Legislation, Dissent, and Violence in Sophiatown under Apartheid
… demonstrated immense resistance against the removals. By 1955, when the removals began, the Government’s creation of … National Congress (ANC) and the Communist Party. Between 1955 and 1963, Africans were evicted from the area. … than the proposed date (Ibid., 155-56). On 9 February 1955, before daybreak, 86 army trucks, carrying 1500 …