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ArticleThe Durban strikes and the resurgence of the trade union movement in 1973
… were banned, and by 1965 Sactu petered out. From the early 1960s onwards, the state brutally suppressed all political … in anti-apartheid resistance was…
ArticleuMkhonto weSizwe (MK) in exile
… an increasing tide of Independent African states in the 1960s. Coupled with the growing influence of Pan Africanism … the presence of the ANC in Lesotho…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Youth League (ANCYL)
… , led by Steve Biko, emerged towards the end of the 1960s, taking the lead in continued resistance to apartheid. …
ArticleA history of Kwaito music
This genre of music started emerging in the 1990s. It is a mixture of a number of different rhythms from marabi of the 1920s, kwela of the 1950s, mbaqanga…
ArticleSouth Africa’s Foreign Relations during Apartheid, 1948
… aid to the liberation movements. However by the end of the 1960s this support seemed to be unreliable. It was only … relations as part of the outward looking…
Federation of Amateur Theatrical Societies of South Africa (FATSSA)
… committee to decentralize the Federation and in the 1960s it was disbanded. …
ArticleInkatha Freedom Party (IFP)
… Government introduced the homelands, and during the 1960s the Government's objective was to form a tribal …
National Theatre Organisation (1947)
… the Southern parts of the country came to a head in the 1960s. Coupled with financial problems and rebellion by …
ArticleZulu
… African Government introduced the "homelands" . In the 1960s the Government's objective was to form a "tribal …
ArticleRustenburg Timeline 1850-2001
… settled by people who were later classified as Coloured. 1960s Boitokong and Hartebeesfontein are established in the 1960s and 1970s. Since they fall on the…
ArticleJohn Maxwell Coetzee timeline 1940-2003
… 1940 Born in Cape Town. 1960s Graduates from the University of Cape Town with …
ArticleOliver Reginald Tambo Timeline 1917 - 2011
… treason 1959 Heads the ANC’s Constitutional Commission 1960s 1960 Tambo is detained in South West Africa (Namibia). …
ArticleAfrikaner Broederbond
… policies. Although revelations in the press, in the 1960s, about Afrikaner Broederbond membership began to erode …
ArticleThe Black Sash: A History of Transformation
… league. This fact concerned the Black Sash less in the 1960s when the organisation allowed all races to join. … by opening up offices throughout country…
Indian Community in Lenasia
… and electricity. A Post Office was erected in the early 1960s, and a telephone exchange followed soon after. The … railway station, as well as a coal…
ArticlePondoland revolt - 1950 - 1961
… place in the Eastern Transkei in the late 1950s and early 1960s. The Pondo people revolted against the Bantu …
ArticleCape Town the Segregated city
… to segregate people was accompanied by forced removals in 1960s right up to the 1980s. The legacy of apartheid and …
ArticlePort Elizabeth the Segregated city
… of Salisbury Park, Fairview and South End in the late 1960s, Zwide was declared in 1968 and Motherwell in 1982. It …
ArticleSouth African Indian Congress (SAIC)
… membership were broken by state repression in the early 1960s. …
ArticleBantu education and the racist compartmentalizing of education
… Expenditure on Bantu Education increased from the late 1960s, once the apartheid Nationalist government saw the need …
ArticleA history of Soweto
… townships experiences very high levels of crime during the 1960s and 1970s. The last group of townships to be …
Liberation organisations
… Theology, which originated in Latin America in the 1960s, became popular in the 1980s. The Christian message was … leader, Martin Luther King, an activist in…
ArticleGrade 8 - Term 2: The Mineral Revolution in South Africa
… 1950s, Hillbrow went high-rise. In the 1950s and early 1960s, the apartheid government constructed the massive … suburban sprawl to the north of the city. In…
ArticleBlack Consciousness and 16 June – The birth of a new generation
… university and high school students. As early as the late 1960s, university students, who were to become student …
ArticleArt South Africa Today exhibitions
… of works submitted after 1971 registered similarly to many 1960s pieces in their emotional expressiveness and relative …
ArticleSouth West Africa People’s Organisation (SWAPO)
… SWAPO emerged as the sole liberation movement in the early 1960s because it had the support of the Ovambo, the largest …
Grade 12 - Topic 4 - The end of the Cold War and a new global world order 1989 to present
… into a Cold War battleground. The US administration in the 1960s authorised the murder of Prime Minister Patrice …
ArticleThe African Students Association (ASA)
… forced many of ASA leaders to go to exile in the early 1960s. Once in exile, the ANC elders in London asked Mbeki to …
ArticleCommunity histories in Port Elizabeth
… of Salisbury Park, Fairview and South End in the late 1960s, Zwide was declared in 1968 and Motherwell in 1982. In …
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…