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Submissions by the McGill University students 2014
… Honor enjoys travelling, music, and the outdoors. Project: Sophiatown Timeline Legislation, Dissent, and Violence in Sophiatown under Apartheid Anna…
Biography of Can Themba by Aisha Ahmed
… due to the actions of the National Party. Leaving Sophiatown In addition to the Pass Laws, Themba, along with … the unbelievably large population. One of…
BiographyMzwakhe Mbuli
… the “People’s Poet,” was born into a poor Zulu family in Sophiatown on 1 August 1959. His parents were Roselinah …
BiographyAhmed Timol
… . Father Huddleston was an Anglican priest based in Sophiatown, Johannesburg. These meetings would go on late …
Artist groups and educational facilities (1960-1980)
… by John Koenakeefe Mohl in 1944. It was situated in Sophiatown, Johannesburg during the Polly Street Era. Elza … the White Studio, behind his home in…
ArticleThe development of Music in South Africa timeline 1600-2004
… 1950s a new black urban music culture started to emerge in Sophiatown. Marabi met with traditional dance styles such as … impulse to the music. The lawless…
ArticleDrum Magazine
… employed as the music reviewer. Can Themba, a teacher in Sophiatown, won a Drum writing competition and was offered a … and political issues during the 1950s…
ArchiveThe Life of Trevor Huddleston, Makhalipile (the Dauntless One) by Victoria Vandiver, 3 May 2018
… Johannesburg and was put in charge of the township of Sophiatown. The Community of the Resurrection had maintained a presence in Sophiatown for forty years…
PlaceMeadowlands or Ndofaya, in Soweto
… Black residents who were forcibly removed from Areas like: Sophiatown and the Western Native Townships. The forced … to both Meadowlands and Diepkloof. The…
EventDemonstrators strip to deter bulldozers
… to relocate - in the 1950s an event of the same nature saw Sophiatown residents relocating to Meadowlands in Soweto. Residents of Sophiatown were forcibly…
BiographyAlbertina Nontsikelelo Sisulu
… (led by Maggie Resha ) converged on Freedom Square in Sophiatown to protest against ongoing removals in Sophiatown. Women in Alexandra were also protesting…
ArticlePass Laws and Sharpeville Massacre
… Town's Langa and, until five years earlier, Johannesburg's Sophiatown were potentially hotbeds of dissent. Yet it was … Top Location, was modelled along the…
ArticleGrade 9 - Term 3: Turning points in South African History, 1960, 1976 and 1990
… destroyed vibrant, racially mixed neighbourhoods, such as Sophiatown in Johannesburg and District Six in Cape Town. In … provided military assistance. Case…
PlaceJunction Avenue Theatre
… The songs from the plays Randlords and Rotgut, Marabi and Sophiatown, composed and sung / performed by members of … Security (1979), Ilanga lizophumela…
BiographyKgalema Petrus Motlanthe
… military training. In 1975, he married Mapula Mokate, from Sophiatown. Mokate was a radiographer at Baragwanath …
ArticlePopular struggles in the early years of Apartheid, 1948-1960
… including Newclare, Western Native Township and Sophiatown staged a boycott of trams following the … in clashes between police and crowds in Alexandra,…
Biography of Mtutuzeli Dudu Pukwana by Nick Mencia
… been previously directed his way. During the late 1940’s, Sophiatown was the Mecca of South African jazz, an escape … mandated destruction of Johannesburg’s…
EventSouth African artist, Gerard Sekoto, dies
… and his art career only began in earnest when he moved to Sophiatown, Johannesburg in 1939. Life in Sophiatown provided him with his subject matter, and he ……
EventThe Natives Resettlement Act, Act No 19 of 1954 is passed
… . Subsequently, less than a year after the Act was passed Sophiatown residents were forcefully removed to Meadowlands … In January 1955 the government…
EventSouth African artist Gerard Sekoto is born
… Hare. This encouraged Sekoto to quit teaching and move to Sophiatown, where in 1939 he began painting full-time. During … from the University of the…
EventMemorandum on housing conditions in Fietas, Johannesburg
… community not unlike District Six in Cape Town and Sophiatown in Johannesburg's Western Areas. Like District Six and Sophiatown, it was destroyed by the…
ArchiveThe exilic geographies of the South by Benjamin N. Lawrance and Vusumuzi R. Kumalo
… Antony Sampson, William “Bloke” Modisane left his beloved Sophiatown backyard for the UK in 1959 after constant … In the ghetto-like slum at the center of…
Women’s Resistance Against the Pass Laws
… as policemen and horses were injured in the battle. In Sophiatown, during the Women's Anti-Pass Campaign of the late … a cousin of Mrs Mqhweto. It was not…
EventGifted writer and actor William Modisane is born
… writer and actor William (Bloke) Modisane was born in Sophiatown, Johannesburg. Modisane left South Africa in 1959 … many ways similar to Can Themba's short…
ArticleDr Alfred Bitini Xuma Timeline 1893-1998
… back in South Africa on the RMS Saxon. 1928 Xuma moves to Sophiatown and opens a surgery in the city centre, in a … After the government publishes its…
ArticleMiriam Makeba: Activist on Two Fronts by Connor Kirkpatrick
… This album was released in 1983 and contained the song ‘Sophiatown is Gone’. Sophiatown was the most vibrant mixed community in all of … pain behind the…
EventJohn Koenakeefe Mohl , SA artist and founder member of Artists Under the Sun, dies in Soweto
… Mohl returned to South Africa and opened an art school in Sophiatown. Apartheid laws forced Mohl to close the school, … he opened an art gallery under a…
ArticleBiography of Mongane Wally Serote by Matthew Williams
… African National Congress, Black Consciousness Movement, Sophiatown, Soweto, 1967 Terrorism Act, exile, Nat Nakasa, … before Apartheid began, Mongane Wally…
ArchiveNatives Resettlement Board: Annual Report 1958/59
… reporting on the forced removals of black people from Sophiatown, Martindale, Alexandra and being resettled in …
EventSA artist Rexon Mathebula is born
… red paint, all randomly found, for 75c each, was born in Sophiatown, Johannesburg . …