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Burkina Faso: Key Facts and History by Angela Thompsell updated 13 February 2016
… Republic of Upper Volta Prior to the coups of the early 1980s, Burkina Faso, then known as the Republic of Upper …
EventSADF commandos bombs the ANC office in Maputo
… This was one of many cross border raids by the SADF in the 1980s. Some of the cross border raids include Matola, …
EventJohannes Kerkorrel, Afrikaans singer and songwriter, is born in Johannesburg
… on 27 March 1960. He started singing in the late 1980s while working for the conservative Afrikaner newspaper …
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…
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 …
The Colors of Resistance in Apartheid South Africa: Black Consciousness Poetry and the Racial Elusiveness of Wopko Jensma
… analyzes Black Consciousness poetry of the 1970s and 1980s South Africa alongside the protest poetry of white … analyzes Black Consciousness poetry of the…
ArchiveNat reaction that to spells conflict, Rand Daily Mail, 4 June 1980
ArchiveSecurity debate fuelled by Sasol, Graham Linscott, The Star, 3 June 1980
David Goldblatt: Structures of Dominion & Democracy (Artthrob), 31 March 2015, Durban, Kwazulu Natal, South Africa
… South Africa. Other images, taken throughout the 1970s and 1980s, show the human cost of the turbulence of the times as …
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
EventLocal elections in Townships
… introduction of Black Township Councils in the late 1980s, which attempted to co-opt Black leaders into the …
EventNigeria cuts its diplomatic missions
… introduced emergency economic reforms. By the late 1980s, Nigeria's debt totalled 30 billion American dollars …
Albie Sachs: From freedom fighter to justice on South Africa’s Constitutional Court by Morris Arvoy
… the first stirrings of democracy in South Africa in the 1980s, the Mott Foundation has funded programs that encourage …
BiographyMadi Gray
Madi Gray was born in Cape Town, where she grew up, attended school and went to university. Her parents were immigrants from Germany, who came to South Africa…
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…
PlaceChatsworth, Suburb of Durban
The origin of Chatsworth Chatsworth is a historically Indian township located in Durban some 14km south-west of the City centre, in the Umhlatuzana River…
ArchiveApartheid under siege, 1984-1988: actions and reactions
… the political violence that beset South Africa during the 1980s and examines critically the impact that violence had on …
EventZola Budd returns to SA
… and winning one world record after the other in the early 1980s. …
BiographyReverend Beyers Naudé
Beyers Naudé was born in Roodepoort, in the then Transvaal, on 10 May 1915. He was named after Christiaan Frederik Beyers, a Boer general who was close to his…
Reflections on the 1973 Durban strikes by Steven Freedman
… which combined with other unions to form Cosatu in the mid-1980s. So they were, in a sense, the beginning of today’s … in the cities, while student and…
ArticleNamibian Timeline
… and use of oral sources in the 20th century before the 1980s. 1960s Among other consequences, the Van Zyl and … Worker was launched as an “educational tool”…
PlaceSouth African National Art Gallery
… Wragg, Alan Davie and Ronald Kitaj were acquired in the 1980s. Under funding and the prohibitive prices of Western … of the Art that began to emerge in South…
BiographyYvonne Bryceland
Actress Yvonne Bryceland, née Heilbuth, was born in Cape Town on 18 November 1925. She worked as a newspaper librarian before her theatre debut in Stage Door…
BiographyRev George Wauchope
Rev George Wauchope was born in South Africa. He joined the South African Student Organisation (SASO) while studying at the University of Fort Hare in the…
Basetsana Julia, aka “Bassie” Kumalo
Basetsana Makgalemele, former Miss Soweto and Miss Black South Africa, was crowned Miss SA in 1994. The event is memorable as it coincided with the first…
BiographyCleopas Madoda Nsibande
Cleopas Nsibande was born into a family of seven on 25 March 1928, in Nyibe Location near Ermelo in the Mpumalanga province of South Africa. He attended…
Cleopas Madoda Nsibande
Cleopas Nsibande was born into a family of seven on 25 March 1928, in Nyibe Location near Ermelo in the Mpumalanga province of South Africa. He attended…
BiographyArthur David Bensusan
Dr Arthur David (Kin) Bensusan was born in Johannesburg, Transvaal (now Gauteng) in 1921. The son of a physician, he schooled at St John's College,…
BiographyIsmail Ahmed Cachalia
Molvi Ismail Ahmed Cachalia was born in the then Transvaal Province (now Gauteng) of South Africa on 5 December 1908. At the time Cachalia’s father, who was…