Legislation, Dissent, and Violence in Sophiatown under Apartheid
… urban settlement in South Africa during the 1940s and 1950s. The Western Areas was also the centre of political … 1934, from 12 000 to 24 000, and again to 60 000 by the 1950s. The Western Areas developed gradually as a congested … demolish Sophiatown sparked a stand off during the early 1950s, putting the federal government on one side and JCC and …