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BiographySylvia Neame
Sylvia Brereton Neame (also known as Sylvia Neame-Jahn) was born in 1937, one of four children. She had two older brothers, Peter and Graham, as well as a twin…
BiographyDr Gangathura Mohambry (Monty) Naicker
Dr Gangathura Mohambry Naicker (more popularly known as Dr Monty Naicker) was the eldest son of Papiah Gangathura Naicker, a well-to-do businessman, and his…
BiographyAubrey Levin
Aubrey Levin was born in Johannesburg on 18 December 1938 to Jewish parents. Despite the National Party’s anti-Semitic exclusion of Jews from its ranks, Levin…
Document 7 - The Freedom Charter
… Johannesburg diocese round 3 500. By the beginning of the 1970s, for the continent as whole, it was South Africa which …
Sport, Race, and Liberation Before Apartheid by Dr Peter Alegi
… South Africa from international sport in the 1960s and 1970s. After a brief description of the Luthuli family's …
Growth of African Nationalism and Defiance
The 1940s saw a growth of African nationalism that positioned itself to challenge the rising Afrikaner nationalism. The ANC which was weak in the 1920 and…
ArticleTowards a people’s culture - Art and Resistance under Apartheid
Art in the state of siegeThe Sharpeville Massacre was one of the most important turning points in the history of South Africa. It triggered a chain of events,…
Chapter 5 -The Character, Role and Significance of SASO
… path of their development. Hirson is aware that by the mid-1970s there began to be some questioning of a solely 'race' … politics and would only become…
ArchiveThe sad secret kept by the trailblazing South African Steve Mokone
… a rather prominent member of the ANC, which even by the 1970s was considered to be a terrorist movement by the US … a respected left-wing journal in New York…
The Road to Durban: Workers’ struggles, student movements, and the resurgence of resistance politics in Namibia and South Africa by Heike Becker
… radical politics in Namibia and South Africa in the early 1970s. It demonstrates the significance of entwined histories …
Analysis: Is South Africa doing enough to prevent heritage flight? by Rebecca Davis (Daily Maverick), 07 March 2017, South Africa
… of the Witwatersrand reminded its convocation: “In the 1970s and 1980s, some of his most haunting photographs came …
ArchiveChanging focus: The art and activism of Omar by Bongani Kona (Mail and Guardian), 4 June 2015
… activist since his high school days in Durban and in the 1970s had a hand in the revival of the Natal Indian Congress. …
BiographyAnna Johanna Dorothea De Villiers
Anna Johanna Dorothea de Villiers was a linguist, writer, and educator. She born on 24 December 1900 on the farm Saxenburg, Kuilsrivier. She was the eldest of…
BiographyDiana Ferrus
Internationally renowned South African poet, writer, and activist for marginalised groups, Diana Ferrus, was born on 29 August 1953 in Worcester, Cape Province…
BiographyArthur Nuthall Fula
Arthur Nuthall Fula was born on 16 May 1908 in East London, Transkei (now Eastern Cape Province). In 1910, his parents – Samuel and Alice (née Stuurman) Fula –…
BiographyAshley La Grange
"My guiding principle is to work hard and live within my means. My father died when I was seven and my mother’s inheritance was embezzled, so she had to work…
BiographyBongani Mnguni
Bongani Mnguni was a South African photographer and photojournalist who dedicated his life to exposing the brutality of the apartheid system. Mnguni was…
Article1967 Terrorism Act, No. 83 of 1967
… the Terrorism Act continued throughout the late 1960s and 1970s. In January, 1969 in Pietermaritzburg, twelve alleged …
PlaceElandsberg Nature Reserve, Western Cape
… in the reserve. The reserve, which was established in the 1970s, has abundant herds of eland, springbuck, black …
In the name of art - A reflection on fine art
… are of a miners' compound that was destroyed in the 1970s. It is not clear who painted these murals, which are …
ArchiveAt the Pompidou by Jeremy Harding, 26 April 2018
… with more than one unscrupulous landlord, until in the 1970s he and his wife, with their cattle and maize seeds, …
Chapter 3 - SASO: The Ideology and Politics of Black Consciousness
… organisation, as exemplified by SASO in the late 1960s and 1970s (Brooks and Brickhill, 1980: 72). ASA and ASUSA, … structure. In fact, it could be argued…
BiographyJohn Langalibalele Dube
John Langalibalele Dube was born at Inanda Mission station of the American Zulu Mission (AZM) in Natal on 22 February 1871 to James and Elizabeth Dube. …
BiographyYvonne Mokgoro
Justice Yvonne Mokgoro was a judge of the Constitutional Court of South Africa from its inception in 1994 until the end of her 15 year term in 2009 She was…
BiographyLewis Baker
Lewis Baker was married to Villa Baker. He was a civil rights lawyer, and a member of the South African Communist Party (SACP). The couple continued their…
ArticleDespite the 1994 political victory against apartheid, its economic legacy persists by Haydn Cornish-Jenkins
… mainstream after the failure of Keynesian policies in the 1970s; the theory was championed by Margaret Thatcher in the …
PlaceSecunda
… Built in the 1970s/80's for Sasol's second and third CTL plants, its name …
ArticleCommunity histories in Port Elizabeth
Xhosa community The pre-1994 apartheid system of homelands or 'Bantusans' denied Xhosa people South African citizenship and attempted to confine them to the…
ArticleGarment Workers Union (GWU)
Formed in 1928 by Emil Solomon (Solly) Sachs, this was a union of women factory workers that transcended barriers of colour and class. In the late 1920s and…
PlaceDoornkop/Doornsluiten
… point for many evictees from White owned farms in the mid 1970s. Unexpectedly, after the first eviction, the owner …