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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 …
ArticleA history of Kwaito music
This genre of music started emerging in the 1990s. It is a mixture of a number of different rhythms from marabi of the 1920s, kwela of the 1950s, mbaqanga…
Winston Churchill Masakeng Saoli, SA artist, is born in Acornhoek, Eastern Transvaal. He was detained during the 1970s. Dur
Formation and launch of the UDF
… ) Growing unrest leading to the transition By the mid 1980s, resistance against the system of apartheid had …
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…
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. …
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…
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…
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…
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 …
ArchiveTimetable for Sasol's day of destruction, The Star, 4 June 1980
Police hunt saboteurs as workers clear debris, The Star, 3 June 1980
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,…
BiographyJames J. Majoro
A clerk and ex-miner, Majoro was instrumental in establishing the African Mineworkers' Union. He later became its secretary and was one of the accused in the…
BiographyClifford Bestall
He taught art at the Natal Technical College during the 1970s. He exhibited on major group exhibitions of the period and was invited to hold a solo exhibition…
BiographyFrank A. Pendla
Frank A. Pendla was the president of the Cape African Congress in the early 1940s until suspended by A. B. Xuma in September 1942. Born in the Cape, he…
ArticleAfrapix
… popular uprising against white minority rule in the 1980s. Initially, the Inter-Church Media Project (IMP) … the unfolding political drama that was South…
ArchiveThe heat is on!, To the Point, 13 June 1980
Archive'No mandate' for meeting on bus boycott 1980 D
ArchivePlease lets not forget Inkatha 1980 A
ArchiveOut of beef down 1974 - 1980
ArchiveHomelands Transkei General 1980 - 1981
ArchiveHealth & Disease Nurses 1975 - 1980
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