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Township Uprising, 1984-1985
… September 1984, which led to clashes with both police and township councillors, and left thirty people dead. The … against the state, and did not plan to get…
Working Life - Factories, Townships, and Popular Culture 1886-1940
Working Life - Factories, Townships, and Popular Culture 1886-1940
ArticleBoipatong massacre - 17 June 1992
… 300 armed men from Kwa Madala Hostel in nearby Sebokeng Township. The armed men were affiliated to the Inkatha … developments in relations between hostel…
Pretoria the Segregated city
… It was originally intended to be called Motsemogolo (large township), but was named after Mrs. MP Atteridge instead, the … from Marabastad moved to…
ArticleA history of Soweto
… allowed to buy freehold land. These early developments of Township settlement for black people should be followed … people were relocated to what was to…
A growing urban African population
… stood at barely a hundred. As the population of the township grew during the 1920s and 1930s, the racial … comprising Sophiatown, Martindale and Western…
Books and further reading links relating to Right to Organise
… Life Factories, Townships and Popular Culture 1886 - 1940, Township Working Life Factories, Townships and Popular …
ArticleUrban Removals - the Destruction of Sophiatown
… of 1932 the first of Orlando’s residents moved into the township to settle. Slum clearance from the inner city … continued and was only completed in 1936…
ArticleLife in Sophiatown
… a unique community juxtaposed with the seedy and violent township with dangers lurking at every corner. Don Mattera … and one tap shared by 150 to 200…
ArticleXenophobic violence in democratic South Africa timeline
… 1994 and January 1995, armed youth gangs in Alexandra Township outside of Johannesburg, Gauteng Province, destroyed … an outburst of xenophobic violence in…
ArticleThe Destruction of Sophiatown
… there are still glaring gaps in critical areas of the township's history that need to be plugged to achieve a … to these developments. Sophiatown is…
Biography of Mtutuzeli Dudu Pukwana by Nick Mencia
… began to take form, the popularity of resistance-based township music and culture rose simultaneously with the … Sophiatown, but scurry down the back alleys…
June 17
… The fury and frustration that had been simmering amongst township youth had free reign. There was enormous police … machine carbines had taken up strategic…
ArticleWestern Cape Youth Uprising timeline 1976
… The Langa students march with placards through their township streets accompanied by their teachers who are … Cape June 16th youth uprising The youth march…
ArticleAn Introduction to Sophiatown
… areas - Martindale and Newclare, as well as Alexandra Township, were unique features in a city that was developing …
ArticleXenophobic violence in democratic South Africa
… 1994 and January 1995, armed youth gangs in the Alexandra Township outside of Johannesburg, Gauteng Province, destroyed … unemployment, crime, and even the…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1990s
… Police opened fire on anti-apartheid protesters in the township of Sebokeng, near Johannesburg, killing at least 14 … against the shooting by the police of…
ArticleA history of Kwaito music
… status. The language of Kwaito is Isicamtho, South African township slang. Isicamtho is a modern version of tsotsitaal - … that has always been thought of as…
ArticleSophiatown timeline 1899-1955
… This showed the widespread support the ANC had in the township The Native Laws Amendment Act of 1952 is passed, …
ArticleSouth African major mass killings timeline 1900-2012
… as they were resisting forced removals to the newly-built township of Khayelitsha. 21 March, As part of commemorating … are killed by South African police in…
ArticleWestern Cape Civic Association (WCCA)
… Initially the emerging civic organisation in African township and coloured areas moved towards forming a combined …
Increasing repression and the turn to the armed struggle
… were opened in various areas such as Paarl and Langa township. The Langa branch which was most vibrant PAC branch … 1959. Support for the party came from…
ArticleHistory of the Rape Crisis Trust in Cape Town
… women daily), and the absence of meeting facilities in township areas, requiring people to congregate in modest township homes instead, meant this practice…
ArticleSouth African Youth Congress (SAYCO)
… of organization. Playing a key role in coordinating township struggles and was a prominent member of structures … members, however in the wake of the Six Day…
ArticlePass Laws and Sharpeville Massacre
… was recognised across the country as the model African township, and the Council was able to censor almost all local … the 1950s, particularly the…
ArticleBlack Consciousness and student revolt in the Cape
… with the students of Soweto. Students marched through township streets such as Jungle Walk Street with placards … The outbreak of the revolt in Cape Town did…
ArticlePretoria Timeline 1800-2009
… arrives in Pretoria. Lady Selbourne proclaimed a black township (north west of the city was the only township where blacks were allowed to own land) Lady ……
ArticleMusic and culture as forms of resistance
… was known as marabi, possibly derived from the township of Marabastad in Pretoria. Marabi reflected the way … Basie and Louis Armstrong, and these made a…
Legislation, Dissent, and Violence in Sophiatown under Apartheid
… to displace Africans from Sophiatown, a largely African township of Johannesburg, which had become a threat to the … area. Sophiatown was bulldosed,…