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ArticlePolitical executions in South Africa by the apartheid government 1961 - 1989
… and sheer brute force. The period from the 1960s to the 1980s was punctuated by the enactment of security laws that … Prison. Two decades in particular – the…
ArticleTimeline of State Action Against the Press in the 1960s
1960 Mar- Norman Phillips of the Toronto Star was detained 3 and '/2 days for trying to cable a story about a police attack on Nyanga, Cape Town. The report…
ArticleBlack Consciousness: Cultural Expression and Representation
… Winston Ntshona popularized plays in the 1970s and early 1980s that included themes of township life and Black …
ArticleGrade 12 - The Cold War
… of the world, and drew to a close by end of the late 1980s / early 1990s. Towards the end of the 1980s, Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev held conferences with…
ArticlePan-Africanism
… particular popularity in the United States during the 1980s. The movement emphasizes African modes of thought and …
Rustenburg the Segregated city
… supplier of gas and welding material, set up shop. By the 1980s, the price of platinum had climbed to unprecedented … Implats at first mined the Merensky…
ArticleUrban Removals - the Destruction of Sophiatown
… was the case throughout the 1960s and 1970s. Early in the 1980s influx control regulations were scrapped Conclusion …
Liberation organisations
… to as "National Service by the apartheid regime. In the 1980s, white men were called up for two years of compulsory … and played a major role in the…
A history of Volkskas and the Absa Banking group
… of power by the Nationalist Party in 1948.’ By the 1980s, Volkskas was no longer that dependent on state … Pieter Morkel, managing director of Volkskas in…
Abdullah Ibrahim and the Politics of Jazz in South Africa
… progressive organizations”. Indeed, for musicians, the 1980s was a period characterized not by any single stylistic … and his exile in New York in the…
In summary: Factors resulting in the crisis
… democracy in the 1990s The crisis of apartheid in the 1980s Factors contributing to the crisis: * A global economic crisis: In the 1980s there was a global…
ArticleThe History of LGBT legislation
… movement dwindled and eventually died off. The 1970s and 1980s: An atmosphere for change The 1970s and 80s marked a … front to battle homophobia as well as…
ArticleHistory of Women’s Struggle in South Africa
… today. Apartheid crumbles - Women in the turmoil of the 1980s ↵ Women from the Crossroads squatter camp demonstrate … bent-out hopes). Cape Town. June 1986. …
Article1976-1983: Mass Democratic movements
Introduction
ArticleMass Democratic movements, 1976-1983
… regime. The ANC'S Armed Struggle in the 1970s And 1980s: The Revival of Armed Activity The PAC’s Role in the 1970s and 1980s (Campaigns, Leadership and Camps…
ArticleObituary: Sheila Weinberg
… many of the people who were struggling with her in the 1980s have retreated into dinner table recriminations or …
The historical significance of COSATU’s Workers’ Charter Campaign
… Introduction During the late 1970s and early 1980s the issue of drawing up a Workers’ Charter became a … in South Africa and explores why the call in the…
ArticleEOAN Group
… have 15 branches throughout the Cape Peninsula by the mid 1980s. Between 1956 and the mid 1970s, EOAN featured an …
ArticleChanging Perceptions of Nelson Mandela
… perception had changed, as throughout the 1970s and 1980s, Free Mandela campaigns were run in a variety of … free man in, was on the brink of widespread…
ArticleFederation of South African Women by Skylar Jayes
… set the stage for other women’s organisations in the 1980s. Keywords Federation of South African Women, Ray … in the 1960s and was unable to re-launch…
ArticleRight to Organise Timeline 1500-1994
… increased both in intensity and frequency throughout the 1980s and 1990s. 1994 and beyond COSATU is a strategic …
ArticleThe History of Separate Development in South Africa
… that Whites graduates got jobs. In the mid-1970s and 1980s, new ethnic universities were built for homelands such …
ArticleHistory of elections in South Africa
… elections in the Bantustans/homelands stopped in the late 1980s. In 1994, Homelands stopped to exist and they were …
ArticleAzanian People’s Organization (AZAPO)
… being made at the end of the decade and throughout the 1980s. It was at this time that the Freedom Charter, … Africa, entered the political discourse. Early…
ArticleInkatha Freedom Party (IFP)
… were given flesh by a multi-racial Natal indaba in the mid-1980s, and received the backing of both the liberal … for disinvestments as an incentive for…
ArticleNational Union of South African Students (NUSAS)
… of the South African security branch. In the late 1980s NUSAS's offices were put under surveillances and it …
ArticleUnited Democratic Front (UDF)
… struggle. The UDF character however changed in the mid-1980s with the people?s insurrection, and some organisations … he continued to call for united…
ArticleExhibition: Celebrating 40 Years of Women's Day, Durban 1980
The Freedom struggle in Polokwane
… Resistance politics, the re-emergence of resistance in the 1980s, and political developments after apartheid. …
ArticleThe Youth Struggle
… the imagination of South African youth organisations. The 1980s was also a period of serious student protests and … the national profile of student politics…