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The Freedom struggle in Rustenburg
… fast-growing mining industry in Rustenburg. By the early 1980s, NUM established branches in the town and in the … the beginnings of the negotiations process…
‘In the belly of the beast’, Speech at Conference of the International Committee against apartheid, racism and colonialism in Southern Africa (ICSA), Stockholm, 1 April 1980
BiographyJacob Gedleyihlekisa Zuma
… the South African government representatives in the late 1980s to early 1990s. Among the first of these meetings, in …
ArticleThe Durban strikes and the resurgence of the trade union movement in 1973
… federations that helped dismantle apartheid by the late 1980s. From the beginning of the 20 th century Black workers …
ArticleSophiatown in Literature
An Invaluable Historical Source The literature on "life in Sophiatown" by a generation of prose writers, novelists, playwrights and poets is recognized as…
BiographyNkosiyakhe Amos Masondo
Nkosiyakhe Amos Masondo was born on April 21,1953 in Soweto,one of nine children,his parents were tenants on a white farm near Louwsburg in the Northern Natal…
BiographyGodfrey Sekhukhune
Mogaramedi Godfrey Sekhukhune was one of the ‘most important’ of the Sekhukhune revolt leaders. He ‘was from the royal family at Mohlaletse and in the 1940s…
PlaceUniversity of Cape Town
… number of Black Students remained relatively low until the 1980s and 90s, when the Institution, reading and welcoming … and Planned Process of Internal…
ArticlePort Elizabeth the Segregated city
… retained much of their integrated character well into the 1980s. Other communities, however, such as Fairview and South …
ArchiveWebinar Programme: Strategic Debates, the ANC - SACP alliance and the Soviet Union. Convenor: Tshepo Moloi.
… arguably the golden era of the ANC’s armed struggle, the 1980s. Patrick Mangashe was a participant in the African … mass popular struggles in the South…
BiographyMarutle Flag Boshielo
Boshielo was born to a poor family in 1920 in Phokoane village, in the Sekhukhuneland district in Northern Transvaal, now Limpopo Province. Boshielo joined…
BiographyGregoire Johannes Boonzaier
Born in Newlands, Cape Town in 1909 and lived most of his life at Onrus, Western Cape.The son of D.C. Boonzaaier (qv.), Gregoire pursued art against his father…
BiographyGerard Bhengu
Gerard Bhengu was born on 6 September 1910 in Outstation of Mariannhill Mission Station, Centecow, Bulwer district, Southern Natal. Bhengu received his early…
BiographyPrincess Magogo
Princess Magogo was born in 1900, the daughter of the Zulu King, Dinuzulu kaCetshwayo (1868 – 1913) and Queen Silomo. In 1926 she married King Mathole…
BiographyNimrod Boyce Tantsi
Nimrod Boyce Tantsi was born in Johannesburg in 1895, the grandson of one of the founders of the AME in South Africa. His family moved a number of times during…
BiographyJohannes Gerhardus Strijdom
Born on 14 July 1893, J G Strijdom served as Prime Minister of South Africa from 30 November 1954 to 24 August 1958. During the 1920s Strijdom practised law in…
BiographyMavuso Walter Msimang
Mavuso (Walter) Msimang was stationed and trained primarily in central Tanzania, at Kongwa, an ANC military base in the 1960s. He became a leading member of…
BiographyRahima Moosa
Rahima Moosa was born in the Strand, Cape Town on 14 October 1922. She attended Trafalgar High School in Cape Town. As a teenager, Rahima and her identical…
BiographyYetta Barenblatt
Yetta Barenblatt was born on 24 September 1913, in Dublin, Ireland, to Basna and Solomon Malamed. In 1925, a friend encouraged her to come to South Africa…
BiographyHugh Lewin
Hugh Lewin was born in 1939 in Lydenburg, Eastern Transvaal (now Mpumalanga), South Africa, to English missionary parents. At university he joined the…
My Spirit Is Not Banned - Introduction by Frances Baard and Barbie Schreiner
… a period of nearly 80 years, from her birth until the 1980s. This period can be divided into four interlinked and … against organizations and individuals. In…
Introduction - My Spirit Is Not Banned by Frances Baard and Barbie Schreiner
… a period of nearly 80 years, from her birth until the 1980s. This period can be divided into four interlinked and … against organizations and individuals. In…
2002 Introduction By Jordi Martorell
… the lessons and arm the revolutionary movement in the 1980s. One of the central questions which the document … Africa could not take place. In the second…
ArticleElizabeth Davenport: A teacher and member of the Black Sash by Cole Morgan
… house’ for a number of anti-apartheid activists in the 1980s (User, S). Through her work as a teacher and as a … of the apartheid government (Spink). For…
ArticleGrade 8 - Term 2: The Mineral Revolution in South Africa
… area of the city underwent something of a decline in the 1980s and 1990s, due to crime and when property speculators …
From Durban Falkirk to Defy: Changing sources of workers’ power in the metal industry by Andries Bezuidenhout and Edward Webster
… and the conflicts that took place in Defy in the 1970s and 1980s over representation and working conditions. The …
BiographyMthuthuzeli Tom
Mthuthuzeli Tom was born on 7 September 1959, in the village of Mpongo outside East London, and was one of eight children. His mother was a domestic worker and…
BiographyMithrasagaran “Murthie” Naidoo
Mithrasagaran (Murthie) Naidoo was the son of Ama and Thambi Naidoo. He worked as a clerk and was detained for political activities, without charges, for…
In the name of art - A reflection on fine art
… ironically found its feet in the difficult times of the 1980s. South African fine art, mural art and poster art of … mystics and myth-makers has led to a…
EventRebels overrun the Somalian capital of Mogadishu
… the guerrilla warfare in the area continued into the 1980s. In the late 1980s Somalia experienced economic depression that …