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ArticleA change to armed struggle and the state’s intensified repression 1960s
With no discernable change in government policies, some members of the African National Congress (ANC) began to move away from peaceful protest. The ANC…
Rejuvenation of the ANC and intensification of the struggle 1940s
In 1940, Alfred Xuma was elected the new president of the African National Congress (ANC), and a period of greater action was introduced. Xuma was still…
List of ANC and MK members killed in combat, 1990s
List of ANC and MK members killed in combat, 1980s
List of ANC and MK members killed in combat, 1960s
ArticleThe development of Music in South Africa timeline 1600-2004
… they had their first number one hit with "Timothy". 1970s Ibrahim managed to slip back into South Africa in the mid-1970s to make a series of seminal…
BiographySydney Kumalo
… been emulated by many South African sculptors since the 1970s. Once Kumalo gave up teaching in 1965, he rapidly …
BiographyMotlotlehi – His Majesty King Constantine Bereng Seeiso Moshoeshoe II of Lesotho
… the development and progress of his people. In the early 1970s, he established the Mohato Scholarship Fund financed by …
BiographyElizabeth Komikie Gumede
… and subjected to solitary confinement for years during the 1970s. Moved from one prison to the next, she endured some of …
SASO Newsletter, 1970 - 1976
By the late 1960s many black students increasingly began to feel the frustration and disillusionment similar to that which had led to the Fort Hare SRC to…
BiographyZweledinga Pallo Jordan
… student visa expired he moved to London and in the mid-1970s began working as a researcher in London ANC office.He …
Chapter 2 - Industrialisation and the Revitalisation of Black Politics in the 1940s
Three documents, fundamental changes that took place in black protest politics and African nationalist thinking during the 1940s, particularly in the African…
BiographyJohn Jacques William Aitchison
John Jacques William Aitchison was born to Harold Aitchison and Phyllis Jacques, in Durban, Natal (now kwaZulu-Natal) on 2 June 1944. He was brought up by his…
BiographyHugh Masekela
Hugh Ramopolo Masekela was born on 4 April 1939 in Witbank, near Johannesburg. Masekela showed musical ability from a young age, and began to play piano as a…
BiographyDolly Rathebe
Dolly Rathebe was born in Randfontein, west of Johannesburg in 1928, but grew up within the unique cultural and political milieu of Sophiatown in the 1930s and…
BiographyLefifi Tladi
… onto the national South African political scene during the 1970s through participation in the Black Consciousness …
BiographyJohn J. Skomolo
John J Skomolo was an Anglican clergyman prominent in the Cape African National Congress (ANC) in the 1940s and 1950s, Skomolo was also a member of the ANC…
BiographyBlanche la Guma
Blance la Guma (nee Blanche Herman) was born on 30 November 1927 in Athlone, Cape Town, Western Cape, the youngest of five children. Her parents were actively…
SAIRR 1970
BiographyHaile Selassie I
… of what could happen to them. Final years By the 1970s the situation in Ethiopia had worsened, with …
BiographyNavanethem (Navi) Pillay
… prisoners to have access to legal counsel. In the mid 1970s, Pillay defended detained members of the Black …
BiographyMalcolm Payne
"First of all, I don't take art particularly seriously. I make the work because I enjoy making it. No more complicated reason than that. I like the seriousness…
BiographyEric Mtshali
Eric (Stalin) Mtshali was born in Durban, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal). After completing high school he became active in the anti-apartheid movement in Natal…
BiographyDaniel R Koza
Daniel Koza was born 1912 near Pietersburg and in the mid-1930s came Johannesburg where his path somehow crossed Gordon's.Drawn into trade union work and the…
ArticleMusic and culture as forms of resistance
… about the resistance content of musical forms of the 1970s and 1980s. The Movies One of the major contributors to …
BiographyR. Daniel
Associated with the trade union movement from the early 1930s, he was known as a Trotskyist in his political leanings. In the 1940s he was associated with the…
BiographyDorothy Cleminshaw
… This resulted in the confiscation of her passport. In the 1970s she worked with Reverend David Russell who had been …
ArticleTransvaal Indian Congress (TIC)
… the activities of the TIC had declined and by the early 1970s it was virtually non-existent. The organization was … the activities of the TIC had declined…
BiographyThomas Mtobi Mapikela
Thomas Mtobi Mapikela born in 12th of November 1869,in the Eastern Cape, he trained as a carpenter in Grahamstown and later established a successful business…
BiographyLuis Inácio Lula da Silva
… at a young age and rose steadily in the ranks. In the late 1970s, when Brazil was under military rule, he helped …