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BiographyMoses Mauane Kotane
Moses Mauane Kotane was born at Tamposstad in the Rustenburg district of the western Transvaal on 9th of August in 1905, Kotane came from a devoutly Christian…
BiographyPoomoney Moodley
Poomoney Moodley was born in Mooi River, Natal on 28 June 1926 to Ramsamy Dharamalingam Moodley and Kanniamah Moodley; who themselves were children of Indian…
PlaceClaremont Main Road Mosque
… conflict spanned over 10 years in the mid 1960s to late 1970s. The first-ever democratic election of an Imam brought …
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
This paper was submitted to the 1973 Durban Strikes Celebrating 50 Years Conference ABSTRACT FOR PROPOSED CONFERENCE 26-27 JANUARY, 2023: ‘CELEBRATING…
Chapter 10 - The Character, Role and Significance of SANSCO
… part of an examination of popular politics during the late 1970s and early 1980s, is that by J. D. Brewer in his After … various anti-apartheid organisations…
EventEditors oppose legislation on media control
… independent press as a threat to its authority. By the mid-1970s, in the aftermath of the Soweto Uprising of June 1976, …
EventThe South African Football Association (SAFA) is founded
… African Pirates and the White Germiston Callies. In the 1970s soccer continued to grow as a sport and to change its …
In summary: Factors resulting in the crisis
The emergence of South Africa's democracy in the 1990s The crisis of apartheid in the 1980s Factors contributing to the crisis: * A global economic crisis:…
The melody of freedom
… went through a difficult period in the 1960s and the 1970s. The resistance against apartheid, under the leadership … early death, like Gideon Nxumalo and…
ArticleGrade 11 - What were the consequences when pseudo-scientific ideas of Race became integral to government policies and legislation in the 19th and 20th centuries?
Theories and Practice Scientific Racism These ideas about race were pided into two main theories, scientific racism and social Darwinism. Scientific…
Gallery
This extensive history through pictures gallery documents the role that women have played in the liberation and democratisation of our country from 1900…
“Exodus without a map”: What happened to the Durban moment? by Edward Webster
… to apartheid that took a creative turn in Durban in the 1970s and early 1980s. In Part Two, I examine the idea that, … between the white officials and black…
BiographyMary Elizabeth Davis
Mary Elizabeth Davis was born in Portobello County, Edinburgh, Scotland on 26 December 1858. She was a business person and supporter of women’s causes. Davis…
BiographyFiroz Cachalia
Professor Firoz Cachalia holds a BA degree, a BA (Hons) degree, an LLB and a Higher Diploma in Company Law from Witwatersrand University. Cachalia is currently…
BiographyMathews Phosa
Nakedi Mathews Phosa was born on 1 September 1952 in Mbombela Township, Nelspruit, Eastern Transvaal (now Mpumalanga Province). He grew up with his grandfather…
BiographyThomas Benjamin Davis
Thomas Benjamin Frederick Davis, the son of Thomas Leipold, a fisherman, and Jemima Davis was born in April 1867 in Jersey, Channel Islands, a British Crown…
BiographyCloete Breytenbach
Breytenbach was born in 1933 and grew up in Bonnievale in the Cape Winelands. His father was a farmer. Later the family moved to Wellington in Cape Town. As a…
BiographyColleen Lombard
Colleen Lombard (previously known as Colleen Rayson), an anti-apartheid activist, former political detainee, and treason trialist, was born in Wynberg, Cape…
BiographyOlive Peace Landman
Beginnings Olive Peace Rosenberg was born in Knysna on 5 August 1919, the eldest daughter of Hendrika Jacoba Pieterse and Ellis Lawrence Rosenberg. Hendrika…
BiographyVilla Baker
Villa Baker was born on 12 March 1917, the year of the Russian Revolution, while World War I was still raging . She grew up in Brakpan, East Rand Transvaal …
BiographyEli Weinberg
Eli Weinberg was born in 1908 in the port of Libau, in Latvia on the Baltic Sea. He experienced the First World War and the October Revolution of 1917 as a…
BiographyClarence Mlami Makwetu
Clarence Mlami Makwetu was born on 6th December 1928 in Hoyita, in the Cofimvaba district, Transkei. He was the second of five children of Minah and Gqongo…
BiographySelaelo Charles 'Dan' Ramusi
Selaelo Charles "Dan" Ramusi was born 14 November 1954 in Dube Village, Soweto, Transvaal (now Gauteng). He was the first born son of the late Collins…
BiographyMfanasekaya Pearce Linda Gqobose
Mfanasekaya Pearce Linda Gqobose was born on 7 August 1917 at Kwa Mdingi, in King Williams Town. He completed his primary schooling at Kwa Mdingi Lower Primary…
Biography of Bessie Emery by Elizabeth Venditti
… friendship was also mentioned in Head’s letters in the 1970s, showing their closeness and long lasting friendship. …
EventThe South African Bureau of State Security (BOSS) is established
… W. Botha, as BOSS became increasingly powerful in the late 1970s. In certain respects, BOSS was even more powerful than …
Zonal Centenary Memorial Lecture on the Life and Times of David Bopape, presented by David Makhura, ANC Gauteng Provincial Secretary, 21 June 2012, Tsakane
… struggle regained momentum. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, he continued to do underground work of the movement …
BiographyNontsizi (Cizama, Imbongikazi yakwaCizama) Mgqwetho
Virtually nothing is known about the life of the first and only major female poet to write in Xhosa, apart from what is revealed in her writings, almost all of…
BiographySheila Lapinsky (nee Barsel)
Sheila Lapinsky (nee Barsel) was born in 1944* in Johannesburg, Transvaal Province (now Gauteng) to a middle-class Orthodox Jewish family. Her aunt and uncle…
BiographyAlfred Temba Qabula
Alfred Temba Qabula was born on 12 December 1942 in Flagstaff, Bhalasi in Pondoland to Solomon and Nonkhululeko Qabula. Qabula’s father worked as a machine…