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Apartheid - The early 1980s
… The early 1980s There was little change in the situation from the late 1970s to the early 1980s in South Africa. After the crisis of the early and … more on…
1980s: Women organise
… 1980s: Women organise …
The 1980s and the crisis of Apartheid
… on the right or bottom of the page Introduction During the 1980s , the apartheid government came under increasing … renewed impetus for the resistance…
Re-Emergence of Congress Activity 1980s
… to release Nelson Mandela from prison had, since the mid-1980s, become a global issue. At the end of January 1985, in … Massacre, 21 March. Media Crackdowns…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1980s
… to lift the ban on political meetings affecting the main metropolitan areas. Announcing this, Minister of Justice … in Parliament. Dealing with the mining…
ArticleApartheid crumbles, Women in the turmoil of the 1980s
… The 1980s saw escalating state repression and mass detentions. In … Sisulu and began to consult with them. Throughout the 1980s, women were again at the…
ArticleAfrapix Chronology 1981-1991
… In the 1980s the National Party witnessed a renewed national and … Afrapix Chronology 1981-1991 …
Cape Town Civic and Community Organisations, 1980s
… Cape Town Civic and Community Organisations, 1980s …
ArticleStates of Emergency in South Africa: the 1960s and 1980s
… unprecedented internal revolt – both in 1960 and in the 1980s – an Emergency was declared. This resulted in the … measures and thus consolidate white…
ArticleNatal Workers’ Theatre in the 1980s
… stimulated the industry of Natal’s port town, Durban, the main trading post for the gold fields. Durban had to … the concept of the living wage. Worker…
ArticleArmed Struggle, the revival of armed activity 1970s-1980s
… Armed Struggle, the revival of armed activity 1970s-1980s …
List of ANC and MK members killed in combat, 1980s
… List of ANC and MK members killed in combat, 1980s …
ArticleThe banning of the South African Students Organisation (SASO) and student politics in the 1980s
… and had a significant impact on student politics in the 1980s. Attempts to mobilise students in Soweto early in 1978 … of teacher training colleges in the…
ArticleThe Conflict between the AZAPO and the UDF - popular violence in the 1980s and 1990s
… from other flashpoints of popular violence in the early 1980s was broken by a confrontation involving members of the … the “jackrollers”. It is evident that…
Growing social unrest: Community mobilisation, strikes and student protests in the Western Cape in the 1980s
… strikes and student protests in the Western Cape in the 1980s …
ArticleAzanian People’s Organization (AZAPO)
… being made at the end of the decade and throughout the 1980s. It was at this time that the Freedom Charter, … saw the capitalist system rather than apartheid…
ArticleDutch Reformed Church (DRC)
… establishment of churches of these three groups. In the 1980s the church was expelled from the World Alliance of … and the rebirth into new life. The…
Port Elizabeth an Overview
… Casalis, Smith and Livingstone. In time this became the main route to the Kimberley diamond fields. Port Elizabeth … therefore, that at the height of this…
ArticleHistory of the Rape Crisis Trust in Cape Town
… structures chiefly composed of volunteers who, in the main, provided telephonic assistance to women. This feminist … structures chiefly composed of…
Community Arts Project (CAP)
… established in Cape Town in 1977. Originally located at 17 Main Road, Mowbray, the facility moved to the old St. Philips … a form of resistance during the…
ArticleSouth Africa’s electoral history timeline 1910-2009
… right to vote. 1915 Second general election in which the main issue was South Africa’s participation in World War I. … Africans. 1989 Following the major…
ArticleArtist Proof Studio
… in Boston where Berman spent six years as an intern in the 1980s. She subsequently received a Masters of Fine Arts from … Nhlanhla Xaba Image source Since…
ArticleGrade 12 - How SA emerged as a democracy from the crises of the 1990s
… During the 1980s, the apartheid government came under increasing … renewed impetus for the resistance movements, and the 1980s was a decade which became a…
ArticleTswana
… similar dialects, beliefs and society structures and the main distinctions between the three groups were only … In fact, most archaeologists presume the…
Conflict among civic organisations
… cadres and destroying their hideouts. Operation Mac The 1980s also saw the increased activity of the ANC in the … the third was concentration of electric…
ArticlePolitical executions in South Africa by the apartheid government 1961 - 1989
… and sheer brute force. The period from the 1960s to the 1980s was punctuated by the enactment of security laws that … Prison. Two decades in particular – the…
A history of Volkskas and the Absa Banking group
… of power by the Nationalist Party in 1948.’ By the 1980s, Volkskas was no longer that dependent on state … Pieter Morkel, managing director of Volkskas in…
ArticleGrade 12 - Forms of civil society protest emerged from the 1960s to 1970s
… relations (the ‘big picture’) towards the end of the 1980s. During the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, world politics was dominated by the rivalry between …
ArticleGrade 12 - Civil Resistance in South Africa 1970s to 1980
… resistance after the 1960s? During the 1960s and the 1980s South Africa was ruled by the National Party. The NP … The crisis of Apartheid in the 1980s By the…
Liberation organisations
… to as "National Service by the apartheid regime. In the 1980s, white men were called up for two years of compulsory … and played a major role in the…