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ArticleAfrikaans: the Language of Black and Coloured Dissent
… protests, theatre and hip-hop during the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s. Willemse cites an alternative history of Afrikaans as … statement). [197] Adam Small Image…
BiographyLucas Manyane Mangope
Lucas Manyane Mangope was born west of Zeerust near Bechuanaland border on December 27,1923,the son of a local chief,Mangope graduated from St Peter's School…
BiographyRebecca Bunting
Rebecca Bunting (nee Notlowitz) was one of the founders of the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA) in the 1920s. She was a Jewish immigrant from the Baltic…
Everyone must take responsibility, 21 August, 2012 - Sahra Ryklief
… of deprivation as the wild-cat strikers of the 1970s and 1980s whose actions shaped our current labour movement and … of anger, frustration and helplessness…
EventCiskeian police disrupt residents’ meeting
… Africa. This was one of the great rural victories of the 1980s and it gave all other people living in Ciskei …
EventArtist, Thomas Trevor Motswai , award-winning South African artist is born
… with the artist's documentary of a period from the early 1980s to the present. His colourful, bold and often …
BiographyOliver Tambo
… both the civil and the corporate world. Already by the 1980s, he had met with American multinationals in order to …
BiographySimon Gqubule
Reverend Dr Simon Gqubule was born on 18 February 1928 at a place near Cookhouse, Transkei (now Eastern Cape). His family did not have a lot of money; his…
BiographyDiana Mary Mitchell
Diana Mitchell was born in Harare, Zimbabwe, or what was then known as Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia, on 16 November 1932[i]. She was famous for many things,…
ArchiveWinnie Madikizela-Mandela: Revolutionary who kept the Spirit of Resistance alive by Shireen Hassim (The Conversation), 3 April 2018
… her social circle in the 1950s, for a long time into the 1980s, and certainly for Nelson Mandela’s biographers, … also shape the ways in which narratives of…
Enuga S Reddy: Notes on meeting with Dr. Cassim Jadwat -1997
[Dr. Jadwat is from Natal; probably from Isipingo and later Durban. He was a student at Sastri College in Durban. [A.I. Kazi, leader of the Natal Indian…
PlaceSteadville, Ladysmith
… houses when their families grew. It was only in the late 1980s, with the establishment of a new section called Subsidy …
ArchivePik Botha: sympathetic obits fail to recognise that he protected apartheid by Alet Pretorius, 23 October 2018
… policy of aggression towards neighbouring states in the 1980s. Known as “destabilisation”, the policy caused … Security Council during the turmoil of the…
BiographyMartin Tose
The quiet and yet temperamental Martin Qgibinsizi Tose was born in Germiston, Johannesburg during the first decade of Apartheid. His birth coincided with the…
BiographySam Tambani
Sam Tambane was born in the village of Tshiozwi Ha-Sinthumele in Venda on 23 August 1953. Sam was the first child of Kutama Fridah Tambani and Nkhumeleni Jack…
BiographyMichael Madimetja Teffo
Michael Madimetja Teffo was born in 1957 in the Pretoria township of Lady Selborne. The Township of Lady Selborne was destroyed shortly after his birth. Teffo…
BiographyBreyten Breytenbach
Breytenbach was an opponent of the apartheid regime, whose work represented a milestone in the development of Afrikaans poetry, formally and politically. His…
BiographyAzaria Mbatha
Azaria Mbatha was born in 1941. Azaria was educated at a mission school for eight years. In 1961 he left Ceza Secondary School and began working as a clerk…
BiographyJacob “Baby Jake” Matlala
Jacob Matlala was born in 1962 in Meadowlands, Johannesburg. At the age of 10 he started going to the gymnasium with his father who was an aspiring boxer…
BiographyLauretta Ngcobo
Lauretta* (1) Ngcobo was born and brought up in a rural area of Kwazulu Natal called Ixopo. She is well known as a feminist writer during the early 50’s…
BiographyFabian Defu Ribeiro
Fabian Defu Ribeiro was born on the 19th of June 1933 in Bantule, he was the third child of Joseph and Katherine Ribeiro (nee Mothibe). His father came from…
BiographyNomathamsanqa Xoliswa Ngwevela
While in exile, Ngwevela procured a Diploma in Political Science at the Pushkin International Institute in Moscow in October 1980. From September 1986 to…
BiographyTsepo Tiisetso Letlaka
Tsepo Tiisetso Letlaka was born in 1925 in the Transkei,Cofimvaba, where his parents were both teachers, he studied at St. John's College, Healdtown, Roma, and…
BiographyPaul Mokabe
Mokabe was one of the students who stood up against the introduction of Afrikaans as a medium of instruction in African schools in 1976. In 1977, Mokabe…
BiographyGilbert Hani
Gilbert Hani and Jacob Mpemba,prominent ANC [African National Congress] leaders and strong opponents of Kaizer Matanzima and the Bantustan policy, were…
EventThe last sitting of an all-white Parliament
… Republic. Intense debate over legislative issues in the 1980s led to the adoption of a new constitution for the …
ArticleHow did the Nazis construct an Aryan identity?
… changed to The Department of Defense in the 1940s In the 1980s, the MX-Missile was renamed "The Peacekeeper" During …
A Matter of ‘Principle’: Corporate America and the South African Worker in the Early 1970s by Mattie C. Webb
This paper was submitted to the 1973 Durban Strikes Celebrating 50 Years Conference While much scholarship considers the 1976 Soweto uprising as the…
ArticleHistory Grade 11 - Topic 4 Essay Questions
An image of bold, selfless youth in late 1970s South Africa inspired by the black radical consciousness philosophy. Image Source Essay Question: To what…
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