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ArticleA history of Kwaito music
… status. The language of Kwaito is Isicamtho, South African township slang. Isicamtho is a modern version of tsotsitaal - … that has always been thought of as…
BiographyLuli Callinicos
Luli Callinicos was born in Johannesburg, and is of Hellenic descent. She began her involvement in the struggle for democracy at an early age. She began her…
BiographyHeidi Saayman
Heidi Saayman was born on 3 February 1970, Umtata in Transkie. She matriculated in 1988 from Queenstown Girls High School. After leaving school she studied at…
ArticleSophiatown timeline 1899-1955
… This showed the widespread support the ANC had in the township The Native Laws Amendment Act of 1952 is passed, …
ArticleSouth African major mass killings timeline 1900-2012
… as they were resisting forced removals to the newly-built township of Khayelitsha. 21 March, As part of commemorating … are killed by South African police in…
ArticleWestern Cape Civic Association (WCCA)
… Initially the emerging civic organisation in African township and coloured areas moved towards forming a combined …
BiographyWinston Monwabisi Ngozi
Winston Monwabisi Mankunku Ngozi was born on 21 June 1943, in Retreat, Cape Town. He was the first-born in a musical family. In the 1960’s the Apartheid…
BiographyMohamed Farouk Asvat
POLITICAL HARASSMENT FAROUK ASVAT was banned by the South African regime between 1973 and 1978; and nominated an Amnesty International "Prisoner of…
Increasing repression and the turn to the armed struggle
… were opened in various areas such as Paarl and Langa township. The Langa branch which was most vibrant PAC branch … 1959. Support for the party came from…
ArticleHistory of the Rape Crisis Trust in Cape Town
… women daily), and the absence of meeting facilities in township areas, requiring people to congregate in modest township homes instead, meant this practice…
ArticleSouth African Youth Congress (SAYCO)
… of organization. Playing a key role in coordinating township struggles and was a prominent member of structures … members, however in the wake of the Six Day…
ArticlePass Laws and Sharpeville Massacre
… was recognised across the country as the model African township, and the Council was able to censor almost all local … the 1950s, particularly the…
BiographyTeboho MacDonald “Tsietsi” Mashinini
Teboho MacDonald "Tsietsi" Mashinini was born on 27 January 1957 in Central Western Jabavu, Soweto. Mashinini was the second son of Ramothibi, a lay preacher…
BiographyPeter Hlaole Molotsi
… around P. K. Leballo in Johannesburg's Orlando Township. He worked for the Bantu Press as a freelance …
ArticleBlack Consciousness and student revolt in the Cape
… with the students of Soweto. Students marched through township streets such as Jungle Walk Street with placards … The outbreak of the revolt in Cape Town did…
ArticlePretoria Timeline 1800-2009
… arrives in Pretoria. Lady Selbourne proclaimed a black township (north west of the city was the only township where blacks were allowed to own land) Lady ……
BiographyTony Sithembiso Yengeni
Sithembiso Tony Yengeni was born in Cape Town and grew up in two Cape townships, Gugulethu and Nyanga. He completed his matric at Fort Beaufort college in Cape…
ArticleMusic and culture as forms of resistance
… was known as marabi, possibly derived from the township of Marabastad in Pretoria. Marabi reflected the way … Basie and Louis Armstrong, and these made a…
Legislation, Dissent, and Violence in Sophiatown under Apartheid
… to displace Africans from Sophiatown, a largely African township of Johannesburg, which had become a threat to the … area. Sophiatown was bulldosed,…
BiographyKevin Dowling
Kevin Patrick Dowling was born in Pretoria and was ordained as a priest of the Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer on 9 July 1967. He was appointed the…
ArticleDr. Abu Baker Asvat timeline 1943 - 2012
… squatters in an abandoned bus. The manager of the Pimville Township, T F Bronkhurst, orders his arrest and expulsion … produces a medical report on police…
The 1980s and the crisis of Apartheid
… ' homelands ' or 'Independent Bantustans' and in local township councils. Coloureds and Indians were to be given a …
ArticlePopular struggles in the early years of Apartheid, 1948-1960
… unrest that often turned violent. For instance, the Vaal township of Evaton experienced unrest that often turned … Areas of Johannesburg, including Newclare,…
PlaceNew Brighton Location
… the brunt of the Plague Health Regulations. New Brighton Township grew around the railway station built in 1877. It … for a number of organised social,…
ArticleBloemfontein the Segregated city
… area of Heidedal Growth of informal settlements: Manguang township Mangaung is one of the largest black townships in the Free State and is subdivided into…
BiographyPenelope Jane Dunlop
Penelope Jane Dunlop (P.J. Powers) was born in Durban, KwaZulu-Natal on 16 July 1960. She chose PJ Powers as her stage name using her initials and the name…
BiographyPopo Molefe
Molefe was born in 1952 in Sophiatown, Johannesburg. He was one of eight children, and spent most of his youth living with his aunt. His mother was a domestic…
PlaceUmlazi
… Reserve. View Larger Map The formation of the Umlazi Township In the early 1940s the government had plans to convert the Umlazi mission reserve into a…
ArticleSophiatown in Literature
… recognized as providing the most poignant accounts of the township's and South Africa's history in the last sixty … and providing a rich source for…
BiographyWinnie Madikizela-Mandela
… affected by the research she had carried out in Alexandra Township as a social worker to establish the rate of … of Bloemfontein . Prior to her arrival in…