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ArticleCape Town the Segregated city
… families that still remained were forced to move in the 1980s. Over the course of the forced removals, people were … The growing civil unrest in the…
Article1973 Durban Strikes – TUCSA – Harriet Bolton
… organise African unions on an industry-wide basis. In the 1980s, TUCSA unions, to which the majority of Indian workers … the Natal garment union, battled to…
ArticleInternational Rugby World Cup Timeline 1983-2011
… The history of the Rugby World Cup dates back to the 1980s with rugby becoming the last major sport to stage a …
ArticleYusuf Dadoo Timeline
… of communism and his untimely demise during the 1980s when Apartheid had it reached its zenith. …
Port Elizabeth an Overview
… therefore, that at the height of this conflict during the 1980s, the Eastern Cape suffered much of this violence. …
Polokwane an Overview
… in the region. The uprisings of the late 1950s and mid-1980s in Sekhukhuneland had a marked effect on Pietersburg , …
ArticleJohannesburg the Segregated city
… redevelopments only began to take place during the late 1980s. A third peripheral segment was the site of a small … or ‘Fietas’, prior to the demolition of…
ArticlePopular resistance and police brutality in democratic South Africa
… current wave of protests stretches back to the 1970s and 1980s, the rate of protests rose dramatically and most of the … the government’s pass laws , 1976…
Nelspruit the Segregated city
… activists behind closed doors in the 1970s and 1980s. In June 1968, the central square was renamed …
ArticleRustenburg Timeline 1850-2001
… City, and the resort opens its doors on 7 December 1979. 1980s Implats at first mines the Merensky Reef, and in the early 1980s it begins to mine the UG2…
ArticleTransport and General Workers Union (TGWU)
… Advisory and Coordinating Council (TUACC) in 1974. By the 1980s its membership exceeded 20 000 in the transport sector. …
ArticleThe Black Sash: A History of Transformation
… were sit-ins in the commission courts. Well throughout the 1980s this exercise provided an insight into the political … support the acts of violence that…
The people armed, 1984-1990
… struggle against the National Party government in the 1980s. This decade witnessed an increase in the armed … speaking at the launch of the UDF © Rashid…
Article1960 - 1994: Armed Struggle and Popular Resistance
… struggle against the National Party government in the 1980s. This decade witnessed an increase in the armed … speaking at the launch of the UDF © Rashid…
ArticleThe Land Act, Traditional Authorities and the Native Affairs Department (NAD) 1913-1953
Traditional authorities were indispensable in the application of the provisions in the 1913 Natives Land Act in areas of rural South Africa designated as …
ArticleA history of Kwaito music
This genre of music started emerging in the 1990s. It is a mixture of a number of different rhythms from marabi of the 1920s, kwela of the 1950s, mbaqanga…
Natal Performing Arts Council (NAPAC)
… the Loft Company and the Musicals department. In the late 1980s reductions in state funding and pressure from political …
Formation and launch of the UDF
… ) Growing unrest leading to the transition By the mid 1980s, resistance against the system of apartheid had …
ArticleAbstracts presented for the 1973 Durban Strikes Conference
… Meintjies Trade unions and Popular Resistance in the 1980s and New Alliances and the Different Unions Traditions …
ArticleHarriet Bolton and the Garment Workers Industrial Union
By the 1950s, Harriet Bolton began to help with organising work in the unions. From the late 1960s Harriet Bolton was an executive committee member of TUCSA. …
ArticleTowards a people’s culture - Art and Resistance under Apartheid
… state repression. This group furthered their views in the 1980s and developed a radical critique of society, arguing …
ArticleCommemoration, remembering and memorialising June 16 Soweto uprising
… the June 16 Soweto uprising started in the early 1980s. One of the projects involved the construction of a …
ArticleAfrapix
… popular uprising against white minority rule in the 1980s. Initially, the Inter-Church Media Project (IMP) … the unfolding political drama that was South…
ArticleEnd Conscription Campaign (ECC)
… were for religious or pacifist reasons. Then in the early 1980s came the first overtly "political" objectors - Billy …
ArticleuMkhonto weSizwe (MK) in exile
… particularly the Transkei and the Border regions. In the 1980s the Transkei, which shared a common border with … in intelligence and guerrilla warfare. In…
ArticleUnited Women’s Congress (UWCO)
… also played an important role in setting up civics in the 1980s and as one of the few organisations that existed at the …
ArticleDutch Reformed Church (DRC)
… establishment of churches of these three groups. In the 1980s the church was expelled from the World Alliance of …
ArticleOliver Reginald Tambo Timeline 1917 - 2011
… in Havana, Cuba 5 November Delivers a press statement 1980s 1980 2 January Gives a press conference , introducing …
ArticleThe influence of apartheid
… to the actions of Inkatha in Kwazulu Natal during the 1980s and early 1990s. The people of Moutse responded by … during this time was the establishment…
Grade 12 - Topic 4 - The end of the Cold War and a new global world order 1989 to present
… You can read about the crisis of Apartheid in the 1980s in section 5 of the grade 12 material. The collapse of … Union for economic and military support. By…