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BiographyRobert Carl-Heinz Shell
Robert Shell was born in Cape Town, South Africa on 13 February 1949, the only child of a German father, Heinrich (Heinz) Schelowsky (later changed to Shell)…
ArticleAngolan Civil War (1975-2002): A Timeline of Events
… Battle of Cuito Cuanavale. 1989 Dos Santos and Savimbi agree …
BiographyWilliam Khanyile
At a young age, around the early 1960s, William Khanyile began selling the New Age newspaper in Pietermaritzburg. By then he was already interested in Marxism…
ArchiveNeil: 1953-1982
Silkscreened; black with green and brown camouflage; Neil: 1953-1982, poster of Neil Aggett
BiographyMalcomess Johnson Mgabela Kondoti
Malcomess Johnson Mgabela Kondoti was born in 1924 in the Kwalera district of the Eastern Cape. Very soon after he was born, his father moved to East London to…
BiographyDoe Molefe
Doe Molefe was born in 1950 in Dukathole, Germiston. Molefe began making highly original post-boxes at an early age. He is currently self-employed, running a…
BiographyThomas Kgope
Thomas Kgope was born on 10 April 1954 in Rustenburg, Transvaal. Kgope met Norman Catherine while he was working as an electrician on the latter's new studio…
ArticlePretoria Timeline 1800-2009
… Strydom kills 5 people at Strydom Square in Pretoria. 1989 September, a mini limpet mine explodes outside the …
Archive1987: CUSA: AZACTU
Orange, black and white calendar for 1987. List of principles and policies of two organisations. List of unions affiliated to CUSA/AZACTU. List of Offices…
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…
BiographyJ B Marks
John Beaver (JB) Marks was born on 21 March 1903, Ventersdorp, Western Transvaal (now North West Province). His father was a railway worker and his mother, a…
ArchiveSWAPO Calendar 1985
SWA Calendar celebrating 25 years of struggle. 1960 -1985. Red, white and blue border at top. Black and white photographs in centre of struggle for Namibia's…
ArchiveNUSAS 1984 Congress
Programme for the 62nd Annual Congress of the National Union of South African Students, University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg, 2-7 December 1984. Includes…
Archive1984 UDF unites
Calendar for 1984. Red banner at top with black lettering. Yellow background. Outline of map of South Africa with black and white artwork of people marching…
ArticleArmed Struggle, the revival of armed activity 1970s-1980s
The independence of Mozambique, in particular, gave tremendous momentum to the armed struggle in South Africa. Jacob Zuma recalls that when Angola and…
Letter from E. R. Roux to W.G. Ballinger, 19 March 1929
Apartheid - A Crime Against Humanity: The Cracks Appear 1988-1990
XIX 1987 - The taxation of Africans: Transvaal 1902-1907*
A Holding Operation: Surviving the State of Emergency, June 1986
History of Muslims in South Africa: 1950 - 1959 by Ebrahim Mahomed Mahida
… primary schools [Standards 2 to 5] in South Africa. From 1989 Arabic was taught at Higher Grade at Matriculation …
BiographyFather Smangaliso Mkhatshwa
Father Smangaliso Mkhatshwa was born in 1939 in Barberton, in Mpumalanga (Eastern Transvaal) province. He received his primary schooling in Barberton,…
BiographyDavid Patrick Russell
Born in the late 1930s, Bishop David Patrick Russell became involved in the struggle against apartheid from an early age. He did his first degree at the…
ArticleCape Youth Congress (CAYCO)
… the CAYCO was detained by the police and released in July 1989. That same year an entire CAYCO executive narrowly …
EventVlakplaas Commander testifies before Harms Commission about secret police killings in 1981
… Coetzee admitted the existence of the unit in a November 1989 in an interview with Vrye Weekblad, and confirmed the …
BiographyMakhosi “Tholi” Nyoka
Makhosi “Tholi” Nyoka was born on 3 April 1957 and grew up in KwaMashu, a township north of Durban, where she attended Umzuvele Secondary School. Nyoka was…
BiographyPhilemon Pearce Nokwe
As a child he grew up in a working-class environment - his father was a shoemaker - and attended primary schools in Evaton. He matriculated at St Peter's…
ArchivePublic Sector Government Local Authority - Transvaal 1989 - 1990
… Public Sector Government Local Authority - Transvaal 1989 - 1990 … Public Sector Government Local Authority - Transvaal 1989 - 1990 …
ArchivePublic Sector Government Local Authority - Cape 1989 - 1991
… Public Sector Government Local Authority - Cape 1989 - 1991 … Public Sector Government Local Authority - Cape 1989 - 1991 …
BiographyAmy Thornton
Amy Rietstein (now Thornton) was born in 1932 in Cape Town, Cape Province (now Western Cape). Both her parents were actively involved in the struggle, and it…
BiographyMartin Plaut
Martin Plaut was born in Cape Town, South Africa in May 1950. His parents were Erwin Plaut and Faith Plaut. His father was a furniture designer who had a shop…