SAHO global search
3,249 records
Chapter 2 - The lack of a workers’ party
From: Lessons of the 1950s By Richard Monroe, March-May 1984 Chapter 2 - The lack of a workers' party The industrialisation of South Africa brought into exÂ…
Khoisan Identity
… later came to be widely resented, especially from the 1980s, for its neglect of their distinct identity. However, … to register for the new voters’ roll. In…
BiographyMartin Plaut
Martin Plaut was born in Cape Town, South Africa in May 1950. His parents were Erwin Plaut and Faith Plaut. His father was a furniture designer who had a shop…
BiographyBettie du Toit
Bettie Du Toit was born on 15 July in 1910, on a farm in the former Transvaal Province. She was orphaned at three when her father died. Her mother had passed…
BiographyRev. James Arthur Calata
James Arthur Calata was born into a poor farming family at Debe Nek near King Williamstown. His father James Calata was a Presbyterian and his mother Eliza, an…
BiographyThomas Patrick Murray
Thomas Patrick Murray was the eldest of the three sons of Patrick Murray, a boiler-maker and trade unionist, and his wife, Florence Mabel Essex. After…
BiographyEnoch Mankayi Sontonga
Enoch Mankayi Sontonga was born in Uitenhage, Eastern Province (now Eastern Cape) around 1873 as a member of the Xhosa-speaking Mpinga clan of the Tembu tribe…
BiographyJohanna (Joey) Hendrina Scheepers
Trade union leader and organizer Johanna Hendrina (Joey) Scheepers was one of the four daughters of Sarel Gerhardus Breitenbach and his wife, Johanna Hendrina…
BiographyVictor Sidney Norton
Victor Sidney Norton was the elder son of Sidney (Peter) Norton, a Johannesburg journalist, and his wife. His father's descent was English and his mother was…
BiographyAdriaan Vlok
Adriaan Vlok was born on 11 December 1937 in Sutherland, Cape Province to Betty Oliver and Nicolaas Vlok. He grew up on a smallholding close to the Orange…
BiographyMoses Mauane Kotane
Moses Mauane Kotane was born at Tamposstad in the Rustenburg district of the western Transvaal on 9th of August in 1905, Kotane came from a devoutly Christian…
BiographyPoomoney Moodley
Poomoney Moodley was born in Mooi River, Natal on 28 June 1926 to Ramsamy Dharamalingam Moodley and Kanniamah Moodley; who themselves were children of Indian…
ArchiveSishaywa Zimvula Nje, Simanikiniki Nje, Umhlol’Usekhaya – Reading Mafika Gwala in Times of Thunder and the Terror of the Elements by Sanibonani Molweni
… of KwaZulu-Natal, the hosts of this event, in the late 1980s. His 1982 poetry collection, No More Lullabies, was the … of creativity and the political fires…
PlaceAlberton, Germiston
… Boulevard, was a major development started in the late 1980s with the aim of converting a section of Voortrekker …
EventThe British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) announces that a mysterious epidemic (AIDS) is causing increasing concern in the United States
… diagnosis and treatment of the disease, however, in the 1980s, relatively little was known. It was first described as …
EventSA judge jails former state assassin Eugene de Kock for more than 200 years
… continued throughout Apartheid and intensified during the 1980s when the system began to crumble. At the advent of …
EventSouth African Defence Force (SADF) raid Maseru in an effort to kill suspected members of the African National Congress
… brazen cross-border raids conducted by the SADF during the 1980s. Read Phyllis Naidoo's book on the massacre here …
BiographyMakholeka Matthews Meyiwa
Matthews Meyiwa was born on 24 August 1924 in Georgedale, near Hammersdale in Natal (now KwaZulu Natal). He was born to George and Anne Meyiwa who were peasant…
BiographySicelo Shiceka
Sicelo Shiceka was born on 8 June 1966 in the village of Ingquza Hill, near Flagstaff, Lusikisiki in the Eastern Province (now Eastern Cape) His greatest…
ArticleThe British Anti-Apartheid Movement
… to the development of apartheid was widespread, and by the 1980s posed a sustained challenge to the South African … all such organisations throughout the…
Reclaiming Radical Traditions of Workers' Education by Linda Cooper and Sheri Hamilton
… and growth of the labour movement in the 1970s and early 1980s was a particularly fertile period when workers took the …
ArticleSotho (South Sotho or Basotho)
… Only about 200,000 Sotho people lived in QwaQwa during the 1980s. A community of more than 300,000 people, Botshabelo, …
The Fruits of the 1973 Durban Strikes: A Powerful Black Trade Union Movement. Are they still on track or are they off the rails? by Johann Maree
… growth period of the unions during the 1970s and early 1980s. These principles included democratic worker … growth period of the unions during the 1970s and…
BiographyNjinga Ana de Sousa
The history of Queen Njinga (or Nzinga) of Ndongo/Matamba is contested. Portuguese colonial historians and missionaries would emphasise her conversion to…
Gallery
This extensive history through pictures gallery documents the role that women have played in the liberation and democratisation of our country from 1900…
BiographyThomas Madikwe Manthata
Thomas Madikwe Manthata was born November 29,1939 in Soekmekaar in the Northern Transvaal.His parents had no formal education.He completed teacher trainiong…
BiographySusan Shabangu
Susan Shabangu was born on 28 February 1956. She attended Madibane High School in Soweto, Transvaal (now Gauteng). From 1980, she became involved in politics…
ArchiveApartheid - a vigilant witness
… and its resistance of 1976. Afrapix In contrast to the pre-1980s period, the post-1980s period is characterized by a collective approach to … time for…
South Africa: The Structure of Things Then by David Goldblatt, reviewed by Robyn Sassen (H-SAfrica), February 2000
… in the height of violent South African change. During the 1980s, South Africa was in a vicious state of change. … the architectural changes in fashion during…
PlaceWallacedene, Cape Town
… South Africa. The Settlement was established during the 1980s when the relaxation of pass laws allowed rural … South Africa. The Settlement was established…