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BiographyBuzwe Stanley Mabizela
… consolidate its position in Swaziland particularly in the 1970s, Mabizela, Thabo Mbeki and Chris Hani among others …
BiographyNtlabati Jojo
Ntlabati Jojo had been deposed of his status as headman in the late 1920s though by the 1940s, he was considered to be effectively the chief of a few locations…
BiographyPremanathan “Prema” Naidoo
… assistance for their families. During the late 1960s and 1970s, Prema Naidoo played an important role in supporting …
BiographyJohn Collins
… which became especially influential in the late 1970s and 1980s.With more arrests of people after uprisings …
The Black Conciousness Movement in South Africa in the late 1960s
… Black Conciousness Movement in South Africa in the late 1970s and 1980s …
BiographyMarimuthu Pragalathan “MP” Naicker
He was born in Natal in 1920, and although his family was poor he managed to complete high school. He worked as a truck driver, a union organiser for sugar…
Migrant Labour in Southern Africa: 1910-1970’s
BiographyHotep Idris Galeta
‘Cecil Galeta’ was born on 7 June 1941 and grew up in Cape Town, South Africa. However, he was more commonly known as Cecil Barnard; Barnard was his father's…
BiographyFrances Baard
Frances “MaBaard” Baard was born 1st of October in 1909 in Kimberley, Northern Cape. She was the fifth of seven children of a Bechuuanaland-born mine worker…
BiographyDr. Frene Noshir Ginwala
… the situation in South Africa while abroad. During the 1970s she travelled around the world to gain support for the …
BiographyPauline Podbrey
Pauline Podbrey was born as Pauline Podbrez in Lithuania. She arrived with her family in Durban in 1933 at the age of eleven, although her father had come to…
Why did so few Black South Africans make films before the 1990s?
There are less than a handful of black directors who made films before the 1990s. The reasons for this are the same reasons that kept black people out of other…
BiographyAshlatha Rambally
… which chronicled events in the Black community in the mid-1970s, published by the Black Community Programmes (BCP) in … young women and men in Black…
ArticleGrade 12 - How SA emerged as a democracy from the crises of the 1990s
During the 1980s, the apartheid government came under increasing internal pressure. The National Party attempted a political solution to the crisis it faced by…
Black South African Poets of the 1970’s and their Publications
Poet Critical Writings and Interviews Publications Date Keorapetsi Kgositsile The word is Here: Poetry from Modern…
ArticleTrade unionism blossoms and women become more assertive, 1930s
ArticleANC and the early development of apartheid 1948-1950s
In 1948 the Nationalist Party (NP) won the election, and began to introduce the policy of apartheid. The African National Congress (ANC) reacted immediately to…
BiographyRicardo Rangel
Ricardo Rangel was born on 15 February 1924 in Lourenço Marques, now Maputo, the capital of Mozambique. His mother was a black Mozambiquan and his father was a…
BiographyLesedi Billy Masetlha
… 1960s.As a student at Orlando High School in the early 1970s,Masetlha absorberd black consciousness ideas and became …
BiographyPaul David
… and other activists in the revival of the NIC in the early 1970s and was elected secretary of this organisation in 1979. … in the revival of the Natal Indian…
A City within a city: Vestiges of the socio-spatial imprint of colonial and apartheid Durban, from the 1870s to 1980s by Leonard Glenn Rosenberg
Parts of it have been referred to as the "Imperial Ghetto" (Badsha: 2001) or the "Duchene" and "Casbah" (Hassim: 2009) or simply "town" by the many who have…
Masango Caleb job Mayekiso
Masango Caleb Job Mayekiso was born 1913 in Idutywa Transkei. He was a factory worker in Port Elizabeth.He was a genuine working-class leader.In 1940's…
BiographyNkosazana Clarice Dlamini-Zuma
… MB ChB at the University of Bristol in 1978. During the 1970s Dlamini-Zuma became active in underground African …
ArticleLiberation history Timeline 1970-1979
BiographyCecyl Esau
… the province and organising demonstrations during the 1970s and 1980s. He joined the ranks of the United Democratic … the old male and female hostels built…
ArticleGrade 12 - The impact of the Cold War in forming the world as it was in the 1960s
The Cold War was the period of conflict and competition between the capitalist United States and the communist Soviet Union, and their respective allies. From…
ArticleTimeline of State Action Against the Press in the 1960s
1960 Mar- Norman Phillips of the Toronto Star was detained 3 and '/2 days for trying to cable a story about a police attack on Nyanga, Cape Town. The report…
BiographyPercival Henry Frederick “Percy” Sonn
… the organisation of his club side, Belville South, in the 1970s. This marked the start of what was to become a …
BiographyZephania ‘Zeph’ Lekoane Mothopeng
… effectively making his banning order four years. In the 1970s, Mothopeng continued doing underground work for the …
BiographyJennifer Davis
… Nations, testifying before various committees. In the 1970s, Jennifer was also a frequent speaker on college …