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ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1990s
1990 Nelson Mandela is released from prison. 27 townships declared unrest areas in terms of the Public Safety Act No 3 of 1953. Gazankulu: Immorality and…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1950s
1950 - 1960 In Fietas, Johannesburg, the Transvaal Indian Congress (TIC) initiates and implements the 'Decade of Defiance'. 1950 Florence Matomela…
ArticleThe banning of the South African Students Organisation (SASO) and student politics in the 1980s
… in political activities during the first half of the 1970s. In April the entire executive committee of the Soweto … uprising was the last major student…
BiographySheena Duncan
… with regards to Pass Laws and forced removals . In the 1970s, Sheena joined the Anglican Church’s Challenge Group …
BiographyJacob Dumdum Nyaose
Jacob Dumdum Nyaose was born about 1920 at Port Shepstone in Natal, the son of a Zulu seaman who belonged to the Industrial and Commercial Workers' Union…
ArticleNelson Mandela Awards 1960s - 2000s
Awards 1960s 1964 Elected Honorary President of the Students' Union, University College, London. 1965 Elected Honorary President of the Students'…
BiographyNell Kaye
Nell Kaye was born in Johannesburg, 1912. Nell Kaye's reputation rests on her work within a single genre with specific challenges and limitations - the bronze…
BiographyJackson Mbhazima Hlungwani
Jackson Mbhazima Hlungwane was born in Nkanyani Village, Gazankulu. The son of a Shangaan migrant worker, he had no formal training as an artist and learned to…
ArticlePoqo in the Western Cape and Transkei in the early 1960s
… against apartheid. This changed in the second half of the 1970s following the Soweto uprising and the early 1980s. …
Growing social unrest: Community mobilisation, strikes and student protests in the Western Cape in the 1980s
… The late 1970s witnessed increased labour unrest in the region of the … Perhaps one of the important developments in the late 1970s was the formation of the…
BiographyPetrus Linda Jabane (Lion of Chiawelo)
… attacks on police stations throughout Soweto in the late 1970s and 1980s. By this time the unit, which had within its …
BiographyJosie Palmer
Josephine ‘Josie’ Palmer (Mpama) was born in 1903 in Potchefstroom, Transvaal (now North West Province), to Georgina Garson and Stephen Bonny Mpama, an…
BiographyPravin Jamnadas Gordhan
… led the student movement and civic structures during the 1970s and 1980s and participated in the NIC’s call to boycott … Tricameral Parliament elections in…
Women’s Food Committees in Cape Town during the 1940s
The political importance of women’s food committees in Cape Town during the 1940s has been emphasised by both Cheryl Walker and Tom Lodge. According to Lodge,…
BiographyPatrick Vuyo Matshikiza
… staying power that Tshona! still enjoys today. In the late 1970s he disappeared from the mainstream scene, assumed …
BiographyJames “Sofasonke” Mpanza
James "Sofasonke" Mpanza was born in 1889. Mpanza was founder and leader from the mid-1940s of the Sofasonke Party of Orlando township, Johannesburg, and a…
Book 4: Industrialisation, Rural Change and Nationalism - Chapter 3 - Afrikaner Nationalism in the 1930s and 1940s by Albert Grundlingh
From the book: Book 4: Industrialisation, Rural Change and Nationalism commissioned by The Department of Education Asa cultural and political phenomenon, a…
Cape Town Civic and Community Organisations, 1980s
1990s: Women in the pre-election period
South Africa in the 1900s (1900-1917)
Introduction More than two and a half centuries prior to the birth of Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela, Jan Van Riebeeck and his expedition of Dutch Calvinist…
BiographyPixley ka Isaka Seme
Pixley Seme was born on 1 October 1881 in Natal, the son of Isaka Sarah (nee Mseleku) Seme. Little is documented of his early life as a primary school pupil…
BiographyPatric Tariq Mellet
… Movement and formed an underground ANC cell in the mid-1970s. Amongst other organisations’ Tariq was an active … anti-conscription movement that was to…
BiographyRichard Owen Dudley
… His banning order was continually renewed. In the early 1970s, Dudley, his wife Iris and their three children were …
BiographyPeter Moonsammy
Peter Moonsammy was born on 25 March 1928 in Market St, Johannesburg. Moonsamy was the elder brother of Paul and Dasu Joseph who were Transvaal Indian…
Poqo political trials and the execution of its operatives in the 1960s
Mass mobilization of the 1950s culminated in the Sharpeville massacre on 21 March 1960. Soon thereafter the apartheid government banned the African National…
ArticlePoetry and Resistance in the 1970’s
A multitude of African poetics has populated the constantly shifting maps of Africa throughout the twentieth-century and has inhabited the history of South…
BiographyMapetla Frank Mohapi
… he graduated with a degree in Social Work in the early 1970s. While studying at Turfloop, he was drawn to the …
BiographyHassan Howa
… Through SACBOC, he led a fearless campaign throughout the 1970s against “white” cricket. Howa galvanized the support of …
BiographyAbdool Kader Hassim
… his sentences ran concurrently for eight years. In early 1970s Hassim hoped to revive APDUSA to promote political …
BiographyOupa Ronald Madondo
… into the African National Congress (ANC) in the early 1970s, where he was known as MK Scorpion. During this period …