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BiographyArnold Selby
Arnold Selby was born on 14 November 1918 in South Africa. He joined the liberation struggle in the 1940s. His experience as a miner brought to light the…
BiographySue Williamson
Sue Williamson was born in Litchfield, England in 1941. Her family immigrated to South Africa in 1948. Williamson studied at the Art Students' League in New…
BiographyThomas Mbeki
Little is known of his background except that he was Xhosa-speaking and born about 1900. About 1924 he enrolled in the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA)…
BiographyRichard S. Canca
Richard S Canca was born in 1924 in Transkei. Canca was a leading figure in the All African Convention (AAC). Born about 1924, he obtained an M.A. degree from…
ArticleFatima Meer Timeline 1928-2010
… towards the building of the Gandhi Museum and Clinic. 1970s Involved in student and women's politics. Frequent …
EventSouth Africa closes its borders with Lesotho
… The relationship of the South African and Lesotho in the 1970s and early 1980s was fraught with friction. This was the …
BiographySheila Cussons
Sheila Cussons was born at the Moravian Missionary Station near Piketberg, Western Cape. She matriculated at Hoër Meisieskool, Pretoria, Transvaal (now…
Sport, Race, and Liberation Before Apartheid by Dr Peter Alegi
… South Africa from international sport in the 1960s and 1970s. After a brief description of the Luthuli family's …
EventThe Paramount Chief of the Zulus, Prince Goodwill Zwelithini, is officially removed as a member of the Zulu Legislative Assembly
… Buthelezi and King Zwelithini. For the better part of the 1970s Buthelezi and Zwelithini were often at loggerheads. …
ArticleThe influence of apartheid
… poorly paid. As a result, from the 1950s through to the 1970s, the demographic composition of the village began to be …
BiographyGoolam H. Gool
Goolam H. Gool was born on 24 March 1905, in Cape Town, Western Cape. He was the son of Yusuf Gool, born in India, in 1864. He made his way to Cape Town in…
Louis Charles George 'Loet' Douwes-Dekker
Louis Charles George Douwes-Dekker was born on 22 October in 1936,Indonesia Asia.His parents were scientists,he spent four years in a Japanese concentration…
BiographyJeevenundhan (Jeeva) Rajgopaul
Jeevenundhan (Jeeva) Rajgopaul was born in November 1952, in Dundee, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal). He grew up in Clairwood, Durb an. In 1961 his family was…
BiographyAri Sitas
Ari Sitas (b.1952) is a creative socialist thinker, an activist and one of the key intellectuals of the post 1980s generation in South Africa. He is a…
BiographyDr Silas Modiri Molema
Dr. Silas Modiri Molema (Silas Modiri) was born in 1891 in Mafikeng, South Africa. His father was a member of the Royal family of the Barolong chieftaincy and…
BiographyNcumisa Chwayita Kondlo
Ncumisa Chwayita Kondlo grew up in the rural village of Peddie in the Eastern Cape. Kondlo was politically active from an early age. In her student days at…
Only the Workers Can Free the Workers: the origin of the workers’ control tradition and the Trade Union Advisory Coordinating Committee (TUACC), 1970-1979 by Nicole Ulrich
Indian Community in Lenasia
… the stadium was renamed the Varachia Stadium in the late 1970s, and Minister of Sport Piet Koornhof presided over the … Figures reveal a huge influx in the…
BiographyRick Turner
Rick Turner [Richard Albert David Turner] was a charismatic political philosopher and theorist who was also an activist and educationist. He was highly…
ArticleA history of Soweto
… experiences very high levels of crime during the 1960s and 1970s. The last group of townships to be established was …
Chapter 3 - THE MOROGORO AFTERMATH
… that the Party itself was also undergoing in the early 1970s at the ideological and leadership level. Ideologically, … leadership was concerned. The Party…
ArticleArt South Africa Today exhibitions
… South African government. As Erica Clark notes , by the 1970s there was a feeling among many in the art community …
ArticleSouth Africa’s Foreign Relations during Apartheid, 1948
… that these counties only achieved independence in the mid-1970s. Close ties with Mozambique were built up in the Cabora … This led to the policy of dialogue…
ArchiveObituary of Benita Parry (1931—2020) by Professor David Johnson
… of the Palestinian people. In the 1960s and 1970s, Parry’s distinctive formation as a literary critic at …
A common purpose: the Commonwealth’s support for the AAM
… against the sale of arms to South Africa. Throughout the 1970s the AAM maintained pressure through its contacts with … practically all Commonwealth summit…
EventViolence breaks out at the University of Zululand
… trade unions in Natal (now kwaZulu Natal) in the late 1970s and early 1980s, and the increasing activities of the …
BiographyFrancois Roux
Francois Roux was born in 1927 at Fort Victoria, Masvingo, Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe). He attended the Boys High School, Stellenbosch from 1940 to 1946. …
BiographyHeidi Saayman
Heidi Saayman was born on 3 February 1970, Umtata in Transkie. She matriculated in 1988 from Queenstown Girls High School. After leaving school she studied at…
BiographyZwelakhe Sisulu
Zwelakhe Sisulu was born in Soweto on 17 December 1950, to liberation struggle icons Walter and Albertina Sisulu. He was the third of five children. When he…
ArticleCuba and the struggle for democracy in South Africa
… for the liberation movement in the Congo, and in the 1970s Cuba helped defend Agostinho Neto’s Movement for the … independence. Despite several setbacks…