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ArticleEnd Conscription Campaign (ECC)
… were for religious or pacifist reasons. Then in the early 1980s came the first overtly "political" objectors - Billy …
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 …
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…
Sydney Vernon Peterson, one of the prominent SA poets of the 1940s, dies in Germiston. His poetry was translated into English,
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 …
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,…
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…
BiographyEric Hendrik Louw
Louw was a politician and a diplomat. During the 1930s, he was South Africa’s first ambassador to the United States and the League of Nations. Eric Louw was…
BiographySam P. Sesedi
Sam P. Sesedi was born in 1895 in Kimberley and qualified as a teacher in 1916. He later obtained a B.A. degree by private study at the age of 50. After…
BiographyJohn S. P. Motloheloa
John S. P. Motloheloa was born in Basutoland (now Lesotho), he grew up in the Orange Free State and went to Cape Town in 1938. In the mid-1950s he was acting…
EventKaunda calls for Thatcher’s exclusion from talks on South African sanctions
… from the 1960s onwards. However, it was only in the 1980s that the implementation of sanctions would …