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BiographySakumzi (Saki) Justice Macozoma
Please note: This biography is a modified extract from the following source: Gastrow, S. (1992) Who`s Who in South African politics Number 4.p.67. If you would…
Léopold Sédar Senghor poet, teacher, and statesman, first president of Senegal (1960-1980), and a major pro
Minutes of the meeting between the RSA and Angola at Ilha Do Sal on 5 June 1980
Minutes of a meeting held with representatives of the South African and Angolan Governments to discuss border issues, including border incidents and the…
BiographyNavanethem (Navi) Pillay
Navanethem (Navi) Pillay was born on 23 September 1941 in Clairwood, Durban, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal). She attended the University of Natal (now University of…
Language Shift, Cultural Change and Identity Retention: Indian South Africans in the 1960s and Beyond by Rajend Mesthrie
Turbulent priests or movement intellectuals? Christian voices and international opposition to apartheid in the 1950s by Rob Skinner
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…
BiographyEric Mbatha
Eric Mbatha was born in Soweto, 1948. He obtained training in art in 1971 at Evangelical Lutheran Art and Craft Centre at Rorke`s Drift. He had a longer…
BiographyT W Thibedi
Before joining the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA) in the 1920s, Thibedi was a member of the International Socialist League in the Cape and, according…
BiographySokhaya Charles Nkosi
Sokhaya Charles Nkosi was born on 27 January 1949 in Durban.From 1974 to 1976 Nkosi studied painting, graphics, sculpture, weaving and ceramics at Rorke's…
Message to the People of South Africa on the 68th Anniversary of the ANC by O. R. Tambo, 8 January 1980
Today is January 8th, the birthday of the African National Congress. This 68th anniversary of the foundation of the ANC falls in the year 1980, a historic year…
Call for Papers ‘Rethinking “Apartheid’s Golden Age”: South Africa, c1966-1979’, Colloquium to be held at the University of Pretoria, 20 June 2016
… groupings of the 1950s and early 1960s revived from the 1980s onwards. The colloquium seeks to reclaim some of those …
BiographyJames “Jobe” Hadebe
James “Jobe” John Hadebe was born on 29 October 1923 in Frankfort in the Orange Free State. The son of a clerk and descendant of the Hlubi chief, Langalibalele…
BiographyMarcus Solomon
… of Cape Town from 1995-96 and mayor from 1996-98. In the 1980s civics became politicized around the issue of adopting …
ArticleThe Black Sash: A History of Transformation
… were sit-ins in the commission courts. Well throughout the 1980s this exercise provided an insight into the political … support the acts of violence that…
ArticleTransport and General Workers Union (TGWU)
… Advisory and Coordinating Council (TUACC) in 1974. By the 1980s its membership exceeded 20 000 in the transport sector. …
BiographySathima Bea Benjamin
Sathima Benjamin was born into a humble family in Claremont, Cape Town in 1936. Deeply influenced by the cosmopolitan culture she grew up with in the shadows…
Winston Churchill Masakeng Saoli, SA artist, is born in Acornhoek, Eastern Transvaal. He was detained during the 1970s. Dur
The people armed, 1984-1990
… struggle against the National Party government in the 1980s. This decade witnessed an increase in the armed … speaking at the launch of the UDF © Rashid…
Article1960 - 1994: Armed Struggle and Popular Resistance
… struggle against the National Party government in the 1980s. This decade witnessed an increase in the armed … speaking at the launch of the UDF © Rashid…
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 …
ArticleThe Land Act, Traditional Authorities and the Native Affairs Department (NAD) 1913-1953
Traditional authorities were indispensable in the application of the provisions in the 1913 Natives Land Act in areas of rural South Africa designated as …
EventBritish Airways prohibits smoking on all flights
… but legislation was only applied to airlines during the 1980s. Initially airline companies were made to separate … areas from non-smoking areas on planes,…
Event19 die at Shell House massacre
… tensions between the ANC and IFP, which had begun in the 1980s in KwaZulu-Natal and had then spread to other provinces …
BiographyNerine Constantia Desmond Fial
Nerine Constantia Desmond Fial was born in Constantia, Cape, 1908. She studied graphics at London's Central School of Art in 1938, but was otherwise largely…
BiographyRichard Owen Dudley
Richard Owen Dudley was born in Cape Town and grew up in the house bought in 1852 by his great-grandfather in Palmboom Road, Newlands. The large house was…
BiographyHarold Wolpe
Harold Wolpe was born on 14 January 1926 in Johannesburg to a Lithuanian Jewish family. Wolpe graduated with a BA in Social Studies in 1949 and an LLB in 1952…