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BiographyJob Shimankana Tabane
… Six certificate. The following year he went to Alexander Township where he joined his parents and also began his …
BiographyStephanie Urdang
… to apartheid. Her father, a lawyer, worked in the Coloured township of Athlone on the Cape Flats , Cape Town. Although …
Government bans television coverage of unrest in Black townships in the thirty-eight magisterial districts where the State of E
There is further unrest (27-31 July) in the townships throughout the country including those of Alexandra (Northern Johannesbur
A combined force of South African Defence Force troops and police seal off the townships of Sebokeng, Sharpeville and Boipatong
BiographyMorgan Gonaseelan Naidoo
Morgan Gonaseelan Naidoo was born in 1936 in Durban. He spent most of his young life at the FOSA TB Settlement, just north of the city. His father died when…
BiographySolomon Kerzner
… real South Africa, poised between the first stirrings of township resistance and the imposition of Emergency Rule, the …
Pretoria the Segregated city
… It was originally intended to be called Motsemogolo (large township), but was named after Mrs. MP Atteridge instead, the … from Marabastad moved to…
A history of Soweto
… allowed to buy freehold land. These early developments of Township settlement for black people should be followed … people were relocated to what was to…
A growing urban African population
… stood at barely a hundred. As the population of the township grew during the 1920s and 1930s, the racial … comprising Sophiatown, Martindale and Western…
The second day of the Soweto protest is marked by uncontrollable fury. Fires rage in townships throughout the country. Pupils s
Forty-four Blacks on the East Rand die on this and the following night in attacks on townships from hostels.
Forty-four Blacks on the East Rand die on this and the following night in attacks on townships from hostels.
Violence occurs in Johannesburg’s Coloured townships. At least four people are killed and up to two hundred injured when police
President De Klerk announces the withdrawal of the Internal Stability Units (ISU) from the East Rand townships of Kathlehong an
BiographySipho Samuel Hashe
… three people at a time and restricting him to Kwazakhele Township in Port Elizabeth. It became challenging for him to …
Books and further reading links relating to Right to Organise
… Life Factories, Townships and Popular Culture 1886 - 1940, Township Working Life Factories, Townships and Popular …
Five more people die in overnight violence in South African townships bringing the death toll during a two-day strike by Black
Riots start in Durban townships and continue up to 14 August. Seventy people, police, amabutho and activists, are killed in the
Riots erupt again in Soweto and spread to other townships in South Africa. The Minister of Justice again bans public meetings u
Government announces ninety-nine year leasehold rights for Blacks in three Cape Town townships in order to stop the riots over
At least 150 Blacks die in violence in Black townships near Johannesburg, between supporters of the ANC and Inkatha Freedom Par
At least 150 Blacks die in violence in Black townships near Johannesburg, between supporters of the ANC and Inkatha Freedom Par
Following unrest and rioting in the townships, the Minister of Law and Order prohibits all meetings of more than two persons, d
Sadecque Variava
… family moved from Pageview to Lenasia, the new Indian township, 35km south of Johannesburg, and a few kilometres … activists, thus initiating anti-apartheid…
BiographyMenzi Mcunu
Mcunu attended Ohlanga High School. In 1985 he received informal training in art at the Community Arts Workshop, Durban. In 1987 he was awarded a bursary by…
Disturbances break out in the Black townships of Port Elizabeth and police open fire on rioting crowds. Tensions rise in the ar
The schools’ boycott spreads to the Black townships and riot police are in action in Durban and Port Elizabeth. At Elsies River
A broad consensus is reached between the government and the ANC to end Black violence in townships, a day before the ANC’s 9th
BiographyColine Williams
… was born on 30 May 1967 and grew up in Bonteheuwel, a township in the Western Cape , South Africa. The eldest of …