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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…
‘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
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 …
BiographyJacob Gedleyihlekisa Zuma
… the South African government representatives in the late 1980s to early 1990s. Among the first of these meetings, in …
ArticlePort Elizabeth the Segregated city
… retained much of their integrated character well into the 1980s. Other communities, however, such as Fairview and South …
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 …
BiographyC. S. Mabaso
C. S. Mabaso was born and educated in Natal and worked at various times as a teacher, a shopkeeper, and a clerk. For about 20 years he also was the secretary…
BiographyElijah H. Mdolomba
Elijah H. Mdolomba was born in the Cape and educated at Healdtown. At the time of Bhambatha Rebellion in 1906, he was chaplain to a loyalist African army unit…
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…
Joseph Zenzele Mavi
Trade unionist who brought the grievances of black workers int white homes through a crippling of Johannesburg municipal workers in 1980.Mr Mavi was born in…
BiographyPresident Seretse Khama
Seretse Khama was born on 1 July 1921 at Serowe, Bechuanaland (now Botswana). His grandfather was Kgosi (King) Khama III, known as Khama the Good, the ruler of…