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SAHO Commemorates 40 Years since Soweto Uprising: Intergenerational Dialogue by Roanne Moodley
… The person this protest is for is at their home in a township or rural village, the odds stacked against their …
ArchiveThe defiance campaign
… was a one-day stay-away in support of the campaign. In the township nearly all the people stayed away from work. …
Belonging - A History of Indian South Africans
Time: 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm Across oceans and centuries, this sweeping narrative shuttles between the corridors of the Colonial Office in London, the contested…
PlaceOttosdal and Letsopa
… all links provided in further reading!) Letsopa is a small Township, situated just slightly, to the West of Ottosdal. …
PlaceNelson Mandela Bay Municipality, Eastern Cape
… a selection of exciting: Social, Historical or Traditional Township, tours on offer. Stand next to the figure of Madiba …
Archive2015 - President Zuma, Response to the State of the Nation Address, 19 February 2015
… the support provided to small enterprises especially township and rural enterprises which will promote economic … which are home to 50 percent of the…
Address of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, at the Commemoration of the 50th Anniversary of 1956 Women’s March: Union Buildings, Tshwane, 9 August 2006
… for our struggle for liberation. Yesterday, Alexandra Township in Johannesburg commemorated the 50th Anniversary of … lunch and entertainment for the senior…
PlaceSedibeng District Municipality
The Sedibeng District Municipality is a Category C municipality situated on the Southern tip of the Gauteng Province and strategically located on the border of…
History of Muslims in South Africa: 1950 - 1959 by Ebrahim Mahomed Mahida
… permission to build the first rnasjid in the Black township of Soweto, near Johannesburg. This was done with die … established an Islamic Centre with…
ArticleThe History of LGBT legislation
… Campaign (TAC) and GLOW to implement programs such as, the Township AIDS Project (TAP) and the Gay Men's Health Forum, …
ArticleNatal Workers’ Theatre in the 1980s
… the priest, the shebeen queen, etc, in order to convey township life. These theatre productions were popular but the … varied in that they were a mix of…
Interview with Lulu Dube by Sbongiseni Dladla, Ohlange, JL Dube House, 21 March 2011
… left by all the people that have walked this beautiful township of ours. We are the Zebras, We Dubes believe in …
PlaceHeritage Route of King Shaka
… found on the outskirts of Stanger, beyond the Shakaville Township. Observation Rock- According to legend Shaka used to …
Abdullah Ibrahim and the Politics of Jazz in South Africa
… in the late 1950s with marabi, Xhosa ragtime, and hymn township rhythms to create Mannenberg in 1974, a record which …
PlaceKokstad
… Angel Network , designed a school for Kokstad's Shayamoya Township. Kokstad lies surrounded by mountains in a … Angel Network, designed a school for Kokstad…
BiographyDr Yusuf Mohamed Dadoo
… if it was supported by 75% of the White vote in the township. The controversial amendment prompted a protest … and Coloureds in South Africa's history. In…
Covert operations
… country and with their fingers on the pulse of every area, township and village. In this way a constant stream of … or subjected to campaigns of intimidation…
PlaceClaremont Main Road Mosque
… other patrons were arrested for defying a ban to enter the township of Gugulethu in their capacity as leaders of the …
ArticleAfrican National Congress Youth League (ANCYL)
… left injured and others arrested. In Cape Town’s Langa township, police baton charged and fired tear gas at …
ArticleThe Women of Marikana
… mine. Credit: Amnesty International Image source Ikaneng township, Marikana in the North West province Image source …
ArticleAnti-Pass Campaign
… of about 2,000 assembled to hear Sobukwe speak at Langa township on February 14. The PAC was guiding Africans toward …
Article1960-1966: The genesis of the armed struggle
… fateful day, Black people congregated in Sharpeville, a township near Vereeniging, to demonstrate against the …
Chapter 4: Public Response to Vigilantism and Political Violence in Kwazulu-Natal
… saw a very significant decline in media coverage of the township struggles. The information conveyed was censored on … were rarely, if ever shown and only…
Formation and launch of the UDF
UDF launch at Mitchell's Plain in Cape Town. Source: http://www.nelsonmandela.org In the late 1970s moves to form united front against apartheid were set in…
My Spirit Is Not Banned - PART 1 by Frances Baard and Barbie Schreiner
… My parents' house was in Beaconsfield, in Greenpoint township just outside Kimberley. Beaconsfield is not a very … to get some time off, I would go and visit…
Dance For All (DFA)
Established in 1991, Dance For All (DFA) is a non-profit dance organisation, originally known as Ballet for All. DFA was an education development programme…
Land mine kills 6 in South Africa by Sheila Rule (New York Times), 16 December 1985
… while filming a peaceful funeral procession in the black township of Mamelodi, near Pretoria, underwent surgery …
PlaceDimbaza, Eastern Cape
… and ceilings, were subsequently built and the typical township matchbox houses followed suit. It took a year before …
ArchiveRadio Freedom: A History of South African Underground Radio by Chris A. Smith
… opened fire on a crowd of nonviolent protestors in a township south of Johannesburg, killing 69. The Sharpeville …
ArticleThe Group Areas Act of 1950
… Noordgesig, Newclare, Riverlea, and Western Township are administrated by Johannesburg City Council while …