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‘Wash Me Black Again’: African Nationalism, the Indian Diaspora, and Kwa-Zulu Natal, 1944-1960 by Jon Soske
… at the University of Natal in the late 1970s and early 1980s; and published and unpublished political materials from … South Africa (1969). 262 reforms at…
PlaceCabo Verde
… a unified state with Guinea-Bissau were abandoned in the 1980s [iv] . Since 1991 Cape Verde has been a multi-party …
ArticleStrong and Unnoticed: The Women of the UDF by Reid Arnold
… the hundreds of Anti-Apartheid movements occurring in the 1980s. Female leaders such as Albertina Sisulu and Sister … the hundreds of Anti-Apartheid movement…
ArticleRuth Robb and her involvement with Black Sash
… in an attempt to control the Black population in the early 1980s. The government’s plan was to solve the problem by …
ArticleThe Pietermaritzburg Treason Trial, 1984
… Context In the early 1980s the government took steps to control the level of …
Pedi
[baPedi – People and sePedi – Language] The four major ethnic divisions among Black South Africans are the Nguni, Sotho-Tswana, Shangaan-Tsonga and Venda…
Concluding Remarks
… the assumptions and perceptions that came to dominate the 1980s concerning art as a weapon of liberÂation in the years … banners and T-shirts were quickly…
BiographyMoosa “Mosie” Moolla
Moosa “Mosie” Moolla was born in the small, (then) western Transvaal town of Christiana on 12 June 1934 where his father ran a successful import-export…
BiographyVivian Fitzsimons
For many south africans, the name Fitzsimons will always be linked to snakes - to their diversity and the treatment of their venomous bites. Rightly so, as…
BiographyPetrus Nzima Nyawose
In the 1970s, Petrus Nyawose worked as a bouncer at The Paradise, a popular nightclub in Durban. Nyawose spent most of his working hours at the offices of the…
ArticleArt South Africa Today exhibitions
In May 1963, the Cape Times announced the launch of ‘a national art exhibition, open to South African artists of all races’. The first iteration of Art South…
South Africa: Liberation and Reconciliation Role of International Solidarity, 8 April 2004
… African government to legalize black trade unions. In the 1980s, in Britain and some European countries, hundreds of … That was one reason for the "tar baby"…
BiographyEugène Ney Terre’Blanche
Eugene Ney Terre'Blanche was born in Ventersdorp to staunchly Afrikaner nationalist parents on January 31, 1944. The progenitor of the Terre'Blanche name was…
ArchiveRadio Freedom: A History of South African Underground Radio by Chris A. Smith
… distributed them throughout the country. By the mid-1980s the townships were in open revolt, and nobody worried …
BiographyNelson Rolihlahla Mandela
Childhood in the Eastern CapeNelson Rolihlahla Mandela was the son of Nonqaphi Nosekeni and Henry Mgadla Mandela, a chief and chief councillor to the paramount…
Women at the start of the 20th century
It is only over the last three or four decades that women's role in the history of South Africa has, belatedly, been given some recognition. Previously the…
Address by President of the Republic Commander-in-Chief of SANDF and Patron-in-Chief of Military Veterans at the funeral of Major General (retired) Mongameli Johnson Tshali (aka Lennox Lagu), Thaba Tshwane, 17 September 2011
… Again Commander Tshali survived. During the early to 1980s, General Tshali was amongst the commanders who played a …
May Day
… has been celebrated unofficially in South Africa since the 1980s. However, 1 May only became an officially recognised …
EventFirst celebration of May Day in South Africa
… has been celebrated unofficially in South Africa since the 1980s. However, 1 May only became an officially recognised …
EventInternational celebration of ‘May Day’
… has been celebrated unofficially in South Africa since the 1980s. However, 1 May only became an officially recognised …
Book 6: Negotiation, Transition and Freedom - Introduction
… the changes in the international context during the late 1980s. He reminds us of the “talks about talks” that helped …
A lighthouse for African womanhood': Inanda Seminary, 1869-19451 by Heather Hughes
… schools began opening their doors to black students in the 1980s. Footnotes The first part of the title is drawn from a …
A Biography of Ernest Cole by Anna Hutchinson
… under. Cole spent the majority of the late 1970s and 1980s living with friends. There is little known about him until the late 1980s when Cyril Khanyile, a…
ArticleBlack Consciousness and 16 June – The birth of a new generation
The Black Consciousness philosophy gained most of its support in the secondary schools and universities. The role played by the Black Consciousness Movement …
ArticleSPEAK Magazine (1982 - 1994)
… the country. With the legalization of trade unions the 1980s, women realised that in order to create change there …
PlaceMolenvliet House, Molenvliet Street, Mowbray
The land on which this house is situated originally formed part of the farm Coornhoop, which was granted to Thielman Hendricks in 1661. The subdivided piece of…
PlaceJunction Avenue Theatre
The Junction Avenue theatre was formed in 1976, and it was organised and conceptualised by a group of White students from the University of the Witwatersrand …
Biography of George Hallett by Hunter Kolon
… was offered a job in the United States, he took it. In the 1980s, Hallett worked at the University of Illinois where he …
ArticleStaffrider magazine (1978-1993)
Introduction Staffrider was a South African literary and arts magazine published by Ravan Press in Johannesburg from 1978 to 1993. It took its name and…
BiographyAhmed Mohamed "Kathy" Kathrada
Ahmed Mohamed "Kathy" Kathrada was born on 21 August 1929, to Indian immigrant parents in Schweizer Reneke, a small town in Western Transvaal [now North West…