SAHO global search
64 records
Johannesburg Timeline 1800-1991
… Black residents were living in such places as Newclare, Sophiatown, Martindale and Prospect Township, in heavily … is renamed Pimville. 1935 27 water taps…
ArticleA history of Apartheid in South Africa
… of the city. Well known removals were those in District 6, Sophiatown and Lady Selborne. These black people were then …
ArticleFreedom Charter timeline 1948-1961
… 19 dead and 30 injured in Benoni, Orlando, Alexandra and Sophiatown 14 May, Conference of representatives of …
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1950s
… Mandela presides over a meeting in the Odin Cinema in Sophiatown alongside the Indian leader Yusuf Cachalia. … at a meeting of the African National Congress …
ArticleA history of Soweto
… from the freehold townships of the Western Areas, such as Sophiatown, Martindale and Newclare to Diepkloof, … around Orlando. One of these 'black spots' was…
Biography of Abdullah Ibrahim by Chance Overby
… to gain momentum in an area near Johannesburg known as Sophiatown. It was here that he formed the Jazz Epistles with … to taking on other jobs just to…
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1950-1959
… himself into the campaign against forced removals from Sophiatown and the Western Areas and was banned for the … this Act wants to effect the removal of…
List of Laws on Land Dispossession and Segregation
… of Black communities such as District Six in Cape Town, Sophiatown in Johannesburg and Cator Manor in Natal when … the there was a forced relocation of 100…
Resistance Photography and Mobilization of the Resistance, 1946-1976
… major political happenings of the 1950's in detail: the Sophiatown forced removals, the Defiance Campaign, the … resistance has been crushed. The failure to…
ArticleJohannesburg the Segregated city
… infrastructural conditions, had arisen in places such as Sophiatown (1903), Newclare (1912), Prospect and the Malay … variety of sub-cultures which existed…
ArticleFietas: Pageview timeline 1880-1988
… residents to Orlando, and the rezoning of Martindale and Sophiatown. 24 October, The above-mentioned resolution is …
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1950-1959
… Mandela presides over a meeting in the Odin Cinema in Sophiatown alongside Yusuf Cachalia who is later arrested on … this Act wants to effect the removal of…
ArticleWalter Sisulu Timeline 1912-2003
… April, Sisulu acts as speaker at a meeting of the ANC in Sophiatown, Johannesburg. Sisulu urges the blacks not to … 11 July, Sisulu attends a massive meeting…
Biography of Caiphus Semenya
… forced removal of non-Whites from neighborhoods such as Sophiatown the resistance against the oppressive Afrikaner …
Abdullah Ibrahim and the Politics of Jazz in South Africa
… particularly in the “ethnic and cultural melting pot of Sophiatown, the legendary demolished suburb of Johannesburg. …
Segregationist Legislation Timeline 1950-1959
… this Act aimed to effect the removal of Africans from Sophiatown to Soweto, southwest of Johannesburg. Riotous …
The Rise of Women’s Trade Unionism in South Africa by Peter LaNasa
… very beginning. Her family endured the forced removal from Sophiatown in the 1950s and relocated to Soweto, one of the …
Biography of Lionel Ngakane by Rod Reyna
… and his brother Pascal, and four of their siblings to the Sophiatown neighborhood in Johannesburg. Lionel’s father set …
Biography of Hugh Masekela by Fardin Rahman
… at Cape Town and Johannesburg in an area called Sophiatown, which was the epicenter of politics, jazz, and …
ArticleYouth and the National Liberation Struggle
… were equally critical at this stage. The campaign to save Sophiatown and the anti-pass campaigns were considered …
Biography of Barry Gilder by Sofia Pullen
… were required to carry passes. Black communities, such as Sophiatown , were being forcefully relocated to townships. …
Biography of Miriam Makeba by Narcy Negrete
… first daughter, Bongi. In her early twenties, she lived in Sophiatown, where the music scene was very diverse. She began …
ArticleA History of South African Literature, timeline 1824-2005
… publications. 1987 Don Mattera wrote an account of life in Sophiatown, and its destruction, in Memory is the Weapon . …
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1940-1949
… against the shooting and killing of two Africans in Sophiatown . 8 July, The ANC deputation comprising of Dr A.B. …
ArticleA History of the South African Film Industry timeline 1895-2003
… his film Come Back, Africa. It was a docu-drama about Sophiatown, featured a young Miriam Makeba, and was the first …
ArticleLiberation history Timeline 1940-1949
… against the shooting and killing of two Africans in Sophiatown . 8 July, The ANC deputation comprising of Dr A.B. …
ArticleTimeline of the Group Areas Act and Selected Related Pieces Legislation
… Relations, 1956: 109). Graymount, Albertskroon, Claremont, Sophiatown and Westdene were declared White. Africans began … finishing the process of resettling…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1920s
… in the anti-pass campaigns. Peter Papela Nthite is born in Sophiatown, Johannesburg. Ronald Edwin Press is born. Emma …
Polokwane the Segregated city
… centre along today’s Mandela Street, was considered the “Sophiatown of the Northern Transvaal”. The suburb was a mixed …
ArticleSouth African Communist Party Timeline 1870-1996
… false name (K. Motsoakai) and ordered to live in hiding in Sophiatown. At the 4th Plenum, attended by delegates from all …