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PlaceSouth End Museum, Port Elizabeth
… to Kabega Park, Indians to Malabar and Black People to Townships such as New Brighton. The effect on the People who …
Democracy - The only solution by Nelson Mandela, President of the ANC 1 July 1992
… torn to shreds by the violence sweeping through the black townships. The NP Government, it's surrogates, the state …
20. Johannesburg Parsees claim special status
… submit, that they were registered owners of stands in townships and elsewhere.... That your memorialists were …
History lesson: When Vorster stuck the knife in Ian Smith's back by Jamie Miller (Rand Daily Mail), 17 September 2016
… the breathing space needed to re-establish control in the townships. By September 1976, Henry Kissinger had laid the … waves of civil disorder sweeping…
Eyewitness accounts of the Sharpeville massacre 1960
The day of the Massacre, mourning the dead and getting over the shock of the event © Baileys African History Archive (BAHA) Tom Petrus, author of 'My Life…
The Pioneers
… other hand people living in the slum yards. Ghettoes and townships of the urban areas were exposed to a cosmopolitan … 35. 3. L. Callinicos, Working life…
Belonging - A History of Indian South Africans
… communities from their roots, yet out of this turmoil, new townships nurture a generation of educated children and …
PlaceOttosdal and Letsopa
The Town of Ottosdal, was established as a Dutch Reformed Church on the Farm 'Korannafontein'. This occurred in 1913 and was named after its owner, GP Otto…
Gertrude Fester Biography by Nehal Patel
… Africans were not allowed to live in the cities. These townships and reserves, built on dirt roads, lacked basic …
PlaceNelson Mandela Bay Municipality, Eastern Cape
… cleanliness and environmental standards!) The metro "Townships" that came into being because of the Apartheid Laws …
Interview with Harry Gwala conducted by Tony Karonat, January 1989, Dambuza Pietermaritzburg
… and white comrades were having a problem in getting to the townships in Johannesburg, in the Transvaal. It was not like … You know they were very strict on…
ArticleBlack Consciousness: Cultural Expression and Representation
Though first publicized as a respected medium for the liberation struggle in 1967, poetry and literary expression had been popularized throughout the 1950s and…
BiographyFrank Alexander Landman
Raised in the close knit community of Dowerville, Port Elizabeth (P.E.), Frank was the youngest of three sons and the third of the six surviving children of a…
BiographyMzwakhe Mbuli
Mzwakhe Mbuli, the “People’s Poet,” was born into a poor Zulu family in Sophiatown on 1 August 1959. His parents were Roselinah Msuthukazi Mbuli, a Xhosa…
PlaceSedibeng District Municipality
… Midvaal Local Municipalities, and includes the Historic townships of Evaton, Sebokeng, Boipatong, Bophelong, … Midvaal Local Municipalities, and includes the…
Address to the 21st Session of the Assembly of Heads of State and Government of the OAU by O.R. Tambo, Addis Ababa, 19 July 1985
… anywhere else. Mass struggles have swept through the black townships like prairie fire and have reached a level that has … puppet bodies established by…
ArticleNatal Workers’ Theatre in the 1980s
… communities were relocated from the inner city to the new townships of KwaMashu and Umlazi, and residents suffered … in our spare time? We walk the streets…
The diary of Maria Tholo - September 20 - October 17 by Carol Hermer
… that were to continue indefinitely. In the 'coloured' townships the violence had spent itself and calm gradually … world thinks,' he said, in that most of…
ArchiveMandela, From a Freedom Fighter to an Icon of Reconciliation
… Government was unable to suppress the revolt in the black townships as the black people had lost fear of prison and …
Address by President Nelson Mandela at the Golden Doves of Peace Awards ceremony 7 June 1994
… cloak of self-defence units, and the gang warfare in some townships which has turned criminals into warlords and a law …
Biography of Can Themba by Aisha Ahmed
… This act relocated all non-White Africans to segregated townships further away from city centres. Prior to this, most …
ArticleSouth African Film
… class and urban, while rural people, and people living in townships or informal settlements rarely find the opportunity …
PlaceKokstad
The little town of Kokstad sits on the boundary between KwaZulu Natal and the Eastern Cape, nestled in the heart of Griqualand East. Kokstad lies in the shadow…
The diary of Maria Tholo - October 18 - November 1 by Carol Hermer
… urging a five-day strike were distributed in the Cape townships but others followed saying that it had been … 2 reported a feeling of general frustration in…
ArticleHistory of Women’s Struggle in South Africa
… Orange Free State declared that women living in the urban townships would be required to buy new entry permits each … Control over Africans within the…
Covert operations
… as generalised repression. We saw the mass occupation of townships, villages and schools by joint 'security forces'. … democratic organisations, and regain…
Country Divided in Black and White by Holland Cotter, 1 July 2010
… as they head for trains back to Soweto (South Western Townships) and other containerlike ghettos. Meanwhile the …
ArticleThe turbulent 1950s - Women as defiant activists
… The only women who could live legally in the townships were the wives and unmarried daughters of the …
Biography of Miriam Makeba by Narcy Negrete
… Your Mama Not To Worry.” Soweto, which means South Western Townships, was the scene of a massacre in 1976. Soweto Blues …
ArchiveRadio Freedom: A History of South African Underground Radio by Chris A. Smith
… gathered in matchbox homes in Johannesburg’s industrial townships and community centers in the Cape Flats and … them throughout the country. By the mid-1980s…