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ArticleThe 1st Johannesburg Biennale
… the term ‘community’ in relegating the “Black arts” to the townships, which then functions to maintain a hierarchy of …
ArticleAnti-pass campaigns, 1910s
… Orange Free State declared that women living in the urban townships would be required to buy new entry permits each …
ArticleRole of Black people in the South African War
… created camps for Blacks from the start of the war. Entire townships and even mission stations were transferred into …
My Spirit Is Not Banned - PART 3 by Frances Baard and Barbie Schreiner
… that time, especially meetings that were being held in the townships. Then, in 1960, a terrible thing happened. On the …
EventWinnie Mandela receives a 6 months' sentence
Winnie Mandela (now Winnie Madikizela-Mandela), restricted to a Black township at Brandfort, Orange Free State, was sentenced to six months' imprisonment …
PlacePaarden Eiland
Construction of the Marine Drive was started by the Cape Town Municipality, in 1916. This was very different to the Marine Drive of today……….flooding by the…
ArticleGrade 8 - Term 2: The Mineral Revolution in South Africa
… government constructed the massive agglomeration of townships that became known as Soweto (South Western Townships). New freeways encouraged massive suburban…
ArticleThe 1956 Women’s March in Pretoria
… The only women who could live legally in the townships were the wives and unmarried daughters of the … Orange Free State declared that women living in the…
A new total strategy emerges July 1990 -June 1991
From: A Crime Against Humanity - Analysing the Repression of the Apartheid State edited by Max Coleman The unbanning of the liberation movements on 2 February…
Statement by Oliver Tambo on the National Executive Committee of the African National Congress on the 25th Anniversary of the formation of Umkhonto We Sizwe, 16 December 1986
… with the combat groups that are springing up all over the townships have made grenade attacks an everyday event. Even … At last enemy soldiers and police…
"Umkhonto we Sizwe - Born of the People": Statement of the National Executive Comittee of the ANC on the 25th Anniversary of the Formation of Umkhonto we Sizwe by O. R. Tambo, 16 December 1986
… with the combat groups that are springing up all over the townships have made grenade attacks an everyday event. Even … At last enemy soldiers and police…
PlaceLadysmith
… Black Mambazo Museum . Ezakheni was one of the large townships of KwaZulu outside of the metropolitan area of …
O. R. Tambo Interview with Mayibuye on the Current Situation in South Africa and Southern Africa in General 1984
… the black people. The struggles are being waged now in the townships. But they are not ending in the townships. Today they are onlookers, tomorrow, they will…
Interview with Oliver Tambo by Mayibuye on the current situation in South Africa and Southern Africa in general, 01 March 1984
… the black people. The struggles are being waged now in the townships. But they are not ending in the townships. Today they are onlookers, tomorrow, they will…
BiographyPeter Hlaole Molotsi
Peter Hlaole Molotsi was born in Steinsrust, a municipal location, in the district of Kroonstad, (then Orange Free State) on July 18, 1929. His father was a…
ArticleYusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1960 - 1969
… Africanist Congress youth take control of the Cape Town townships of Langa and Nyanga, setting up roadblocks. The state calls in the military. The townships…
The diary of Maria Tholo - December 2 - 15 by Carol Hermer
… who would clear away the buckets. Another thing, when the townships were built people formed their own vigilante groups … you are. Commentary The massive…
PlaceAddington Hospital, Durban
The first functional Hospital in Durban: "The Bayside Hospital", was situated on the Victoria Embankment at the site now occupied by the Supreme Court. In 1879…
Chapter 2 - Industrialisation and the Revitalisation of Black Politics in the 1940s
… urban African population was living outside of official townships in a variety of illegal and informal settlements. … from families, usually sub-tenants in…
Indian Community in Lenasia
… the unrest of June 1976, and continuous unrest in many townships and schools across the country, the State decided …
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
… effects. As state security forces lost control over some townships in 1985, and for as long as the state’s sources of … contain and re-establish government…
The Rise of Women’s Trade Unionism in South Africa by Peter LaNasa
… African and Coloured women were usually forced to live in townships, which required a very tiring and expensive commute … in the 1950s and relocated to…
ArticleIndian South Africans timeline 1900-1909
… sexual relations between Whites and Coloured persons. The Townships Amendment Act, Act No. 34 of 1908 (Transvaal) proclaims that Coloured persons are to live…
PlaceDundee
… to Frederick Still, who developed the township. Both townships were proclaimed in 1882. Two years later, in 1884 … “Dundee Extension”. Thus, until 1896, when…
ArticleInkatha Freedom Party (IFP)
… around Inkatha strongholds, in Natal and in Gauteng townships. It is alleged by the TRC that Buthelezi worked …
Declaration on Apartheid and its Destructive Consequences in Southern Africa
… of South Africa, the removal of all troops from the townships, the repeal of the remaining legislation designed …
PlaceJunction Avenue Theatre
… that spoke to various social issues, and toured both Black townships as well as White suburbs. The Junction Avenue …
EventNyanga school Principal's office burnt
On 24 June 1976 the Principal's office in Hlengisi Primary, Nyanga, outside Cape Town is burnt down. The broader context of this is that on 16 June 1976 school…
ArchiveChapter 11 - SACTU in the Congress Alliance
… most intensive of the decade: nightly police raids in the townships, 10,000 arrests without charges, a twelve-day … not be confined to the factories, but…
ArchiveANC 2019 Election Manifesto
… and investment in local infrastructure, especially in townships and rural areas, - developing skills in capital … legislation. We will set up incubation…