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ArchiveMining Coal 1975 - 1980
Guerrilla Veterans in Post-War Zimbabwe Symbolic and Violent Politics, 1980–1987 by Norma Kriger
Morphet,Tony: Biographical introduction in The eye of the needle, Johannesburg: Ravan, 1980, viii-xxxiv.
Review of Neville Alexander’s Book: “One Azania One Nation” by I.B.Tabata, 14 March 1980
Magnus André De Merindol Malan, former SA Minister of Defence, 1980, is born in Pretoria.
BiographyGeorge Hallett
George Hallett was born in 1942 District Six, Cape Town. He then moved to Hout Bay, Cape Town to live with his grandparents. Thereafter he moved to live in…
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…
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…
Nationalism, class and non-racialism in the 1950s and beyond: the search for convergence by David Everatt
An Appeal to Thinking South Africans by Johannesburg Joint Council of Europeans and Natives, 1930s, South Africa
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…
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…
BiographyMary Goitsemang Ranta
Ranta was born in 1922 and grew up in the Pretoria area. After leaving school, she worked as a ‘tea girl’ at the Pretoria mint, and later took employment as 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 …
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 …
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…
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,…
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…
EventHarry Frederick Oppenheimer is born in Kimberley
… financial support for the party throughout the 1970s and 1980s. Oppenheimer was chairman of Anglo American Corporation …
ArticleRustenburg Timeline 1850-2001
… City, and the resort opens its doors on 7 December 1979. 1980s Implats at first mines the Merensky Reef, and in the early 1980s it begins to mine the UG2…
BiographyBisho Jarsa
Article by Sandra Rowoldt Shell, University of Cape Town. When Neville Alexander used to visit his maternal grandmother Bisho Jarsa as a boy, he never…
BiographyPatrick Vuyo Matshikiza
Article first published in The Sunday Independent January 4 2015 at 10:37am By Sam Mathe Johannesburg - Pianist, singer and composer Pat Matshikiza, 76, who…
BiographyZachariah Keodirelang Matthews
Zachariah Keodirelang Matthews was born 20th October, in 1901 Kimberley , the son of Peter Motsielwa and Martha Mooketsi Matthews, a Tswana mineworker who…
BiographyOlive Schreiner
Olive Schreiner was a writer and feminist and one of the first campaigners for women’s rights. She was also a pacifist. She did not agree with British…