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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…
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,…
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…
ArticleDecember 16, the reflection of a changing South African heritage
IntroductionDecember 16 looms large in the history of South Africa. Today in the new South African it is celebrated as the Day of Reconciliation between Blacks…
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…
Conflict among civic organisations
… rent increases and the maintenance of food subsidises. The 1990s were marked by intense rivalries and conflicts within …
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…
ArticleOliver Reginald Tambo Timeline 1917 - 2011
… fall back, leading him to lose his speech due to a stroke. 1990s 1990 2 February Delivers a statement with other ANC …
ArchiveSouth African political prison-literature between 1948 and 1990: the prisoner as writer and political commentator
Thesis submitted in accordance with the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Literature and Philosophy in the subject English at the University of South…
Statement at a special meeting of the UN special committee against apartheid New York, 22 June 1990
Opening Address by ANC Deputy President Nelson Mandela At the ANC/ IFP Summit 29 January 1990
Nelson Mandela’s address to rally in Cape Town on his release from prison 11 February 1990
C.I.A. Tie Reported In Mandela Arrest by David Johnston (The New York Times), 10 June 1990
ArchiveSouth African Women Unite For A Non-sexist Post Apartheid South Africa! By SPEAK, 1990, South Africa
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…
Language Shift, Cultural Change and Identity Retention: Indian South Africans in the 1960s and Beyond by Rajend Mesthrie
Turbulent priests or movement intellectuals? Christian voices and international opposition to apartheid in the 1950s by Rob Skinner
Buyisile Patient (Billy) Mandindi, SA artist, is born in Guguletu, Cape. He exhibited three times during the 1980s.
ArchiveHARWU: The Aborted Attempt to Build a National South African Catering Union (1984 – 1990) by Allan Horwitz, June 2018
The Hotel and Restaurant Workers Union (HARWU) was a South African trade union whose short but intense history was shaped by many forces, both in the general…
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…
ArticlePolitical executions in South Africa by the apartheid government 1961 - 1989
… APLA remained largely ineffective until the 1980s and 1990s. The Bethal Trial of 1979, where 18 members of the PAC …
BiographyOupa Joshua Gqozo
Joshua Oupa Gqozo was born in Kroonstad on 10 March 1952. He is the son of Anna and Fikile Joel Gqozo. His father was a skilled labourer and religious minister…
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…
BiographyT. J. Lemon
T. J. completed his "A" levels in 1977 at Mount Pleasant High School, Harare. In 1981 to 1985 he studied a Bachelor of Pharmacy II - IV but developed an…
BiographyElizabeth Mbatha
Elizabeth Mbatha was born in 1950 near Rorke's Drift. Mbatha did not attend school. In 1974 she married Eric Mbatha, a potter at Rorke's Drift. In the early…
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…