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Eyewitness accounts of the Sharpeville massacre 1960
… and three Saracens. As we drove through the fringes of the township many people shouted the Pan-Africanist slogan 'Izwe … about fifteen cars were waiting on…
ArticleEnd Conscription Campaign (ECC)
… 1984 and 1986. In September, 1985, its Troops Out of the Township campaign, spearheaded by a three-week fast by three …
EventThe Natives Resettlement Act, Act No 19 of 1954 is passed
… that managed to survive forced removals was the Alexander Township, which turned 100 years in 2012. …
BiographyRomeo Zamani Makhanya
Zamani Romeo Makhanya was born in Durban, 1959. He experienced the trauma of losing his brothers one after the other to genetic heart-related conditions. The…
BiographySandile Ngcobo
Chief Justice Sandile Ngcobo was born on 1 March 1953 in Durban, South Africa. Ngcobo was the beneficiary of a scholarship from Barclays Bank between 1973 and…
BiographyJürgen Schadeberg
Jurgen Schadeberg was born in Berlin, Germany on 18 March 1931. He was raised by his mother, Rosemarie, the only child in a single-parent family of limited…
ArticleGangsterism in Sophiatown
… in the city who were not at school nor did they have jobs. Township youths were unable to find jobs easily. Employers … Chinese, and terrorised the…
Article”People’s Power!”, 1986
… People needed to take political control in their township, factory and school despite the state's military … that were often connected to either homeland…
ArticleBlack Consciousness: Cultural Expression and Representation
… ideology, and mobilizing and strengthening the identity of township audiences. Theater was cheap, mobile, easily … plays in the 1970s and early 1980s that…
BiographyFrank Alexander Landman
… great interest in South End, Schauderville, Korsten, Neave township, Central PE and East London, Frank was intent on …
BiographyMzwakhe Mbuli
… would address the festival and attend a rally in the Rni township of Grahamstown , as well. As a result of this …
ArticleJohannesburg the Segregated city
… timber to the mines. At about the same time, a residential township was laid out on the higher reaches of the property. … Germiston, formerly called…
ArticleTimeline of the Group Areas Act and Selected Related Pieces Legislation
… three African settlements around Johannesburg (Alexandra Township, Eastern Native Township, and the large Meadowlands-Orlando-Moroka area … to vacate their…
EventThe Transvaal Indian Congress takes a stand on Fietas removals
… involved the conversion of Newclare, the Western Native Township and the Southern part of Claremont to 'Coloured' …
BiographyPetros Sipho Sibusiso Mkhize (Mkize)
… economy. He settled in Soweto, the sprawling African township southwest of Johannesburg that had become home to …
BiographyBheki Cele
… KZN [6] . This was during the 1980s, at the height of the township struggles, and although Cele was a teacher he also …
ArticleMedu Art Ensemble
… newer silkscreen (such as photo stencil) technologies to township conditions, where people might not have running … ink, squeegee, and stencil material. This…
ArticleYouth and the National Liberation Struggle
… young people in urban areas rose dramatically. And “in a township like Soweto , the unavailability of schools became a … weak, it had a deep interest in…
Conflict among civic organisations
… out between SANCO, WCCA and WECUSA in Khayelitsha, Lwandle township and Waterkloof in Somerset West. Lwandle which was a …
ArticleCape Schools Join the Revolt
… from Fezeka and I.D. Mkize [Secondary Schools in Guguletu Township] used their schools at night for studying because … had in the meanwhile marched through…
ArchiveCHAPTER 8 - Leading from behind Virtue and necessity, April 1984-June 1985 by Howard Barrell
… by the UDF or political violence mounted by ordinary black township residents. MK was very largely unable to integrate … portion of the financial burden…
ArticleThe Youth Struggle
… churches, which were partially funded by government. In a township like Soweto , the unavailability of schools became … weak, it had a deep interest in…
BiographyRick Turner
… (NUSAS) , and taught adult literacy classes in a Black township with his childhood friend, John Clare. He completed …
Beerhalls in Soweto from Soweto Heritage Survey Final Report compiled by Steven Lebelo and Elsabe Brink for the National Monuments Council, Northern Region
… City Council JCC) opened a beerhall in Western Native Township (WNT) in 1939. Sensing that their illicit beer trade … destruction of Sophiatown in 1955 and…
PlaceGoodwood
… Coloured population in the adjoining area of Elsies River township, and Langa and Nyanga townships less than 8 km away, …
BiographySipho Gumede
Sipho Gumede was born in Cato Manor, a then mainly Indian area in Durban. From a young age he showed interest in music, playing on a homemade guitar. He was…
ArticleSocio-economics in Sophiatown
… look out for the police while their mothers brewed beer. Township children found many ways to earn money directly …
Poqo political trials and the execution of its operatives in the 1960s
… considered PAC traditional strongholds. In Gauteng Orlando Township, Sharpeville in the Vaal area and Munsieville in … meetings held in an abandoned cattle…
Indian Community in Lenasia
… in the evening. In 1958 Lenasia was proclaimed an Indian township under the Group Areas Act. The minutes of a meeting … of Extension 2 cemented the idea of…
EventBanyana Banyana player, Eudy Simelane, is found raped and murdered
… Simelane was found in a ditch in the outskirts of her home township KwaThema, Gauteng. She had been raped, robbed and …