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BiographyChristopher “Dali” Daluxolo Mpofu
… Parliament and Minister in the Government, since the mid-1980s. [19] Owing to his veteran status, history of …
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…
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…
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…
Defining the term 'Bantu'
… the term 'Bantu' was slowly replaced by 'black'. In the 1980s, South African universities changed their ‘Bantu …
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 …
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
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…
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…
ArticleTswana
… the territory and its population continued throughout the 1980s, as successive small land areas outside Bophuthatswana … homeland. Its population of about 1…
ArticleCuba and the struggle for democracy in South Africa
… Zaire and South Africa. This support continued until the 1980s, when the aggressors were forced to back down, leading … Despite several setbacks during the…
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 …
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…
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…
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…
ArticlePaper abstracts and biographies of speakers
… ascribe the label ‘armed struggle’? Second, we look at the 1980s and the era of transition as key to our understanding … struggle. The militarisation of the…
ArticleHistory Grade 10 - Topic 4 Essay Questions and Answers
… of the main causes for the Mfecane. [19] However, from the 1980s many historians rejected the one-sided view of Shaka as … more positive accounts of his…