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From Durban Falkirk to Defy: Changing sources of workers’ power in the metal industry by Andries Bezuidenhout and Edward Webster
This paper was submitted to the 1973 Durban Strikes Celebrating 50 Years Conference Conference on Fifty years since the 1973 Durban strikes Durban…
Pridekit - Enoch Sontonga
… search was complicated by the fact that during the early 1960s that particular section of the cemetery, comprising 10 …
BiographyAbdul Samad Minty
Abdul Samad Minty was born on 31 October 1933 in Hartebeesfontein, Northern Transvaal (now known as Limpopo Province). Minty grew up in Johannesburg where he…
BiographyDorothy Cleminshaw
Dorothy Cleminshaw (nee Mullany) was born in Cape Town on the 15th of September 1922. She went to Ellersie College in Sea Point and matriculated with a full…
Chapter III - The world outside
… While I was living encapsulated in house arrest, the 1960s inexorably became a decade of disgrace, of repressive … the future, I can make my stand clear. By…
ArchiveConclusion by Howard Barrell
… actually changed between 1976 and 1986 - indeed, from the 1960s. Vula would be the final attempt by the ANC - or, more … struggle, particularly the disaster…
CHAPTER 10 - CONCLUSION
… actually changed between 1976 and 1986 - indeed, from the 1960s. Vula would be the final attempt by the ANC - or, more … struggle, particularly the disaster…
ArchiveCHAPTER 3 - Unprepared by Howard Barrell
… The RC recognised that, for the first time since the early 1960s, ‘the prospect existed for creating a trained fighting … 11 Its guerilla forces recruited…
ArchiveClass, Consciousness and Organisation: Introduction by Kumi Naidoo
This chapter comes from the book
BiographyDr. Abu Baker Asvat
This article was written by Michelle Hayman and forms part of the SAHO Public History Internship The ‘People’s Doctor’ ‘He struggled to liberate…
'Native life' 100 after Sol Plaatje published it by Janet Remmington, Brian Willan, Bhekizizwe Peterson (Mail and Guardian), 30 September 2016
… they did, Native Life was mostly neglected. But, from the 1960s and 1970s, as historians began to take a more sustained …
ArticleUnited Democratic Front (UDF)
The United Democratic Front (UDF) was an anti-apartheid body that incorporated many anti-apartheid organisations. It was launched in 1983, in Mitchells Plain…
Community histories of Rustenburg
… a long life, and passed away at the age of 102 in the 1960s. The main street in Rustenburg was named after her in …
BiographyHelen Newton Thompson
Helen Newton Thompson, an anti-apartheid political activist and founding member of the Black Sash, has for the most part of history, been a fleeting footnote…
BiographyJob Shimankana Tabane
Job Shimankana Tabane (largely known as Cassius Make, his alias name) was born in Maile village (Diepkuil) just outside Rustenburg on 6 December 1942. Tabane…
BiographyHarriet Ngubane
Harriet Ngubane was born in 1929 at Inchanga, a rural area near Pietermaritzburg, kwaZulu-Natal (KZN). She was brought up as a Roman Catholic but grew to…
BiographyBaldwin ‘Ben’ Sipho Ngubane
Dr Baldwin ‘Ben’ Sipho Ngubane was born on 22 October 1941 at the Inchanga Roman Catholic Mission in Camperdown, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal - KZN). He…
BiographyStephanie Kemp
… 09 August 2012]| Fullard, M, State Repression in the 1960s, in The Road to Democracy in South Africa: 1960-1970 , …
Zulu Community
Late nineteenth century postcard of Zulu Warriors. Note the Europeans in the background. Source: Frescura Collection The pre-1994 apartheid system of…
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BiographyB J Vorster [John Vorster]
Overview Balthazar Johannes Vorster (also known as BJ Vorster or John Vorster) was the Prime Minister of South Africa from 1966 to 1978, after having served…
Defining the term 'Bantu'
The following article is based on an essay from Kees van der Waal’s chapter in “Critical Essays on Afrikaans Places of Memory” The term ‘Bantu has gone…
ArchiveClass Consciousness and Migrant Workers by David Hemson (University of Warwick)
… in the hothouse of internal resistance during the late 1960s and early 1970s. It has a wide ambit and covers a …
ArticleCommemoration, remembering and memorialising June 16 Soweto uprising
Since the early 1990s, June 16, now known as Youth Day, has been remembered, commemorated, and memorialised as public history. There have been different ways…
Mafika Gwala’s Books Catalogue
… weapon ; Influences on writing ; Black writing and art - 1960s and 1970s) Davis, Geoffrey V ; Manaka, Matsemela ; … new black poets.' (SUBJECTS: Black…
Devout domesticity? A century of African women's Christianity in South Africa by Deborah Gaitskell
… being condemned by African Mothers' Union workers in the 1960s: 'they cannot read or write, the only thing they can do …
Conflict among civic organisations
Civic organisations in the Western Cape, particularly in Cape Town did not share the same ideological stance, interests and outcomes. One of the major…
ArchiveRadio Freedom: A History of South African Underground Radio by Chris A. Smith
… and for Radio Freedom. The station reappeared in the late 1960s, broadcasting from black-run countries like Tanzania, …
ArchivePhotographer Ernest Cole: Of bondage and freedom – Discovery of trove of negatives a game changer by Ivor Powell (Daily Maverick), 30 November 2017
… to Cole’s friend and patron, Joseph Lelyveld, - in the 1960s the New York Times South Africa correspondent, but … Exactly how he did it remains unclear, but …
The Liberation Struggle in South Africa
The Liberation Struggle in South Africa homehomepolitics & governanceliberation struggleemerging…
BiographyEmil Sachs
Emil Solomon (Solly) Sachs was born on 11 November 1900, in Kamaai, Lithuania. He was the fourth of the five children of Abraham Saks, later changed to 'Sachs'…