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BiographyLaurent Kabila
Laurent Desire Kabila was born on 27 November 1939 into the Luba tribe in the Katanga Province in the Belgian Congo. In 1960 Kabila became a leader of a youth…
BiographyAnna 'Sister Nannie' Tempo
Anna 'Sister Nannie' Tempo, was born of a slave mother and father who were kidnapped as children off the coast of Mozambique. She was born in the late 1870s…
BiographyCaptain Lancelot Andrew Ariba
Captain Lancelot Andrew Elsworth Ariba was born in Alexandria, Egypt in 1891. He served in World War I with distinction and late studied architecture in Leeds…
BiographyJohanna Catharina Cornelius
Johanna was born in Licthtenburg on 27 February 1912 to an Afrikaner family where she grew up. Their family was very nationalistic, with both their father and…
BiographyMassabalala (Bonnie) Yengwa
Massabalala Yengwa, was the son of the Zulu labourer who had been jailed during the African National Congress (ANC) anti-pass campaign of 1919. Yengwa was born…
BiographyNkosinathi Benson Fihla
Nkosinathi Benson Fihla was born on 13th June of 1932 in Port Elizabeth, Eastern Province (now Eastern Cape). Fihla grew up in PE from 1945, after his parents…
BiographyZubeida “Juby” "Sharon Davis" Mayet
Zubeida “Juby” "Sharon Davis" Mayet was born December 27,in 1937 in Fietas, Johannesburg, Transvaal (now Gauteng). Mayet began writing in the mid-1950s while…
BiographyJuda Ngwenya
Juda Ngwenya began his career with The Star newspaper in Johannesburg, Transvaal (now Gauteng). Before he was even two years in the employ of the newspaper, he…
BiographySorabjee Rustomjee
Sorabji Rustomjee, son of Parsee Rustomjee, was born in Durban on 25 December 1895. He went to India to study and soon after returning to South Africa, crossed…
Chapter 7 - CONCLUSION
… a new leadership for the Party, especially from the 1970s, notably Mac Maharaj, Chris Hani, Josiah Jele and John … period. As the membership increased, first…
Book 5: People, Places and Apartheid - Glossary
… These policies were at their height during the 1960s and 1970s. influx control ”” (under apartheid) the strict …
Book 5: People, Places and Apartheid - Chapter 2 - The Soweto Uprising of June 1976: A Turning Points Event by Phil Bonner
… These policies were at their height during the 1960s and 1970s. petty apartheid ”” the principles and policies that … youth subcultures in Soweto’s secondary…
Chapter 2 - The Soweto Uprising of June 1976: A Turning Points Event
… These policies were at their height during the 1960s and 1970s. petty apartheid — the principles and policies that … youth subcultures in Soweto’s secondary…
ArchiveRemembering Hugh Masekela: the horn player with a shrewd ear for music of the day by Gwen Ansell (The Conversation), 23 January 2018
… music with singer Miriam Makeba ; US pop successes in the 1970s and then touring Paul Simon’s “Graceland” in the 80s …
EventMalawi voters take part in the first multiparty election in three decades
… continued to rule Malawi with an iron fist throughout the 1970s and into the late 1980s. Several thousand people were …
ArticleAZAPO’s Women’s Wing - Imbeleko
… of Black Community Programmes (BCP) established during the 1970s, which combined consciousness-raising with practical … Young Women and Men in Black…
BiographySamuel Makama Martin Masabalala
Samuel Makama Martin Masabalala was born in 6th December 1877, in Uniondale in the Cape and was educated in Grahamstown and Port Elizabeth. He worked for some…
BiographySandile Dikeni
Sandile Dikeni was born in Victoria West, Northern Cape in 1966. He began writing poetry while in detention for his anti-apartheid activism in the 1980s. He…
BiographyTennyson Xola Makiwane
Born in 1933 into a prominent Transkei family Makiwane completed his secondary schooling at Lovedale in 1950 and entered Fort Hare University. Politicised…
BiographyGubuzela Ngubane
The documentation related to the banishment of Gubuzela Ngubane provides an account of the historical process by which the Ntanzi community came in the 19th…
A brief history on South African prisons and prisoners
… While conditions improved during the course of the 1970s and 1980s, it remained the most inhospitable outpost of …
BiographyAhmed Gora Ebrahim
Ahmed Gora Ebrahim was born in Durban on 29 May 1936. Ebrahim cut his political teeth in Trotskyite circles while studying at Sastri College and Natal…
ArchiveThe Little Acknowledged Legacy of Steve Biko by Prithiraj Dullay, (Daily News), 08 Sept 2008
… everyone to him. To the youth of the late 1960s and the 1970s Biko represented a new hope and the spawning of a new … are as relevant today as they were in…
BiographyAli Bacher
If Ali Bacher's commitment to cricket had ended after his playing days, he would have had a proud place on the sport's roll of honour. It was Ali Bacher, the…
The Durban Mystery Unraveled: An empirical analysis by Eddie Cottle
… industries within the changing economic situation of the 1970s. This chapter will provide arguments and present …
Chapter 5 - TOWARDS PEOPLE’S WAR
… uprising, which had received its initial spark in the 1970s. These developments, including the emergence of the … existed in an organised form only in London…
ArchiveClass Consciousness and Migrant Workers by David Hemson (University of Warwick)
… of internal resistance during the late 1960s and early 1970s. It has a wide ambit and covers a period from the 1870s to the mid-1970s; from early colonial…
BiographyJulia Nicol
Julia Nicol worked actively as an anti-apartheid activist in the late 1980s and early 90s, particularly concerned with the anti-discrimination rights for…
BiographyNoria Mabasa
Noria Mabasa was born May 10, 1938 in Xigalo in the Limpopo Province in South Africa. She received formal education for only one year, having to walk three…
BiographyVuminkosi Zulu
Vuminkosi Zulu was born on 24 November 1948 in Mapumulo, KwaZulu-Natal. From the age of thirteen Zulu attended school in Kranskop for six years and completed…