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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…
ArticleBlack South African literature
The origins of Black South African literature in English lie in the Eastern Cape. The Glasgow Missionary Society founded the school of Lovedale at Alice in the…
ArticleFrontline States
… Their pressure against South Africa increased in the 1980s after the formation of the Southern African Development …
ArticleNational Party (NP)
… as improve race relations. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, the government granted “independence” to four … (1977), Venda (1979), and Ciskei (1981). In the…
Trade Union Council of South Africa (TUCSA)
… TUCSA membership fees. This trend continued until the late 1980s when it was discredited as apartheid tool. …
Speech delivered on the condolence motion in honour of the late Ebrahim "Cas" Saloojee in the national assembly – 5 February 2009
… the apartheid system and Nationalist Party rule. In the 1980s, Cassim Saloojee was one of the founders of ACTSTOP, a … its President during the State of…
Conflict among civic organisations
… cadres and destroying their hideouts. Operation Mac The 1980s also saw the increased activity of the ANC in the …
Rafique Mayet
… exhibitions at the Market Photo Gallery during the 1980s as well as the Zabalaza Festival in London, 1990; …
The Afrikaanse Handelsinsituut
… make business more efficient and profitable. By the early 1980s most members were reform-minded, opposed to the … Industrial Council system. Studies…
ArticleCongress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU)
… until the emergence of unions in the later 1970s and 1980s. The Industrial Commercial Union (ICU), formed by … a standstill at crucial moments. But by the…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Youth League (ANCYL)
… recruits were normally in large groups in camps. In the 1980s the mobilisation of the youth was led by the Congress …
ArticleBlack Consciousness Movement of Azania (BCMA)
… the other liberation groupings. In Botswana in the early 1980s, exile political activity declined, both in frequency … was not until the outbreak of popular…
ArticleMetal and Allied Workers Union (MAWU)
… Wednesday. At political tensions grew in Natal in the 1980s, members of MAWU meeting at the church had to vacate …
ArticleHistory of the Rape Crisis Trust in Cape Town
… of the various centres taking place throughout the 1980s. A further four rape crisis agencies had also been … and De Sa, 2000). What also emerged at the tail…
From Segregation to Apartheid
The gains achieved by the White minority in the first four decades of the 20th century were, by the 1940s, increasingly under threat however, as African…
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…
Student Politics in the Era of Democracy
… period of mass opposition politics during the 1970s and 1980s, SASO and SANSCO didn't need to formulate concrete …
ArticleThe International Defence and Aid Fund (IDAF)
… office had never made a request for funds. In the early 1980s, Ngila Michael Muendane , a former PAC representative … Portuguese Colonialism in Africa, by…
A brief history on South African prisons and prisoners
… Central Prison to await execution. From the 1960s to the 1980s, the apartheid government executed about 134 political … conditions improved during the course…
ArticleNdebele
… who pressed for KwaNdebele independence through the 1980s. KwaNdebele was declared a "self-governing" territory … Africa and in homelands other than…
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…
ArticleThe Empty Land Myth
… the ‘Homelands’ under the Apartheid Regime Source In the 1980s revisionist and liberal historians and archaeologists … could not form part of their…
ArticleThe Angolan Civil War (1975-2002): A Brief History
… War was the flow of Western funding to UNITA. During the 1980s, UNITA was supplied with US$80-million in arms, …
ArticleThe Namibian struggle for independence – 1966 – 1990 – a historical background
… and resume their guerrilla warfare operations. In the 1980s, the political pressure was increasing on the South …
Community Arts Project (CAP)
… a form of resistance during the liberation struggle in the 1980s. Following the 1982 Culture and Resistance conference …
ArticleSouth Africa’s electoral history timeline 1910-2009
… Africans. 1989 Following the major political crisis of the 1980s, the NP government went into its last election as a …
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…
The Freedom struggle in Rustenburg
… fast-growing mining industry in Rustenburg. By the early 1980s, NUM established branches in the town and in the … the beginnings of the negotiations process…
ArticleThe Durban strikes and the resurgence of the trade union movement in 1973
… federations that helped dismantle apartheid by the late 1980s. From the beginning of the 20 th century Black workers …
ArticlePort Elizabeth the Segregated city
… retained much of their integrated character well into the 1980s. Other communities, however, such as Fairview and South …