Legislation, Dissent, and Violence in Sophiatown under Apartheid
… 54 000 Africans were integrated with 3 000 Coloureds, 1 500 Indians, and 700 Chinese (Ibid., 82). Poor whites moved … as to the proximity of the groups intensified (see Figure 1) (Mandy, 180-81). Sophiatown was not a slum, although … paralleled and contributing factors (Lodge, 118-20). On 1 November 1949, a protest against the increase in tram fares …