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BiographyNokukhanya Luthuli
… [15] The restrictions placed on married women teachers forced Nokukhanya to quit teaching entirely soon after her … to maintain the farm labour independently…
BiographyHelen Newton Thompson
… functional. They protested silently by witnessing the forced removals, attending court cases and giving legal advice. They …
BiographyJohn Jacques William Aitchison
… the Liberal Party as well as being active in exposing the forced removal of black people from freehold land they owned … for about a year. His involvement…
ArticleCape Town the Segregated city
… colonial farmers and smallpox. As a consequence they were forced to move further inland away from Dutch control. Thus, … from entering the Cape Colony except…
BiographyMafika Pascal Gwala
… the mid-1970s, many people in the urban areas had suffered forced removals. Families had been split as a result of government … pretensions, but instead…
Bishop Selby Taylor warns against the forced removal of Blacks from the Lady Selborne area.
… Bishop Selby Taylor warns against the forced removal of Blacks from the Lady Selborne area. …
The Heritage Museum at Villa Zain by Joline Young
… of photographs of Simon’s Town before the Apartheid Forced Removals, which show mothers chatting over stoep walls, … ‘knows’ that she is back – and that he…
BiographyMaggie Resha
… was one of the key organisers of the campaigns against the forced removal of the Sophiatown community. She also devoted …
BiographyMagdaline ‘Maggie’ Resha
… was one of the key organisers of the campaigns against the forced removal of the Sophiatown community. She also devoted …
BiographyTheophilus Tshangela
Theophilus Tshangela was banished from Kwamaleida in the Amadiba Location, Bizana District [Eastern province, now Eastern Cape] to the Frenchdale Native Trust…
ArticleWestern Cape Civic Association (WCCA)
… the UDF. In 1986 the WCCA organised a campaign against forced removals in the townships and informal settlements in Cape … the government’s attempt to force…
BiographyRichard Owen Dudley
… Congress (ANC). In 1998, due to an illness, Dudley was forced to retire from politics soon after he was elected …
BiographyBertha Solomon
Bertha Solomon was born on 1 January 1892 in Minsk, Russia. At four years, she and her older sister were taken by their mother, Sonia Schwartz, to join their…
BiographyOupa Ronald Madondo
… Johannesburg, Transvaal (now Gauteng). With the advent of forced removals from Sophiatown, his family was relocated to Dube, …
Legislation, Dissent, and Violence in Sophiatown under Apartheid
… Native Resettlement Act. This apartheid law authorised the forced removal of Africans from “any area in the magisterial … Africans demonstrated immense…
BiographyAlbertina Nontsikelelo Sisulu
… of her school in standard five. However, Albertina was forced to leave school on several occasions to take care of … of available bed space, seriously…
Pretoria the Segregated city
… in Pretoria, but in other townships around the country. Forced Removals Lady Selbourne In 1905, Lady Selbourne was … by the Pretoria Council. This paved the…
EventWalter Sisulu tries to recruit 5 000 volunteers during ANC meeting to protest forced removal of “Black Spots”
… to recruit 5 000 volunteers during ANC meeting to protest forced removal of “Black Spots” …
BiographyNarriman Gadija Bazier Samuels
… Growing up during this period, she witnessed firsthand the forced removals and systematic marginalization of coloured … struggle. The area's transformation…
ArticleA history of Soweto
… a group referred to earlier, was severely affected by this forced removal. Washing clothes constituted an alternative … was increasing probably due to the…
BiographyCloete Breytenbach
… ground-breaking first heart transplant for Life in 1967, forced removals in District Six , and conflict coverage from across …
BiographyGladys Thomas
Gladys Thomas born was in 1935 in Salt River, Cape Town. She was adopted by a family in Lakeside, Cape Town in Western Cape as she was an orphan. She grew up…
The Black community at Mogopa is displaced in a "forced removal" action. Some 300 homes and a cluster of community bu
… The Black community at Mogopa is displaced in a "forced removal" action. Some 300 homes and a cluster of …
BiographyKewpie
… LGBTQI+ community was yet to be established. Preceding the forced removals of 1968, Kewpie’s family left District Six for …
BiographyAdam Small
… and Black people were facing under the regime, such as the forced removal and demolition of District Six and the … which paid homage to those that were…
ArticleHow the Group Areas Act shaped spaces, memories and identities in Cape Town
… non-compliance were severe. [iii] The impact that these forced removals had on identity was profound and manifested itself … Africans were declared obsolete…
ArticleSilverton and Soekmekaar trial
… ANC policy. In trying to secure evidence, the police forced Tau to pose for a photograph while pointing at the … support for a local community campaign that…
ArticleProgressive Federal Party (PFP)
… of colour, racially separate amenities, Group Areas and forced removals. She demanded trade union rights for black people …
A growing urban African population
… The number of whites in the area remained negligible. When removals began five years later, the number of African … was not imperceptible. It is estimated…
BiographyGraça Simbine Machel
… surveillance from the Portuguese secret police, she was forced to abandon her education and flee to Switzerland to …