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BiographyVincent Tshabalala
Vincent “Toivo” Tshabalala was born in Bethal in Mpumalanga on 15 August 1964 where he also grew up. Tshabalala became politically influenced at a young age by…
ArticleNational Party (NP)
… as improve race relations. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, the government granted “independence” to four … (1977), Venda (1979), and Ciskei (1981). In the…
Trade Union Council of South Africa (TUCSA)
… TUCSA membership fees. This trend continued until the late 1980s when it was discredited as apartheid tool. …
BiographyMartin Lutuli
Martin Lutuli was born in the mid-1800s, he was raised and educated at the American Zulu Mission at Groutville in Natal, where his parents had been among the…
BiographyEsther Franks
Franks studied at the University of the Witwatersrand and was a member of the first Student Representative Council of the University. In 1925 she was the…
BiographyHenry Daniel Tyamzashe
Henry Daniel Tyamzashe was born in Kimberley in 1880, the son of a prominent Xhosa minister in the United Free Church of Scotland. He completed secondary…
BiographyC. J. Mayekiso
Born in 1913 in Idutywa in the Transkei, Mayekiso was a textile worker and later became president of the African Textile Workers' Union. He was a trade…
Speech delivered on the condolence motion in honour of the late Ebrahim "Cas" Saloojee in the national assembly – 5 February 2009
… the apartheid system and Nationalist Party rule. In the 1980s, Cassim Saloojee was one of the founders of ACTSTOP, a … its President during the State of…
EventThe Japanese government announces that South Africans will no longer be granted visas to enter Japan
… Due to South Africa’s Apartheid regime in the 1970s and 1980s, many countries were cautious to be seen as allies with …
BiographyDorothy Masuka
Dorothy Masuka was born and raised in Bulawayo, Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), in 1935. Her father was originally from Zambia, and her mother, Liza Mafuyani, was…
BiographyViola Hashe
Viola Hashe was born in 1926, in Gabashane in the Orange Free State (now Free State Province). Hashe was a teacher by profession. Hashe became involved in…
BiographyProfessor Kader Abdul Asmal
Kader Abdul Asmal was born on 8th of October in 1934, in the small rural town of Stanger, KwaZulu Natal (then Natal). Young Asmal was raised in a vibrant,…
Conflict among civic organisations
… cadres and destroying their hideouts. Operation Mac The 1980s also saw the increased activity of the ANC in the …
BiographyPatrick Mosell Molaoa
Born in Johannesburg in 1925, he grew up in Alexandra Township and attended schools in Basutoland, Johannesburg, and Kimberley until matriculation. He was one…
Chapter 6 - Reform, Repression and Mass Resistance
… to exacerbating the economic crisis. During the 1980s, the economic crisis continued and deepened. Whatever … a result thousands of workers were retrenched…
Black Student Politics
… that mass popular struggles during the 1970s and 1980s played a pivotal role in eroding apartheid and creating …
Book 6: Negotiation, Transition and Freedom - Chapter 1 - The Transition in Context by Christopher Saunders
… without the racial civil war that most commentators in the 1980s believed was inevitable. The April 1994 election was an … After centuries of ethnic and…
BiographyPoonoosamy Ruthnam Pather
Poonoosamy Ruthnam Pather (PR) was born in Mauritius in 1895. His grandfather settled in that country after emigrating from Tanjore in India in the 1840s. PR…
Rafique Mayet
… exhibitions at the Market Photo Gallery during the 1980s as well as the Zabalaza Festival in London, 1990; …
BiographyStanley Basil Lollan
Stanley Basil Lollan was born in Johannesburg in 1925, he became one of the few significant coloured activists in the Transvaal in the 1950s. A clerk by…
BiographyWilton Zimasile Mkwayi
Wilton Zimasile Mkwayi was a trade unionist who served a life sentence for his involvement in Umkhonto We Sizwe. He was born into a peasant family near…
BiographyJock Leyden
He was born in Grangemouth, Scotland. He settled in Durban which was to be his home for the rest of his life. He attended part-time art classes at the Natal…
BiographyJan Hendrik Hofmeyer Hoogendyk
Jan Hendrik Hofmeyer Hoogendyk was born in 1911 into a strict 'dopper' home. Hoogendyk was married to Jackie, an accountant. He enlisted with the South…
BiographyDr Alfred Bitini Xuma
Alfred Bitini Xuma was born on 8 March 1893, in Manzana, Ngcobo District, in the Eastern Province (now Eastern Cape). Xuma was the seventh child of Abraham…
EventThe Paramount Chief of the Zulus, Prince Goodwill Zwelithini, is officially removed as a member of the Zulu Legislative Assembly
… the Kwa-Zulu Government. It was only early in the 1980s that relations between the two were mended. This … them dead. As tensions escalated in the second…
ArchiveMinutes of meeting of the Christian Consultation on Resettlement in the Ciskei held in Grahamstown on August 29 and 30, 1980
Minutes of meeting of the Christian Consultation on Resettlement in the Ciskei discussing the socio-economic impact of forced removals and relocations on Black…
ArchiveSouth African Sugar Asssociation 1974 - 1980
ArchiveSchoemen may investigate meat 1980 - 1991
ArchiveWorld cotton price soaring 1980 - 1999
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