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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,…
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 …
The Ideology of the Black Consciousness Movement
The emergence of the Black Consciousness movement that swept across the country in the 1970s can best be explained in the context of the events from 1960…
EventCastro decides to send troops to Angola to fight South Africa
… Cuban military support for the MPLA continued into the 1980s. In 1988 South Africa, Cuba and Angola agreed to …
EventLiberation struggle activists, Gwala and Mothopeng are released from Robben Island
… sentenced to life imprisonment on Robben Island. In the 1980s, Gwala developed a motor neuron disease which left him …
Book 4: Industrialisation, Rural Change and Nationalism - Chapter 2 - Industrialisation and the Revitalisation of Black Politics in the1940s by Mohamed Adhikari
From the book: Book 4: Industrialisation, Rural Change and Nationalism commissioned by The Department of Education Three documents, fundamental changes that…
Nelson Mandela and the last Afrikaner leaders by Hermann Giliomee (Politics Web), 12 May 2015
… in the same way that the black trade unions were in the 1980s. They used their legalised status effectively in ways … the total number of blacks that could…
ArchiveThe Little Acknowledged Legacy of Steve Biko by Prithiraj Dullay, (Daily News), 08 Sept 2008
… bed fellows ganged up on the same side. Even in the late 1980s Britain’s Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher and the US …
Soweto forty years on: The Black student rebellion of 1976 by Professor Noor Nieftagodien
… basis for the unity of workers and students in the 1980s. A similar strategic task now confronts the current …
BiographyReginald Dudley Forde
Reginald Dudley Forde was born in Johannesburg on 20 April 1940. He completed his schooling at Clifton School in Nottingham Road and obtained three degrees at…
BiographyMapetla Frank Mohapi
Mapetla Frank Mohapi was born in the rural village of Jozanashoek, Sterkspruit in the former Transkei (now Eastern Province) on 2 September 1947. He studied at…
BiographyDr. Neville Edward Alexander
Neville Edward Alexander was the first of six children of Dimbiti Bisho Alexander, a primary-school teacher, and David James Alexander, a carpenter. It was in…
ArchiveAsmal and the Irish connection to the bombing of Sasol in 1980, Saturday Star, 27 August 2011
EventBarend Strydom kills 8 People in Pretoria
… necessity to the survival of his people. At the end of the 1980s the ideals of Afrikaner nationalism were severely …
ArchiveInterview with Lybon Tiyani Mabasa
… along with other prison hunger strikers. In the 1980s he helped steer AZAPO and its ally the National Council …
EventThe Motsuenyane Commission finds the African National Congress (ANC) guilty of abuse in its camps
… abuses to an end. When apartheid crumbled in the late 1980s the task of reconstructing a society in which human …
EventUnited Nations lifts arms embargo on South Africa
… in connection with violations of arms sanctions during the 1980s, the embargo on arms sales by the United States was …
Exploring Student-Worker Alliance: the role of COSAS in trade unions, 1979-1985 by Noor Nieftagodien
… time and which would come under severe strain in the late 1980s. These struggles also highlighted a strategic … was especially the case with COSAS, which,…
BiographyEdwin Cameron
Edwin Cameron was born on 15 February 1953 in Pretoria. He completed his schooling at Pretoria Boys’ High School and thanks to an Anglo-American Corporation…
BiographyDevikarani Priscilla Jana
Devikarani Priscilla Jana was born on 5 December 1943, in Westville, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal), to a middle class Indian family.[i] From an early age Jana…
BiographyKing Goodwill Zwelithini kaBhekuzulu
King Goodwill Zwelithini kaBhekuzulu was born in July 1948 at Nongoma, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal - KZN). He is the eldest son of King Cyprian Bhekuzulu…
BiographyErnest Sedumedi Moloto
Ernest Sedumedi Moloto was the son of peasant farmers. He received his primary education at Moruleng and Mabieskraal, both in the Rustenburg district. In 1931…
BiographyElsa Joubert
Elsabé Antoinette Murray Joubert (married surname Steytler) was born on 19 October 1922 in Paarl where she grew up, and studied at the universities of…
BiographyJoe Nzingo Gqabi
Joe Nzingo Gqabi was born in 1929 in Aliwal North, Cape Province. He completed the tenth grade and found work as a construction labourer after coming to…
BiographyRichard Goldstone
Goldstone was born on 26 October 1938 and studied law at the University of the Witwatersrand where he obtained a BA LLB degree with honours in 1962. World…
BiographyHarry Moyaga
Apart from interaction with artists such as Cyprian Shilakoe (qv.), Bill Ainslie and Fikile Magadlela, it was Moyaga’s mother who played the dominant role in…
BiographyHelen Suzman
Helen Suzman (nee Govronsky) was born in the South African mining town of Germiston on 7 November 1917 to Samuel and Frieda Gavronsky, both immigrants from…