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BiographyBilly Nair
Billy Nair was born in Ansonia Lane (now Lacey Road), Sydenham, Durban on 27 November 1929. He was one of five children born to Parvathy and Ittynian (Kisten)…
BiographyDr. Walter Benson Rubusana
Walter Benson Rubusana was born on 21 February 1858 at Mnandi in the Somerset East district of the then Cape Colony. His father was a senior councillor …
BiographyDawood Seedat
Dawood Seedat (1916-1976) was the grandson of a Ladysmith, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal) trader M.E. Seedat, who had nine children, one of whom, Ahmed, moved to…
Biography of Lefifi Tladi by Paul Linck
… became strongly tied to the labor movement of the late 1970s as izibongo-like performances were included at …
ArchiveSishaywa Zimvula Nje, Simanikiniki Nje, Umhlol’Usekhaya – Reading Mafika Gwala in Times of Thunder and the Terror of the Elements by Sanibonani Molweni
… in the heat of creativity and the political fires of the 1970s, the 1980s and early 1990s. But the point worth making …
State policies and social protest, 1924-1939
One of the most important developments in South Africa in this period was the formation of the Pact Government in which the push for independence from Britain…
ArticleSophiatown Timeline
Pre-1860s South Africa is still a predominantly agrarian 1860s-1880s This period marks a turning point in South African history when the discovery of…
'Native life' 100 after Sol Plaatje published it by Janet Remmington, Brian Willan, Bhekizizwe Peterson (Mail and Guardian), 30 September 2016
… Native Life was mostly neglected. But, from the 1960s and 1970s, as historians began to take a more sustained interest …
PlaceClaremont, a Suburb of Cape Town
… Claremont, due to the escalating of crime in the 1970s and 1980s when the removals took place. A large part of …
Thoko Phillip Mamogobo
Thoko Phillip Mamagobo, popularly known as ‘Thoko’, was born on 6 May 1933 and raised in a village situated about 110km from Polokwane, Northern Transvaal (now…
BiographyPetros Sipho Sibusiso Mkhize (Mkize)
Petros Sipho Sibusiso Mkhize was born and raised in Macambini, a rural area in KwaZulu-Natal. Little is documented about his early life, but like many young…
2002 Introduction By Jordi Martorell
From: Lessons of the 1950s By Richard Monroe, March-May 1984 Lessons of the 1950s addresses all the main questions of revolutionary strategy and tactics and…
ArticleThe spread of these ideas to Europe and Australia
The indigenous inhabitants of Australia The continent of Australia was settled about 60,000 years ago. Before European settlement, most of the inhabitants of…
Khoisan Identity
… many refusing to register for the new voters’ roll. In the 1970s and 1980s, various members of the Khoisan community …
Book 6: Negotiation, Transition and Freedom - Glossary
… movements in their struggle against apartheid. In the 1970s several black-ruled states joined together to …
Bitter Battles to Come - Message to the Meeting of the Council of the Afro-Asian Peoples' Solidarity Organisation by O. R. Tambo, Tripoli, January 1971
… we enter the dynamic, and highly explosive decade of the 1970s. But even as we survey the world scene from this …
ArchiveCHAPTER 4 - A turn to masses by Howard Barrell
… potential had, arguably, been apparent since the early 1970s with the rise of the black consciousness movement and … it identified in the anti-apartheid…
Port Elizabeth an Overview
The first formal settlement of the Algoa Bay region took place in 1776 when a number of farms were allocated to local Dutch graziers. In 1799 the British…
Article1973 Durban Strikes
Introduction On 9 January 1973, workers at the Coronation Brick and Tile factory, outside Durban, came out on strike. Immediately thereafter, workers from…
Polokwane an Overview
'Street soccer' game on a makeshift field, near Polokwane in the Limpopo Province. 2010. © Chris Ledowchowski The Limpopo Province was the scene of scores of…
ArticleThe Crackdown on the Black Consciousness Movement in 1973
… established as an effective political force by the early 1970s, and by 1972 it had achieved a success that made the …
ArticleThe role of gender in Ndebele architecture
Gender roles in Ndebele home-making From the 1940s onwards the settlement at Hartbeesfontein began to be visited increasingly by researchers, including Barrie…
ArticleCall for submissions: The Politics of Armed Struggle in Southern Africa Conference
Conference: THE POLITICS OF ARMED STRUGGLE IN SOUTHERN AFRICA Conference Date: 23-25 November 2016 Venue: University of the Witwatersrand (Johannesburg) …
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1940-1949
In the 1940s the ANC rejuvenated itself and began to work more closely with the SACP, putting behind the antagonistic relationship between the two parties in…
ArchiveWebinar Programme: Red Lives. Convenor: Arianna Lissoni
… KwaZulu-Natal – KZN) from the 1930s through to the early 1970s was Dawood Seedat (1916-1976). The signposts that …
ArchiveChapter 11 - SACTU in the Congress Alliance
… carried forward in South Africa since the early 1970s, was the main task identified by worker activists in …
ArchiveClass, Consciousness and Organisation: Introduction by Kumi Naidoo
This chapter comes from the book
Address delivered at The 9th COSATU Congress, 18 September 2006, Gallagher Estate, Midrand
… Trade Unions (Fosatu) the forerunners to Cosatu in the 1970s and the formation of Cosatu and the United Democratic …
The Role of Women in the Struggle against Apartheid, 15 July 1980
… Consciousness Movement was a major activity centre in the 1970s. That the women have had a significant impact in …
ArchiveAll That Glitters - In the city by Emilia Potenza
From the book: All That Glitters by Emilia PotenzaBetween 1921 and 1936, the number of Africans in the cities increased from about half a million to over one…