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Police begin the removal of houses of 60 000 people in Sophiatown, Johannesburg. These people are resettled in Meadowlands. The
… Police begin the removal of houses of 60 000 people in Sophiatown, Johannesburg. These people are resettled in …
Native Resettlement Board begins moving the first Africans from Sophiatown to their new homes in Meadowlands. It is strongly co
… Resettlement Board begins moving the first Africans from Sophiatown to their new homes in Meadowlands. It is strongly …
BiographyVice Admiral Refiloe Johannes Mudimu
… Vice Admiral J. Mudimu was born on 6 March 1954 in Sophiatown (Johannesburg). He joined the African National …
Phyllis Altman
… against the Greyshirts and the bulldozing of Sophiatown . After her undergraduate degree she completed an …
BiographyPopo Molefe
… Molefe was born in 1952 in Sophiatown, Johannesburg. He was one of eight children, and …
BiographyMmapula Mmakgoba “Helen” Sebidi
… She therefore enrolled at the remarkable White Studio in Sophiatown from 1970 to 1973, which was established by the …
BiographyJosie Palmer
… for the Potchefstroom resident magistrate. She grew up in Sophiatown, Johannesburg , Transvaal (now Gauteng ) but moved …
BiographyElias Phakane Moretsele
… leaders. At the annual congress of the Transvaal ANC at Sophiatown in October 1953 he was unanimously elected …
BiographyPeter Sexford Magubane
… grew up and completed his high school in Sophiatown , Johannesburg. His interest in photography began …
BiographyHenry Gordon ‘Squire’ Makgothi
… 1956, he was arrested on charges of treason at his home in Sophiatown and detained at the Fort. On 21 December 1956 he …
BiographyMotsamai Keyecwe Mpho
… Mpho joined the ANC and began attending its rallies in the Sophiatown area. The following year, in 1953 he found work at …
BiographyVesta Smith
… Vesta Smith (affectionately known as Ma Vee) was born in Sophiatown , Johannesburg , Transvaal (now Gauteng ) on 20 …
BiographyCassim Saloojee
… family remained poor. Saloojee began his school in Sophiatown at the age of 6. He was unhappy in the beginning …
BiographyJoe “Sdumo” Mafela
… father worked as a shop assistant in a Chinese shop in Sophiatown . When Joe was three years old he left …
BiographyThabo Marcus Motaung
… complete annihilation of the Township as was the case with Sophiatown, whose destruction was completed in 1960. After …
BiographyJames Madhlope Phillips
… James Philips was born in Sophiatown into a working class family on 11 December 1919. …
BiographySydney Kumalo
… times into which he was born. Sydney Kumalo was born in Sophiatown, Johannesburg, on 13 April 1935. His was one of … at Madibane High School, he took with…
BiographyNorman Stewart Middleton
… Norman Stewart Middleton was born in January 1921, in Sophiatown, Johannesburg, Transvaal (now Gauteng) and moved …
BiographyTodd Tozama Matshikiza
… experience, as well as his intimate understanding of Sophiatown and black Johannesburg, to produce a compelling …
BiographyRichard Granville Baloyi
… white interests began to threaten the right to freehold in Sophiatown and Alexandra and by 1943 Baloyi was chairperson …
BiographyMongane Wally Serote
… Mongane Wally Serote was born in Sophiatown, Johannesburg on 8 May 1944, just four years …
BiographyMichael Kitso Dingake
… the Alexandra Bus Boycott of 1957, Potato Boycott, Sophiatown removals, One Pound-a-Day, the Women Anti-Pass …
BiographyDr Alfred Bitini Xuma
… January 1928, Xuma had moved to the Johannesburg suburb of Sophiatown, where he would remain for the next 30 years. He … Indian, and Coloured South Africans…
BiographyMiriam Makeba
… her mother clean houses. In the 1950s, she lived in Sophiatown when it was a vibrant place and one of the few …
BiographyArchibald Jacob Gumede
… 1957. During his time in Johannesburg, Gumede stayed in Sophiatown. He views this period as one of personal political …
A growing urban African population
… Coloureds and Indians, mainly, who were attracted to Sophiatown in larger numbers than other population groups. … an ever growing number of inhabitants,…
BiographyHendrik Frensch Verwoerd
… for the displacement of some 80 000 Africans from Sophiatown, Martindale and Newclare to the newly established …
ArticleMusic and culture as forms of resistance
… of the urban culture that developed in Johannesburg and in Sophiatown in particular. It was here that the most important … of African community life shifted…
ArticleTimeline: Father Trevor Huddleston
… as priest-in-charge of the Community’s Mission in Sophiatown , South Africa. 1949 Appointed Provincial of the … Huddleston chooses the designation ‘Bishop…
ArticleA Culture of Survival
… shebeen owners' businesses. This gave rise to a class in Sophiatown referred to as "diepamokoti", which literally … between the police raids. Dr Xuma,…