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What the lives of two South African music giants tell us about culture under apartheid by Gwen Ansell (The Conversation), 13 July 2017
… increasingly less often after 1976 and into the repressive 1980s – audiences appreciated and danced to both. Levels of … colour. Instead, he trained as an…
BiographyProfessor Bankole Ajibabi Omotoso (Kole Omotoso)
Professor Bankole Ajibabi Omotoso (better known as Kole Omotoso), novelist, playwright, journalist, scholar and actor, was born on 21 April 1943 in Akure, Ondo…
BiographyRev. Helenard Joe (Allan) Hendrickse
Helenard Joe Hendrickse (better known as Allan) was born on 22 October 1927 in Uitenhage, Eastern Cape, as the fifth of the seven children of Maria and Charles…
BiographyNombuso Mchunu
On her completion of Matric in 1972, Nombuso did casual work such as typing documents for the Garment Workers union, while she looked for permanent work. Her…
BiographyJohn Ronald Tolkien
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien was born in Bloemfontein in the Orange Free State on 3 January 1892. After his father died, Tolkien and his mother went to England…
Class, Consciousness and Organisation:Indian Political Resistance in Durban, South Africa, 1979 - 1996 by Kumi Naidoo
… allies dominated South Africa's political landscape in the 1980s. This study deals with political resistance amongst … of a myriad of progressive Indian…
Defining the term 'Bantu'
… the term 'Bantu' was slowly replaced by 'black'. In the 1980s, South African universities changed their ‘Bantu …
Sport, Race, and Liberation Before Apartheid by Dr Peter Alegi
Sport, Race, and Liberation Before Apartheid: A Preliminary Study of Albert Luthuli, 1920s-1952s Dr Peter Alegi, Department of History, Michigan State…
BiographyOscar Dumisani Dhlomo
Oscar Dhlomo was born on 28 December 1943 at Putellos, Umbumbulu, about 30 kilometers South East of Durban, the fifth of the 11 children of Flora and Isaac…
Virgile Joseph Bonhomme
Virgile Joseph Bonhomme was born in Durban on 15 March 1944 and his parents were Patricia and Francoise Virgile Bonhomme.He attended St Augustine’s Junior…
The flight of the Gwala-Gwala bird: Essays by Ari Sitas, review essay by Linda Cooper
… (p.156) This book is a treasure-trove of writings from the 1980s by Ari Sitas – one of South Africa’s leading … of the ‘labour poets’ that emerged in the…
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…
BiographySidumo Dlamini
Sidumo “Sdumo” Dlamini was born in a rural village of Nsthingila Hlatsikhulu in Swaziland on 2 March 1966. He moved to South Africa with his aunt at a young…
ArticleForced removals on Highveld and "black spots", 1912-1991
… For nearly fifteen years nothing happened. By the early 1980s, Swartrand had grown to about 420 families living in …
ArticleGandhi and the Passive Resistance Campaign 1907-1914
… which violent resistance was sanctioned. Later, in the 1980s, the UDF also took up the principle of non-violent … end the torture of Algerians by the French…
BiographyZubeida Jaffer
Zubeida Jaffer is a journalist who was active in the South African anti-apartheid and the trade union movements. She obtained a bachelor's degree in journalism…
BiographyProfessor Gert ‘Jakes’ Johannes Gerwel
Gert Johannes “Jakes” Gerwel was born on 18 January 1946 in the town of Kommadagga in the district of Somerset East, Eastern Province (now Eastern Cape). He is…
BiographyZwelakhe Sisulu
Zwelakhe Sisulu was born in Soweto on 17 December 1950, to liberation struggle icons Walter and Albertina Sisulu. He was the third of five children. When he…
BiographyJohn Nyathi Pokela
Pokela was one of the Africanist in the African National Congress Youth League who broke off to found Pan Africanist Congress in 1959. In 1966 he was sentenced…
ArchiveDon't give up, Govt urges the farmers 1980 - 1981
ArchiveMore blood in the black search for the Holy Grail 1974 - 1980
ArchiveAfrican History and the Struggle to Decolonise Africa, (Evening Post), 1980
ArchivePublic Sector Government Local Authority - Transvaal 1975 - 1980
ArticleTswana
… the territory and its population continued throughout the 1980s, as successive small land areas outside Bophuthatswana … homeland. Its population of about 1…
ArchiveHelping Budding Cameramen
… article features the work of Cecil Sols in Soweto, circa 1980s. …
ArchiveAfrapix flyer
… raise awareness about the Afrapix collective. Circa mid – 1980s. …
Book 5: People, Places and Apartheid - Glossary
… of the focus of this chapter on organisation during the 1980s, I use the term, and without the clumsy quotation …
In the Belly of the Beast - Speech at Conference of the International Committee against Apartheid, Racism and Colonialism in Southern Africa (ICSA) by O. R. Tambo, Stockholm, April 1980
Comrade Chairman, Distinguished members of the Presidium, Comrades, Delegates and Friends, There is a special significance which attaches to this…
BiographyLaurent Kabila
Laurent Desire Kabila was born on 27 November 1939 into the Luba tribe in the Katanga Province in the Belgian Congo. In 1960 Kabila became a leader of a youth…
BiographyWopko Jensma
Wokpo was born on 26 July 1939 in Middelburg, Cape Town. He received his education at the University of Potchefstroom, but his studies were temporally…