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Formation and launch of the UDF
… ) Growing unrest leading to the transition By the mid 1980s, resistance against the system of apartheid had …
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 …
BiographyMarcus Solomon
… of Cape Town from 1995-96 and mayor from 1996-98. In the 1980s civics became politicized around the issue of adopting …
BiographyLucas Seage
Lucas Seage was born on 02 November 1956 in Newclare, Johannesburg. Seage attended Barolong High School in Gaborone, Botswana and then Damelin College in…
EventThe South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) introduces its first national news service
… Nationalist Party (NP) government throughout the 1970s and 1980s. Another development in the second half of the 1970s …
EventThami Mazwai, former journalist and anti-apartheid activist, is jailed for two years
… Mazwai was a journalist with the Sowetan. In the early 1980s the Nationalist Party government was determined to …
ArticleHarriet Bolton and the Garment Workers Industrial Union
By the 1950s, Harriet Bolton began to help with organising work in the unions. From the late 1960s Harriet Bolton was an executive committee member of TUCSA. …
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…
ArticleTowards a people’s culture - Art and Resistance under Apartheid
… state repression. This group furthered their views in the 1980s and developed a radical critique of society, arguing …
Chapter 4 - The Township Uprising, September-November 1984
… factories and rural areas. The insurrection of the 1980s was fundamentally different from previous struggles … with the liberation movements. The turning…
Book 5: People, Places and Apartheid - Chapter 4 - The Township Uprising, September-November 1984 by Noor Nieftagodien
… factories and rural areas. The insurrection of the 1980s was fundamentally different from previous struggles … with the liberation movements. The turning…
ArchiveTimetable for Sasol's day of destruction, The Star, 4 June 1980
Police hunt saboteurs as workers clear debris, The Star, 3 June 1980
Johann Max Friedrich (Jean) Welz, painter and architect who emigrated to SA in the 1930s, is born in Salzburg, Austria.
BiographyNyangana Zithulele Absolom Cindi
Nyangana Zithulele Absolom Cindi was born in Alexandra Township, Johannesburg on 18th of August in 1950. Cindi began his primary education at Entokozweni…
ArticleCommemoration, remembering and memorialising June 16 Soweto uprising
… the June 16 Soweto uprising started in the early 1980s. One of the projects involved the construction of a …
BiographyJames la Guma
James Arnold la Guma (Jimmy) was born on 23 August 1894 in Bloemfontein, Orange Free State (now Free State Province). A trade unionist and political activist,…
BiographyC. M Kobus
C. M Kobus was the African attorney and founding member of the Non-European Unity Movement (NEUM). Holder of a B.A. degree, he taught for some years in the…
BiographyDaniel Gordon Gabashane
Gabashane is a graphic artist and ceramic sculptor. He attended the ELC Art and Craft Centre, Rorke’s Drift during the 1960s. He was an instructor at the…
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