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PlaceInanda, Phoenix
… Inanda (isiZulu: Pleasant Place) is a township in Eastern KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa that is …
PlaceRichmond
… see farmers talking to one another in the street, normal Township activity and the odd dribble of tourists at the …
PlaceMatroosfontein
… a full spectrum of the South Africans. Bordering on: the Township of Gugulethu, Bonteheuwel, Elsie’s River, Goodwood, …
PlaceBonteheuwel
… Bonteheuwel is a coloured Township situated North of Cape Town. It was created in the … 11% of the people. This Area is Bonteheuwel is a coloured Township…
ArchiveApartheid's Sporting Afterlife by Clark Easley
… inequality. Bonteheuwel, a working-class Cape Town township, offers a revealing case study. Read the original on … no clearer than in the working-class…
My Spirit Is Not Banned - PART 3 by Frances Baard and Barbie Schreiner
… and that I am not allowed into any coloured area or any township other than New Brighton, that I am not allowed to …
EventThe father of South African Jazz Hugh Masekela dies
… tumour was discovered. Masekela was born in KwaGuqa Township in Witbank, Mpumalanga Province. He started to sing …
PlaceBloemhof, North West
… named after the Town itself. Currently Bloemhof has a Township called Boitume, which means 'Happiness'. There a …
ArticleBiography of Mongane Wally Serote by Matthew Williams
… in Sophiatown. Before 1955, Sophiatown was a multiracial township in Johannesburg where writers, musicians, and … and he would eventually end up living in…
Dumile Feni biography by Sophia Reuss
… after Polly Street Art Centre. Polly Street Art features township scenes and social housing. Dumile spent much time … distinct from overtly political poster…
The Convention for a Democratic South Africa (CODESA): CODESA 2
… amount of its supporters had been removed from their township homes or hostel rooms and thereby forced to find … with the hostel residents in attacks on the…
ArticleRobert Mangaliso Sobukwe Timeline 1924 - 1978
… participation in the Native Representative Council and the township Advisory Boards. Sobukwe reluctantly joins the ANCYL …
ArticleSharpeville Massacre, 21 March 1960
… Three people were killed and 26 others were injured. Langa Township was gripped by tension and in the turmoil that …
The diary of Maria Tholo - September 20 - October 17 by Carol Hermer
… there are going to be buses or food supplies in the township, or whatever. I often think they secretly hope the … let the children out in batches. News…
PlaceGqeberha was Port Elizabeth, Nelson Mandela Bay
… was the original name for the Baakens River and Walmer Township in the area. The name change was part of a broader … was the original name for the Baakens…
Biography of Can Themba by Aisha Ahmed
… author and journalist, writes that ‘he Themba wallowed in township life: the shebeens, the shebeen queens, the … friend remarks that Themba would only speak…
Interview with Archibald Gumede 22 July 1992
… actions but he retained his position as a leader of that township where he was having an income, R20-00 per head, then … By? AG Assassinated by…
Address to the Nation on Radio Freedom by O. R. Tambo, 22 July 1985
… regime to deploy its armed forces in every village and township in our country. Let us act together to make all of …
Address by Oliver Tambo to the Nation on Radio Freedom, 22 July 1985
… regime to deploy its armed forces in every village and township in our country. Let us act together to make all of …
PlacePrimville, Soweto- Johannesburg
… in the heart of Kliptown , Soweto, is South Africa’s first township entertainment explosion Centre, the very first of … of 7,000 families living under slum…
The diary of Maria Tholo - September 4 - 19 by Carol Hermer
… general impression of events, feelings and opinions in the township. Accordingly, only the events from September 15 are … lose a thing. The minute it happens…
ArchiveDavid Koloane fought for the right to define himself – and his art by Ruth Simbao, 24 July 2019
… as well as in his own writing: We were expected to do township work, black work, rather than work done by any … settlements has been indiscriminately…
EventWinnie Madikizela Mandela, a stalwart in the fight against apartheid, passes away
… by her involvement in research done in the Alexandra township, where she discovered that there were 10 deaths for …
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1950s
… rights for all is held. Police opens fire in the Alexandra Township and other areas on the Reef, killing 18 and wounding … officiates at a meeting held in…
PlaceA History of Ottosdal and Letsopa
… cattle farms around the 1880s. The Beginnings of Town and Township From the 1880s Korannafontein had a few shops and by … other black people in 1907. They…
Images That Preserve History, and Make It : ‘Rise and Fall of Apartheid’ at Center of Photography by Holland Cotter (The New York Times), 20 September 2012
… police killed 69 unarmed black protesters in the township of Sharpeville, 30 miles south of Johannesburg. … spreading that gesture wide. In 1976, in Soweto,…
Chapter 9 - People’s Education and People’s Power: Mobilisation and Collective Action
… students were housed at a separate residence in an African township. Mobilisation was spearheaded by an ad-hoc committee … Concomitantly, SANSCO activists…
ArchivePostscript Ante by Howard Barrell
… externally trained ANC cadres giving military training to township militants. The way in which one breakthrough now led …
PlaceSprings
… location of structures and also the hygiene in the growing township. In 1904 the Grootvlei Proprietary Mines were …
PlaceMogwase, Bojanala Region
Mogwase lies near the Pilanesberg National Park. It falls under the Bojanala Platinum District Municipality juristriction and the seat of Bojanala Platinum, is…