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ArchiveIndustrial Relations Disputes 1975 - 1980
ArchiveIndustrial Accidents and Health 1975 - 1980
ArchiveHousing & Hostels General 1977 - 1980
ArchiveHousing & Hostels Cape 1980 - 1981
ArchivePublic Sector Government Defense 1980
ArchivePublic Sector Government BED 1980
ArchiveMining Other Minerals 1980 - 1982
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,…
Johann Max Friedrich (Jean) Welz, painter and architect who emigrated to SA in the 1930s, is born in Salzburg, Austria.
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 …
BiographyElizabeth "Rocky" Mafekeng
Elizabeth Mafekeng was born in 1918 in Tarkastad and attended school until Standard 7. Living conditions in her birthplace forced her to leave for Paarl in…
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…
ArticleAfrapix
… popular uprising against white minority rule in the 1980s. Initially, the Inter-Church Media Project (IMP) … the unfolding political drama that was South…
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…
BiographyWilliam “Bloke” Modisane
William 'Bloke' Modisane was born on 28 August 1923. He grew up in Sophiatown, a multiracial suburb in Johannesburg. His father was murdered and sister died…
BiographyEdgar Arthur Deane
Edgar Arthur Deane was born in 1908. He became national secretary of the Coloured Furniture Workers' Union and a politician, serving for a period on the Cape…
ArchiveStatement by the President of the African National Congress (South Africa) at the World Consultation of the World Council of Churches, Holland, 16-21 June 1980
Statement by the President of the African National Congress (South Africa), O R Tambo at the World Consultation of the World Council of Churches, Holland, 16…
ArticleuMkhonto weSizwe (MK) in exile
… particularly the Transkei and the Border regions. In the 1980s the Transkei, which shared a common border with … in intelligence and guerrilla warfare. In…
ArticleEnd Conscription Campaign (ECC)
… were for religious or pacifist reasons. Then in the early 1980s came the first overtly "political" objectors - Billy …
ArchiveClosing address to the 58th Annual Congress of the National Union of South African Students, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, 29 November to 4 December 1980.
Closing address to the 58th Annual Congress of the National Union of South African Students, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, 29 November to 4…
ArchiveFirst Mafika Gwala Lecture: The Arts of Resistance - Mafika Gwala and South African Poetry by Ari Sitas
… to situate Mafika Pascal Gwala’s work in the late 1980s would be appropriate in marking his legacy. The more I … I have kept my analysis of his poems of the…
BiographyHannah Lurie
She was born in Johannesburg. She trained at Natal College of Art under Mary Stainbank and Karin Jonzen, London (1962-1965). She has held numerous solo…
BiographyMagdalena Gertruide Sauer
Magdalena, daughter of W. Sauer, Cabinet Minister, was the first woman to practice as a qualified architect in South Africa. She mainly practiced in South…
BiographyShulamith Muller
Shulamith Muller (nee Movshowitz) was born in Pretoria in December 1922. She studied law at the University of Pretoria, and was admitted as an attorney in 1948…
BiographyLefifi Tladi
The thinker, poet, and painter, Lefifi Tladi, was born in 1949 in the culturally vibrant township of Lady Selborne in Pretoria, Transvaal Province (now Gauteng…
BiographyEbrahim Ismail Ebrahim
Ebrahim Ismail Ebrahim was born in Durban on 1st July in 1937, the second of five children. When he was a few months old Ebrahim's mother became ill and he…