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ArchiveForeign Firms in SA British 1975 - 1980
ArchiveIR Workers Organisations SAAWU 1979 - 1980
ArchiveIR Workers Organisations Fosatu 1979 - 1980
ArchiveIR Workers Organisations CUSA 1987 - 1980
ArchiveIR Workers Organisations African Unions 1980
ArchivePublic Sector Government Police 1980 - 1981
ArchivePublic Sector Government General 1980 - 1981
ArchivePublic Sector Government Defense 1980 - 1981
ArchivePublic Sector Government Defense 1979 - 1980
ArchivePublic Sector Government Coloured Affairs 1980
ArchiveMigrant Labour Pass Laws 1980 - 1981
ArchiveMigrant Labour Pass Laws 1979 - 1980
ArchivePublic Sector Government Prisons 1980 - 1981
ArchivePublic Sector Government Prisons 1975 - 1980
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…
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…
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 …
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…
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. …
BiographyJohn Marinus Ferus
John Marinus Ferus (Hennie Ferus), an uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) soldier, was born on 8 February 1940. He joined the South African Coloured Peoples Congress (SACPO)…
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…
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…
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…
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…