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Mar 16, 2011

Sophiatown

Sophiatown was originally a Farm outside Johannesburg, Transvaal (now Gauteng). It was bought by Hermann Tobiansky, who ...

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Life in Sophiatown
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Mar 16, 2011

Life in Sophiatown

As population in the freehold townships swelled, overcrowding and rack renting became the order of the day. Black proper...

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A Culture of Survival
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Mar 16, 2011

A 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 bl...

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Music and culture as forms of resistance
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Mar 16, 2011

Music 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...

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Socio-economics in Sophiatown
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Mar 16, 2011

Socio-economics in Sophiatown

The economic activity of children African children living in Sophiatown were particularly vulnerable to the harshness o...

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Mar 16, 2011

Springs

The Town of Springs, East of Johannesburg, is on the East Rand, or what is now known as the Metropolitan area of Ekurhul...

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An Introduction to Sophiatown
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Mar 16, 2011

An Introduction to Sophiatown

In 1899, an investor named Herman Tobiansky envisaged a pleasant white suburb that could be developed on a site to the W...

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Mar 16, 2011

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 wer...

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Mar 16, 2011

Delmas

Delmas became famous in the latter part of 2010 for its proximity to the missing tiger known as Panjo. The tiger, only 1...

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Mar 16, 2011

Alexandra, Township in Johannesburg

A Township 13 kilometeres from North-East Johannesburg. The development of Alexandra Township dates back to 1912. Someti...

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Mar 16, 2011

Boksburg, 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 ...

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Cradle of Humankind
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Mar 16, 2011

Cradle of Humankind

The Fossil Hominid Sites of Sterkfontein, Swartkrans, Kromdraai, and Environs The Sterkfontein Valley landscape is i...

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Mar 16, 2011

Vrede

Vrede, 'the town of peace', lies between the North-Eastern Free State and the Mpumalanga border of Volksrust.

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Mar 16, 2011

Zastron

Zastron lies at the foot of the Aasvoelberg which is the highest peak in the Free State province (2207m, or approx. 7240...

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Mar 16, 2011

Quaqua

Quaqua, or Qwaqwa, was a homeland created for the Southern Sotho people from a reserve in the Orange Free State (OFS) th...

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