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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 …
ArchiveMandela, S. African businessmen come together at site of 1980 bombing, by Michael Hill, 6 February 1994
Introduction to a Message from Nelson Mandela by O. R. Tambo, Smuggled Out Of Prison, 10 June 1980
ArticleColonial History of Port Elizabeth
Colonial settlement Land wars The 'Frontier Wars' in the Eastern Cape Europeans who came to stay in South Africa first settled in and around Cape Town. As…
PlacePhilippi
… Philippi is one of Cape Town’s Townships formed, in the 1980s, at more-or-less the same time as Khayelitsha and …
EventDe Beers Consolidated Mines Ltd. is founded to exercise control over diamond production in South Africa
… controlled nearly 80% of global diamond trade by the late 1980s, but reduced demand resulted in its replacement by the …
BiographyEdson Sithole
Edson Sithole was born in what was then Southern Rhodesia in 1935. He was the first black person in Southern Africa to obtain a Doctor of Laws degree. He was…
BiographyCarol Moses
Carol Moses was born on 7 April 1968 in Oudtshoorn, Western Cape, one of seven siblings. She grew up on a farm outside Oudtshoorn. Moses was a struggle…
BiographyS .G. Sekano Ntoane
S.G. Sekano Ntoane was born on 14 April 1904 in Hebron, Pretoria. He was the second of the six children of Levy Ntoane, a minister of the Berlin Lutheran…
PlaceSão Tomé and Príncipe
… Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank since the mid-1980s, Sao Tome and Principe has tried to restore a …
ArchiveGetting to know Omar from the inside out by Robyn Sassen, February 19, 2019
… photographers, both professional and amateur — in the 1980s, a liberation struggle veteran and the man behind South …
ArticleBlack People’s Convention (BPC)
The Black People’s Convention (BPC) was an umbrella organisation of the Black Consciousness Movement (BCM). BCM had its origins in university campuses, mainly…
EventCiskeian police disrupt residents' meeting
… Africa. This was one of the great rural victories of the 1980s and it gave all other people living in Ciskei …
EventClarence Makwetu announces the PAC’s suspension of its armed struggle
The Pan-Africanist Congress (PAC) president Clarence Makwetu announced the PAC's suspension of its armed struggle, thus opening the way for election…
BiographyLesedi Billy Masetlha
Lesedi Billy Masetlha was born on 21 November 1954 in Alexandra, Johannesburg, Transvaal (now Gauteng).He was one of the six children in a family with roots in…
BiographyMary Elizabeth Davis
Mary Elizabeth Davis was born in Portobello County, Edinburgh, Scotland on 26 December 1858. She was a business person and supporter of women’s causes. Davis…
BiographyFiroz Cachalia
Professor Firoz Cachalia holds a BA degree, a BA (Hons) degree, an LLB and a Higher Diploma in Company Law from Witwatersrand University. Cachalia is currently…
BiographyPaul David
… refuge with five others in the British Consulate in the 1980s …
BiographyThomas Benjamin Davis
Thomas Benjamin Frederick Davis, the son of Thomas Leipold, a fisherman, and Jemima Davis was born in April 1867 in Jersey, Channel Islands, a British Crown…
BiographyLeonard Tebogo Tume
Leonard Tebogo Tume, known as Norman Nkosi, was born on 10 April 1957 in Galeshewe, Kimberly. He attended Barkly Road High School and after he left school in…
ArticleThe Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) and the Anti-Apartheid Struggle
… Henry Makgothi. The Eighties: Partners in Revolution The 1980s saw the state making increasingly desperate attempts to …
BiographyEthel Walt
Ethel Walt was born on 22 November 1925 in Bothaville in the then Orange Free State (now Free State Province). Her family relocated to Yeoville, Johannesburg,…
BiographyPhumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka
Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka was born on 3rd November 1955 in Claremont, Durban in Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal). She matriculated from Ohlange High School in Inanda and…
BiographyMannie Manim
Mannie Manim was born in June 1941, in Cape Town. With more than 50 years’ involvement in theatre, Manim has left indelible imprints in the arts and…
BiographyKeorapetse William Kgositsile
Keorapetse William Kgositsile (popularly known as Bra Willie) was born in Johannesburg, Transvaal (now Gauteng). He attended Matibane High School. Influenced…
BiographyTopsy Madaka
Topsy Madaka was born in Gratten, New Brighton, Port Elizabeth in 1954. He was the son of Nontsikelelo and Mongameli Madaka who, both passed away in 1990. In…
EventTricameral Parliament inaugurated
… as one of the catalysts for the township unrests in the 1980s and protests by the United Democratic Front (UDF). The …
EventThe Prime Minister announces the appointment of a Commission of Inquiry into the reporting of defence matters, to be headed by Justice M.T. Steyn
… that the NP government used in the late 1970's and early 1980s to contain opposition. In fact, between 1979, when the …
EventTatamkhulu Afrika South African poet, writer and struggle activist dies
… wing of the African National Congress (ANC) in the early 1980s. As a result of political activities, Joubert was …
BiographyNorman Stewart Middleton
Norman Stewart Middleton was born in January 1921, in Sophiatown, Johannesburg, Transvaal (now Gauteng) and moved to Pietermaritzburg, Natal (now kwaZulu-Natal…