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The Freedom struggle: Political mobilisation in Port Elizabeth
The Eastern Cape is regarded by many as the cradle of Black resistance against White oppression. After the defeat of the Xhosa by the British in the frontier…
Book 6: Negotiation, Transition and Freedom - Chapter 2 - Explaining the Miracle by Max du Preez
… autobiographies that this realisation came in the mid-1980s, although Patti Waldmeir (1997) suggests that the … of the ANC favoured a military solution until…
EventAnti-apartheid activist Sister Bernard Ncube dies
… active member of the United Democratic Front. In the late 1980s, Sister Ncube was one of the founding members of the …
PlaceLebowa
… main growth points. The Chief Minister during most of the 1980s was Dr C N M Phatudi. In 1994, it was reincorporated …
EventThe Boipotong massacre takes place
… in South Africa, the core area of the conflict in the late 1980s was in the KwaZulu-Natal area where battles between …
EventANC celebrates its 79th anniversary in Durban
… dismantle apartheid, and township protests erupted in the 1980s, the Nationalist Party government was forced to …
EventuMkhoto weSizwe (MK) launches its first acts of sabotage
… in August 1963 and Vuyisile Mini in October 1964. In the 1980s MK became increasingly active in the country launching …
EventTshifiwa Muofhe, a Lutheran Church elder suspected of complicity in the Sibasa Police Station bomb blast, dies in police custody
… from victims of police brutality in Vendaland in the 1980s. Phaswana and Phosiwa described to the TRC how they …
Chapter 12 - Blind alley of guerrillaism
… not have been wasted if the working-class movement in the 1980s can draw to the full the lessons from it, and so …
BiographyAlcott Skei Gwentshe
… Island for ANC activities and qualified as a lawyer in the 1980s.He died on 27th of October in 1966. …
BiographyCassim Saloojee
Saloojee was born in Krugersdorp, in 1935. Here his grandfather ran a shop next to Dr. Yusuf Dadoo’s father’s store. After he was married, Saloojee’s father…
BiographyShirley Gunn
Gunn enrolled for a degree in social work in 1977 and after completion proceeded to study for her Honors degree. While studying for her Honors degree, she…
BiographyVusumzi (Vusi) Linda Make
Vusimuzi Linda Make was born in Boksburg in 1934, the son of a priest, and later moved to Evaton.the son of an African Methodist Episcopal minister,Make grew…
BiographyAlois Mate
The Makoba’s Council was described as ‘a powerful and dangerous group of tribesmen.’ Alois Mate was considered to be ‘the brains of the Council although he…
BiographyLot Kgagudi Maredi
Following widespread resistance, the Native Affairs Department (NAD) was forced to abolish the Bapedi tribal authority because of a lack of support. This led…
BiographyEssop Goolam Pahad
Essop Goolam Pahad was born on the 21st of June 1939 in Schweizer-Reneke in Western Transvaal (now North West Province). He grew up in a family of political…
BiographyNontsizi (Cizama, Imbongikazi yakwaCizama) Mgqwetho
Virtually nothing is known about the life of the first and only major female poet to write in Xhosa, apart from what is revealed in her writings, almost all of…
BiographySheila Lapinsky (nee Barsel)
Sheila Lapinsky (nee Barsel) was born in 1944* in Johannesburg, Transvaal Province (now Gauteng) to a middle-class Orthodox Jewish family. Her aunt and uncle…
BiographyAlfred Temba Qabula
Alfred Temba Qabula was born on 12 December 1942 in Flagstaff, Bhalasi in Pondoland to Solomon and Nonkhululeko Qabula. Qabula’s father worked as a machine…
BiographyMonica Hunter Wilson
Monica Wilson's parents, Scots Presbyterian missionaries, emigrated to Lovedale at the end of the 19th century; Monica was born there on January 3, 1908. From…
BiographyZainab Ebrahim Asvat
Zainab Ebrahim Asvat was born 1920 in Johannesburg, daughter of EI Asvat, came under the tutelage of her father as a young girl. She accompanied him to…
BiographyNkosazana Clarice Dlamini-Zuma
Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma was born on 27 January 1949. She received her secondary education at Amanzimtoti Training College until 1967 and began her tertiary…
BiographyJohn Kgwana Nkadimeng
John Kgwana Nkadimeng was born in Sekhukhuniland in the rural eastern Transvaal in 1925 and after completing primary school he worked as a domestic worker in…
Zonal Centenary Memorial Lecture on the Life and Times of David Bopape, presented by David Makhura, ANC Gauteng Provincial Secretary, 21 June 2012, Tsakane
… Nkadimeng, Martin Ramokgadi and Joe Gqabi. In the early 1980s, he focused his energy on the church and community …
BiographyCharles W H Kohler
As the driving force behind the creation of the Ko-operatieve Wijn-bouwers Vereniging van Zuid-Afrika, Beperkt (The Co-operative Wine Growers' Association of…
ArchiveThe exilic geographies of the South by Benjamin N. Lawrance and Vusumuzi R. Kumalo
… Nobel laureate, Nadine Gordimer, interviewed in the early 1980s, explained that persecution “all began, really with the …
ArticleSouth African Youth Congress (SAYCO)
… most significant youth organization to emerge during the 1980s. Initiated by COSAS , it focused on organizing the …
Remembering Nadine Gordimer (The Conversation), 15 July 2014
… and the chaos and apparently looming revolution of the 1980s. Long before the political world understood it, she …
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