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BiographyMandla Langa
Mandla Langa was born in Stanger, or KwaDukuza, a town in the Natal Province, now known as KwaZulu-Natal Province. He is the son of a preacher, and he grew up…
BiographyEnver Hassim
Enver Hassim was born in the Transvaal, where he was part of a large family, with two brothers and four sisters. His father made a living as a middleman and…
BiographyAbdul ‘Apamai’ Rahman Dawood
Abdul Rahman Dawood or 'Apmai' as he was affectionately known was born in India to a family of progressive community activists in October 1935. He was brought…
ArticleNamibian Timeline
… Combatant and other publications ran more regularly in the 1970s (figure 2). These were propaganda publications. They … an Oshiwambo-language newsletter…
PlaceDistrict Six, Cape Town
… was intense and the last Residents only left in the mid-1970s. The area, together with Sophiatown , in Gauteng became …
Everyone must take responsibility, 21 August, 2012 - Sahra Ryklief
… levels of deprivation as the wild-cat strikers of the 1970s and 1980s whose actions shaped our current labour …
EventHistory of December 16
December 16 looms large in the history of South Africa; it is celebrated as the Day of Reconciliation. First celebrated as ‘Dingane’s Day,’ when the…
Sadecque Variava
… who introduced the movement to Lenasia in the early 1970s. After 1994 he continues to be an active member of …
BiographyWessel Johannes “Hansie” Cronje
Wessel Johannes "Hansie" Cronje was born in Bloemfontein on 25 September 1969 to Ewie and San-Marie Cronje. He attended Grey College in Bloemfontein, a…
BiographyJohannes Nkosi
A martyr for the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA and SACP after 1953), was the son of Jacobina Nkosi (no details of his father could be traced). Nkosi…
ArticlePaper abstracts and biographies of speakers
… chapters to The Breakthrough: Human Rights in the 1970s, eds. Samuel Moyn and Jan Eckel, and Comrades of Color: … the criminalization of black organizations…
ArticleWomen’s Role in the Negotiations by Nicole Dellaportas
This article was written by Nicole Dellaportas and forms part of the SAHO and Southern Methodist University partnership project Women’s Role in the…
ArchiveBiography of Florence Mkhize by Rachel Manak
… and Mkhize continued her work against apartheid. In the 1970s, Mkhize devoted herself to the Release Mandela … "Liberation Struggles and Politics from the…
BiographyNomadhlangala Cosy Europa Ndabezitha
Nomadhlangala Cosy Europa Ndabezitha was born on 22 September 1953 in Durban, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal) to Madhlangala Dukuza Ndabezitha and Ntombinkulu Bhengu…
BiographyPauline Podbrey
Pessel Podbrez (name given at birth, later changed to Pauline) was born in Kovna, Lithuania in 1922, the eldest of two children. In 1933, the family immigrated…
Pretoria the Segregated city
… was also erected in the township. Political Mobilisation: 1970s-1980s The built environment was at the root of … were removed and all houses were demolished…
ArchiveCHAPTER ONE: A Conceptual Overview by Kumi Naidoo
This chapter comes from the book
A growing urban African population
As Johannesburg expanded, so did its need for African labour. After the First World War, a large number of factories were being established and were growing in…
How a mysterious ghost ship brought cosmic disco to Cape Verde: A new compilation documents the strange history of the African country’s groove-laden sound, formed following the discovery of a boatload of synths(The Guardian), 24 May 2016
… may become familiar with the futuristic, trippy sounds of 1970s and 80s Cape Verde. But what if that cargo had never …
PlaceAthlone - or Cape Flats, Cape Town
… Strandfontein; Pelican Park and Eagle Park. In the 1970s, Capetonians used to gather here with radios to listen …
ArticleSouth African Students Movement (SASM)
… , who had been released from Robben Island in the early 1970s and was living in Soweto, had some hand in forging …
EventBreyten Breytenbach was born on this day
… movement throughout the late 1960s and early 1970s, and joined the international organisation Okhela …
BiographyBenjamin Magson Kies
Benjamin Magson Kies Introduction Benjamin Magson Kies was an important South African political activist and theorist from about the middle of the 1930s…
ArticleHistory Grade 11 - Topic 3 Contextual Overview
… Family planning programme was implemented in the 1970s to distribute contraceptives freely to black women. …
PlaceFietas Museum, Johannesburg
… shoppers from all racial and economic backgrounds. In the 1970s the apartheid government began the demolition of Fietas …
Citation for Saleem Badat by Professor Paul Maylam, 10 April 2015, Rhodes University
… at what was the University of Natal in Durban in the late 1970s, and then at UCT. A likely career, yes, but not a …
BiographyThamsanqa “Thami” Mnyele
"For me as craftsman, the act of creating art should complement the act of creating shelter for my family or liberating the country for me people. This is…
BiographyMimi Coertse
Mimi Coertse was South Africa's first operatic prima donna."Prima donna", in its true sense, properly indicates the chief female vocalist in an opera company…
BiographyGünther Komnick
Günther Komnick was born in Insterburg in the former German province of East Prussia in 1929 into a cultured family of artists. He lived through the monumental…
BiographyIrma Stern
Irma Stern was born in 1894 in Schweizer-Reneke, Transvaal. She studied in Weimar and Berlin and had her inaugural exhibition in Berlin in 1919. On her return…