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BiographyDr Somalingum (Leslie) Ponnusamy
Dr Somalingum (Leslie) Ponnusamy was born in Durban on 1 September 1958. He was the youngest of four sons. The family resided in Sea Cow Lake and later…
BiographyMalesella Benjamin Moloise
Malesella Benjamin Moloise was born in 1955 in Alexandra. he was a black upholsterer and poet. He was executed by apartheid government on 18 October 1985 at…
BiographyIsaac Mofokeng
Isaac Mofokeng was born in Rustenburg in 1981. He attended the Mokutuli and Seipone primary schools in Sebokeng and Orange Farm respectively. Later he attended…
The death toll in the strife-torn Reef townships rises to 515 although relative calm had returned to all the major conflict are
BiographyThemba Daniel Mbongwa
He was born at KwaNobamba (Weenan), KZN. As a boy he herded sheep, cattle and goats and while looking after these animals he used to construct cows, birds and…
BiographyAubrey Mokoena
… West, Johannesburg during World War II. He grew up in the township, but due to his mother’s bad health was brought up …
BiographyJackson Mphikwa Mthembu
Jackson Mphikwa Mthembu was a Minister in the Presidency of South Africa and parliamentarian for the African National Congress (ANC). Mthembu was born on 5…
BiographyFanele Mbali
… he transferred to Newell High School in New Brighton, a township of Port Elizabeth as the school in Middeldift did …
ArticleUrban Removals - the Destruction of Sophiatown
… of 1932 the first of Orlando’s residents moved into the township to settle. Slum clearance from the inner city … continued and was only completed in 1936…
BiographyIvan Toms
Ivan Toms was born in Cape Town, Western Province (now Western Cape) on 11 July 1953. He completed his medical degree at the University of Cape Town (UCT) in…
ArticleLife in Sophiatown
… a unique community juxtaposed with the seedy and violent township with dangers lurking at every corner. Don Mattera … and one tap shared by 150 to 200…
ArticleXenophobic violence in democratic South Africa timeline
… 1994 and January 1995, armed youth gangs in Alexandra Township outside of Johannesburg, Gauteng Province, destroyed … an outburst of xenophobic violence in…
ArticleThe Destruction of Sophiatown
… there are still glaring gaps in critical areas of the township's history that need to be plugged to achieve a … to these developments. Sophiatown is…
UDF Poster ‘NO apartheid war: GUGULETHU LANGA TROOPS OUT OF THE TOWNSHIPS’ by End Conscription Campaign (ECC), 20/08/1983 - 20/08/1991, South Africa
Mama Beshenga
During the 1960s, at the height of the forced removals with the introduction of the Native Law Amendment Act, there was great panic and confusion within the…
Biography of Mtutuzeli Dudu Pukwana by Nick Mencia
… began to take form, the popularity of resistance-based township music and culture rose simultaneously with the … Sophiatown, but scurry down the back alleys…
June 17
… The fury and frustration that had been simmering amongst township youth had free reign. There was enormous police … machine carbines had taken up strategic…
BiographyPetrus Nzima Nyawose
… Ivan Pillay met in a secluded area in Chatsworth, a township south of Durban, designated under the apartheid …
BiographyMakhosi “Tholi” Nyoka
… Nyoka was born on 3 April 1957 and grew up in KwaMashu , a township north of Durban , where she attended Umzuvele …
BiographyKrishna Rabilal
… born on 6 November 1952 to working class parents in the township of Merebank, south of Durban, Natal (now …
ArticleWestern Cape Youth Uprising timeline 1976
… The Langa students march with placards through their township streets accompanied by their teachers who are … Cape June 16th youth uprising The youth march…
BiographySuzanne ‘Zan’ Louw
Suzanne (‘Zan’) Louw was born in Cape Town, 1964. She received her BA (Fine Arts) at University of Cape Town in 1986. While a Fine Arts student during the…
Evelyn Ntoko Mase
… gave the boys Watchtower pamphlets to distribute in the township. I used to talk politics to the boys. Thembi was a …
BiographyZanemvula Kizito Mda
… Toloki, a self-proclaimed mourner, wandering from one township funeral to the next. Slowly, the reader learns that …
ArticleAn Introduction to Sophiatown
… areas - Martindale and Newclare, as well as Alexandra Township, were unique features in a city that was developing …
ArticleXenophobic violence in democratic South Africa
… 1994 and January 1995, armed youth gangs in the Alexandra Township outside of Johannesburg, Gauteng Province, destroyed … unemployment, crime, and even the…
UDF Poster ‘WE DEMAND: SADF & POLICE OUT OF THE TOWNSHIPS! : UDF : SUPPORT THE CONSUMER BOYCOTT!’ by United Democratic Front (UDF), 20/08/1983 - 20/08-1991
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1990s
… Police opened fire on anti-apartheid protesters in the township of Sebokeng, near Johannesburg, killing at least 14 … against the shooting by the police of…
BiographyCanodoise (Can) Themba
Canodoise Daniel Themba (Can Themba) was born in 1924, in Marabastad, Pretoria, Transvaal (now Gauteng),South Africa. He attended the University of Fort Hare,…
BiographyGille De Vlieg
Gille de Vlieg was born Gillian Ruth Hemson in Plymouth, England in 1940 during a Nazi bombing raid on the city. After losing their home in a later bombing…