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ArticleWorkshop ‘71
… popularity within the liberation movement and in the townships were severely restricted and eventually silenced. … it too was banned when it started becoming…
ArticleHistory of the Rape Crisis Trust in Cape Town
… combination of distance (for white women), the dangers of townships (negotiated by black women daily), and the absence … combination of distance (for white…
Nelspruit the Segregated city
… homelands, and workers in the town had to commute from the townships, most of them from Kanyamazane, some 30km from … workforce, and African labourers were…
Conflict among civic organisations
… The WCCA represented civic organisations from African townships and squatter settlements. Factionalism and … for conflict. For instance, WCCA emerged in…
ArticleUrban Removals - the Destruction of Sophiatown
… males, preferred to reside in Johannesburg’s freehold townships, Sophiatown and Alexandra Township. Only a few … single males continued to opt for…
Rustenburg the Segregated city
… city, whites in the town, and blacks on the periphery, in townships, allowed into white areas only when their labour … Despite the plans of apartheid social…
ArticleYouth and the National Liberation Struggle
… during the 1940s was the growing number of youth in the townships not absorbed by the inadequate schooling system. … responses of the state to this problem…
ArticleUnited Democratic Front timeline 1983-1990
… Local Authorities (BLAs) and other local government in the townships. The UDF calls for a boycott of the elections, but … substantial force, resulting in…
ArticleMedu Art Ensemble
… In 1977, a group of "cultural workers"from the townships fled into exile in Gaborone, Botswana; including … arms. Members argued that few people in South…
ArticleThe banning of the South African Students Organisation (SASO) and student politics in the 1980s
… that lasted several weeks. By the end of September black townships in Bloemfontein were in a state of unrest as scores … unrest in Soweto. In the period from…
Formation and launch of the UDF
… the apartheid government. In both coloured and African townships in Cape Town protests and against the government … more than 20people were killed by the…
Increasing repression and the turn to the armed struggle
… the 1950s laid the foundation for African communities in townships to mobilize more protests against the government. … Cape Town joined the stay away. The…
ArticleCongress of South African Students (COSAS)
… included: The withdrawal of the SADF and police from the townships Cessation of rent and bus-fare increases … the collapse of the Black Local Authorities in…
ArticleTimeline of the Group Areas Act and Selected Related Pieces Legislation
… from acquiring property from non-Africans in cities and townships (Kirkwood, 2: 1951). The Native Laws Amendment Act … of Africans as skilled building…
Dance For All (DFA)
… City Ballet, David Poole. Poole taught ballet around the townships in Cape Town during the mid- 80’s. After Poole’s … All” in 1995. A year later, the…
ArticleSophiatown Timeline
… Governor-General. 1920s Non-whites move into the freehold townships of Sophiatown, Martindale and Newclare. Poor whites move into the lower-income townships…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1980-1989
… the Mass Democratic Movement (MDM) particularly in the townships, increasing military attacks and the imposition of … the Worker’. Massive national school…
Imvaba Arts Association
… with artists in New Brighton, Kwazakhele and Motherwell townships of Port Elizabeth. It was a community organisation …
ArticleSophiatown in Literature
An Invaluable Historical Source The literature on "life in Sophiatown" by a generation of prose writers, novelists, playwrights and poets is recognized as…
ArticleMusic and culture as forms of resistance
… Gramophones, the introduction of American jazz to the townships and the start of radio were also important to the …
Growth of African Nationalism and Defiance
… in February 1943. Civic politics in Langa and other townships forged a closer relationship with political … against the apartheid government in Cape Town…
ArticleState of Emergency - 1985
… by the increasingly ‘ungovernable’ nature of the Black townships and radical Black nationalists throughout the … was not effective in ‘governing the…
Poqo political trials and the execution of its operatives in the 1960s
… considered to be agents of the apartheid state. In the townships these were policemen and local government officials … in the early 1960s struck fear,…
Article1970’s: Poetry Timeline
… the gap between the Writers and artists Guild and the townships. It organised readings and performances in many …
ArticleNational Youth Uprising
… aware of the extra police patrols that were set up in the townships following June 16. After the first shootings in …
ArticleAlbertina Sisulu and the organisations she was connected to
… fight in any way they could. She wanted the women of the townships to become more politically aware and active. In … were organised with regular weekend…
ArticleCulture and Resistance Conference, Botswana, 1982
… the minimal contribution of the visual arts groups in the townships, whereas people were responding to oppression with … organisations. After a number of…
ArticleRustenburg Timeline 1850-2001
… of the Transvaal Provincial Authority. Other townships, such as Phokeng, and newly created townships Geelhoutpark, Meriteng and Monakato, fall under the ……
ArticleJohannesburg the Segregated city
… up to four or five degrees warmer. The first residential townships to be developed there were Doornfontein in 1887, … by the Jewish community. What marked…
Anti-Indian Legislation 1800s - 1959
… authorities to proclaim, move, de-proclaim and manage townships for non-whites. The residents cannot buy land and … Ordinance, 16/1908.Transvaal – coloured…