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ArticleDefeat of the Liberation struggle
… as the terrorist threat. The South African Defence Force (SADF) engaged in a number of military incursions and …
ArticleMass Democratic movements, 1976-1983
… of state terrorism by the South African Defence Force (SADF) to Mozambique. Several raids targeting areas frequented … In March 1979, the South African…
The people armed, 1984-1990
… Photograph by Shadrack Nkomo © Bailey's African History Archive. Numerous factors characterised the … Force Headquarters and the South African Defence Force …
BiographyMakhanda Nxele
… but also known as Nxele, the itola, he is best known in history for leading the ‘Battle of Grahamstown’ in 1819. … the encroachment of African land and…
Sadecque Variava
… student politics. Variava registered to study English and History as his majors. From his first days at college, he … went to Durban for the launch of BPC at…
BiographyAbdool Karrim Essak
… In 1943 he completed his matriculation with an A-symbol in history. That same year a public meeting was held in Dundee … in the Unity Movement in the…
BiographyHorst Gerhard Hermann Kleinschmidt
… Ltd., in Cape Town since then. He is also writing the history of his family at the Cape. He serves in a voluntary capacity on the Boards of the South African…
BiographyGraça Simbine Machel
… Armed Conflict on Children, the first of its kind in the history on the United Nations, demonstrated to the world …
BiographyGeorge Sewpersadh
… is the solution but you have to go through stages in history. I am impressed by Karl Marx's statement when he …
BiographyLuis Inácio Lula da Silva
… administration became one of the most popular in the history of Brazil. According to the Washington Post, “Under …
BiographyPatrick Vuyo Matshikiza
… role in the birth and evolution of our kind of jazz. History will also remember him as the creator of a township …
BiographyMewa Ramgobin
… of the most successful election boycott campaigns in the history of South Africa. Under the banner of the revived NIC …
BiographyPaul Alberts
… of the War Museum. Paul Alberts wrote a chapter on the history of combat photography. Alberts compiled and edited an …
BiographySakumzi (Saki) Justice Macozoma
… home, with his father often relating the political history of Port Elizabeth during the turbulent 1950s and …
BiographyDavid Hemson
… years in Britain, Hemson moved to Tanzania where he taught history. Hemson was part of a group of activists, along with …
BiographyCheryl Carolus
… She was detained for five months in 1976. Carolus became a History and English teacher and was involved in the 1981 …
BiographyGraeme Craig Smith
… as well as becoming the most successful test captain in history. Both of these accomplishments came against … opening batsman. Youngest cricket captain in…
BiographyJohn Liebenberg
… Convention Centre, Cape Town, South Africa 2017 A Short History of South African Photography, Time Maps. Memory, …
Biography of Baleka Mbete-Kgositsile by Brianna T. Hogg
… Mbete-Kgositsile has played a major and vital role in the history of South African politics and the impact that women … Peter. 1960. "Sharpeville Massacre."…
EventLesotho’s Foreign Affairs Minister reveals details of agreement with Pik Botha
… was reached and later dissolved, we should examine the history of the relationship between the South African and … on 9 December 1982 by the South African…
ArticleCongress of South African Students (COSAS)
… like. United Democratic Front logo. Source: South African History Online In 1983, the COSAS welcomed the formation of … it has been utterly scrapped, dumped…
ArticleThe Conflict between the AZAPO and the UDF - popular violence in the 1980s and 1990s
… literature on this brutally violent chapter in the history of the liberation struggle focuses largely on the … unite different groups” (Seekings, Jeremy, The…
BiographyBenjamin Magson Kies
… of the organisations as “the biggest conference in the history of the Coloured sector of the oppressed.” The major … social analysis. If Gramsci’s Notes on…
ArchiveConscription: no right to choose
… poster. Light blue with black lettering and artwork of an SADF soldier. …
ArchiveFor call-up headaches ... Conscription Advice Service
… Blue, black and white poster. Artwork of an SADF logo falling on a man. …
ArchiveCharles Bester: conscientious objector
… Photograph of Charles Bester. Words - Christ's way yes! - SADF no!'. …
ArchiveBilly Paddock: imprisoned one year
Black and white poster. Words "S.A.D.F. - defending injustice?" Image of Billy Paddock behind bars.
BiographyCassim Mahomed Lakhi
… instead. He was appointed lecturer in the Department of History of Art. He headed the Department from its inception …
BiographyKewpie
… District Six” unearthed an entire archive of local queer history. In 2018, the annual District Six Heritage Day Parade …
BiographyMabel Palmer
… . Dr Palmer was later appointed lecturer in Economic History at the then Natal University College – NUC (now the …