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ArticleSouth African Communist Party (SACP)
On 30 July 2011, the South African Communist Party (SACP) celebrated its 90th anniversary. Initially known as the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA), the…
Legislation, Dissent, and Violence in Sophiatown under Apartheid
… government passed some 100 laws between 1919 and the 1970s in order to channel the country into a spatial and …
Student Politics in the Era of Democracy
… in the period of mass opposition politics during the 1970s and 1980s, SASO and SANSCO didn't need to formulate …
ArticleCode Name Rae book launch soon
… such as Paul David, Steve Biko and Ben Ngubane. During the 1970s, Rajes came into contact with the ANC underground and …
ArticleDecember 16, the reflection of a changing South African heritage
IntroductionDecember 16 looms large in the history of South Africa. Today in the new South African it is celebrated as the Day of Reconciliation between Blacks…
The Broederbond by Norman Levy
… of the organization’s history, noted in the late 1970s that “no Afrikaner government can rule South Africa … the mining and farming sectors (characterized in…
ArticleSophiatown in Literature
An Invaluable Historical Source The literature on "life in Sophiatown" by a generation of prose writers, novelists, playwrights and poets is recognized as…
Armed struggle & the advancement of the student and labour movements, 1967-1976
… this decade makes it a particularly significant one. The 1970s saw the liberation movement adopting new strategies and … consciousness, was a new and…
ArticleBlack Community Programmes (BCP)
… In the late 1960s and early 1970s, after the banning of the ANC and PAC, the Black … in King William’s Town. Bannings and Restrictions The 1970s was a…
ArticleGrade 8 - Term 2: The Mineral Revolution in South Africa
… to the north of the city. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, tower blocks (including the Carlton Centre and the …
Zulu Community
… capital, pending completion of buildings at Ulundi. The 1970s also saw the revival of Inkatha, later the Inkatha …
ArticleRustenburg Timeline 1850-2001
… and Hartebeesfontein are established in the 1960s and 1970s. Since they fall on the South African side of the …
ArticleFatima Meer Timeline 1928-2010
… towards the building of the Gandhi Museum and Clinic. 1970s Involved in student and women's politics. Frequent …
ArticleSALDRU Newspaper Clippings Archive 1974 - 2000
… century in South Africa's history. Started in the mid-1970s as a necessary tool to help social scientists and …
Sport, Race, and Liberation Before Apartheid by Dr Peter Alegi
… South Africa from international sport in the 1960s and 1970s. After a brief description of the Luthuli family's …
ArticleThe influence of apartheid
… poorly paid. As a result, from the 1950s through to the 1970s, the demographic composition of the village began to be …
Indian Community in Lenasia
… the stadium was renamed the Varachia Stadium in the late 1970s, and Minister of Sport Piet Koornhof presided over the … Figures reveal a huge influx in the…
ArticleA history of Soweto
… experiences very high levels of crime during the 1960s and 1970s. The last group of townships to be established was …
ArticleArt South Africa Today exhibitions
… South African government. As Erica Clark notes , by the 1970s there was a feeling among many in the art community …
ArticleSouth Africa’s Foreign Relations during Apartheid, 1948
… that these counties only achieved independence in the mid-1970s. Close ties with Mozambique were built up in the Cabora … This led to the policy of dialogue…
ArticleCuba and the struggle for democracy in South Africa
… for the liberation movement in the Congo, and in the 1970s Cuba helped defend Agostinho Neto’s Movement for the … independence. Despite several setbacks…
ArticleAZAPO’s Women’s Wing - Imbeleko
… of Black Community Programmes (BCP) established during the 1970s, which combined consciousness-raising with practical … Young Women and Men in Black…
ArticleArts and Cultural Organisations
… Mofolo Arts Center (Mofolo Cultural Bowl and Arts Centre) (1970s) Natal Society of Arts Gallery - KZNSA Natal Visual …
ArticleThe missionaries
Missionaries arrived in Pondoland in 1830 when Faku, the ruler of the Mpondo Kingdom from 1818 to 1867, allowed Wesleyan missionaries to establish a mission…
Hunter-Gatherers in Southern Africa
For more than 95% of the last 100 000 years, most people all over the world followed a hunting and gathering way of life. Until recently, people living by…
Artist groups and educational facilities (1960-1980)
… joined these alternative art education centres in the 1970s but was forced to relocate to the Mofolo Art Centre in …
A brief history on South African prisons and prisoners
… While conditions improved during the course of the 1970s and 1980s, it remained the most inhospitable outpost of …
ArticleCongress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU)
… presence until the emergence of unions in the later 1970s and 1980s. The Industrial Commercial Union (ICU), … although some unions did come into being in the…
The search for Peter Johnson’s story
… Congress and the Pan Africanist Congress. [xv] In the 1970s, a wave of new resistance was led by Black Conscious …
Grade 12 - Topic 4 - The end of the Cold War and a new global world order 1989 to present
… US representative responsible for African affairs in the 1970s, keeping Mobutu on the US side was not cheap. It is …