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| A-0013841 | article | Socio-economics in Sophiatown | 16 Mar 2011 | – |
| A-0013840 | article | Music and culture as forms of resistance | 16 Mar 2011 | – |
| A-0013839 | article | A Culture of Survival | 16 Mar 2011 | – |
| A-0013838 | article | Life in Sophiatown | 16 Mar 2011 | – |
| A-0013837 | article | A growing urban African population | 16 Mar 2011 | – |
| A-0013836 | article | An Introduction to Sophiatown | 16 Mar 2011 | – |
| P-0013829 | place | Boksburg, the Witwatersrand | 16 Mar 2011 | ✓ |
| P-0013820 | place | Quaqua | 16 Mar 2011 | ✓ |
| P-0013812 | place | Aasvoelberg known as The Eye Of Zastron | 16 Mar 2011 | ✓ |
| P-0013806 | place | Table Mountain, Cape Town | 16 Mar 2011 | ✓ |
| P-0013796 | place | Rabula | 21 Apr 2026 | ✓ |
| P-0013795 | place | Pondoland | 16 Mar 2011 | ✓ |
| P-0013785 | place | Kamastone and Bulhoek | 16 Apr 2026 | ✓ |
| P-0013783 | place | Republic of Griqualand West or the Digger's Republic | 16 Mar 2011 | ✓ |
| P-0013762 | place | Legogote Mountain Region, Mpumalanga | 16 Mar 2011 | ✓ |
ArticleSocio-economics in Sophiatown
The economic activity of children African children living in Sophiatown were particularly vulnerable to the harshness of urban life…
ArticleMusic and culture as forms of resistance
Music Music was a central feature of the urban culture that developed in Johannesburg and in Sophiatown in particular. It was here that…
ArticleA Culture of Survival
It was a struggle to survive in the city. Workers' wages did not keep pace with the cost of subsistence, and most black families lived…
ArticleLife in Sophiatown
As population in the freehold townships swelled, overcrowding and rack renting became the order of the day. Black property owners in…
A growing urban African population
As Johannesburg expanded, so did its need for African labour. After the First World War, a large number of factories were being established…
ArticleAn Introduction to Sophiatown
In 1899, an investor named Herman Tobiansky envisaged a pleasant white suburb that could be developed on a site to the West of Johannesburg…
PlaceBoksburg, the Witwatersrand
The Town of Boksburg was founded in 1887 as the Administrative Centre of the East Rand. It is the second oldest Town on the Witwatersrand…
PlaceQuaqua
Quaqua, or Qwaqwa, was a homeland created for the Southern Sotho people from a reserve in the Orange Free State (OFS) that had been granted…
PlaceAasvoelberg known as The Eye Of Zastron
This spectacular sandstone Mountain is a backdrop for the town of Zastron, in the South-Eastern Free State Province of South Africa. At…
PlaceTable Mountain, Cape Town
The World famous Table Mountain is part of the scenic Peninsula Mountain chain that stretches from Signal Hill in the North (rightmost peak…
PlaceRabula
The Village of Rabula was named after the Xhosa "ukurabula"-'a term given to a child when it becomes irritable'.Rabula is a Farmstead and…
PlacePondoland
The territory known as Pondoland or, more correctly Mpondoland, incorporated the divisions of Bizana, Libode, Ngqeleni, Port St John's,…
PlaceKamastone and Bulhoek
The Cape government established the settlement of Kamastone in the Queenstown area, in 1854. In 1874 the government received complaints…
PlaceRepublic of Griqualand West or the Digger's Republic
Griqualand West was proclaimed as a separate Crown Colony . The discovery of diamonds in South Africa in 1866 resulted in a flood of…
PlaceLegogote Mountain Region, Mpumalanga
Mountain 1 194m high, situated just South-East of eLundi and 12m North-East of White River. The name is said to be Swazi for "the large one…