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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…
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 …
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 …
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…
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…
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 …
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…
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…
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…
ArticleFatima Meer Timeline 1928-2010
… and professional training for ten students to the USA. 1980s Meer founded the Co-ordinating Committee of Black …
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`…
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…
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 …
The search for Peter Johnson’s story
… by researching which cemeteries were operational in the 1980s. This led them to believe that Mafikeng, Mmabatho …
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…
40 Years of Shop Floor Resistance in a Rubber Factory by Sithembiso Bhengu
… life, identity, and resistance using case studies of the 1980s and 2000s. By revisiting theories of workplace … of cultural formations to beyond workplaces…