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ArticleRight to Organise Timeline 1500-1994
… increased both in intensity and frequency throughout the 1980s and 1990s. 1994 and beyond COSATU is a strategic …
ArticleThe History of Separate Development in South Africa
… that Whites graduates got jobs. In the mid-1970s and 1980s, new ethnic universities were built for homelands such …
ArticleEnd Conscription Campaign (ECC)
… were for religious or pacifist reasons. Then in the early 1980s came the first overtly "political" objectors - Billy …
PlaceRondebosch
… Shopping Area, a small Business District as well as the Main Campus of the University of Cape Town . The leafy Suburb … lie in the Centre of the Suburb,…
PlaceAlicedale a Village in Albany District
… name is: 'EQora' Alicedale is a Railway Junction, on the main Railway Line between Johannesburg and Port Elizabeth. …
EventInternational Labour Organisation and UN meet over apartheid in SA
… United Nations Special Committee against Apartheid. The main aim was discuss the South African situation and what …
Fortieth Anniversary of the 1946 Mine Strike
… as an alternative to compound life. They were, in the main, men who understood nothing of the cities, which lay … product (16% of the total national income)…
Book launch: Attacking the Heart of Apartheid by Yunus Carrim
… high-profile attacks against the apartheid state in the 1980s. From the spectacular 1980 Sasol bombings to the 1988 …
EventPolitical activist Mohammed Shaik is born
… and was involved in sabotage operations until 1988. His main targets were government buildings, economic …
EventSA cross-border raid in Maputo kills several
… the South African forces as Joe Slovo, one of the raid's main targets, and was shot at a roadblock. Numbers of people …
EventFormer Springbok captain Bobby Skinstad is born
… http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/main.jhtml?xml=/sport/2006/11/14/srmysp14.xml …
EventTraditional Bushman artist Vetkat Regopstaan Kruiper, aged 38, dies suddenly from natural causes
… Vetkat had many artistic skills including music. His main passion however was for the veld and animals. Despite …
EventPieter Jacobs Marais reports discovery of gold
… met with some success. The discovery of the Witwatersrand Main Reef by the two brothers H.W. and F.P.T. Struben in …
ArticleCape Town the Segregated city
… families that still remained were forced to move in the 1980s. Over the course of the forced removals, people were … The growing civil unrest in the…
ArticleCuba and the struggle for democracy in South Africa
… Zaire and South Africa. This support continued until the 1980s, when the aggressors were forced to back down, leading … Despite several setbacks during the…
ArchiveZuma's rape accuser questioned (BBC News), 07 March 2006
… had been good friends while living in exile in the early 1980s. Her father died in 1985. She explained the special …
EventLesotho’s Foreign Affairs Minister reveals details of agreement with Pik Botha
… II" or the Second State of Emergency. In the early 1980s Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) mounted numerous attacks in …
EventMore than a dozen people are killed, including seven children, in Kwamakhutha Massacre
… in their own local regions. The bloodshed escalated in the 1980s with the African National Congress (ANC), Inkatha …
PlaceBattle of Muizenburg Monument, Muizenburg
… ball to be found was when they recently resurfaced the Main Road just in front of the Posthuys building. … fort at Muizenberg but were repelled. In the…
PlaceRiverside Mosque and Mausoleum, Umgeni, Durban
… Indian Ocean, and built a humble wood and iron House. The main Builder was an Italian. When the Musjid, was completed, … The Dawakhana (Clinic) was situated…
PlaceMiddle Campus, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch
… and Lower Campuses together are often referred to as the 'main campus' The Campus as it stands today was laid out by …
EventJosiah Mutabuzi Isaya Kibira is the first African to be elected president of the LWF
… commitment to the cause of the ecumenical movement, the main building at the headquarters of the All Africa …
EventMass arrests in Pondoland
… primary responsibility for dealing with the revolt. The main tool used was mass detentions. Statements made to the …
EventAfrican leaders issue a call for African unity
… solution to their challenges was the unification of the main African political organisations into the All African …
EventSA Prime Minister H. F. Verwoerd stabbed to death
… Parliamentarian Service Officer Dimitri Tsafendas stabs main architect of apartheid Prime Minister H.F. Verwoed to …
EventKuruman missionary Robert Moffat is born
… of Kuruman. The Moffats returned to Britain in 1870. The main achievement of Moffat was translating the Bible into …
EventThe Esso Oil Company closes its business in South Africa
… was an affiliate of America’s Exxon. It was one of the main producers of petroleum products. Esso was one of the …
PlaceZorgvliet, Sir George Grey Street, Oranjezicht
… of office as Governor he occupied this house, and that the main rooms were renovated for his tenure. The homestead was … https://www.artefacts.co.za/main…
ArticleGrade 6 - Term 2: Explorers from Europe find southern Africa
… Much like Mapungubwe, the commoners lived outside the main walls, while the royal family lived on the hill. The … were highly skilled in stonework and…