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ArticleDr. Abu Baker Asvat timeline 1943 - 2012
… squatters in an abandoned bus. The manager of the Pimville Township, T F Bronkhurst, orders his arrest and expulsion … produces a medical report on police…
The 1980s and the crisis of Apartheid
… ' homelands ' or 'Independent Bantustans' and in local township councils. Coloureds and Indians were to be given a …
ArticlePopular struggles in the early years of Apartheid, 1948-1960
… unrest that often turned violent. For instance, the Vaal township of Evaton experienced unrest that often turned … Areas of Johannesburg, including Newclare,…
ArticleBloemfontein the Segregated city
… area of Heidedal Growth of informal settlements: Manguang township Mangaung is one of the largest black townships in the Free State and is subdivided into…
ArticleSophiatown in Literature
… recognized as providing the most poignant accounts of the township's and South Africa's history in the last sixty … and providing a rich source for…
ArticleUnited Women’s Organisation (UWO)
… leadership. On 22 March 1986 UWO was amalgamated with the township based Women’s Front. In other provinces such as … which police killed twenty-two people in…
ArticleFietas: Pageview timeline 1880-1988
… in Pageview. They voluntarily moved to the Coronation Township and Albertsville. 1940 The population of Pageview is … scheme involved the conversion of…
Iliso Labantu Photo Group
… Iliso Labantu is a cooperative of township-based photographers, living in the Cape Town area, …
The people armed, 1984-1990
… against the apartheid system as a whole, spreading from township to township through a population mobilised by student … collaborators from further injury at…
Article1960 - 1994: Armed Struggle and Popular Resistance
… against the apartheid system as a whole, spreading from township to township through a population mobilised by student … collaborators from further injury at…
ArticleYouth Politics in South Africa in the 1970s
… weak, it had a deep interest in community and township issues. The formation of SANSCO did not come from …
ArticleCongress of South African Students (COSAS)
… Council’s (SRC). Emma Sathekge was killed in the black township of Atteridgeville, Pretoria. Her funeral was … once and for all.†At Minerva High School in…
Johannesburg Timeline 1800-1991
… bringing to an end World War I. The Western Native Township is established on a site previously used as a … 1924 Work begins on extensions to the Western…
Eyewitness accounts of the Sharpeville massacre 1960
… and three Saracens. As we drove through the fringes of the township many people shouted the Pan-Africanist slogan 'Izwe … about fifteen cars were waiting on…
ArticleEnd Conscription Campaign (ECC)
… 1984 and 1986. In September, 1985, its Troops Out of the Township campaign, spearheaded by a three-week fast by three …
ArticleGangsterism in Sophiatown
… in the city who were not at school nor did they have jobs. Township youths were unable to find jobs easily. Employers … Chinese, and terrorised the…
Article”People’s Power!”, 1986
… People needed to take political control in their township, factory and school despite the state's military … that were often connected to either homeland…
ArticleBlack Consciousness: Cultural Expression and Representation
… ideology, and mobilizing and strengthening the identity of township audiences. Theater was cheap, mobile, easily … plays in the 1970s and early 1980s that…
ArticleJohannesburg the Segregated city
… timber to the mines. At about the same time, a residential township was laid out on the higher reaches of the property. … Germiston, formerly called…
ArticleTimeline of the Group Areas Act and Selected Related Pieces Legislation
… three African settlements around Johannesburg (Alexandra Township, Eastern Native Township, and the large Meadowlands-Orlando-Moroka area … to vacate their…
ArticleMedu Art Ensemble
… newer silkscreen (such as photo stencil) technologies to township conditions, where people might not have running … ink, squeegee, and stencil material. This…
ArticleYouth and the National Liberation Struggle
… young people in urban areas rose dramatically. And “in a township like Soweto , the unavailability of schools became a … weak, it had a deep interest in…
Conflict among civic organisations
… out between SANCO, WCCA and WECUSA in Khayelitsha, Lwandle township and Waterkloof in Somerset West. Lwandle which was a …
ArticleCape Schools Join the Revolt
… from Fezeka and I.D. Mkize [Secondary Schools in Guguletu Township] used their schools at night for studying because … had in the meanwhile marched through…
ArticleThe Youth Struggle
… churches, which were partially funded by government. In a township like Soweto , the unavailability of schools became … weak, it had a deep interest in…
ArticleSocio-economics in Sophiatown
… look out for the police while their mothers brewed beer. Township children found many ways to earn money directly …
Poqo political trials and the execution of its operatives in the 1960s
… considered PAC traditional strongholds. In Gauteng Orlando Township, Sharpeville in the Vaal area and Munsieville in … meetings held in an abandoned cattle…
Indian Community in Lenasia
… in the evening. In 1958 Lenasia was proclaimed an Indian township under the Group Areas Act. The minutes of a meeting … of Extension 2 cemented the idea of…
ArticleThe development of Music in South Africa timeline 1600-2004
… with the formation of Kwela (Zulu for 'get-up' or in township slang it also referred to the police vans, the … the most controversial and the best-known…
Liberation organisations
… Civics sought to improve the quality of life of township residents, and played a major role in the resistance … served by black councillors who were…