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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,…
ArticleCurries Fountain events timeline
… 1964 Currie's gets floodlights. Late 1970s-1980s-early 1990s Up until the late 1970s the predominant use for … the 1980's and into the early 1990's. 1973…
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…
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…
ArticleHIV/Aids in South Africa timeline 1940s-2009
… rate in Uganda had been reduced by 70% since the early 1990s. It was estimated that half a million Ugandans were HIV …
The Mass Democratic Movement, February 1988 - January 1990
… on local level. The conflict however continued into the 1990s. The State of Emergency gave a framework for state …
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…
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 …
BiographyChris Ledochowski
… and designed and produced ceramic frames for them. 1990s Initiated ten year project to document the visual art …
BiographyLot Kgagudi Maredi
… it, that is what broke my heart”.’ During the early 1990s, Lot Kgagudi Maredi served as the chairperson of the …
BiographySumboornam Pillay
… Congress (ANC) and the National Party (NP) in the early 1990s, Moodley did not agree with what she felt was the …
BiographyJacob Dumdum Nyaose
Jacob Dumdum Nyaose was born about 1920 at Port Shepstone in Natal, the son of a Zulu seaman who belonged to the Industrial and Commercial Workers' Union…
BiographyHarold Strachan
Robert Harold Lundie "Jock" Strachan was born in 1925 in Pretoria. He obtained a BA (FA) from the University of Pretoria, and won an Emma Smith Scholarship to…
ArticleThe Namibian struggle for independence – 1966 – 1990 – a historical background
During the 1960s most of Africa’s countries had gained independence except for Namibia. Geographically, Namibia is made up of savannah, dry scrub land, as well…
Indian South Africans timeline 1990-1999
Indian South Africans Timeline: 1990-1999 1990 23 July, Billy Nair was detained following police allegations of an uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) plot, code-named…
BiographyMiriam Makeba
Miriam Makeba was born in March 4th, in 1932 Johannesburg, during a time of economic depression. Her mother, a domestic worker, was imprisoned for six months…
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1990-1999
1990 2 February, President F. W. de Klerk makes a speech at the opening of Parliament, announcing the lifting of a 30-year ban on the ANC, the Pan African…
ArticleDurban Timeline 1497-1990
1497 - 1699 1497 24 December, A flotilla of three Portuguese ships under the command of Capt Vasco da Gama sailed up the eastern seaboard of southern…
BiographyJonas Dinous Matlou
Jonas Dinous Matlou was born 2 June 1920 in Diepsloot north of Johannesburg. He became an early member of the African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL)…
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…
BiographySheila Lapinsky (nee Barsel)
… in persuading the African National Congress (ANC) in the 1990s to include gay rights in their agenda so that they …
BiographyAlfred Temba Qabula
… this time his poetry was widely published. In the early 1990s, funding for cultural projects began to dry up and, …
BiographyBonakele Milner Ntsangani
Bonakele Milner Ntsangani was born in 1923 in Middledrift in the Eastern Cape. He was one of six children and had a twin brother. He attended school at Welsh…
BiographyJosie Palmer
Josephine ‘Josie’ Palmer (Mpama) was born in 1903 in Potchefstroom, Transvaal (now North West Province), to Georgina Garson and Stephen Bonny Mpama, an…
BiographyFiroz Cachalia
… in the Centre for Applied Legal Studies in the early 1990s. He is widely published in the legal field. Cachalia …
BiographyPeter Moonsammy
Peter Moonsammy was born on 25 March 1928 in Market St, Johannesburg. Moonsamy was the elder brother of Paul and Dasu Joseph who were Transvaal Indian…
BiographyAshlatha Rambally
… making a real impact on the lives of the community. In the 1990s, Moodley became editor of the feminist journal Agenda, …
BiographyErnest Cole
Ernest Cole was born on 21 March 1940 as Ernest Levi Tsoloane Kole, in Eersterust, Pretoria. He left school when Bantu Education was introduced, and…
ArticleWomen in the schizophrenic 1940s - World War II and its aftermath
The 1940s opened with the devastating Second World War in full swing. This decade also marked the gradual transition from a mining and agricultural economy …
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1990-1999
… During the 1990s, behind-the-scenes negotiations between the government …