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BiographyEdgar Dumile Ngoyi
… All, here, and now: Black politics in South Africa in the 1980s , (London), p.70|Naki E, (2007), Firm belief in …
BiographyRichard Gert Sibande
Richard Gert Sibande was a leader among farm workers in the eastern Transvaal. He was an African National Congress (ANC) activist, and one of the first-string…
BiographyMichael Gagashe Zondi
Michael Zondi was born on 10 March 1926 in Msinga in Greytown, Natal. Zondi spent his childhood at a Swedish Lutheran mission station at Mtulwa, Natal. He…
BiographySylvia Ncediwe Mdunyelwa
Sylvia Ncediwe Mdunyelwa was born in the township of Langa in Cape Town. Mdunyelwa started her singing career in the 1970s when she joined Victor Ntoni’s…
BiographyHammington Silulami Majija
A graduate of Healdtown, he taught in Rhodesia and the Transkei and later worked as business manager of Contact in Cape Town. A prominent figure in the Liberal…
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
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, …
New Generation Sculpture
… During the 1980s the work of a number of sculptors working in the … Ruben (1952 - 1985) Nativity relief The sculpture of the 1980s can be compared to an…
BiographyS. J. J. Lesolang
S. J. J. Lesolang was born and educated in the Transvaal, he taught at Kilnerton during the 1940s and was president of the Transvaal African Teachers'…
BiographyJohn Bidwell Mancoe
John Bidwell Mancoe was born in 1895 in Reddersburg in the Orange Free State, he graduated from Healdtown and became a teacher. In 1923 he joined the…
ArticleThe Namibian struggle for independence – 1966 – 1990 – a historical background
… and resume their guerrilla warfare operations. In the 1980s, the political pressure was increasing on the South …
BiographyHyman Meir Basner
Hyman M Basner was born in Russia in 1905, and moved to South Africa at an early age. Basner and his mother joined other family members in South Africa in…
BiographyFikile Magadledla
Fikile Magadledla, South African artist and co-founder of the Soweto Art Association, was born in Newclare, Johannesburg, on 13 December 1952. As a young boy…
BiographyLaduma Ncwaba Mikaeli Madela
He was an author, illustrator, sculptor, heaven-herd and philosopher. He lived in the Ceza district where he received training as an inyanga from both his…
BiographyNathaniel Impey Honono
Nathaniel Impey Honono (Tshutsha) was born on 21 October 1908, in the district of Qumbu, in the then Transkei (Eastern Cape). He graduated with a BA degree…
BiographyLuli Callinicos
Luli Callinicos was born in Johannesburg, and is of Hellenic descent. She began her involvement in the struggle for democracy at an early age. She began her…
BiographyTu Nokwe
Tu Nokwe was born into a family of musicians. Her father, Alfred, was in a jazz swing band and her mother, Patty, was a soprano singer. When her father…
BiographyDorothy Joan Wright
Dorothy Joan Wright was born in Pretoria in 1911. Wright was the daughter of Dorothy Kay and studied under Francis Pickford-Marriott at the Port Elizabeth…
BiographyBokwe James Mafuna
Bokwe James Mafuna was born in January 14,1937 in Mafikeng.He dropped out of school at 15,was a manual laborer,then spent four years studying for the Catholic…
BiographyGertrude Shope
Gertrude Shope was born in Johannesburg, but grew up in Zimbabwe. She was trained as a teacher, and went on to teach in Natal and Soweto. When she was 29 years…
EventMlungisi Sisulu dies.
… by the political instability both in the 1970s and 1980s. As a youth, he joined the Congress of South African …
BiographyClive Zamani Xaba
Clive Zamani Xaba was born in 1980, Durban. Xaba attended the Saturday morning art classes run by Pat Khoza at the Durban Art Gallery from 1995. In 2001 he…
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BiographyB J Vorster [John Vorster]
… and Coloured voters into government, which in the early 1980s would lead to the Tricameral parliament . In 1978 …
Community Arts Project (CAP)
… a form of resistance during the liberation struggle in the 1980s. Following the 1982 Culture and Resistance conference …
ArticleSouth Africa’s electoral history timeline 1910-2009
… Africans. 1989 Following the major political crisis of the 1980s, the NP government went into its last election as a …
BiographyNontetha Nkwenkwe
Nontetha Nkwenkwe is one of the most remarkable female religious leaders associated with independent churches in the 1920s. Born in King Williamstown in 1875,…
The Polly Street Era
… Julian Motau, Andrew Motjuoadi, Ephraim Ngatane and in the 1980s, Thamsanqwa Mnyele. The art of the sixties and … control. This issue became of increasing…