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ArchiveA death warrant for Afrikaans by Hermann Giliomee, 11 November 2019
… the 1950s they took away their vote. During the late 1960s they forcibly removed 3 000 coloured people from a ward …
ArticlePan Africanist Congress timeline 1959-2011
… sentences in the state’s crackdown of the PAC in the 1960s. January, The PAC holds a central Committee meeting to … People's Congress who left South Africa…
The National Question in Post 1994 South Africa. A discussion paper in preparation for the ANC`s 50th National Conference by Z. Pallo Jordan
… colonial freedom that unfolded during the 1950s and 1960s. Yet, the emancipation of India came in a form that was … over them as well. All through the 1950s…
Albie Sachs: From freedom fighter to justice on South Africa’s Constitutional Court by Morris Arvoy
Albie Sachs, an internationally known human rights activist and top judge in South Africa, suffered solitary confinement and exile and survived a bomb attack…
ArchiveCHAPTER 5 - Armed Propaganda and Non-Colaborattion, Rationalising weakness, August 1979 - December 1980 by Howard Barell
… veterans of attempts at ANC reconstruction since the late 1960s. Footnote Nkondo was in the process of becoming a … the nationalist movement during the late…
ArchiveGoldblatt: I'm after a particular sense of stillness by Ivan Vladislavic, 27 September 2013
… personal favourites. The older ones were made between the 1960s and the early 1990s, and belong in the series I call …
Burkina Faso: Key Facts and History by Angela Thompsell updated 13 February 2016
Key facts and history of Burkina Faso from the 2015 elections and coup attempt to independence in 1960. Overview: Burkina Faso's poor economic outlook and…
ArchiveCHAPTER ONE: A Conceptual Overview by Kumi Naidoo
This chapter comes from the book
Opening Address to the ANC’s 48th National Conference by O. R. Tambo, Durban, 2 July 1991
… it was under the banner of black consciousness in the late 1960s and the 1970s, or with the Durban strikes of 1973, our …
BiographyTimothy Peter Jenkin
Timothy Peter Jenkin was born in 1948, in Cape Town and educated at Rondebosch Boys' Prep and Boys' High School,[1][2] matriculating at the age of 17.[3] …
BiographyProfessor Hoosen Mahomed "Jerry" Coovadia
Professor Hoosen Mahomed "Jerry" Coovadia was born in Durban, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal - KZN) on 2 August 1940. His grandparents had come to South Africa…
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…
PlaceSteadville, Ladysmith
Steadville is an African township situated in Ladysmith/Emnambithi, KwaZulu-Natal. The name Steadville comes from the Stead family, particularly Frederick…
BiographyNarriman Gadija Bazier Samuels
Narriman Gadija Bazier Samuels, affectionately known as "Ma G" throughout Mitchells Plain, grew up during the height of apartheid in South Africa. While her…
BiographyWalter Kefuoe Fikeleph Chakela
Walter Kefuoe Fikelephi Chakela was a revered playwright and poet born on 13 April 1953 in Vryburg, a small, conservative Afrikaner town in Transvaal (now…
ArticlePeter Henry Abrahams timeline 1919 - 1985
1919 Peter Abrahams is born in Vrededorp, Johannesburg in March 1919 to an Ethiopian father and a Coloured mother. His father passed away when he was young…
David Goldblatt, TJ, 1948-2010 - review by Claire Guillot, 25 January 2011
One morning, in the middle-class suburb of Johannesburg where he lives, David Goldblatt found his camper van on bricks. "Someone had stolen the wheels during…
Trade Union Council of South Africa (TUCSA)
The Trade Union Council of South Africa (TUCSA) was founded in October 1954 by 61 unions mainly representing White workers and mixed unions of Coloured and…
ArticleThe Homelands
The Bantustans or homelands, established by the Apartheid Government, were areas to which the majority of the Blacks population was moved to prevent them from…
Statement by Oliver Tambo at the meeting of the Special Committee against Apartheid, 12 January 1982
… led by the ANC from 1912 up to the beginning of the 1960s took the form of peaceful and non-violent pressures. …
Statement by Oliver Tambo at the meeting of the United Nations Special Committee against apartheid, 12 January 1982
… led by the ANC from 1912 up to the beginning of the 1960s took the form of peaceful and nonviolent pressures. …
ArchiveFirst Mafika Gwala Lecture: The Arts of Resistance - Mafika Gwala and South African Poetry by Ari Sitas
At first I thought that a reading and a republishing of my Traditions of Poetry in Natal2 which attempted to situate Mafika Pascal Gwala’s work in the late…
ArchiveCuito Cuanavale, Angola 25th Anniversary of a Historic African Battle by Ronnie Kasrils (Monthly Review), Africa, Angola
… battle’s outcome some background is required. The early 1960s had seen the emergence of armed liberation movements in … Americans had been in confrontation…
EventMoïse-Kapenda Tshombé becomes the Prime Minister of the Congo
On 10 July 1964 MoÁ¯se-Kapenda Tshombé, leader of the Confederation of Tribal Associations of Katanga, became the Prime Minister of the Congo (now known as…
PlaceTranskei
… by more radical forces long before this. In the early 1960s, the PAC's armed wing, Poqo, launched several attempts …
ArticleConstructing heritage and heritage resources
… achievement and resistance. During the war years of the 1960s and 1970s, the African people held up Great Zimbabwe as …
”ASINAMALI”, WE HAVE NO MONEY
… (SACTU's) most successful achievement in the 1950s and 1960s. Demanding a legislated, national minimum wage of … of SACTU's major work throughout the rest…
EventThe Japanese government announces that South Africans will no longer be granted visas to enter Japan
Due to South Africa’s Apartheid regime in the 1970s and 1980s, many countries were cautious to be seen as allies with the country. Japan was one of these…
Ahmed Kathrada pays tribute to Nelson Mandela, 6 December 2013
… and Tyopho in the three major court cases of the 1950s and 1960s – the Defiance Campaign Trial of 1952, in which we were …
Black Student Politics
It is generally recognised that mass popular struggles during the 1970s and 1980s played a pivotal role in eroding apartheid and creating the conditions for…