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BiographyNjabulo Simakahle Ndebele
… and fiction I attempted to explore the particularities of township life in such a way that they could resonate with a …
BiographyPercival Henry Frederick “Percy” Sonn
Born in Cape Town on September 25, 1949, Percival Sonn, universally known as Percy, dedicated much of his life to the development of the game of cricket in the…
BiographyAziz Goolam Hoosein Pahad
… that took place in June 1955 in Kliptown, Johannesburg township, where the Freedom Charter was launched, calling for …
BiographyReggie Vandeyar
… work in Fordsburg, Vrededorp, Doornfontein, Alexandra Township, Jeppe, Malay Camp, Pretoria (Asiatic Bazaar and …
The minister of Police, Justice and Prisons lifts the closure of schools in Black townships.
Rioting breaks out in the Coloured townships southwest of Johannesburg. A class boycott and arrests follow.
Foreign TV crews are prohibited from filming incidents of unrest in South Africa’s Black townships.
BiographyBoy Mvemve
… of the ANC Youth League, of which he was the Alexandra township branch secretary. He was among the dedicated foot …
BiographyMary Thipe
Mary Thipe was born in 1917* in Ramhlakoane, a village in the Matatiele district, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal) near the Eastern Cape border. Later, as a young…
ArchiveA study of the theoretical aspects of ANC mobilisational methods in the Eastern Cape Townships of Cradock and Port Alfred, 1980-1988
A dissertation submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Magister Artium in National Strategy in the Faculty of Arts at the Rand Afrikaans…
BiographyNarriman Gadija Bazier Samuels
… of dignity, community solidarity, and the role of women in township activism. As a woman who came of age during …
BiographyWalter Kefuoe Fikeleph Chakela
… what initially seemed like a random act of violence in the township but investigations later revealed that the security … produced a television series based…
Vondela Landingwe
Vondela Landingwe played rugby for Crusaders in Gugulethu and Western Province under the auspices of the non-racial South African Rugby Union (SARU) during the…
EventThe South African government finally approves the introduction of 99-year leasehold rights for blacks in the townships of Nyanga, Langa and Gugulethu
On 21 February 1985, the South African government finally approved the introduction of 99-year leasehold rights for blacks in the townships of Nyanga, Langa…
ArchiveFamily Life, Poverty and Crime in the Black Urban Townships: Memorandum for Urban Foundation Paper Presented at the Black Sash National Conference 1978
Family Life, Poverty and Crime in the Black Urban Townships- Memorandum for Urban Foundation Paper Presented at the Black Sash National Conference on 16 March…
BiographyManiben Sita
… Transvaal (now Gauteng) which was a newly established township for the Indian population. Sita and her mother lived …
Thoko Phillip Mamogobo
… by claiming that he was a school child from Alexandra (a township in Johannesburg). The ploy worked and on his release …
BiographyJabulile Nyawose
… Ivan Pillay met in a secluded area in Chatsworth, a township south of Durban, designated under the apartheid …
BiographyAudrey ‘Bobbie’ Cobden
Audrey ‘Bobbie’ (her childhood nickname) Cobden was born in Johannesburg, Transvaal Province (now Gauteng) on 15 April 1923. She grew up in Johannesburg and…
BiographySelloane Ethel Leisa
… stance, she specifically took part only in local township meetings and avoided larger public gatherings. This …
BiographyJoyce Sikhakhane-Rankin
… . She worked from a separate office, which was called the township office, because the newsroom wasn't mixed. Being the …
BiographyCurtis Nkondo
… he went to live with his aunt in the Western Coloured Township and attended school there. In 1949 he wrote his …
BiographyDr Mamphela Aletta Ramphele
… village of poor people. She later set up home in Lenyenye Township in Tzaneen where she was under constant security …
ArticleBoipatong massacre - 17 June 1992
… 300 armed men from Kwa Madala Hostel in nearby Sebokeng Township. The armed men were affiliated to the Inkatha … developments in relations between hostel…
In more than seventy townships, a further series of disturbances (20 July – 19 August) occur, leading to considerable destruc
UDF Poster ‘TROOPS OUT OF THE TOWNSHIPS : NO APARTHEID WAR’ by End Conscription Campaign (ECC), 1984, South Africa
Riots continue, 4-5 September. The youth come out in the Coloured townships. Schools, libraries and a magistrate’s court are se
Negotiations between Nelson Mandela of the ANC and Mangosuthu Buthelezi of Inkatha to end violence in townships, fails.
BiographyArchbishop Emeritus Desmond Mpilo Tutu
… a Government secondary school in the old Western Native Township, near Sophiatown . At about this time he was … time, was a risky thing to do. In February…
BiographyElizabeth "Rocky" Mafekeng
… Canning Workers Union (FCWU) built her a home in Mbekweni Township in Paarl. Elizabeth Mafeking died on 28 May 2009, …