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Appiah Saravanan (AS) Chetty
… the activities of the Mass Democratic Movement during the 1980s. In 1990 he participated in initiating the …
Newspaper Clippings relating to the 1980 Silverton Siege
This archive consists of Newspaper Clippings relating to the 1980 Silverton Siege
BiographySteven Eli Friedman
… he became a labour correspondent 1979 and 1985. During the 1980s Friedman compiled a series of studies into the reform …
BiographyIshmael Mkhabela
… in conflict with the United Democratic Front (UDF) in the 1980s. He rejected talks with the UDF after complaining that …
BiographyMandla Langa
… , Zambia , Hungary and the United Kingdom through the 1980s,studying journalism andsholding various ANC posts. …
Book 4: Industrialisation, Rural Change and Nationalism - Chapter 3 - Afrikaner Nationalism in the 1930s and 1940s by Albert Grundlingh
From the book: Book 4: Industrialisation, Rural Change and Nationalism commissioned by The Department of Education Asa cultural and political phenomenon, a…
1990s: Women in the pre-election period
South Africa in the 1900s (1900-1917)
Introduction More than two and a half centuries prior to the birth of Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela, Jan Van Riebeeck and his expedition of Dutch Calvinist…
Poqo political trials and the execution of its operatives in the 1960s
Mass mobilization of the 1950s culminated in the Sharpeville massacre on 21 March 1960. Soon thereafter the apartheid government banned the African National…
BiographyKenneth Kaunda
… at destabilisation of governments in the region. In the 1980s he focused chiefly on Zambia's huge foreign debt. He …
BiographyRissik Haribhai "Barney" Desai
Rissik Haribhai "Barney" Desai was born on 10 April 1932 in Durban. He grew up as an Indian but was "reclassified" Coloured in 1957. His father was an…
BiographyProfessor Brij Maharaj
… He was secretary of the Merebank Community Centre in the 1980s, which was affiliated with the United Democratic Front …
BiographyBongiwe (Bongi) Dhlomo-Mautloa
… not agree when I was labeled a "struggle artist" in the 1980s because I did not hear that term used for writers and …
BiographyDorothy Nomazotsho Zihlangu
… At the beginning of the State of Emergency in the mid-1980s, Zihlangu went into hiding, but continued to work …
BiographyBuzwe Stanley Mabizela
… worked as headmaster at Selasian High School. In the early 1980s, following a shootout between Swaziland police and ANC …
BiographySumboornam Pillay
… carried on until her banning order expired in 1978. In the 1980s, Moodley got involved in the Disability Movement in …
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…
BiographyProfessor Bernard Magubane
… and inspiration for many during the struggles of the 1980s. Once again he became a major force in the …
BiographyHarry Themba Gwala
… away, but he was not allowed to attend the funeral. In the 1980s a motor neuron disease robbed him of the use of his …
The Peoples's Hospital: A History of McCords, Durban, 1890s–1970s by Julie Parle and Vanessa Noble
The Black Conciousness Movement in South Africa in the late 1960s
… Movement in South Africa in the late 1970s and 1980s …
BiographyMoses Mbheki Mncane Mabhida
… leaders in the camps of their respective movements. In the 1980s, Mabhida continued his work of political and logistical …
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…
BiographyMafika Pascal Gwala
Mafika Pascal Gwala was born on 5 October 1946 in the town of Verulam, a region predominantly inhabited by Zulus and Indians, in what was then Natal province …
BiographyLettie Malindi
… active during the student protests of 1976, and in the 1980s through the United Women’s Organisation (UWO) . In …
BiographyChris Ledochowski
… of the Cape Flats townships which he began in the late 1980s. This culminated in the publication of a book Cape …
BiographyStephen Joel Chifunyise
… in the Ministry of Education and Culture. From the 1980s Chifunyise started consulting for the United Nations …
BiographyThamsanqa “Thami” Mnyele
… we Sizwe (MK) , the ANC's military wing. In the early 1980s, Thami Mnyele also spent some time training in the MK …
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…
ArticleFootball in South Africa
… Cracks in the edifice of apartheid emerged in the mid-1980s. Leading soccer officials Kaizer Motaung (founder in … backed the sport boycott movement…