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SASPU National, 1980 - 1987
… closely with the South African Liberal Party. During the 1980s NUSAS participated in the democratic movement in …
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1930s
9 July, The Executive of the South African Indian Congress (SAIC) meets in Durban and appoints S.R. Naidoo as the SAIC's nominee to the Young Committee. Albert…
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…
BiographyHarold Strachan
Robert Harold Lundie "Jock" Strachan was born in 1925 in Pretoria. He obtained a BA (FA) from the University of Pretoria, and won an Emma Smith Scholarship to…
General South African History Timeline: 1970s
1970 11 June, It is announced that Security Police have arrested the leader of the Soweto Students’ Representative Council (SSRC), Dan S. Montsitsi in…
Conclusion: A Land Dispossession History 1600s-1990s
In all countries where market-assisted land reforms have been undertaken, the outcomes have been disappointing. In the case of Southern African countries such…
Labour and Mining Revolution 1886-1940s
The discovery of a diamond on a farm in the British controlled Cape Colony in 1867 and of gold in the Afrikaner “Boer” controlled Transvaal Republic…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1940s
1940 Dr. A.B. Xuma is elected President-General of the African National Congress (ANC). Walter Sisulu joins the African National Congress. The population…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1920s
July, Industrial and Commercial Workers Union of South Africa (ICU) is established as national Black trade union in Bloemfontein. 11 September, Gerrit…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1910s
1910 Anti-Indian Legislation: The Public Servants Superannuating Act and Teachers Pensions Act. This furthers discrimination against Indians. Anti-Indian…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1900s
1900 7 May, Paul Kruger addresses the volksraad for the last time before being forced to travel on the Delagoa line to Machadodorp, where he lives on his…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1960s
1960 1 January, Minister of Bantu Education assumes control of University College of Fort Hare.African students are prohibited from attending formerly "open…
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…
BiographyMohammed Tikly
… in Lusaka until the ANC was unbanned in 1990. By the mid-1980s, there were between 120 and 150 nursery school …
BiographySimon Nkabinde
Simon ‘Mahlathini’ Nkabinde was born on 30 November 1937, in Newcastle. He grew up in Alexander Township. His father died while he was young, and later he was…
BiographyJohn Maxwell Coetzee
… African Phillipa Jubber in 1963, and was divorced in the 1980s. He had two children, a daughter Gisela, born in 1968, …
BiographyDJ Ready D (Deon Daniels)
… overseas, as well as the hip hop culture. In the early 1980s, Michael Jackson was huge in Mitchells Plain. Yet, … B-Boy dance culture. Despite the state of…
BiographyPravin Jamnadas Gordhan
… student movement and civic structures during the 1970s and 1980s and participated in the NIC’s call to boycott the then government’s Tricameral Parliament …
Oliver Tambo Speeches 1980-1989
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…
BiographyNgugi wa Thiong’o
… the primary sources of post-colonial studies. In the late 1980s wa Thiong’o started writing in English again, to help …
BiographyBrenda Nokuzola Fassie
… established herself as a great solo pop star. In the late 1980s, she began working with producer Sello “Chicco” Twala, …
ArticlePoqo in the Western Cape and Transkei in the early 1960s
… of the 1970s following the Soweto uprising and the early 1980s. …
BiographyWilfrid Edward Cooper
… and Civil Procedure and Roman-Dutch Law. In the 1970s and 1980s he also acted as an external examiner for various …
BiographyMpush Makambi
… career on hold in favour of politics. In the late mid-1980s he joined the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) and was …
BiographyReginald (Reggie) September
Reginald September was born in Wynberg in Cape Town on 13 June 1923, the son of Florence, a housewife, and Nicholas September, a carpenter. He first attended…
ArticleThe development of Music in South Africa timeline 1600-2004
… marabi elements in their soul. 1977 Rabbitt disbanded. 1980s The 1980s saw the appearance of Afro-jazz bands such as Sakhile … to as 'bubblegum' emerged from…
BiographyOscar Mpetha
Oscar Mpetha was born at Mount Fletcher in the Transkei in 1909 and in 1934 sought work in Cape Town, where he was employed as a dock worker, waiter, hospital…
BiographyDr. Oshadi Maphefo Jane Mangena
Dr Oshadi Mangena was born in a toilet on 12 June 1931 when her father’s employer refused to allow her mother to wait for an ambulance inside her home, as she…