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A brief history on South African prisons and prisoners
… Central Prison to await execution. From the 1960s to the 1980s, the apartheid government executed about 134 political … conditions improved during the course…
Durban 1973, a National Breakthrough, in the Context of a Globally Developing Socialism? But what if the reality was actually an emergent 50-year international capitalist 'counterrevolution' of 1973-2022? by David Cooper
… against the communist party-led Afghan government in the 1980s. More fundamentally for global capitalism: who of us … within the sociology department UCT…
BiographyJ. Congress M. Mbata
J. Congress M. Mbata was born in Johannesburg in 1919 and studied at St. Peter's Secondary School, at Fort Hare, and at the University of the Witwatersrand. In…
BiographyPatricia Horn
Pat Horn initially got exposed to politics in the early 1970s through her involvement with adult literacy projects during her days as a university student. In…
BiographyMoritz Isaac ("Manu") Herbstein
Manu Herbstein was born in 1936 in Muizenburg in the Western Cape. He graduated from the University of Cape Town with a B.Sc in Engineering in 1958. From 1959…
BiographyMolly Wolton
Born Molly Selikowitz in Lithuania in 1906, she came to South Africa as an immigrant in 1919. Petite, excitable, forceful, and a brilliant public speaker,…
EventMinister promises relaxation of apartheid rules and elimination of racial segregation in sports
… Minister of Cooperation and Development in the early 1980s was in charge of forced removals. Many would remember …
BiographyElize Botha
Elizabeth Botha (née Lindes) was born on 19 November 1930 and grew up in Krugersdorp, West Rand, Transvaal (now Gauteng). She enrolled at the University of…
BiographyFlorence Elizabeth Mnumzana
Florence Elizabeth Mnumzana (née Mhinga) was born on 21 February 1919 in Mhinga Village, Northern Transvaal (now Limpopo), into the Mhinga traditional royal…
BiographyHarry Heinz Schwarz
Harry Schwarz (born Heinz Schwarz) was born in Cologne, Germany (Weimar Republic) on 13 May 1924. Growing up in a Jewish family, Schwarz witnessed the rise of…
Student Politics in the Era of Democracy
… period of mass opposition politics during the 1970s and 1980s, SASO and SANSCO didn't need to formulate concrete …
BiographyJosepha Selhorst
Josepha Selhorst was born in 1914, in Rietberg, Westphalia, Germany. She studied at UN(P) 1941-47 under Rosa Hope gaining a BA(FA) 1947 and 1956-57 at…
BiographyKate Dinkwetsi Molale
Kate Dinkwetsi Molale was born in 1928 and died in 1980 after a car accident. In 1954 she was elected as Secretary General of the Sophiatown branch of the…
BiographyJoyce Sikhakhane-Rankin
Joyce Sikhakhane-Rankin (Nomafa) was born at the Bridgeman Memorial Maternity Hospital in Johannesburg. Her parents lived in Orlando West, Soweto where she…
EventPieter-Dirk Uys, SA activist, satirist, playwright and novelist, is born in Cape Town
… to study at the London Film School. During the 1970s and 1980s he was associated with the Space Theatre in Cape Town …
Mama Beshenga
During the 1960s, at the height of the forced removals with the introduction of the Native Law Amendment Act, there was great panic and confusion within the…
BiographySamuel E. K. Mqhayi
Samuel E. K. Mqhayi was born near Alice in the Cape in 1875. Mqhayi studied at Lovedale, worked as a teacher and journalist, was on the editorial staff of Imvo…
BiographyRichard Ernest van der Ross
Richard Ernest Van der Ross was born in 1921, he studied at the University of Cape Town where he received M.A., B.Ed., and Ph.D. degrees. For some years he was…
BiographyGaur Radebe
Gaur Radebe was born in 1908 and completed about seven years of schooling. As an activist in both the Communist Party of South Africa and the African National…
BiographyHector Pieterson
Hector Pieterson* was born in 1963. He became the iconic image of the 1976 Soweto uprising in apartheid South Africa when a newspaper photograph by Sam Nzima -…
BiographyJameson Gilbert Coka
Jameson Gilbert Coka was born in 1910 on a white farm near Vryheid, Natal, the son of a sharecropper. He won a bursary to Adams College, where he completed his…
BiographyIsaac Osier Horvitch
Born in Cape Town in 1920. In the late 1930s while still at school he became an active member of the Communist Party, speaking at public meetings and selling…
BiographyJoseph Sallie Molefi
Joseph Sallie Poonyane Molefi ‘was born in 1930 at Winburg in the Orange Free State and attended St. Peter’s School in Johannesburg, matriculating in 1948.’ He…
ArticleThe International Defence and Aid Fund (IDAF)
… office had never made a request for funds. In the early 1980s, Ngila Michael Muendane , a former PAC representative … Portuguese Colonialism in Africa, by…
ArchiveObituary of Benita Parry (1931—2020) by Professor David Johnson
… 2020. In a series of brilliant essays written in the 1980s and 1990s, subsequently re-published as Postcolonial … community of sympathetic interlocutors. …
BiographyFrederik Willem de Klerk
Frederik Willem de Klerk was born in Johannesburg, Transvaal (now Gauteng) on 18 March 1936. F.W. de Klerk grew up in a political family, with both his father…
BiographyCarl Niehaus
Carl Niehaus was born on 25 December 1959 and grew up in Zeerust, North West Province. He completed his higher education at Rand Afrikaans University (RAU). A…
Speech by Oliver Tambo accepting the 1979 Jawaharlal Nehru award for International Understanding on behalf of Nelson Mandela, New Delhi, 14 November 1980
’Church and our Struggle’, Statement by Oliver Tambo at the World Consultation of the World Council of Churches, Holland, 16-21 June 1980
ArticleNdebele
… who pressed for KwaNdebele independence through the 1980s. KwaNdebele was declared a "self-governing" territory … Africa and in homelands other than…