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ArchivePopulation Migration 1975 - 1980
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ArticlePopular resistance and police brutality in democratic South Africa
… current wave of protests stretches back to the 1970s and 1980s, the rate of protests rose dramatically and most of the … the government’s pass laws , 1976…
BiographyPeter Becker
Peter Loubser Were Becker was born in Rivonia South Africa the youngest of the three sons of Harold Paley Becker and his wife, Anna Petronella Louw. Becker's…
BiographyRichard Granville Baloyi
Richard Granville Baloyi was born on 1897 and lived in Alexandra north of Johannesburg in 1922. His first job was that of a taxi driver but in 1925 he became a…
EventA UN report estimates the number of people who have HIV/AIDS in Africa at 50,000
… in patients with weakened immune systems. Later in the 1980s, a blood sample taken in the Democratic Republic of …
A Place of Freedom
… and humiliated at any moment. In the 1960s through to the 1980s through states of emergencies and repression Phoenix …
BiographyZweledinga Pallo Jordan
Pallo Zweledinga Jordan was born on 22 May 1942 in B Location, Kroonstad, in the Orange Free State. His father, Dr Archibald Campbell Jordan, was an African…
ArchiveA study of the theoretical aspects of ANC mobilisational methods in the Eastern Cape Townships of Cradock and Port Alfred, 1980-1988
A dissertation submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Magister Artium in National Strategy in the Faculty of Arts at the Rand Afrikaans…
Nelspruit the Segregated city
… activists behind closed doors in the 1970s and 1980s. In June 1968, the central square was renamed …
BiographyPremanathan “Prema” Naidoo
Premanathan "Prema" Naidoo, the youngest son of Ama and Thambi Naidoo, was born in Doornfontein, Johannesburg, Transvaal (now Gauteng) in 1945. He…
BiographyTamsanqa Tasque Tshume
Stalwart of the Cape African National Congress in the 1950s. He was born in 1925 in Port Elizabeth, and inherited the political inclinations of his two uncles,…
BiographyBheki Cele
… uMbumbulu, a rural area in KZN [6] . This was during the 1980s, at the height of the township struggles, and although …
EventDemonstrating Clergymen are arrested in central Johannesburg
… the 1960s and 1970s, but the momentum dropped in the 1980s. One of the outcomes of the boycott was the revival of …
ArchiveThe Role of the Black Sash (Port Elizabeth Branch) in the Walmer Removals and Pebco Detentions: Paper Presented at National Conference 1980
The Role of the Black Sash (Port Elizabeth Branch) in the Walmer Removals and Pebco Detentions- Paper Presented at National Conference on 12 March 1980…
ArchiveExcerpts from long interview given by President O R Tambo to Associated Press correspondent, Mr Nicky Hanks on 7th June 1980 in Lusaka
Excerpts from long interview given by President O R Tambo to Associated Press correspondent, Mr Nicky Hanks on 7th June, 1980 in Lusaka. Discusses actions of…
BiographyMoses Ndlovu
Moses Ndlovu was born in KwaSemane which is in the Otto Bluff area near Pietermaritzburg, Natal. His parents were farm tenants. Ndlovu attended primary school…
BiographyAudrey ‘Bobbie’ Cobden
Audrey ‘Bobbie’ (her childhood nickname) Cobden was born in Johannesburg, Transvaal Province (now Gauteng) on 15 April 1923. She grew up in Johannesburg and…
EventHarry Frederick Oppenheimer is born in Kimberley
… financial support for the party throughout the 1970s and 1980s. Oppenheimer was chairman of Anglo American Corporation …
BiographyRoseberry Tandwefika Bokwe
Roseberry Tandwefika Bokwe was born in 1900 in the Tsomo district of the Transkei. He began his education at the mission of his father,John Knox Bokwe, in Ugie…
BiographyIsaac Zakes Nkosi
Isaac Zakes Nkosi, known to his fans as Bra Zakes, was born in Alexandra Township early in 1919. He started his schooling in Alexandra at a Catholic primary…
BiographyMatthew Nkoana
Matthew Nkoana was born about 1930 in the rural northern Transvaal near Pietersburg. After completing elementary school he took a job selling newspapers. In…
BiographyAbner S. Mtimkulu
Abner S. Mtimkulu was born in Natal, Mtimkulu was ordained a minister in the Wesleyan Methodist Church but left it later to join the independent Bantu…