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BiographyMarlene van Niekerk
Marlene van Niekerk was born in 1954, on a farm in Tygerhoek near Caledon. An outstanding intellectual, philosopher and prodigious literary giant, van Niekerk…
BiographyThulisile Nomkhosi Madonsela
Thulisile Nomkhosi Madonsela was born in 1962 in Soweto. Her parents, Nomasonto and Bafana were both traders. She obtained a bachelor of Law from the…
BiographyMohammed Valli Moosa
It was, however, only at university that Moosa got involved in politics. He attended the University of Durban-Westville, where he obtained his BSc degree in…
BiographyDr Mathume Joseph “Joe” Phaahla
Mathume Joseph Phaahla was born on 11 July 1957 in Ga-Phaahla, Limpopo. Phaahla studied for a Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery at the University of…
EventAmerican President Ronald Reagan reverses his earlier stance on South Africa and agrees to limited sanctions
… During the late 1970 and early 1980s the Ford, Carter and Reagan administrations had tried … uranium, magnesium, and other strategic metals. By the mid 1980s…
’The beast is in the open’, Statement by Oliver Tambo at the International Conference in solidarity with the struggle of the Namibian People, Unesco House Paris, 13 September 1980
ArticleCongress of South African Students (COSAS)
… educational as well as political issues. Throughout the 1980s, under the banner of COSAS students have staged a … National Congress refugees in Zimbabwe and…
BiographySamuel Makama Martin Masabalala
Samuel Makama Martin Masabalala was born in 6th December 1877, in Uniondale in the Cape and was educated in Grahamstown and Port Elizabeth. He worked for some…
BiographyGubuzela Ngubane
The documentation related to the banishment of Gubuzela Ngubane provides an account of the historical process by which the Ntanzi community came in the 19th…
BiographyDieter 'Felix' Gerhardt
Born on 1 November 1935, in Berlin, Germany, Gerhardt joined the South African Navy after his father successfully persuaded naval chief Hugo Biermann to take…
EventChris Hani succeeds Joe Slovo as Chief of MK
… intensifying its struggle against South Africa during the 1980s, a period during which many cadres in the military …
Event30 000 Blacks fight for Britain in Anglo-Boer War
… gradually started to influence their approach. Since the 1980s, the perception that the war was a 'White man's war' …
PlaceFunda Community College
… art centre in KwaZulu-Natal closed its doors in the early 1980s, Funda was one of the very few places for Black … the liberation movement, ended up in jail…
ArticleReferencing Resources for Historical Research
… Blog 1 S. Mhlongo, 'Youth, Culture and Resistance in the 1980s', SAHO Blog [web blog], 10 June 2023, https://www.sahistory.org.za/blog/youth-culture-1980s , …
The Rise of Women’s Trade Unionism in South Africa by Peter LaNasa
… Commercial Catering and Allied Workers’ Union, by the mid 1980s it had over seventy thousand members. Before the union …
ArchiveNat reaction that to spells conflict, Rand Daily Mail, 4 June 1980
ArchiveSecurity debate fuelled by Sasol, Graham Linscott, The Star, 3 June 1980
The Broederbond by Norman Levy
… it attempted to negotiate with the ANC in exile in the 1980s, hoping that the NP would broaden the base of the state …
ArchiveChanging focus: The art and activism of Omar by Bongani Kona (Mail and Guardian), 4 June 2015
… of black life in South Africa gathered steam in the 1980s, when the country was crawling with foreign … Hayes says as the country became “big-news from the…
ArchiveJ.S. Scott, black artists and the cultural politics of 1920s Johannesburg by Henry Dee
ArchiveGeneral History of Africa Volume VI - Africa in the Nineteenth Century until the 1880s
ArchiveResponses by black women to race and gender dynamics under South Africa apartheid with special reference to the Black Consciousness Movement
… 'gender' as a legitimate political issue until the 1980s. …
Chapter 10 - The Character, Role and Significance of SANSCO
… of popular politics during the late 1970s and early 1980s, is that by J. D. Brewer in his After Soweto: An … organisations during the late 1970s and early…
BiographyBenni Gwigwi Mrwebi
Gwigwi Mrwebi, also called ‘Bra Gwigwi’, whose birth name was Benni, was a well known alto saxophonist in the 1950’s South African Jazz scene. He taught…
BiographyDon Mattera
Donato Francisco Mattera was born in Western Native Township, now called Westbury, Johannesburg in 1935. His grandfather was an Italian immigrant who married a…
BiographyChief Bhambatha kaMancinza Zondi
Chief Bhambatha (sometimes spelled Bhambada) was born in Mpanza near the town of Greytown, Natal Colony. He was the son of Chief Macinga of the abakwa Zondi…
BiographyTiyani Lybon Mabasa
Tiyani Lybon Mabasa was born in Johannesburg on 17 June 1952. The second of eight children, his single mother brought up Mabasa in Soweto.During his high…
BiographyDaniel Sefudi Rakgoathe
Daniel Sefudi (Dan) Rakgoathe was born on 25 February 1937 in Randfontein, Transvaal. From Standard VI, Rakgoathe was taught art by Mr Maseko, one f the first…
BiographyDr James Lowell Zwelinzima Njongwe
James Lowell Zwelinzima Njongwe was one of the most dynamic leaders of the African National Congress(ANC) after its turn to mass action in the 1950s, Njongwe…
BiographyDr Ansuyah Ratipul Singh
Dr Ansuyah Ratipul Singh was born in Durban, Natal (now kwaZulu-Natal) on 12 June 1917. She was the eldest daughter of Latchmee and Chatrapul Singh. Her…