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BiographyAbdulhay Jassat
Abdulhay Jassat became involved in politics as a member of the Transvaal Indian Congress (TIC), which was an affiliate of the Congress Alliance in the 1950s…
BiographyMavivi Myakayaka-Manzini
Mavivi Manzini was born in Alexandra Township, outside of Johannesburg, Transvaal (now Gauteng) in 1956, and then moved to Soweto. Manzini suffered from polio…
BiographyNtwaesele “Fish” Keitseng
Ntwaesele "Fish" Keitseng was born in Kanye, Botswana in 1919, the son of a peasant,the oldest of six children. At the age of 23, he came to South Africa as a…
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 …
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…
BiographyMargaret Nash
Margaret Nash was born at Milford-on-Sea in England on 1 March 1929. In 1931, her family moved to South Africa and settled in Durban, Natal (now kwaZulu-Natal…
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 …
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…
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 …
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…
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 …
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 …
ArticleGhallywood: An Evolution of Ghana’s Film Industry
… films. [13] Consequently, in the period from 1966 to the 1980s only approximately 20 Ghanaian films were made. [14] … Video Films: Popular Culture The…
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”…
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…
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…
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. …
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…