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ArchiveThe Life of Trevor Huddleston, Makhalipile (the Dauntless One) by Victoria Vandiver, 3 May 2018
… Huddleston played a large role in protesting against the forced removals in Sophiatown. As white working-class areas … Ruth First were at the forefront of…
BiographyBilly Nair
Billy Nair was born in Ansonia Lane (now Lacey Road), Sydenham, Durban on 27 November 1929. He was one of five children born to Parvathy and Ittynian (Kisten)…
PlacePageview
… District Six and Sophiatown. It was also destroyed by forced removals as a result of the Group Areas Act. The majority of … big family,” writes Nazir Carrim…
BiographyArchibald Jacob Gumede
… of the pass laws to women , Bantu Education and the removals in Charlestown and Roosboom in Northern Natal. In …
Chapter 12 - Blind alley of guerrillaism
… In the Defiance Campaign, in the struggle against forced removals, in the struggle of women against passes, in the … in the factories. The state could step…
BiographyPatricia De Lille
Patricia de Lille, a South African politician, was born the 17 February, 1951 in Beaufort West to Henry and Gertrude Lindt. She is the third of seven children…
PlaceUmlazi
… opposition and rioting occurred as a result of the forced removals, most notably in Cato Manor. Successive Apartheid …
ArticleDrum Magazine
… issues during the 1950s; among them the Sophiatown forced removals and the Treason Trial. Although it opposed racism …
ArticlePopular struggles in the early years of Apartheid, 1948-1960
… was fare increases. In this case the bus operator was forced to reduce fares. In Kliptown south of Johannesburg … In the case of Sophiatown this happened in…
ArchiveRoseinnes Daniel Phahle by Allison Drew
… Freedom Square against the government’s proposed forced removals of Sophiatown residents. He also arranged meetings … him to hand in his travel document. In…
ArticleDr Alfred Bitini Xuma Timeline 1893-1998
… to attend. 1954 December: Xuma gives an interview on the removals to the American CBS television programme See It Now, … built at 1401 Mtipa Street, Dube…
PlaceManenberg, Cape Flats
… Flats and District Six, in 1966. This was a result of the forced removal campaign by the National Party. It has an … established by 1966, at the height of…
BiographyReverend Allan Aubrey Boesak
Allan Aubury Boesak was born at Kakamas, Northern Cape, one of eight children. His father, a schoolteacher, died when Boesak was six years old. He was raised…
ArchiveChanging focus: The art and activism of Omar by Bongani Kona (Mail and Guardian), 4 June 2015
… photographic essays, Imijondolo: A photographic essay on forced removals in South Africa (1985). Despite the grim subject matter of the work – the…
PlaceVolksrust, Mpumalanga
… an area that became known as New Stand. In 1958 after the forced removals of people from Charlestown, (an area that produced …
Documentary Photography and Awakening the International Community, 1976-1994
… and are taking photographs." [4] Photojournalists were forced to quickly shoot images that would symbolize the … images of injustices indicative of apartheid…
ArchiveAll That Glitters - Bridging two worlds by Emilia Potenza
… labour. Those who failed to make it on the land were forced to migrate to the towns. Many blamed African farmers … over time many rent tenants and…
BiographyNjinga Ana de Sousa
The history of Queen Njinga (or Nzinga) of Ndongo/Matamba is contested. Portuguese colonial historians and missionaries would emphasise her conversion to…
Nelson Mandela’s address to rally in Durban 25 February 1990
… The Natal Liberal Party waged steadfast campaigns against removals, and its work has been continued into the present by … a common enemy: the enemy is that…
Chapter 3 - The Rise of the ANC
… drawn up to call a general strike if the police attempted removals, in order to disperse and paralyse the forces of the state. Yet, on the eve of the…
PlaceHangberg, Hout Bay
… to their workers. From 1950 to 1980 there was a series of Forced Removals in which people designated as Coloured were moved … on and above Beach Road were…
BiographyKgalema Petrus Motlanthe
… and a general dealership. When he was 11, his parents were forced to move from Alexander to Meadowlands [Johannesburg, … Under severe torture by the Security…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1920s
… a Six-year sentence for leading people in protest against forced removals by White authorities. The Communist Party of South … comments (Dugard 1978: 178)…
ArticleA History of the South African Film Industry timeline 1895-2003
… to do well overseas. The Winners is a drama about a man forced and driven to win at all costs. David Millin was … the first feature film to portray the…
ArticleLiberation history Timeline 1960-1969
… Massacre. In response to the banning, both parties were forced to establish underground structures to continue the … Six is declared a “Whites-only” area by…
ArticleSouth West Africa People’s Organisation (SWAPO): An Organisational Timeline
… 1959 Residents of Windhoek’s Old Location protest their forced removal to a township outside of Windhoek. The …
ArchiveClass Consciousness and Migrant Workers by David Hemson (University of Warwick)
… growth. It was argued South African economy was one of forced labour and super-exploitation; this was a period in … would suppress industrial and class…
ArchiveAfrican Women`s Resistance to the Pass Laws in South Africa 1950-1960, by Elizabeth S. Schmidt
… groups, defied unjust laws and conducted campaigns against forced removals under the Group Areas Act and against inferior … areas. Influx control laws meant…
Now You Have Touched the Women - African Women`s Resistance to the Pass Laws in South Africa 1950-1960 by Elizabeth S. Schmidt
… groups, defied unjust laws and conducted campaigns against forced removals under the Group Areas Act and against inferior … areas. Influx control laws meant…
"Peace and Development in our Region" Speech at "War on Want" Conference by O. R. Tambo, London, June 1988
… time, the apartheid regime carried out a vast programme of forced removals of the African people into the bantustans and … camps. The fact of the matter is…