demise during the 1980s when Apartheid had it reached its zenith. …
Ida Fiyo Mntwana
Ida was born in 1903 and worked as a dressmaker. She was the first president of the African National Congress Women’s League and a leader of many mass women’s…
Port Elizabeth an Overview
… therefore, that at the height of this conflict during the 1980s, the Eastern Cape suffered much of this violence. …
Polokwane an Overview
… in the region. The uprisings of the late 1950s and mid-1980s in Sekhukhuneland had a marked effect on Pietersburg , …
ArticleJohannesburg the Segregated city
… redevelopments only began to take place during the late 1980s. A third peripheral segment was the site of a small … or ‘Fietas’, prior to the demolition of…