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PlaceDiepkloof, Soweto
… their Residential Areas – in effect, creating dormitory townships. In congruence with this view, research shows that …
Address To The Nation On National Women’s Day, 9 August 1999
… in our country, particularly in the rural areas and the townships, have borne the brunt of poverty and hardship. The …
Mandela and his three wives - Evelyn, Winnie and Graca by Sapa-AFP, 6 December 2013
… suspected traitors were being burned alive in the volatile townships, Winnie declared that South African blacks would be …
ArchiveCelebrating and commemorating twenty-years of the Harare declaration by Kgolane Alfred Rudolph PHALA
… languishing in jails, SADF trigger-happy troops in townships, many political executions, many freedom fighters … of mass organizations as alternative sources…
Biography of Johnny ‘Mbizo’ Dyani by Brandon Norman
… South Africa for two reasons: first, because travel in the townships had become too dangerous and interracial groups …
PlaceMogwase, Bojanala Region
… rural in nature. Comprising 107 Villages and two formal Townships of Mogwase and Madikwe with estimated population of …
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 country singer Brenda Lee. The daughter of a…
EventTwo actors, Athol Fugard and Zakes Mokae arrive in Cape Town to stage a play on the 'Colour-bar'
On 11 February 1962, two actors, Athol Fugard, 29, from Port Elizabeth, author of the two - man play "The Blood knot" and his co-actor Zakes Mokae, 27, from…
Abdullah Ibrahim and the Politics of Jazz in South Africa
… apartheid regime and as a ‘popular metaphor for all the townships where trouble brewed’. While Ibrahim continued to …
PlaceSt. Agnes Primary School, Woodstock
… spectrum. We have learners from the surrounding areas, the townships, Nazareth House – a home for HIV/AIDS children, Ons …
EventWinnie Madikizela-Mandela's bodyguards arrested in connection with the death of Stompie Seipei
On this day in history, 4 of Winnie Mandela's (now Madikizela-Mandela) bodyguards, including Jerry Richardson and Jabu Sithole (coach of the Mandela United…
Apartheid - The early 1980s
… action, which was normally spontaneous, that broke out in townships and homelands across the country. Although the UDF …
The melody of freedom
… Mbaqanga became the pride of the urban blacks in the townships. Michael Xabu (who gave the name mbaqanga to this … to bridge the gap between white youths and…
PlaceClaremont Main Road Mosque
… engaged the congregation on the state of affairs in the townships of the Cape Town area. Under Imam Gassan, there was …
Interview with Archibald Gumede 29 July 1990
… were talking to one of the people yesterday in one of the townships, we talked to one 15 year old boy and I asked him … boy. I grew up in a rural area…
The diary of Maria Tholo - August 16 - 24 by Carol Hermer
… Board, the authority responsible for running the local townships, were laid off on the grounds that burning the … Cape Town, however, things were fairly…
Chapter 10 - Sharpeville and its aftermath
… a response - at least in the Vereeniging and Cape Town townships. The state responded with the most brutal … Town, and on 30 March 30,000 marched from the…
PlaceHindu Tamil Institute Building, Durban
… Business District. As Indian families started moving into Townships because of the Group Areas Act, attendance at the …
Statement at the 2735th meeting of the Security Council by Mfanafuthi Johnstone (Johnny) Makatini, 19 February 1987
… It has deployed more than 34,000 troops to occupy 96 townships as well as various labour compounds and schools … of the border fences and the fencing of the…
BiographyJulius Sello Malema
Early years and Political involvement Julius Sello Malema was born on 3 March 1981, in Seshego, Limpopo, and raised by a single mother who worked as a…
Statement by Oliver Tambo on the occasion of the eighth anniversary of the Triumph of the Sandinista Revolution, 01 July 1987, Managua
… entire mass democratic movement in South Africa: from our townships under racist military occupation, from children and …
PlaceAvalon Cemetery, Soweto
… On the Southern edge of one of the Country’s most famous townships, Soweto, lies the equally Historic Avalon Cemetery. … On the Southern edge of one of the…
Chapter 6 - Reform, Repression and Mass Resistance
… with treason for establishing organs of popular power in townships. In addition, anti-apartheid organisations and … of campuses which were located in various…
Checkmate for apartheid? July 199 1 - June 1992
… the country have been the ordinary residents of black townships. White communities have physically been virtually … trains cannot be separated from ongoing…
PlaceNatures Valley, Garden Route
Nature's Valley, and the surrounding Coastline, was occupied by Old Stone Age or Paleolithic, 1 Million Years ago. Paleolithic man lived in the Area in caves…
Place18 Gangster Museum, Khayelitsha
18 Gangster Museum is an initiative in the Cape Town Township of Khayelitsha, the first Living Museum in Cape Town! The creation of the Museum is to help the…
PlaceFietas Museum, Johannesburg
… fell silent as its traders were forced to move to distant townships. The small Fietas Museum is located in one of the …
ArticleCouncil of Non-European trade unions (CNETU)
… harshly with the strikers. The police were deployed in townships, at stations and at bus terminals. The strike …
Interview with Albert Luthuli by Studs Terkel, 6 May 1963, Chicago
… is one reason why the present Government is establishing townships in these reserves in an attempt to crowd people and … TERKEL: Since I have been here I…
PlaceMagnet Theatre, Cape Town
… Award in 2016 for the youth development work in Cape Town townships, Cederberg municipality and The Fulltime Training …