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ArticleMoses Kotane Timeline
… the government, Kotane addresses a gathering in Alexandra Township Number 2 Square and subsequently arrested by the … police for not having a permit to live…
Lerato Maduna
… Volkshochschule in Munich, Germany. (Diski 9/9 series on township soccer) The exhibition was curated by Christine …
ArticleWomen in the schizophrenic 1940s - World War II and its aftermath
… In 1943 the residents (including many women) of Alexandra Township challenged an increase in the bus fare into … branches of the ANCWL were established,…
Second World War and its impact, 1939-1948
… The first campaign in the 1940s took place in Alexandra Township. There were two bus boycotts in Alexandra, in 1940 … threats were made by the bus company…
Article“Bantu Education or the Street” by Norman Levy
… as they marched six-abreast along the dusty streets of the township.68 Sometimes regular police personnel followed them … if need be) was arrested on a…
Nelspruit the Segregated city
… mainly as a labour reservoir. Kanyamazane Kanyamazane is a township situated about 30km from Nelspruit. It was …
ArticlePoqo in the Western Cape and Transkei in the early 1960s
… of underground cells particularly in the Western Cape. The township of Mbekweni in Paarl and Langa in Cape Town became … Poqo ingratiate itself among black…
ArticleMetal and Allied Workers Union (MAWU)
… and being denied, workers at Sarmcol from Mpophomeni Township went on strike on 30 April 1985*. As a consequence …
Growth of African Nationalism and Defiance
… Silinga , Siwqana also set up the first crèche in Langa township. The mid 1940s were also a period of food shortages … the anti apartheid protest in Cape…
ArticleBlack Consciousness and 16 June – The birth of a new generation
… seems to us a reasonable starting point for some sort of township détente ...the SSRC may not speak for all the township's youth, but it is the only visible…
ArticlePort Elizabeth Timeline 1799-1986
… A hospital is opened in Rodney Street. The residential township of Walmer is laid out as a separate municipal … in Harrower Road and in 1948 its operations…
Rustenburg the Segregated city
… the 1920s, the residents of Bethlehem were removed to the township of Tlhabane, some 5km from the centre of town. … and given Bophuthatswana documents…
ArticleSharpeville
… residents gathered at the police station in Sharpeville, a township just outside Johannesburg. Approximately 300 …
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1980-1989
… bomb explosion in an administrative building in the Batho township of Bloemfontein injures 79 Black people who were … councillors attacked. 26 October,…
ArticleThe 1956 Women’s March, Pretoria, 9 August
… hundreds of African men and women assembled in the Langa township outside Cape Town to protest the impending …
ArticleFootball in South Africa
… and thus served as a mobilising force for neighborhood, township, and political organisations. Football humanised the … Conrad Stuurman, Scara Sono, and…
Article16 June 1976 - Soweto Uprising
… at about 12:00 and many students walked out of school to a township on fire. "It was past twelve, past twelve to one. … The fury and frustration that had…
ArticlePeter Magubane Timeline 1932-
… Vrededorp, South Africa. Matriculates from Western Native Township High School. 1954 Worked as a photojournalist for …
ArticleStaffrider magazine (1978-1993)
… from 1978 to 1993. It took its name and identity from township slang referring to black youth who travelled … is now called the Mpumulanga Arts Group in…
List of Laws on Land Dispossession and Segregation
… registered voters or had permission to stay outside the township were exempted. The police were empowered to effect … The Act also heralded the establishment…
ArticleThe Freedom Charter Campaign
… to establish committees in every workplace, village and township. The final stage would involve the election of …
ArticleThe Founding of the SANNC
… place on 8 January 1912 at Maphikela House in Mangaung Township, Bloemfontein. Of the group of delegates that met, …
Anti-Indian Legislation 1800s - 1959
… ownership or occupation of property in white areas. The Township Franchise Ordinance is approved by the Provincial … Act - this Act provides for Job…
ArticleBoeremag Treason Trial Timeline
… on main commuter railway lines running through the township. The damage to the railway lines was estimated at … claimsresponsibility for a series of bombings…
Biography of Lefifi Tladi by Paul Linck
… why we have never had a South African art; we always had township art…We couldn’t perceive ourselves beyond the township in the context of South Africa. That…
ArticleDistrict Six is Declared a ‘White Area’
… Six community were forcibly moved, mainly to the Belhar township, Rylands Estate and Hanover Park on the Cape Flats. …
ArticleSouth West Africa People’s Organisation (SWAPO): An Organisational Timeline
… Windhoek’s Old Location protest their forced removal to a township outside of Windhoek. The protest turns violent and …
ArticleThe Congress of the People, Kliptown 1955
… to establish committees in every workplace, village and township. The final stage would involve the election of …
ArticlePartial State of Emergency, July 1985
… collection By the end of 1985, the UDF still found the township revolts problematic and found itself in a difficult …
ArticleSouth African Defence Force (SADF)
… in Sharpeville ), and during the Soweto Uprising and the township revolts of the 1980s. The SADF Reserve Contact …