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ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1950-1959
… order expired. He threw himself into the campaign against forced removals from Sophiatown and the Western Areas and was banned …
Working Life - Factories, Township and Popular Culture 1886 - 1940 - ‘Locations’ For Labour
… the inner city area, a Doornfontein resident contested the removals in court. The magistrate then ruled that the … people removed from the town, which…
PlaceClaremont Main Road Mosque
… The Muslim community did not succeed in protesting the forced removals, but fought to retain the right to continue … the Abderoef brothers lost the final…
ArticleJohannesburg the Segregated city
… the invasion of the region by Cape Dutch farmers in 1836 forced many families to leave their ancestral lands. By the … The ZAR’s subsequent unilateral…
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission: A Reflection of the Chasm Between Constitutional Rights and the Lived Experience in South Africa by Rhiain Moses
… history of black South African oppression, such as the forced removals of black people in Cape Town (Magona, 1998), to … or communicate in a conventional…
Shared Cultural Trauma: Inarticulacy as Social Disability in South African Literature by Hannah Pagan
… history of black South African oppression, such as the forced removals of black people in Cape Town (Magona, 1998), to … or communicate in a conventional…
ArticleTimeline for Grade 12.4 - The end of the Cold War and a new global world order 1989 to present
1955 The Freedom charter is adopted. This was the statement, charecterised by its demand that “ the people shall govern” that highlighted the main…
BUT NOT FOR BREAD ALONE
… a portion of the workers 'money to subsidize companies forced to lay off staff in 1959. Three years later, the … the alternatives: '. . . a whole population…
BiographyJudge Jan Hendrik Steyn
Jan Hendrik Steyn was born in Cape Town, Western Cape on 4 March 1928. His mother, Zerilda Steyn, was a pioneer of social welfare in South Africa, founding the…
BiographyJohn Langalibalele Dube
… the battle for their rights. A chronic illness forced Dube to return to South Africa in 1892, a year after …
Growing social unrest: Community mobilisation, strikes and student protests in the Western Cape in the 1980s
The late 1970s witnessed increased labour unrest in the region of the Western Cape. For instance, the Fattis and Monis strike and boycott, Saldanha Bay fish…
PlaceEzakheni Township of Ladysmith
… in successive batches, and these included landowners. The removals to Ezakheni occurred in 1972, and continued … from Ladysmith, were all forcibly removed in…
Re-emergence of resistance, 1980-89
… The youth were the driving force behind the revolt. They forced principals to work with the SRCs and turned assemblies …
Resistance Photography and Mobilization of the Resistance, 1946-1976
… with industry but also portrayed the inhumanity of forced labor. [14] Leon Leveson managed to use his position … "tausa dance," a ridiculous step prisoners…
Congress of the People - I was there
… the iniquitous pass laws, then about Bantu Education, forced removals, high rents.... Everywhere the people knew that …
ArchivePhotography and the Liberation Struggle in South Africa
… whites to see the conditions their government's policies forced Africans into, and reflect on the inhumanity of … In the introduction to Imijondolo, a photo…
ArticleSudan’s Revolution
… Ahmed Ibn Aouf but he was rejected by the masses and forced to stand down within the day. Next a seven-member …
The Role of Women in the Struggle against Apartheid, 15 July 1980
… extensive raids they arrested 140 people. The women were forced to accept the passes. On the day that passes were to … passes had not changed, the reality of…
Interview with Oliver Tambo to New African, 05 January 1980, London
… have raised high the banner of militant mass resistance to forced removals. A significant feature of the struggle at Ford`s, as …
Unity in Action Decisive - O. R. Tambo Interviewed to New African, London, 1980
… have raised high the banner of militant mass resistance to forced removals. A significant feature of the struggle at Ford's, as …
PlaceSchmidtsdrift
… Natives Land Act. The threat of relocation in the 1950's forced some of the Griqua families to identify as Batlhaping. … 1000 Tswana or Batlhaping,…
The melody of freedom
… among them many stars), but a lack of alternatives forced them to appear in his productions. In itself, the … supported the bus boycott of 1957 in Alexandra,…
No Arms for South Africa: Albert Luthuli, 8 May 1963
… police persecution. They can be measured in the wholesale removals of people ruthlessly torn up from homes they have … on calculated acts of violence because…
Remarks by President Jacob Zuma, the Grand Patron of the National Orders, on the occasion of the awarding of the National Orders Awards, on Freedom Day, Presidential Guest House, 27 April 2012
… (p. 152). But, Don Mattera was not just talking about the forced removals of the people of Sophiatown, he was also reflecting …
ArticleA decade by decade events account of the women’s struggle in South Africa
… women. 1956 Dorothy Nyembe is involved in action against forced removals from Cato Manor. She leads the Natal contingent of …
PlaceDriefontein, Mpumalanga
… who were opposed to the apartheid government's planned forced removals. Mkhize's cowardly killing shocked the people of Driefontein but made them more…
PlaceCape Town, Western Province
… and collided, the City’s famous Landmark was gradually forced to rise and it now stands a Kilometer tall overlooking … callously states Coloured Occupants…
ArticleThe Black Sash: A History of Transformation
… of people seeking help from unjust laws regarding forced removals of communities, segregation, discrimination in …
PlaceMeadowlands or Ndofaya, in Soweto
… like: Sophiatown and the Western Native Townships. The forced removals began on February 10, 1955, and continued until the … of Meadowlands, also known as: …
Address by the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki at the Opening of the Brickfields Housing Development, at the Newtown Cultural Precinct, Johannesburg, on 12 August 2005.
… spectre of the shadows of apartheid, colonial subjugation, forced removals of vibrant communities and bull-dozers haunt us. For …