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EventThe apartheid government establishes a Department for Coloured Affairs’ (CAD)
… battle to have their political rights recognized. By the 1980s, a Tricameral Parliament was created, in which …
EventMlungisi Sisulu dies.
… by the political instability both in the 1970s and 1980s. As a youth, he joined the Congress of South African …
PlaceAha Hills, Northern Cape Border With Namibia and Botswana
… there are few animals or birds and only a few insects. The main attraction of these Hills is their solitude and … unofficial camping is allowed within 100 m…
Chapter 7 - CONCLUSION
… of those who were central in the Secretariat and, in the 1980s, in the PB. Of all these exile Party leaders, with the … John Nkadimeng, and with the co…
EventVerwoerd’s grandson joins ANC
… of former South African Prime Minister, Hendrik Verwoerd, main architect of apartheid, joins the African National … of the ANC even before he joined the…
ArticleThe co-optation of the African National Congress: South Africa’s original ‘State Capture’, Sampie Terreblanche
… Oppenheimer met regularly for lunch or dinner and the main corporations of the Minerals Energy Complex (MEC) met … later given the additional privilege of…
ArticleReactions to the formation of a republic
… was to favour republicanism and the United Party (UP), its main opposition, did for a time provide a home for those … those that did not. He declared that in…
Township Uprising, 1984-1985
… the last five months of 1984. At the November meeting the main focus was however the form and direction of the UDF, not … UDF, formed the Transvaal Regional…
ArticleThe role of gender in Ndebele architecture
… the very farmers who defeated them over a century ago. The chronology of Ndebele wall art therefore places it firmly …
EventSandra Smith is the last woman to be executed in South Africa
… in the number of people executed in South Africa. In the 1980s particularly, more people were executed per year than …
SASPU National, 1980 - 1987
… closely with the South African Liberal Party. During the 1980s NUSAS participated in the democratic movement in …
PlaceVenda
… depended on Agriculture, until Coal-mining began in the 1980s. Most of the men from the Area were Migrant Workers and … www.sahistory.org.za/pages/chronology…
EventIvory Coast’s new prime minister, Daniel Kablan Duncan, takes office
… prosperous countries in French West Africa, but by the 1980s was crippled by world-wide recession and …
ArchiveChanging focus: The art and activism of Omar by Bongani Kona (Mail and Guardian), 4 June 2015
… of black life in South Africa gathered steam in the 1980s, when the country was crawling with foreign … Hayes says as the country became “big-news from the…
PlaceLanglaagte Deep Residential Village, Johannesburg
… Rhodes’s behalf, was guided from Ferreira’s Camp to the main group of gold reefs by a son of the widow Petronella … the owner of a farm at Langlaagte, on…
Exploring Student-Worker Alliance: the role of COSAS in trade unions, 1979-1985 by Noor Nieftagodien
… time and which would come under severe strain in the late 1980s. These struggles also highlighted a strategic … was especially the case with COSAS, which,…
ArticleWorld War I
… major historical event became known as The Great War. The main belligerent European countries involved in the War were …
PlaceSt Saviours Church Anglican Church and Cemetery, Bowwood Road, Claremont
… St. Saviours Church is at the Corner of Bowwood and Main Roads in Claremont, Cape Town, South Africa. St. … Anglican Church, which is situated at the…
ArchiveWebinar Programme: Forward to Socialism/Socialist Futures (Panel 2) - Convenor: Janet Cherry
… struggle for socialism? by Jenny Schreiner , SACP The late 1980s/early 1990s changes in the socialist world and the … power and action from below so to speak…
ArticleAbstracts presented for the 1973 Durban Strikes Conference
… Meintjies Trade unions and Popular Resistance in the 1980s and New Alliances and the Different Unions Traditions …
ArticlePort Elizabeth Timeline 1799-1986
… government contractor, supplying beef to the troops. 1815 Main Street is laid out. 1820 10 April, Arrival of the … of a whale fishery. October, A plot of…
EventCastro decides to send troops to Angola to fight South Africa
… Cuban military support for the MPLA continued into the 1980s. In 1988 South Africa, Cuba and Angola agreed to …
EventLiberation struggle activists, Gwala and Mothopeng are released from Robben Island
… sentenced to life imprisonment on Robben Island. In the 1980s, Gwala developed a motor neuron disease which left him …
ArticlePort Elizabeth the Segregated city
… retained much of their integrated character well into the 1980s. Other communities, however, such as Fairview and South …
PlaceLowveld National Botanical Gardens
… The character of the Garden is shaped by the two main rivers that cut across it, namely the Crocodile and Nels … are visible. When in bloom the Clivias at…
PlaceGeorge Harrison Park
… been removed and is on display in the mining district in Main Street, in downtown Johannesburg. On view are two … to commemorate the official discovery of…
EventSan involvement in the Battle of Chrissiesmeer
… on the British forces under General Smith-Dorrien. Botha's main aim was to cripple the advance of Smith-Dorrien into the … on the slopes and were not able to…
How Zuma, the smiling spy, controls South Africa by Joe Brock and Ed Cropley (World News), 04 May 2016, Johannesburg
… he fled apartheid South Africa to emerge in the late 1980s in the Zambian capital, Lusaka, as deputy head of the … of the 'Green House', its intelligence…
ArticleGhallywood: An Evolution of Ghana’s Film Industry
… films. [13] Consequently, in the period from 1966 to the 1980s only approximately 20 Ghanaian films were made. [14] … Video Films: Popular Culture The…
ArticleThe International Defence and Aid Fund (IDAF)
… office had never made a request for funds. In the early 1980s, Ngila Michael Muendane , a former PAC representative … Portuguese Colonialism in Africa, by…