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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…
BiographyGisele Wulfsohn
Gisèle Wulfsohn was a freelance photographer specialising in portraiture, education, health and gender issues. Gisèle studied Graphic Fine Art at the…
Francis Zaccharius Santiago Peregrino
Francis Zaccharius Santiago Peregrino was a journalist and public intellectual who, in the early 1900s, challenged notions of Black racial inferiority in the…
BiographySolomzi Ashby Peter Mda
Solomzi Ashby Peter Mda was born on 6th April 1916, in Herschel district, bordering Lesotho. He was the first son of Mildred Mei, a school teacher and…
BiographyEnver Hassim
Enver Hassim was born in the Transvaal, where he was part of a large family, with two brothers and four sisters. His father made a living as a middleman and…
EventHistory of December 16
December 16 looms large in the history of South Africa; it is celebrated as the Day of Reconciliation. First celebrated as ‘Dingane’s Day,’ when the…
Dr Mamphela Ramphele interviewed by Rupert Taylor, 16 April 1998, Cape Town
… feel that this potential did not play itself out in the 1980s - would that be correct? Ramphele: Yes, because, … vision of a developmentalist transformative…
EventThe apartheid government establishes a Department for Coloured Affairs' (CAD)
… battle to have their political rights recognized. By the 1980s, a Tricameral Parliament was created, in which …
ArchiveZuma's rape accuser questioned (BBC News), 07 March 2006
… had been good friends while living in exile in the early 1980s. Her father died in 1985. She explained the special …
EventMore than a dozen people are killed, including seven children, in Kwamakhutha Massacre
… in their own local regions. The bloodshed escalated in the 1980s with the African National Congress (ANC), Inkatha …
A growing urban African population
As Johannesburg expanded, so did its need for African labour. After the First World War, a large number of factories were being established and were growing in…
“Exodus without a map”: What happened to the Durban moment? by Edward Webster
… that took a creative turn in Durban in the 1970s and early 1980s. In Part Two, I examine the idea that, by failing to … that emerged in South Africa during…
ArchiveCHAPTER TWO: Class, Consiousness and Organisation inthe Political Development of Indian South Africans, 1860 - 1979 by Kumi Naidoo
This chapter comes from the book
ArchiveCHAPTER EIGHT: Indian Resistance Politics In Transition, 1990-1996 by Kumi Naidoo
This chapter comes from the book
4. The ANC underground between Rivonia and 1976
… to link up with. 35 Murphy Morobe confi rms this for the 1980s, when he was ‘mandated’ to join the trade unions. 36 A … which activists in the open,…
BiographyKewpie
… (GALA). “ Kewpie Photographic Collection, ca. 1950s to 1980s”. Available at …
BiographyBoy Mvemve
Boy Adolphus Mvemve died a very violent death in exile in Zambia in 1974. He was 43 years of age at the time, operating under the nom de guerre John Dube (or…
BiographyElizabeth Komikie Gumede
Recorded as one of the most tortured women political prisoners under the apartheid regime, Elizabeth Komikie Gumede was born in 1921. Gumede served as an…
BiographyLeo Linda Sihlali
Leo Linda Sihlali was born on 9 September 1915 in Butterworth. He went to primary school in Tarkastad where his mother worked as a teacher. On completion he…
BiographyPhathekile Holomisa
Phathekile Holomisa was born on 26 August 1959 in the Eastern Cape. He went to the University of Natal during the mid 1980’s where he received a Bachelor of…
ArchiveRemembering to think critically: Rick Turner 40 years on by Anthony Egan, 8 January 2018
… trade union federations that played a decisive role in the 1980s and early 1990s. One of Turner’s achievements was …
This doccie about a SA photographer is worth the watch by Garreth Van Niekerk (channel24), 28 May 2017
… “the dying mines of South Africa”, to the shutdown of his 1980s exhibition in London by angry ANC members, all the way …
EventDaniel Toroitich arap Moi arap Moi wins the first multi
… in 1983 and 1988. As the Cold War wound down in the late 1980s, Western powers were no longer willing to prop up …
PlaceDistrict Six, Cape Town
… for many years . The Land remained vacant, until in the 1980s Housing for Police and Army Personnel and a Cape …
Siphiwe Nyanda
Siphiwe Nyanda was the eldest of the six children of Betsy and Henry Nyanda, a traffic inspector and area supervisor of liquor outlets for the Johannesburg…
BiographyRowley Israel Arenstein
Rowley Israel Arenstein was born on 7th of July in 1918. Arenstein was a prominent Durban attorney,the son of immigrant eastern European jews and a leader of…
BiographyEsther Barsel
Born in Raguva, Lithuania on 17 October 1924, Esther Barsel (nee Levin) came to South Africa in 1927 when she was three years old. She and her mother followed…