Legislation, Dissent, and Violence in Sophiatown under Apartheid
… activism, fronted by the African National Congress (ANC) and the Communist Party. Between 1955 and 1963, Africans … landlords occupied the higher ranks of the local ANC chapter””Simon Tyeku, J.D. Matlou, and A.B. Xuma to name … a few””with the working-class filling a portion of the ANC’s regular membership (Ibid., 115). By the mid-twentieth …