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PlaceRichmond
… see farmers talking to one another in the street, normal Township activity and the odd dribble of tourists at the …
Book 4: Industrialisation, Rural Change and Nationalism - Chapter 1 - Rural Change and the Future of South Africa by Rachidi R. Molapo
… in hostels and compounds and did not integrate into the township’s social and political life. They were often … societies to look after their own interests…
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…
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 …
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 …
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…
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…
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 …
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…
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…
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…
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 …
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…
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…
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…
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 …
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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 …
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…
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…
EventBrenda Fassie, South African singer and diva, dies in her sleep at Sunninghill Hospital
… Brenda Nokuzola Fassie was born in 1964 in Langa, a township near Cape Town. She was named after the American …