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BiographyRoelof Petrus (Roelf) Meyer
Roelof Petrus (Roelf) Meyer was born in Port Elizabeth on 16 July 1947, the son of Hudson and Hannah Meyer. His father was a farmer in the Humansdorp district…
BiographyLionel Davis
Lionel Bazil Davis was born in Cape Town in 1936. He was arrested in 1964 and sentenced to seven years on Robben Island between for committing acts of sabotage…
BiographyQaqawuli Godolozi
Qaqawuli Godolozi was born in Durban 26 of July 1955 to Mbuyiselo Godolozi and Nobubele Jafta. His family relocated to Peddie in the Eastern Cape where he grew…
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…
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 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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 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…
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
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 …
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. …
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…
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…
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…
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…
EventUp to 100 ANC members are reported to have been detained in Swaziland
… cache of arms in the north of the country was found. The 1980s period was one of bitter times in the history of the …
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…
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…