12 July 1990
Shanty town women stripped to the waist and confronted bulldozers sent by authorities to demolish their homes at Dobsonville in Soweto. The women's protests were ignored and the demolitions went ahead. This was not the first time for Soweto residents to be humiliated and forced to relocate - in the 1950s an event of the same nature saw Sophiatown residents relocating to Meadowlands in Soweto. Residents of Sophiatown were forcibly removed by the government with their belongings loaded onto the back of police vans. After the removals Sophiatown was renamed Triomf ("triumph"). In 2006, fifty years after the forced removals, the town’s name – Sophiatown - was reinstated by the Johannesburg City Council. Read more about forced removals in SA.
References

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