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EventMinister announces compulsory education for Black children
… About 45 000 children were affected at 201 schools in 38 townships throughout the country. They were to receive free …
EventPresident F.W. de Klerk announces withdrawal of Internal Stability Units (ISU)
… of the Internal Stability Units (ISU) from the East Rand townships of Kathlehong and Thokoza. They were replaced by …
To All Fathers and Mothers, Brothers and Sisters, Friends and Workers, in All Cities, Towns and Villages in the Republic of South Africa. Flyer in English and Sesotho by the Soweto Students’ Representative Council, 15 October 1976
… week-end. Death has become a common thing to us all in the townships. There is no peace, there shall be none until we are all free. 1. Soweto and all Black…
ArchiveUnited Democratic Front/African National Congress/COSATU press statement
Press statement issued by the United Democratic Front, African National Congress and Congress of South African Trade Unions regarding the township's violence…
PlaceHammarsdale, KZN
Despite their defeats in battles with the Boers and the British during the nineteenth Century, the Zulus have remained an active force in South African…
Book 4: Industrialisation, Rural Change and Nationalism - Chapter 1 - Rural Change and the Future of South Africa by Rachidi R. Molapo
… living in the municipal locations and the African freehold townships on a more settled basis. Source: Philip Bonner. …
BiographyIsaac Williams Wauchope
… organization; which aimed at reducing tensions in townships in PE [56] ● Head of the Eastern Grand Temple …
ArticlePort Elizabeth the Segregated city
… retail and business development was permitted within the townships (as they began to be called), forcing residents to …
EventVaal Uprising Begins as Sharpeville Residents Resist Rent Increases
… residents of Sharpeville and surrounding Vaal Triangle townships rose up against a R5.90 rent increase imposed by … established by the Apartheid government…
EventTrojan Horse Massacre Memorial unveiled
… desperation to quell social unrest and protests in the townships of the Western Cape. In Athlone, the area bordered …
ArticleBlack Consciousness and 16 June – The birth of a new generation
The Black Consciousness philosophy gained most of its support in the secondary schools and universities. The role played by the Black Consciousness Movement …
ArticleBoeremag Treason Trial Timeline
… a formula for poison to put into water reservoirs in black townships had been discussed at a Boeremag meeting, a police …
Biography of Lefifi Tladi by Paul Linck
… because it was hard for students to see beyond their townships for inspiration [ix] . On that topic, he says …
ArchiveCHAPTER FOUR: The Revival Of Alliance Politics, 1982-1984 by Kumi Naidoo
This chapter comes from the book
PlaceMeadowlands or Ndofaya, in Soweto
… removed from Areas like: Sophiatown and the Western Native Townships. The forced removals began on February 10, 1955, … a Diepmeadows Town Council was formed…
ArticlePoqo in the Western Cape and Transkei in the early 1960s
… among black people in Mbekweni township of Paarl and other townships around Cape Town. Towards the end of 1962 Poqo …
Document 62 - Minutes of the meeting of the Workers’ Party of South Africa. Johannesburg Branch, held at 90 President Street, Johannesburg, 3 April 1936 at 8.20 p.m.
… during last week had interfered with activities in the townships. Com Phashe reported a similar postponement of …
PlaceDelmas
… 16.2% and English 7.2%. Bothibelong is one of the oldest townships in Delmas and it is located 3 km north of Delmas. …
PlaceAlberton, Germiston
… Era inhabitants were removed to surrounding black townships, and a white suburb was established around the dam …
Stay-away!
… around this issue too. We had big meetings in the townships, some of them outside, and we went from house to …
PlaceEmpangeni
… hot, sticky, languid days. It is only 15 km away are the townships of: Esikhawini, Vulindlela, Felixton, Nseleni and … hot, sticky, languid days. It is only…
ArticlePaper abstracts and biographies of speakers
… following the Youth uprising in 1976 in Soweto and other townships. In doing so it also wants to investigate possible … of the liberation movement. In Soweto…
PlaceWinnie Mandela Drive, Johannesburg
… the new signage was installed early in that year. 'S.A. Townships' (the company that developed Bryanston), realised … the Bryanston highway or 'William Nicol…
Art lost in a time of struggle by Mary Corrigall
… termed "black art". He clearly had an impact on art in the townships and encouraged artists to produce work that wasn't …
ArticleStaffrider magazine (1978-1993)
… as writers across the country, particularly in the townships, formed writing groups. These groups were …
The diary of Maria Tholo - Augusts 25 - September 3 by Carol Hermer
… Cape Town is in chaos. On Wednesday the students from the townships went to the centre of town to hold a protest march. … One is quite scared to open one's…
SAHO Milestones
… Cape Flats Details - Life and Popular Art in Cape Town’s Townships by Chris Ledochowski First published by SAHO & … documenting life in the Cape Flat’s…
BiographyTim Bruwer
Odd one out Over the years many people have asked me how it came about that I, amongst all the Afrikaners that I grew up with or knew, as a young man in the…
Remembering Nadine Gordimer (The Conversation), 15 July 2014
… to; the energies, passions and frustrations of the black townships; the personal experience of the political world; … crimes against the state, and attending…
EventJoe Slovo dies
… solution was instead to provide utilities to the townships and until more and better government housing could …