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BiographyJoe Slovo
Joe Slovo was born in Lithuania in 1926. He moved to South Africa with his parents at the age of nine. His father was a van driver in Johannesburg. Slovo…
BiographyJohn Taolo Gaetsewe
John Taolo Gaetsewe was born in 1916 at Maruping village in Ga-Segonyana, Northern Cape.His father was a migrant mineworker. He left a mission-run secondary…
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…
BiographyZephania ‘Zeph’ Lekoane Mothopeng
Zephania ‘Zeph’ Lekoane Mothopeng, was born on 10 September 1913, in the Orange Free State (now Free State) near the town of Vrede. Shortly after his birth,…
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 …
The Durban Strikes of 1973 and the End of a Cycle of Struggle by Mondli Hlatshwayo
… a vital feature of the workers’ movement in the 1970s and 1980s. This cycle of struggle, which began with the Durban …
Book launch: Attacking the Heart of Apartheid by Yunus Carrim
… high-profile attacks against the apartheid state in the 1980s. From the spectacular 1980 Sasol bombings to the 1988 …
PlacePageview
… This led to fierce resistance that continued into the 1980s. Although thousands were moved from Pageview, 67 …
PlaceNyanga Township
… in solidarity with the students of Soweto . In the early 1980s, Nyanga township became notorious for its faction …
BiographyStephen Bantu Biko
… organisation was also banned soon thereafter. By the early 1980s the Black Consciousness Movement was in decline, …
EventMakhwenkwe Harrison Butshingi, trade unionist and community leader, dies
On 28 February 1980, Makhwenkwe Harrison Butshingi died in Orlando West, Soweto. Butshingi was born in the Transkei in 1906, and moved to the Transvaal in…
ArticleSouth Africa’s Foreign Relations during Apartheid, 1948
… in the form of the Black Consciousness Movement. From the 1980s onwards isolation only increased as more and more …
Insurrections: The Storming
… of the main voices of the mass democratic movement of the 1980s. She has released three CDs one of which is a …
ArticleThe Storming: Insurrections Ensemble
… of the main voices of the mass democratic movement of the 1980s. She has released three CDs one of which is a …
EventAnti-Apartheid demonstration is held outside SA embassy in Washington
… more comprehensive sanctions on South Africa in the early 1980s. A mass grassroots campaign under the direction of the …
PlaceMohodi
… continued to arrive in the area from Mphakane up to the 1980s. Mphakane was a village about 50km north of Pietersburg …
Biography of Lefifi Tladi by Paul Linck
… Botswana [xxviii] . This becomes a fear beginning in the 1980s, which is when Tladi left Botswana to study in …
ArticlePass Laws and Sharpeville Massacre
Pass laws in South Africa were met with fierce resistance during the 20th century. But earlier forms of passes, had in fact been used in various instances…
BiographyPercival Henry Frederick “Percy” Sonn
Born in Cape Town on September 25, 1949, Percival Sonn, universally known as Percy, dedicated much of his life to the development of the game of cricket in the…
BiographyTlou Theophilus Cholo
Tlou Theophilus Cholo was born in 1926 at Kgakana Village, Polokwane. A son to a trade unionist, his father worked in Johannesburg where he was an active…
BiographyJeanette Carlson
Jeanette Levinson Carlson was born on 21 June 1929, in Muizenberg, Cape Town, Western Province (now Western Cape Province). She was the youngest of Israel and…
BiographyMahomed Dawood Barmania
Mahomed Dawood Barmania was the son of Dawood Barmania, owner of commercial and farming properties in both Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal) and Surat in the West…
BiographyMoses Jongizizwe Mayekiso
Moses Jongizizwe Mayekiso was born on 21 October 1948 in Askeaton, Cala district, Transkei. He was the eldest of 12 children to Ellen and Betwell Mayekiso. He…
BiographyHendrik Jacobus (Kobie) Coetsee
Kobie Coetsee was born on 19 April 1931 in Ladybrand in the Orange Free State. His father, Johannes, was a printer, and had only one child with is wife,…
BiographyChief Justice Arthur Chaskalson
Justice Arthur Chaskalson was born in Johannesburg on 24 November 1931. In 1952 he graduated from the University of the Witwatersrand with a B.Com, and in 1954…
BiographyFholisani Sydney Mufamadi
Sydney Mufamadi was born on 28 February 1959 in Alexandra Township, Johannesburg. Mufamadi is the eldest of the four children of Masindi and Reuben, who are…
BiographyPrince Senzangakhona James Mahlangu
Prince Senzangakhona James Mahlangu, the second son of the king of the Ndebele, Ndzundza-Mabhoko King Mabusabesala II, and Queen Johanna Selepi, was born on…
BiographyBiddy Partridge
Bridget June Partridge was born in 1950 in Kenya and raised in South Africa. Biddy Partridge first began work as a freelance photographer for the South…