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ArticleWomen’s Workplace Oppression in 1970s South Africa by Cait Chapman
This article was written by Cait Chapman and forms part of the SAHO and Southern Methodist University partnership projectWomen’s Workplace Oppression in 1970s…
BiographyJohn Matshikiza
… of Culture of the Gorée Institute for some time. In the 1980s he began to develop a reputation both as a film actor …
BiographyManasseh Tebatso Moerane
Manasseh Tebatso Moerane was born in 1913 to an educated Sotho parents in the Transkei, he attended Adams College and obtained bachelor's degrees from Fort…
BiographyJulia Nicol
… worked actively as an anti-apartheid activist in the late 1980s and early 90s, particularly concerned with the …
Yusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1980 - 1989
Yusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1980 - 1989 1980 January 24, The Bulgarian Communist Party awards Dadoo the Order of Georgi Dimitrov. October 20 - 22, Dr Yusuf…
BiographyKalushi Drake Koka
… the country.He was granted asylum in Britain in the 1980s and taught African history and culture at Nottinham …
BiographyArthur William Blaxall
Arthur William Blaxall was born in 1891 in Britain. He was a clergyman who was convicted of aiding the African National Congress (ANC) and the Pan Africanist…
BiographyAndrew Sibusiso Zondo
… instead, in order to oppose the apartheid government. The 1980s was a turbulent time in South Africa, and after reading …
BiographyElizabeth Adriana (Nanna) Abrahams
… she continued to remain active in other capacities. In the 1980s she assisted Ray Alexander while in exile, and hid …
BiographyJohn Jacques William Aitchison
… of 55,000 copies in the Natal Midlands. During the 1980s and early 1990s, Aitchison and the Centre were noted …
BiographyStephanie Urdang
… anti-apartheid divestment campaign in the USA in the 1980s (of which Urdang was a part). There, she became the … of her frequent visits to the country…
BiographyGladstone Xala Tshume
Gladstone Xala Tshume was born on 1912, he joined the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA) in the late 1930s while working for a coal dealer in Grahamstown…
ArticleThe turbulent 1950s - Women as defiant activists
In the 1950s the government's increasingly repressive policies began to pose a direct threat to all people of colour, and there was a surge of mass political…
Indian South Africans timeline 1980-1989
Indian South Africans Timeline: 1980-1989 1980 Kay Moonsamy was sent to India to replace Mosie Moolla, as the African National Congress (ANC) representative,…
ArticleA Land Dispossession History 1600s-1990s
Anyone who travels over the vast expanse of South Africa is immediately struck by the great variations in its landscape and the differing contexts and…
The Liberation Struggle documents: 1990s
BiographyMurphy Morobe
… in 1983. Morobe became very active in the UDF during the 1980s, and served on the Executive. From October to December …
BiographyJohann Christiaan Kriegler
… with the Black Lawyers’ Association (BLA) from the early 1980s, founding chair of Lawyers for Human Rights (1981) and …
BiographyJohannes Maswanganyi
… sculptures in the collection, which date back to the late 1980s. Different, however, is that they are removed from …
BiographyIan Mkhize
… police and he was detained several times in the mid 1980s. Because of his political activism he was asked to …
BiographyPenelope Jane Dunlop
… seven years and produced some of the biggest hits of the 1980s. The band crossed over from rock to Afro-pop in 1983 …
ArticleHIV/Aids in South Africa timeline 1940s-2009
… study of blood diseases. 25 years later in the 1980s, researchers studying the spreading Acquired …
ArticleCurries Fountain events timeline
… National basis. 1964 Currie's gets floodlights. Late 1970s-1980s-early 1990s Up until the late 1970s the predominant use …
BiographySaleem Badat
… , joining the Release Mandela Committee. Then during the 1980s becoming even more deeply involved in the …
BiographyAnthony Sampson
… an editorial consultant to the Brandt Commission. By the 1980s, Sampson was editing The Sampson Letter, and …
BiographyBusisiwe Victoria Mhlongo
… African tour with the singer Letta Mbulu . For much of the 1980s, Mhlongo based herself in The Netherlands where she …
BiographyMmapula Mmakgoba “Helen” Sebidi
… Artists under the Sun exhibitions in the early 1980s represented a commercial breakthrough for her, enabling …
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1980-1989
… The 1980s witnessed an increase in attacks launched by the ANC …
ArticleWomen in the schizophrenic 1940s - World War II and its aftermath
The 1940s opened with the devastating Second World War in full swing. This decade also marked the gradual transition from a mining and agricultural economy …
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1980-1989
1980 25 January, Three MK cadres, on their way to carry out a sabotage mission, take refuge in the Silverton branch of Volkskas Bank after realising they were…