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ArticleGrade 12 - Civil Resistance in South Africa 1970s to 1980
What was the nature of the civil society resistance after the 1960s? During the 1960s and the 1980s South Africa was ruled by the National Party. The NP…
The armed struggle and state repression of the 1960s
A turning point in the struggle against apartheid came about in the 1960s. This change was the result of combined elements, including the formation of the PAC,…
ArticleJohn Maxwell Coetzee timeline 1940-2003
1940 Born in Cape Town. 1960s Graduates from the University of Cape Town with Mathematics and English. 1972 Earns a PhD in literature from the…
BiographyCaptain Lancelot Andrew Ariba
… in SA. In Cape Town he was a well known personality in the 1940s. He was a President of bod the CPIA and SASA. Exhibitor …
BiographyMassabalala (Bonnie) Yengwa
… a Zulu Novel, Inqaba ka Mabelemade , published in the 1940s, and a chapter in Apartheid (1971), edited by Alex La …
BiographySorabjee Rustomjee
… Vice-President of the Transvaal Indian Congress in the 1940s. He served a term in prison during the Indian passive …
BiographyRaymond Ackerman
Please note: This biography is a modified extract from the following source: Bell, P. (1999) “Raymond Ackerman” from They Shaped our Century: The Most…
BiographyElizabeth Mafekeng
… of the Federation of South African Women (FEDSAW) in the 1940s. In 1952 Mafekeng participated in the African National …
Mashwabada Victor ''Castro'' Mayatula
… African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL) in the late 1940s. He became a preacher in the Bantu Bethlehem Christian …
ArticleWomen, employment and the changing economic scene, 1920s
… by the 1920s (and the increased rapidly in the 1930s and 1940s), with women such as Ray Alexander , Hetty McLeod, …
Soweto and mounting pressure on the apartheid state, 1970s
The Day Our Kids Lost Faith. 1976. © Bailey's African History Archives During the 1970s, and particularly in the late 1970s after the Soweto uprising of 1976,…
ArticleWomen’s resistance in the 1960s - Sharpeville and its aftermath
As the 1950s gave way to the 1960s the African National Congress (ANC) and Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) both announced plans to tackle the pass laws for…
BiographyEsther Mahlangu
… a widening range of paint colours that emerged in the 1940s. She married and had three sons, but lost her husband …
BiographyMary Maria Burton
Mary Burton was born on 19 January 1940 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. One of three children of Molly and Peter Ingouville, Burton and her family moved around in…
Article1960s: The Civil Rights and Black Power movements
Introduction It is important to note that South African events do not occur in a vacuum, as we are part of a large continent and a much larger world…
ArticleWomen’s Workplace Oppression in 1970s South Africa by Cait Chapman
This article was written by Cait Chapman and forms part of the SAHO and Southern Methodist University partnership projectWomen’s Workplace Oppression in 1970s…
The 1980s and the crisis of Apartheid
Please note that this section is detailed and we have broken it up into 3 pages: Use the page navigation on the right or bottom of the page Introduction …
ArticleYouth Politics in South Africa in the 1970s
The 1970s period was a watershed for youth politics in South Africa. The South African Student Organisation (SASO) was gathering support from campus to campus…
BiographyNeville Allan Lewis
… Allan Lewis was in born Cape Town, 1895. Considered in the 1940s to be South Africa’s premier society portraitist, Lewis …
BiographyArthur William Blaxall
Arthur William Blaxall was born in 1891 in Britain. He was a clergyman who was convicted of aiding the African National Congress (ANC) and the Pan Africanist…
BiographySylvester Stein
Sylvester Stein was born on 25 December in 1920 in Cape Town, and was brought up in Durban. He studied engineering at Howard College in Natal before serving in…
BiographyAbdullah Abdurahman
… the first of fifteen such schools established by the mid-1940s. Given the ineluctable racial divisions of South …
Indian South Africans timeline 1940-1949
… Pembroke Chambers in West Street. 20 November, during the 1940s, the Durban Indian Municipal Employees Society (Dimes) …
Re-Emergence of Congress Activity 1980s
By 1980, the Black Consciousness organisations were in a gradual decline and struggling to avert state repression. Congress-inspired traditions were also re…
ArticleThe turbulent 1950s - Women as defiant activists
In the 1950s the government's increasingly repressive policies began to pose a direct threat to all people of colour, and there was a surge of mass political…
ArticleApartheid crumbles, Women in the turmoil of the 1980s
The 1980s saw escalating state repression and mass detentions. In a frenzy of desperate reaction, the government declared a series of back-to-back states of…
BiographyBasil Coetzee
Basil Coetzee ( ‘Ou B’ or 'Manenberg' as he was affectionately known) was born in District Six, Cape Town, on 2 February 1944. He grew up in the area, and as a…
ArticleA Land Dispossession History 1600s-1990s
Anyone who travels over the vast expanse of South Africa is immediately struck by the great variations in its landscape and the differing contexts and…
The Liberation Struggle documents: 1990s
BiographyDr Ansuyah Ratipul Singh
… with black South Africans.” The novel, set in the 1940s partly in South Africa and in India, tells the story of …