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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 …
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…
BiographyChief Mangosuthu Gatsha Buthelezi
Chief Mangosuthu Gatsha Buthelezi, son of Princess Magogo Constance Zulu kaDinuzulu, King Solomon’s sister, and Inkosi Mathole Buthelezi, the King’s Prime…
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…
BiographyCurtis Nkondo
Curtis Nkondo was born on 1st February 1928 in Louis Trichardt, Northern Transvaal (now Makhado, Limpopo). Towards the end of the 1800s, his grandmother, Ma…
BiographyJacob Hendrik Pierneef
Jacobus Hendrik Pierneef was born on 13 August 1886 in Pretoria from Dutch parents. Pierneef started his high school career at the Staatsmodelschool in…
ArticleA History of Official Government HIV/AIDS Policy in South Africa
… HIV/AIDS was heavily politicized along racial lines in the 1980s and early 1990s. It has thus been suggested that since …
Chapter 6 - The Birth of SACTU
From: Lessons of the 1950s By Richard Monroe, March-May 1984 Chapter 6 - The Birth of SACTU The formation of a trade union federation based on the African…
Chapter 9 - People’s Education and People’s Power: Mobilisation and Collective Action
… to protest curbs on student activities. During the early 1980s struggles around SRCs were mainly confined to the universities and technikons. From the mid…
Book 4: Industrialisation, Rural Change and Nationalism - Introduction
From the book: Book 4: Industrialisation, Rural Change and Nationalism commissioned by The Department of Education Industrialisationand rural change were key…
ArchiveUmkhonto we Sizwe - Structure, Training and Force Levels (1984 to 1994) by Tsepe Motumi , African Defence Review No 18, 1994
… it tapered off in the late 1970s and the beginning of the 1980s. THE EIGHTIES The second major wave of recruits to MK joined in the mid-1980s, fuelled by the…
ArchiveHamba kahle Jennifer Davis 1933-2019
… repression in South Africa continued to escalate in the 1980s, the American Committee on Africa played a key role in …
ArticleHistory Grade 11 - Topic 3 Contextual Overview
Introduction In the previous section, we have learnt about the origins of capitalism, however, we paid cursory attention to the racial character of that…
ArchiveMandela’s Democracy by Andrew Nash, 26 June 2013
… for a democratic accommodation with capitalism in the 1980s and 1990s. First, Mandela emphasized the moral basis of …
BiographyMary Butcher Turok
Mary Butcher Turok is the wife of the anti-apartheid activist, parliamentarian and Professor Ben Turok, who played a prominent role in the writing of the…
BiographyOprah Winfrey
Daughter of Vernon Winfrey by Vernita Lee (May 2, 1935 - November 22, 2018), a former maid. She was raised as the daughter of Vernon Winfrey, a coal miner,…
ArticleTransport in the air
Ancient stories tell of people's desire to fly like a bird. The Greek myth about Icarus and Daedalus is one of the most famous stories. According to the story,…
PlaceBenin
… rule was starting to break down in the mid- to late-1980s. The period 1974–1989 in Benin provides the most …
BiographyArchibald Jacob Gumede
Archibald Jacob Gumede was born in Pietermaritzburg on 1st of March in 1914,the son of Lillian (born Mgqogqoza) and Josiah Tshangana Gumede a former ANC…
BiographyMary Dorothy Benson
Dorothy Mary Benson – known as Mary Benson – was born on 8 December 1919 in Pretoria, Transvaal Province (now Gauteng), where she received her early education…
Beyers Naudé: former General-Secretary of the South African Council of Churches and before that Director of the Christian Institute interview with Rupert Taylor, 4 February 2000, Northcliff, Johannesburg
… to non-violence, and so it looks at - particularly in the 1980s - organizations like Idasa, the End Conscription … believed 18 years ago or even, or even in…
ArticleXenophobic violence in democratic South Africa
… and asylum seekers in South Africa dates back to the 1980s when the country was home to a number of Mozambican …
BiographyPitika Ntuli
Born in Springs, situated east of Johannesburg, Pitika Ntuli grew up with a keen interest in art. As a young man, he got involved in politics, and he was an…
ArticleGrade 9 - Term 1: World War II (1939 - 1945)
World War II (1939 to 1945) was the most devastating war in history, accounting for between 50 million to 80 million deaths. What made the war significant was…
Address delivered at The 9th COSATU Congress, 18 September 2006, Gallagher Estate, Midrand
… formation of Cosatu and the United Democratic Front in the 1980s. The origin of our relationship proves that our unity …
ArchiveObituary: Eddie Webster’s influence over generations of students extended to the country and beyond its borders by Andries Bezuidenhout (Mail and Guardian), 6 March 2024
… success of trade unions in South Africa during the 1980s certainly provided historical evidence for Eddie’s …
ArchiveAll That Glitters - Bound to strike back by Emilia Potenza
From the book: All That Glitters by Emilia PotenzaThis feature has explored the devastating changes that industrialisation brought for the majority of people…
Book 4: Industrialisation, Rural Change and Nationalism - Chapter 1 - Rural Change and the Future of South Africa by Rachidi R. Molapo
From the book: Book 4: Industrialisation, Rural Change and Nationalism commissioned by The Department of Education Thedevelopment of an industrialised…
The Durban Strikes and the making of the Political Struggles in South Africa by Vuyisile Msila
This paper was submitted to the 1973 Durban Strikes Celebrating 50 Years Conference When the Industrial and Commercial Workers’ Union (ICU) was formed in…
PlaceEzakheni Township of Ladysmith
Ezakheni is an African township that was built in the old KwaZulu homeland about 25km from the town of Ladysmith. The area was established in 1972 and its…