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What the lives of two South African music giants tell us about culture under apartheid by Gwen Ansell (The Conversation), 13 July 2017
… while black citizens were confined to the neighbouring townships of Daveyton and Wattville. In the townships, jazz bands abounded; Mekoa’s brother Fred was …
Event1 575 people are detained under a state of emergency
… up units of the Active Citizens force to isolate the townships Langa and Nyanga; and by adopting the Unlawful … days all food, water and electricity supplies…
Statement issued by the Vigilance Committee, Grahamstown
… on improving relations between the Council and Grahamstown Townships. The suggestions include the need for the Council …
EventThe Star Condemns Forced Removals In Sophiatown
… black South Africans to ghetto-like 'locations' or 'townships', away from the white areas. …
ArticleCommunity histories in Port Elizabeth
… sowing the seeds of the 'apartheid city'. Xhosa Townships and Homelands The dawn of apartheid in the 1940s … retail and business development was permitted…
ArchiveWhose Reality Mr. Botha?
… of innocent people killed; SAP and SADF polluting the townships; Fascist vigilantes allowed to attack us; People's …
ArticleElections in post Apartheid South Africa
… outs as an expression of dissent. Elections held in Black Townships following the enactment of the Black Local …
Disbanding, 1990-1991
… and did not have much success in reducing violence in townships. The biggest campaign for the year ended up …
EventMinister introduces free and compulsory education
… citizenship' requirement for Blacks leasing houses in townships; introduced a home ownership scheme; and agreed in …
EventGary Bernard, photographer of The Star, commits suicide in Johannesburg
… Front (UDF) and the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) in the townships between 1990 and 1994. Bernard was winner of Fiji …
BiographyArchbishop Emeritus Desmond Mpilo Tutu
Desmond Mpilo Tutu (known fondly as the "Arch”) was born in Klerksdorp on 7 October 1931. His father, Zachariah, who was educated at a Mission school, was the…
ArchiveThe migrant labour system
… labourers were accomodated in hostels on the outskirts of townships. …
EventSouth African black activist and poet Benjamin Moloise is hanged for allegedly killing a police officer
… ahead with it. The execution aroused so much anger in the townships that violence escalated. It spiraled out of control …
PlaceCato Manor, Durban
… population of the area was uprooted and relocated to the townships of KwaMashu, Umlazi and Chatsworth . These areas … African community had been largely…
Speech by President Nelson Mandela at a banquet in honour of President Nujoma of Namibia Cape Town, 13 May 1996.
… township. During the next few weeks' dozens of other black townships across the country were involved in the most … tribal colleges to younger brothers and…
PlaceIsipingo, Kwa-Zulu Natal
… to offload people here as well as take them back. Not many townships have that kind of arrangement, where else can you …
EventTalks between the government and ANC on negotiations proceed
… the most delicate stage of negotiations. Violence in the townships was still widespread, and growing more brutal. In …
PlaceManenberg, Cape Flats
… of Cape Town . It is separated from Nyanga and Gugulethu Townships by a railway line. It is flanked by another … there were already several segregated…
ArchiveBoycott the Can
… of Metal Box are calling upon fellow working people in townships and rural areas to boycott all products of Metal …
ArchiveA survey of race relations in South Africa: 1954-1955
… planning, Group areas and siting of industrial and African townships; Housing; Other matters affecting urban areas; …
EventSADF’s 31 Battallion is disbanded
… (Bushmen) battalion who had been deployed in South African townships and who fought in the war in Namibia. President F. …
EventTutu and Mkhatshwa join solidarity fast
… and the South African Defence Force withdrawn from the townships. The hunger strike drew sympathy from different …
BiographySolomon Kerzner
Please note: Silber, G. (1999) “Solomon Kerzner” from They Shaped our Century: The Most Influential South Africans of the Twentieth Century. Published by Human…
ArchiveNew Deal? South Africa 1983
… credits to protect the filmmakers; it was shown in the townships by comrades It has been remastered from the …
EventJazz musician Victor Ntoni dies at the Helen Joseph Hospital in Johannesburg
… As a teenager, Ntoni gradually established himself in the townships playing with saxophonist McCoy Mrubata. He was part …
EventANC Consultative Conference comes to an end
… and approved the creation of "defence units" to protect townships residents. Click here to read the report of the …
EventANC and IFP to meet over violence
… attempt to end the escalating violence in Natal and in the townships of the Reef. The leadership was concerned about …
EventState of Emergency enters 100th day
… in various parts of South Africa, especially in black townships where large contingents of South African Defence …
EventSoweto High School under siege
… boycott to protest against the presence of the military in townships and schools in the wake of the State of Emergency. …
EventNP holds federal congress
… a product with the wrong name. We can't sell it in black townships." Click here to read the opening speech by F.W. de …