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EventAdriaan Vlok is born
… an assassination attempt by state agents in the late 1980s, to ask his forgiveness. His symbolic act of washing …
BiographyPeter Nkutsoeu Raboroko
Peter Nkutsoeu Raboroko was born in 1917 in the Orange Free State where his father was employed as a farm laborer. He grew up in the slums of Sophiatown in…
BiographyCynthia Shange
Cynthia Shange was born in Lamontville, Durban, in Kwazulu Natal. She started modeling in 1970 and went on to win several titles. In 1972 she won the title…
BiographyDeton (Tito) Zungu
Tito Zungu was born in 1946 in Mapumulo district, Natal. Zungu received no formal education or art training. As a teenager he made clay models and in 1957 he…
BiographyMax Yergan
Max Yergan was born about 1893 in Raleigh, North Carolina, the grandson of a slave, he studied at Shaw University and Springfield College. From about 1920 to…
ArchiveClass, Consciousness and Organisation: Introduction by Kumi Naidoo
This chapter comes from the book
BiographyMaxwell Mduduzi Malinga
Maxwell Mduduzi Malinga, was one of South Africa’s most gifted and beloved fighters in the 1970s and 80s. He was born on 09 November 1947 at Steadville,…
BiographyGarth Erasmus
Garth Erasmus was born on 12 April 1956 in Uitenhage, Eastern Cape. Erasmus was raised in Port Elizabeth and from an early age expressed an interest in art. He…
EventPolicewomen are enlisted as full members of South African Police Force for the first time.
… etc. Only later in the 1970s and at the beginning of the 1980s were women allowed to work on patrol, under-cover and …
ArticleDecember 16, the reflection of a changing South African heritage
IntroductionDecember 16 looms large in the history of South Africa. Today in the new South African it is celebrated as the Day of Reconciliation between Blacks…
BiographyIzak de Villiers
Izak de Villiers was born in Paarl on 30 July 1936. He attended Paarl Gymnasium, a school for which he maintained a lifelong passion. He was also a dominee, a…
BiographyFrank Wiles
Frank Wiles was born in Cambridge, England, 1881. Frank Wiles was the son of sculptor Henry Wiles and the brother or W. G. Wiles. Prior to his arrival in SA…
BiographyJonas Mosa Gwangwa
Jonas Mosa Gwangwa was born in 1941 in Orlando East, Soweto. The young Gwanga was one of many musicians mentored by Alto Saxophonist Kippie Moeketsi. He then…
Sizakele Sigxashe
Sizakele Sigxashe was born on 21 June 1937. Sigxashe joined the African National Congress (ANC) in 1959 and became involved in its anti apartheid activities…
BiographyAdams Farid Ahmed
Born in 30 November 1933, in India he came to South Africa with his family in June 1935. Adams joined South African Indian Congress (SAIC) and the South…
BiographyIsaac Bokala
Isaac Bokala was born in 1929 in Newclare, Johannesburg. Bokala qualified as a teacher at the Wilberforce Institute, and in 1950 he began working at Total, the…
BiographyBartholomew Hlapane
Bartholomew Moru Hlapane was born in 1918 in in the Ficksburg distric of the Orange Free State. Hlapane was a factory worker. A traitor to the African…
BiographyChris van Wyk
Chris van Wyk was born at Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital, Soweto, Johannesburg in 1957 and grew up in Newclare, before moving to Riverlea, a poor suburb…
BiographyJohnson Dhlwati
He was born in the Clarkebury district of the Cape and educated at the Clarkebury Training Institution, where he later taught boot making. Dhlwati was a…
PlaceCrossroads Township
… and opposition movements during the late 1970s and 1980s. Tension mounted within the shanty town between … his former vice-chairman, Oliver Memani, in the…
ArchiveFish prices fall but it could be good 1975 - 1980
ArchiveAngola in protest to UN on SA 'incursions' 1977 - 1980
ArchivePublic Sector Government Coloured Affairs 1980 - 1981
ArchivePublic Sector Government Asian Affairs 1975 - 1980
BiographyPhumzile John Gomomo
Phumzile John Gomomo was born on a farm in Adelaide on 25 October in 1945. He was one of seven children born to the late Ndabeni (Mnzotho) and Nonga Stofile …
The Pioneers
… with the carved miniatures of Johannes Segogela in the 1980s. The subject matter of most of this early work, and … worked in Sophiatown and Soweto from the…
ArticleThe Empty Land Myth
… the ‘Homelands’ under the Apartheid Regime Source In the 1980s revisionist and liberal historians and archaeologists … could not form part of their…
ArticleThe Angolan Civil War (1975-2002): A Brief History
… War was the flow of Western funding to UNITA. During the 1980s, UNITA was supplied with US$80-million in arms, …
EventThe Azanian People’s Liberation Army (APLA) disbands
… of violence and were not politically motivated. During the 1980s APLA came up with the provocative slogan of "One …
BiographyCanodoise (Can) Themba
Canodoise Daniel Themba (Can Themba) was born in 1924, in Marabastad, Pretoria, Transvaal (now Gauteng),South Africa. He attended the University of Fort Hare,…