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BiographyPumzile Mayapi
Pumzile Mayapi was born on 8 September 1956 in Willowvale, Eastern Cape. He joined the African National Congress (ANC) in June 1980 when he was still a student…
Article50 Facts on Africa
… still used today. Lithium Ion Batteries (Morocco) In the 1980s, Rachid Yazami invented lithium ion batteries which are …
EventThe South African security police bombed two houses in Manzini, Swaziland
… was a Portuguese national. Amongst those who died in the 1980s was Motso "Obad" Mokgabudi who was killed in 1981 …
EventMadagascar adopts its second constitution
… economy, moves towards a market economy were made from the 1980s. Ratsiraka tried to maintain a one party state but …
ArticleWomen’s Role in the Negotiations by Nicole Dellaportas
This article was written by Nicole Dellaportas and forms part of the SAHO and Southern Methodist University partnership project Women’s Role in the…
ArticleAzanian Students Organisation (AZASO)
… and regional struggles were seen in AZASO?s role in the 1980s schools boycott, the protest against the introduction …
BiographyParamount Chief Sabata Dalindyebo
Paramount Chief Sabata Dalindyebo was born on 25 November 1928. His father died suddenly some five months earlier before marrying his official Great Wife. He…
Biographical contribution on Nozizwe Charlotte Madlala-Routledge
… to AZAPO were secretly members of the then banned ANC. The 1980s were probably the most traumatic in Madlala-Routledge’s political involvement. From the mid…
BiographyNellie Jibiliza
Nellie Jibiliza was born in 1926 to parents who were African National Congress (ANC) activists in Cape Town. Thus, she grew up in a politically active…
BiographyArchibald Campbell Jordan
Archibald Campbell Mzolisa Jordan, the son of an Anglican minister, was born on 30 October 1906 at the Mbokothwana Mission Station in the Tsolo District of…
BiographyRobert Hodgins
"For me, it is very simple. The act of painting at a particular moment is able, for reasons I neither understands, nor even try to understand, to open up the…
BiographyAndries Treurnicht
Andries Treurnicht was born on 19 February 1921 on Middelpos farm in Piketberg, Cape Town. He attended Piketberg High School where he matriculated in 1939…
BiographyJudge Albert Louis “Albie” Sachs
Albert Louis Sachs was born in Johannesburg in 1935. His father, Emil Solomon (Solly) Sachs, had arrived in South Africa from Lithuania at the age of six, on…
Refiloe Jackie Phelile Sedibe
Refiloe Phelile Florence Jackie Sedibe (known as Jackie Sedibe) was born at White River in Mpumalanga. Sedibe’s mother was a domestic worker and her father …
EventThe apartheid government establishes a Department for Coloured Affairs’ (CAD)
… battle to have their political rights recognized. By the 1980s, a Tricameral Parliament was created, in which …
South African Labour history
There are different ways to tell every story, and the same is true of history. For instance the story of the gold mining industry has often been told as the…
ArticleZulu
The four major ethnic divisions among Black South Africans are the Nguni, Sotho, Shangaan-Tsonga and Venda. The Nguni represent nearly two thirds of South…
ArticleThe history of labour movements in Namibia
Background During the 1930s and 1940s, there were few black workers organisations in Namibia (then known as South West Africa). However, there were a number…
BiographyFrancis Wilson
Francis Aylmer Hunter Wilson is the oldest son of the anthropologists, Monica and Godfrey Wilson. He was born in May 1939 in Livingstone, Zambia. During this…
Ruth Alexander
Ruth Alexander was the daughter of a well-known Hebrew scholar, Solomon Schechter. She was educated at schools in Cambridge, England and New York, United…
BiographyElizabeth Maria Molteno
Elizabeth Maria was born into a privileged and protected environment as the oldest child of the Cape Colony’s first Prime Minister, John Molteno. With her…
BiographyNaboth Monyandioe Moreleba Mokgatle
Naboth Monyandioe Moreleba Mokgatle was the eighth and youngest child of Setlhare Hebron Mokgatle, a skilled builder and carpenter, and Salome Mororo-Mokgatle…
BiographyHassan Howa
Hassan Howa was born in 1922 in Cape Town, Cape Province (now Western Cape Province) into a large working-class family, one of 12 children of a Christian,…
Ronald (Ronnie) Britten
At a young age, while a student at the University of Cape Town, Ronald (Ronnie) Britten was an active member of the then Non-European Unity Movement, later to…
BiographyRay Alexander Simons
Ray Alexander Simons née Alexandrowich was born on 12 January 1914 in Latvia. While at school, she displayed little fear in challenging authorities. Her…
BiographySarah Carneson
Sarah Rubin, later Carneson, was born in Johannesburg, Transvaal (now Gauteng) in 1916. Her parents were both immigrants; her father, Zelic Rubin, was…
Working Life - Factories, Township and Popular Culture 1886 - 1940 - Themes to Think About
… and were to become a powerful force in the 1970s and 1980s. The precise relationship between national liberation …
EventSandra Smith is the last woman to be executed in South Africa
… in the number of people executed in South Africa. In the 1980s particularly, more people were executed per year than …
PlaceVenda
… depended on Agriculture, until Coal-mining began in the 1980s. Most of the men from the Area were Migrant Workers and …
EventIvory Coast’s new prime minister, Daniel Kablan Duncan, takes office
… prosperous countries in French West Africa, but by the 1980s was crippled by world-wide recession and …