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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…
Black Student Politics
… that mass popular struggles during the 1970s and 1980s played a pivotal role in eroding apartheid and creating …
Rafique Mayet
… exhibitions at the Market Photo Gallery during the 1980s as well as the Zabalaza Festival in London, 1990; …
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…
The Afrikaanse Handelsinsituut
… make business more efficient and profitable. By the early 1980s most members were reform-minded, opposed to the … Industrial Council system. Studies…
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…
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…
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…
ArticleCongress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU)
… until the emergence of unions in the later 1970s and 1980s. The Industrial Commercial Union (ICU), formed by … a standstill at crucial moments. But by the…
BiographyShirish Nanabhai
Shirish was born one of eight siblings on 1 March 1938 at 51 Commercial Rd, Fordsburg. Jasmath Nanabhai, Shirish J. Nanabhai’s father, was from the village of…
BiographyPhillmon Velangetshe Sangweni
Sangweni was born in Vryheid, Natal in 1947. He worked for many years for a carpet company in Durban, but left during the workers’ strikes of 1976. Sangweni…
EventSouth Africa and Lesotho establish a consultative committee to resolve border disputes
… relationship between the two countries in 1970s and early 1980s was fraught with friction. This was the case …
ArticleAfrican National Congress Youth League (ANCYL)
… recruits were normally in large groups in camps. In the 1980s the mobilisation of the youth was led by the Congress …
ArticleBlack Consciousness Movement of Azania (BCMA)
… the other liberation groupings. In Botswana in the early 1980s, exile political activity declined, both in frequency … was not until the outbreak of popular…
BiographyVedant Nanackchand
Nanackchand was born in Durban. In 1977 he graduated in Fine Art from the University of Durban-Westville; in 1978 he gained an Honours Degree from that…
BiographyGeorge Edward Peake
George Edward Peake was a founding member and national Chairperson of the South African Coloured People's Organisation (SACPO) in the 1960s. He was born in the…
BiographyBrigitte Sylvia Mabandla
Brigitte Mabandla was born on the 23rd of November 1948. In the mid-1970s, she worked as a youth co-ordinator at the Institute of Race Relations in Durban but…
BiographyJean van der Poel
Jean van der Poel was born in Cape Town in 1904, and went on to become a prominent historian. Her studies began at the University of Cape Town (UCT), and she…
BiographyWelcome Mandla Koboka
Welcome Mandla Koboka was born in Johannesburg in 1941. At age twenty he studied art under Cecil Skotnes and Ephraim Ngatane at the Polly Street Art Centre. He…
EventMemorandum on housing conditions in Fietas, Johannesburg
… leading to fierce resistance that continued into the 1980s. …
BiographyStephen Vukile Tshwete
Tshwete was born in Springs, just outside Johannesburg, on 12 November 1938. He grew up in the village of Nkonkqweni, in King William's Town and in East London…
BiographyDumisani Abraham Mabaso
Dumisani Abraham Mabaso was born on 20 June 1955 in Soweto. He received his initial basic art training at the YWCA (Young Women’s Christian Association) in…
EventViolence breaks out at the University of Zululand
… in Natal (now kwaZulu Natal) in the late 1970s and early 1980s, and the increasing activities of the UDF posed a … of the IFP was gradually eroded. As a…