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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…
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…
ArchiveJakes Gerwel: The epitome of integrity and courage by Niren Tolsi, 30 November 2012
… home of the left" during his time as rector there in the 1980s. It was also clear in his appropriation and subversion … work. Whether on the barricades…
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…
ArticleFatima Meer Timeline 1928-2010
… and professional training for ten students to the USA. 1980s Meer founded the Co-ordinating Committee of Black …
EventSouth Africa closes its borders with Lesotho
… of the South African and Lesotho in the 1970s and early 1980s was fraught with friction. This was the case …
EventThe trial of Dr Allan Boesak on charges of theft and fraud starts
… movers of the United Democratic Front (UDF). By the mid 1980s the UDF umbrella housed over 700 organizations opposing …
Chapter 7 - CONCLUSION
… of those who were central in the Secretariat and, in the 1980s, in the PB. Of all these exile Party leaders, with the … John Nkadimeng, and with the co…
The search for Peter Johnson’s story
… by researching which cemeteries were operational in the 1980s. This led them to believe that Mafikeng, Mmabatho …
EventKaunda calls for Thatcher's exclusion from talks on South African sanctions
… from the 1960s onwards. However, it was only in the 1980s that the implementation of sanctions would …
BiographyEddie J. Khaile
Little is known of his background except that he was a Msotho and became a qualified bookkeeper. In the early 1920s, he became financial secretary of the…
PlaceVolksrust, Mpumalanga
… was known as Dukuza (which means - pacify). Around the 1980s the government began another project that looked at … Mqhashi (settling of tenants). It was the…
BiographySamir Amin
Samir Amin was a prominent Egyptian-French Marxist thinker. His work on capitalism, colonialism and (under)development was one of the most important…
BiographyKagiso Patrick Mautloa
Kagiso Patrick (called Pat) Mautloa was born 24 September 1952 in Ventersdorp, Western Transvaal. Mautloa's family moved to Soweto in 1954. He attended…
BiographyErnest Methuen Mancoba
Ernest Methuen Mancoba was born in Turffontein, Johannesburg, Transvaal (Gauteng) on 29 August 1904. From 1920 to 1924 Mancoba trained as a teacher at the…
BiographyEbrahim Rasool
Ebrahim Rasool was born on 15 July 1962 in District Six, Cape Town. At the age of nine in 1972 his family was forcibly moved out of District Six when the…
BiographyBee Berman
Bee Berman was born in 1949 in Cape Town, Western Province (now Western Cape).After her schooling, Berman worked as a stage designer and actress at The Space…
ArticleMangosuthu Buthelezi was a man of immense political talent and contradictions
… in supportive journalists and political analysts. In the 1980s, he drew finances for innovative and convincing … Coming just before the political manoeuvres…
Images That Preserve History, and Make It : ‘Rise and Fall of Apartheid’ at Center of Photography by Holland Cotter (The New York Times), 20 September 2012
… category, exemplified by work produced, beginning in the 1980s, by the multiracial collective agency Afrapix. Afrapix … Sabelo Mlangeni and Thabiso Sekgala,…
BiographyGoolam H. Gool
Goolam H. Gool was born on 24 March 1905, in Cape Town, Western Cape. He was the son of Yusuf Gool, born in India, in 1864. He made his way to Cape Town in…
BiographyJayaseelen Naidoo
Jayaseelen “Jay” Naidoo was born on 20 December 1954 in Durban. He was the eighth child of Bakkium and Valatham Nadioo, a court interpreter. Naidoo…
BiographyEschel Mostert Rhoodie
Dr. Eschel Rhoodie was born in 1933 and was one of the key players in the 1978-79 ‘Information Scandal’. He served as the Secretary of the Department of…
Louis Charles George 'Loet' Douwes-Dekker
Louis Charles George Douwes-Dekker was born on 22 October in 1936,Indonesia Asia.His parents were scientists,he spent four years in a Japanese concentration…
BiographyDaniel Moabi (Dan) Mohapi
Dan Mohapi grew up in Soweto. He was first involved in the political struggle in the 1970s as a high school student. He completed his high school education at…
BiographyJannie “Jan Bek” Momberg
Jannie Momberg was born in Cape Town, Stellenbosch on the 27th July 1938 and matriculated at Paul Roos Gymnasium. He later studied at Stellenbosch University…
BiographyIsaac Bangani Tabata
Isaac Bangani Tabata (known as I.B. Tabata) was born near Queenstown in the Cape in 1909 and received his secondary schooling at Lovedale. After attending Fort…
BiographyDr Silas Modiri Molema
Dr. Silas Modiri Molema (Silas Modiri) was born in 1891 in Mafikeng, South Africa. His father was a member of the Royal family of the Barolong chieftaincy and…
BiographyThenjiwe Mtintso
Thenjiwe Mtintso, was born on 7 November 1950 in Soweto, Johannesburg where she also grew up. Her mother Hanna Mtintso was a domestic worker and her father…
BiographyCaleb Mayekiso
Caleb Mayekiso was an African National Congress (ANC) supporter who was arrested on 16 January 1964 in Graaff-Reinet, Cape, and sentenced to three years`…