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Address at the National Summit of Unity and Reconciliation Kigali, Rwanda, 18 October 2000
… The possibility for that emerged during the middle 1980s as a result of the progress of the struggle both … some interest to you in your deliberations. From…
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…
ArticleRemembering and Celebrating South Africa’s Iconic LGBTQI+ Women
… worked actively as an anti-apartheid activist in the late 1980s and early 90s, particularly concerned with the … (GALA). “Kewpie Photographic Collection, ca…
Article1973 Durban Strikes
Introduction On 9 January 1973, workers at the Coronation Brick and Tile factory, outside Durban, came out on strike. Immediately thereafter, workers from…
ArticleA History of the South African Film Industry timeline 1895-2003
… than they were in the country of their origin. Since the 1980s Ster-Kinekor, Nu Metro and United International …
Community histories of Rustenburg
Afrikaans Community (1838-1899) The First White Inhabitants It is documented that the first pioneers from the Eastern Cape undertook a hunting expedition…
PlaceKoffiefontein, Free State Province
… operations were suspended several times, the last time in 1980s, but diamond-bearing gravels from one volcanic pipe are …
BiographyStephanie Kemp
Stephanie Kemp was born in the Karoo in 1941 and grew up with her two sisters in Malmesbury in the Swartland. The town was dominated by the Dutch Reformed…
BiographyFrances Rix Ames
Frances Rix Ames was born in Pretoria, Transvaal (now Gauteng), on 20 April 1920. Her father deserted the family when she was still an infant, leaving her…
ArticleThe role of gender in Ndebele architecture
Gender roles in Ndebele home-making From the 1940s onwards the settlement at Hartbeesfontein began to be visited increasingly by researchers, including Barrie…
Awards of Recognition to Honourable Early Associates of Gandhiji and Phoenix Settlement 1904-1914
The Gandhi Development Trust recognises on this important occasion of the centenary of Phoenix Settlement, the outstanding contribution, dedication and devoted…
ArchiveWebinar Programme: Forward to Socialism/Socialist Futures (Panel 2) - Convenor: Janet Cherry
… struggle for socialism? by Jenny Schreiner , SACP The late 1980s/early 1990s changes in the socialist world and the … environmental justice activist and…
Pretoria the Segregated city
… erected in the township. Political Mobilisation: 1970s-1980s The built environment was at the root of political …
ArchiveReflections on life in a rearview mirror by Jo Ractliffe, 27 Jun 2011
… and it was an important place for me personally. In the 1980s we were putting on exhibitions that I think were very … difficult. I did a couple of…
ArticleCall for submissions: The Politics of Armed Struggle in Southern Africa Conference
Conference: THE POLITICS OF ARMED STRUGGLE IN SOUTHERN AFRICA Conference Date: 23-25 November 2016 Venue: University of the Witwatersrand (Johannesburg) …
ArchiveCHAPTER SEVEN: Resistance Politics In Retreat: Cablism, The ANC Underground And Gandhi, 1985-1989 by Kumi Naidoo
This chapter comes from the book
A Brief History of Mali by US Department of State updated 01 October 2015
… 1981 and 1982 and remained generally calm throughout the 1980s. Shifting its attention to Mali's economic …
Biography of Lindiwe Mabuza by Kayla Johansen
… she was working within. [25] During the 1970s and 1980s, the government of South Africa infiltrated ANC …
ArchiveAll That Glitters - In the city by Emilia Potenza
From the book: All That Glitters by Emilia PotenzaBetween 1921 and 1936, the number of Africans in the cities increased from about half a million to over one…
BiographyPetros Sipho Sibusiso Mkhize (Mkize)
… 2,949 hangings (14 of women), including 1,123 in the 1980s"); South African History Online, "Political executions …
ArticleSouth African Indian Congress (SAIC)
The period 1860-1923 is characterised firstly by the introduction of indentured Indian labourers into Natal and of the "passenger" Indians who came to trade,…
BiographyAdvocate Israel “Isie” Aaron Maisels
Advocate Israel “Isie” Aaron Maisels was born on 19 November 1905 in Johannesburg, Transvaal (now Gauteng), South Africa. His father, Henry Maisels, had come…
ArchiveCHAPTER FOUR: The Revival Of Alliance Politics, 1982-1984 by Kumi Naidoo
This chapter comes from the book
ArticleDrafting of the Final Constitution
… was removed. [i] First constitutional change The 1980s was the time in which brutal levels of repression of …
BiographyTim Bruwer
Odd one out Over the years many people have asked me how it came about that I, amongst all the Afrikaners that I grew up with or knew, as a young man in the…
Hugh Masekela: the horn player with a shrewd ear for the music of today, not yesterday, 29 October 2017
When trumpeter, flugelhorn-player, singer, composer and activist Hugh Ramapolo Masekela cancelled his appearance at the recent Johannesburg Joy of Jazz…
PlaceCango Caves, Oudtshoorn
… to find a series of caves mentioned in a report from the 1980s. They were somewhere near the tip of South Africa in …
ArticleVlakplaas and the History of Apartheid's Death Squad
… division of the apartheid police that operated in the 1980s. Vlakplaas is also referred to as C, C1 and C10. The …
BiographyMorgan Gonaseelan Naidoo
Morgan Gonaseelan Naidoo was born in 1936 in Durban. He spent most of his young life at the FOSA TB Settlement, just north of the city. His father died when…