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BiographyJeremiah W Dunjwa
Jeremiah W Dunjwa was born in Cape Town. An organiser of the 1919 passive resistance campaign against passes in the Transvaal, secretary of the Transvaal…
BiographyArchibald Mncedisi Sebeko
Archibald “Archie” Sibeko (aka Zola Zembe) was born on 3 March 1928 in Kwezana Village, near Alice in the Eastern Cape. Sibeko attended Lovedale in the 1940s…
Lionel Morrison
Born in 1935, he became a clerk and a journalist. In 1955 he was elected secretary of the Cape Town branch of the South African Coloured People's Organisation…
BiographyMatsilela Ephraim “Jomo” Sono
Jomo Sono as he is affectionately known was born in Orlando East in Soweto, Johannesburg on 17 July 1955. At the age of 8, his father Eric “Scara” Bamuza Sono,…
Sydney Vernon Peterson, one of the prominent SA poets of the 1940s, dies in Germiston. His poetry was translated into English,
Desmond Tutu interviewed by John Carlin
… determine political outcomes. In the latter part of the 1980s and early 1990s it became commonplace to undermine the … political consciousness continued to…
Alfred ‘Tough’ Hutchinson
Alfred ‘Tough’ Hutchinson was born of coloured and Swazi parents in 1924 in the Hectorspruit district of the Eastern Transvaal, he graduated from St. Peter's…
BiographyCaiphas Nxumalo
Caiphas Nxumalo graduated from Rorke's Drift in 1971 and during the 1970s was a free-lance artist in Pomeroy. He uses indigenous woods for his sculpture and…
BiographyTerry Bell
Terence Albert Bell (Terry Bell) was born in Pretoria, Transvaal (now Gauteng), South Africa on 12 September 1942. He married his fellow exile, Barbara,…
Following a meeting (4-13 June 1980), held at the request of the African group, the United Nations Security Council unanimously
Carnegie Report on Poverty in South Africa reveals the doubling of Blacks living below the poverty line (1960-1980).
Carnegie Report on Poverty in South Africa reveals the doubling of Blacks living below the poverty line (1960-1980).
Hansi Pauline Pollak, sociologist, welfare worker and activist, is born in Johannesburg. In 1980 the University of Natal awarde
BiographyJohn Moshoeu
John “Shoes” Moshoeu was born on 18 December 1965 in Diepkloof, Soweto, Transvaal (now Gauteng Province). Shoes or the ‘dribbling wizard’ as he was popularly…
BiographyLesley Lawson
One of the founding members of Afrapix, Lesley Lawson was born in Durban in 1952. She matriculated from Durban Girls College and attended the University of…
4. Conclusion
… and drew the conclusion that he died sometime in the early 1980s. In the early 1980s he heeded the call of several people to make himself …
EventThe first recognised AIDS cases are reported in the USA
… that the disease only affected gay men. Later in the 1980s, a blood sample taken in the Democratic Republic of …
BiographyGodfrey I. M. Mzamane
Godfrey I.M. Mzamane was born near Matatiele in the Transkei in 1909 and obtained B.A. and M.A. degrees from Fort Hare. He taught at St. Peter's Secondary…
January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 68th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 1980
Let Us Rise to the Occasion Speech by Comrade President, O.R. Tambo on the occasion of January 8th, 1980, 68th anniversary of the African National Congress…
BiographyAndrew Meintjes
Andrew Meintjes was born in Cape Town on 31 January 1955. In the 1970s, while he was working as a post office technician, he met photographer David Goldblatt…
BiographyLawrence Nkosi
Lawrence Nkosi was born in 1910. He was a factory worker and active trade unionist by the 1950s. In 1955 the Congress of the People and the drawing up of the…
BiographyConan Doyle Modiakgotla
Conan Doyle Modiakgotla was born at Thaba 'Nchu in the Orange Free State, he was a building contractor by occupation. During the 1920s he served as secretary…
BiographyPhilemon Mathole
Born in 1916 in Johannesburg Mathole was a miner and an organiser for the African Mineworkers' Union. He was active in the 1946 mineworkers' strike. He later…
ArticleOliver Reginald Tambo Timeline 1917 - 2011
… in Havana, Cuba 5 November Delivers a press statement 1980s 1980 2 January Gives a press conference , introducing …
BiographyBenjamin Magson Kies
Benjamin Magson Kies Introduction Benjamin Magson Kies was an important South African political activist and theorist from about the middle of the 1930s…
ArticleUnited Women’s Congress (UWCO)
… also played an important role in setting up civics in the 1980s and as one of the few organisations that existed at the …
ArticleDutch Reformed Church (DRC)
… establishment of churches of these three groups. In the 1980s the church was expelled from the World Alliance of …
ArticleThe influence of apartheid
… to the actions of Inkatha in Kwazulu Natal during the 1980s and early 1990s. The people of Moutse responded by … during this time was the establishment…
BiographyElias Mathope Motsoaledi
Elias Motsoaledi was born on the 26 July 1924 in Phokoane in the Nebo District in Sekhukhuneland, Northern Transvaal (now Limpopo), South Africa. He was the…
Grade 12 - Topic 4 - The end of the Cold War and a new global world order 1989 to present
… You can read about the crisis of Apartheid in the 1980s in section 5 of the grade 12 material. The collapse of … Union for economic and military support. By…