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ArticleSophiatown Timeline
Pre-1860s South Africa is still a predominantly agrarian 1860s-1880s This period marks a turning point in South African history when the discovery of…
ArticleThe Ndebele in history
Early History Few Southern African indigenous groups have so captured the interest of the world as have the South amaNdebele of the central highveld, an area…
ArticleSouth African National Students Congress (SANSCO)
… leadership was Joe Phaahla , Reveal Nkondo and others. The 1980s decade saw a wave of schools boycott. On 28 May 1980 …
Article50 Facts on Africa
… still used today. Lithium Ion Batteries (Morocco) In the 1980s, Rachid Yazami invented lithium ion batteries which are …
ArticleWomen’s Role in the Negotiations by Nicole Dellaportas
This article was written by Nicole Dellaportas and forms part of the SAHO and Southern Methodist University partnership project Women’s Role in the…
ArticleAzanian Students Organisation (AZASO)
… and regional struggles were seen in AZASO?s role in the 1980s schools boycott, the protest against the introduction …
South African Labour history
There are different ways to tell every story, and the same is true of history. For instance the story of the gold mining industry has often been told as the…
ArticleZulu
The four major ethnic divisions among Black South Africans are the Nguni, Sotho, Shangaan-Tsonga and Venda. The Nguni represent nearly two thirds of South…
ArticleThe history of labour movements in Namibia
Background During the 1930s and 1940s, there were few black workers organisations in Namibia (then known as South West Africa). However, there were a number…
The Ideology of the Black Consciousness Movement
The emergence of the Black Consciousness movement that swept across the country in the 1970s can best be explained in the context of the events from 1960…
Khoisan Identity
… later came to be widely resented, especially from the 1980s, for its neglect of their distinct identity. However, … to register for the new voters’ roll. In…
ArticleThe British Anti-Apartheid Movement
… to the development of apartheid was widespread, and by the 1980s posed a sustained challenge to the South African … all such organisations throughout the…
ArticleSotho (South Sotho or Basotho)
… Only about 200,000 Sotho people lived in QwaQwa during the 1980s. A community of more than 300,000 people, Botshabelo, …
Gallery
This extensive history through pictures gallery documents the role that women have played in the liberation and democratisation of our country from 1900…
The Freedom struggle: Political mobilisation in Port Elizabeth
The Eastern Cape is regarded by many as the cradle of Black resistance against White oppression. After the defeat of the Xhosa by the British in the frontier…
ArticleSouth African Youth Congress (SAYCO)
… most significant youth organization to emerge during the 1980s. Initiated by COSAS , it focused on organizing the …
ArticleColonial History of Port Elizabeth
Colonial settlement Land wars The 'Frontier Wars' in the Eastern Cape Europeans who came to stay in South Africa first settled in and around Cape Town. As…
ArticleBlack People’s Convention (BPC)
The Black People’s Convention (BPC) was an umbrella organisation of the Black Consciousness Movement (BCM). BCM had its origins in university campuses, mainly…
ArticleThe Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) and the Anti-Apartheid Struggle
… Henry Makgothi. The Eighties: Partners in Revolution The 1980s saw the state making increasingly desperate attempts to …
ArticleSouth Africa’s Foreign Relations during Apartheid, 1948
… in the form of the Black Consciousness Movement. From the 1980s onwards isolation only increased as more and more …
Insurrections: The Storming
… of the main voices of the mass democratic movement of the 1980s. She has released three CDs one of which is a …
ArticleThe Storming: Insurrections Ensemble
… of the main voices of the mass democratic movement of the 1980s. She has released three CDs one of which is a …
Biography of Lefifi Tladi by Paul Linck
… Botswana [xxviii] . This becomes a fear beginning in the 1980s, which is when Tladi left Botswana to study in …
ArticlePass Laws and Sharpeville Massacre
Pass laws in South Africa were met with fierce resistance during the 20th century. But earlier forms of passes, had in fact been used in various instances…
A growing urban African population
As Johannesburg expanded, so did its need for African labour. After the First World War, a large number of factories were being established and were growing in…
Hunter-Gatherers in Southern Africa
For more than 95% of the last 100 000 years, most people all over the world followed a hunting and gathering way of life. Until recently, people living by…
ArticleTeachers League of South Africa (TLSA) conference in 1925
Background The establishment of the Teachers’ League of South Africa (TLSA) emerged out of increasing racial segregation in the Cape. While segregation had…
Why protect worker’s rights?
… unions were an important source of resistance. In the 1980s Cosatu organised mass strikes against new labour laws …
ArticleThe Black Consciousness Movement in South Africa
The landscape of Black political activity in the 1960s was different that of the previous decade. The apartheid government had banished the Black resistance…
The adoption of the Freedom Charter
The Freedom Charter was not adopted immediately by the ANC. The executives of the four organisations of the Congress Alliance met at the beginning of August…