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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…
BiographySefako Mapogo Makgatho
Sefako Mapogo Makgatho was born at GaMphahlele, in the Pietersburg district in Transvaal (now Limpopo province) in 1861. He was the son of Chief Kgorutlhe…
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…
BiographyMathews Phosa
… in his native Eastern Transvaal (now Mpumalanga) in the 1980s. Following the unbanning of the ANC in 1990, he played …
BiographyManiben Sita
… many acts in the struggle against apartheid throughout the 1980s, driving her bakkie to numerous meetings, events, and …
BiographyPatrick Chamusso
… role in the bombing of Sasol’s Secunda power plant in the 1980s as a protest against the apartheid regime. But his work …
ArchivePriority requirements for January 1980 - December 1980
List of priority requirements for Solomon Mahlangu Freedom College for the period January to December 1980.
BiographyMichael Sedgwick
Michael Sedgwick was born on the 20th February 1958 in Claremont in the Western Cape. He grew up in Hanover Park on the Cape Flats. His school career started…
ArticleMusic and culture as forms of resistance
… This form of control was maintained until the late 1980s and early in the 1990s, an observation that raises … the resistance content of musical forms of the…
Benjamin Johnson Langa
… at the hands of fellow ANC members during the 1980s. Zuma used the televised official funeral of Justice …
BiographyStephen J.C. Dlamini
Stephen Dlamini was born in 30 November 1913 in Natal (KwaZulu-Natal). As a factory worker, Dlamini became a trade union member and rose through the ranks,…
BiographyJan van Eck
… Eglin and Stel Snel, who worked with Van Eck and in the 1980s helped him at the Umac (Unrest Monitoring and Action …
BiographyRoger Meintjes
… resistance and state brutality in South Africa during the 1980s. Besides these kinds of exclamatory images of direct …
BiographyPatric Tariq Mellet
… movement that was to develop in the late 1970s and 1980s. In one interrogation in Pretoria, Tariq was taken to … coloured and black). Tariq joined the B…
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…
BiographyDenis Mayer
Denis Mayer was born in Parkwood, Johannesburg, on 8 September 1923. His father, Harold, was the Recruitment Manager for the Chamber of Mines, and had come to…
BiographyMduduzi Richard Shabalala
… the Security Police during the state of emergency in the 1980s , he completed his Matriculation in 1989. He obtained …
BiographyTraci Mackie
… her. She reported on various apartheid crimes during the 1980s. One of her biggest career highlights came during the …
BiographySydney Kumalo
… That it was commissioned for a large provincial theatre in 1980s South Africa, from a black artist, is a testament to …
BiographyOmar Badsha
… travel to the exhibition opening in New York. In the late 1980s, Badsha and his family moved to Cape Town when his wife …
BiographyJennifer Davis
… repression in South Africa continued to escalate in the 1980s, the American Committee on Africa played a key role in …
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, 1970s
List of ANC and MK members killed in combat, 1960s
BiographyRuth First
Journalist, academic and political activist, Ruth Heloise First was born on 4 May 1925. She was the daughter of Jewish immigrants Julius and Matilda (neé…
BiographyChristopher Ndodebandla Dlamini
… and the Retail and Allied Workers Union. During the late 1980s, Dlamini was active in Cosatu's Living Wage Campaign, …
BiographyAbdul ‘Apamai’ Rahman Dawood
… continued to harass Dawood and his family throughout the 1980s. His house was raided in 1985 and the police …