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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
… Ministers in 1967. The Ministers built a reputation in township clubs and at the jazz festivals launched by liquor …
BiographyMafika Pascal Gwala
Mafika Pascal Gwala was born on 5 October 1946 in the town of Verulam, a region predominantly inhabited by Zulus and Indians, in what was then Natal province …
PlaceAlbertynhof, Kimberley
… North-West of New Park. It was established when the Newton Township, was cleared of slums, and named after Johannes …
EventFree, compulsory education for Black children
… there was growing shortage of schools in rural and township areas for Black education. The government had a …
PlaceKwaMuhle Museum, 130 Ordnance Road, Durban
… collections of large black and white prints reflecting township life, and an accurate depiction of the histories of …
PlaceMaphikela House
… a residential area! The building can be found in Mangaung Township. It is known as the birth place of the African …
EventMass Democratic Movement (MDM) begins their Defiance Campaign
… and boycotts amongst its members. A year later, the Township Uprising broke out, resulting in a partial state of …
PlaceWarden, Thabo Mofutsanyana Municipality
… daily on route to pick up or drop Farm Workers from the Township, just outside Town. Warden makes a good overnight …
PlaceRed Location Museum
… The Red Location Museum is situated within the Black Township of New Brighton , of Port Elizabeth (now called …
PlaceDelmas
… Entertainment arenas and spaces are mainly centered in the township of Botleng in the form of taverns and ‘shisanyamas’. …
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1920s
… in Cape Town. Florence Mophosho is born in Alexander Township, Johannesburg. Jo Thorpe is born in Fishoek in Cape … of property in white areas. Anti-Indian…
EventNamibian artist, John Ndevasia Muafangejo, dies
… died suddenly of a heart attack at his home in Katutura Township, Windhoek. He was 44 years old. Muafangejo was born …
Armed struggle & the advancement of the student and labour movements, 1967-1976
… of instruction at their schools. They marched from Naledi Township, at the south western end of Soweto, collecting … the schoolchildren retreated and fanned…
ArchiveCHAPTER 9 - Tactics of talks, Tactics of confrontation, The Road to Vula, July 1985 - December 1986 Insurrection cannot be led from afar. by Howard Barrell
… ‘several hundred’ combatants as ‘shock forces’ in the township uprisings. 3 They were to form a kind of officer class for township militants, providing them…
PlaceAmandelboom, Town in Northern Cape
… a Sunday stroll around Amandelboom, the so-called coloured township of Williston Village in the Upper Karoo, best you …
EventRiky Rick, one of the most esteemed South African hip hop artists is born
… Makhado, stage name Riky Rick, was born in the KwaMashu township of northern Durban, KwaZulu Natal on 20 July …
EventSouth African photojournalist and member of the Bang-Bang, Club Kevin Carter, commits suicide
… an African National Congress (ANC) delegation in the township of Katlehong near Johannesburg. Carter left a …
EventFormer Minister of Defence and others are charged with murder
… massacre of thirteen people in KwaZulu-Natal's Kwamakutha Township. It was alleged that Malan engaged in a 'dirty …
EventSA national soccer team, Bafana Bafana, win the SA’s first ever FIFA sanctioned match.
… sport. For three decades, generations of brilliant township footballers played out their entire careers …
EventStompie Seipei's murderer goes to jail
… Mandela as a front for the political mobilisation of township youths to stand against apartheid. Jerry Richardson … a charge that carried a death penalty in…
PlaceSecunda
… A significant population lives in the town and the nearby township of: ' eMbalenhle ', growing with Sasol's expansions. This township was established in the…
Chapter 2 - The Soweto Uprising of June 1976: A Turning Points Event
… widen your horizons to become nation builders rather than township builders.” The absurd actions to which grand … families in Soweto would be relocated to…
Book 5: People, Places and Apartheid - Chapter 2 - The Soweto Uprising of June 1976: A Turning Points Event by Phil Bonner
… widen your horizons to become nation builders rather than township builders.” The absurd actions to which grand … families in Soweto would be relocated to…
BiographyHendrik Frensch Verwoerd
Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd was born in Amsterdam, the Netherlands on 8 September 1901. He was the second child of Anje Strik and Wilhelmus Johannes Verwoerd. His…
BiographyChief Albert John Mvumbi Luthuli
Chief Albert John Mvumbi Luthuli, Africa’s first Nobel Peace Prize Laureate in 1960, was President-General of the African National Congress (ANC) from December…
Chapter II - Partners in protest
… platform during the singing of freedom songs. In one black township, Brakpan, £400 was raised at one meeting and the men … daybreak on the morning of 27…
Chapter 2: The Nature and Character of Vigilantes in Kwazulu-Natal
… 1985, political violence had left large areas in black township settlements in KwaZulu-Natal gutted and destroyed. … of members of the KwaZulu-Natal…
PlaceFisantekraal, Cape Winelands
… Fisantekraal is a Township in the Western Cape Province of South Africa . It is … 3,712 (5,680.57 per km²) houses or shacks, in this Township. 51% are Black…
ArticleThe Natal Workers Theatre Movement Timeline
… brutally murdered, and an armed raid on the KwaZulu-Natal township of Mpophomeni the following morning results in the …
PlaceBotshabelo
… In 1979, the apartheid government of South Africa set up a township in the 'place of refuge'. Botshabelo is 45 km east …