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PlaceAtlantis
… vir ‘n dak, dis al hoop vir my. Ek wil weet hoekom hul ‘n township so ver van die Kaap gebou het.” Population of …
ArticleuMkhonto weSizwe (MK) Timeline 1961-1990
… Africa. 3 March, A large cache of arms is discovered in a township near Springs, East of Johannesburg. Together with … bomb explosion in an administrative…
ArticleSophiatown Timeline
Pre-1860s South Africa is still a predominantly agrarian 1860s-1880s This period marks a turning point in South African history when the discovery of…
O. R. Tambo Interview with Mayibuye on the Current Situation in South Africa and Southern Africa in General 1984
… this heightened activity has been about protest against township councils as well as against gutter education. Now … and all these big powers, who say they…
Interview with Oliver Tambo by Mayibuye on the current situation in South Africa and Southern Africa in general, 01 March 1984
… this heightened activity has been about protest against township councils as well as against gutter education. Now … and all these big powers, who say they…
ArticleColonial History of Port Elizabeth
… the India sea route, from possible French attack. The township of Port Elizabeth was laid out in 1815, but was not …
The genesis of the armed struggle, 1960-1966
… fateful day, Black people congregated in Sharpeville, a township near Vereeniging, to demonstrate against the …
Gertrude Fester Biography by Nehal Patel
… was born into a depressed area of South Africa””usually a township or reserve””because Black, Coloured, and Indian …
PlaceRooigrond
… of Machaviestad. Some people moved to Potchefstroom Township, while many were moved to Rooigrond. Later, the …
4. Conclusion
… campaigns for election to the Advisory Council in Orlando Township, and co-edited the party newspaper, Inkululeko . He …
ArchiveThe 1957 Alexandra Bus Boycott and its unsung heroes by Roseinnes Phahle, June 2019
… recollections of the 1957 bus boycott in Alexandra, the township in which I grew up. Unusually, it was a freehold … High after its principal), located in…
PlaceBrandfort, Free State
… atmosphere of lethargy and inactivity… The dilapidated Township, had no official name but the Black residents had …
PlaceColigny, North West Province
… name or the station to Coligne. In 1922 it was declared a Township. A Town council was constituted in 1929. The …
ArchiveThe Life of Trevor Huddleston, Makhalipile (the Dauntless One) by Victoria Vandiver, 3 May 2018
… Rosettenville, Johannesburg and was put in charge of the township of Sophiatown. The Community of the Resurrection had … in the education of urban blacks…
ArchiveThe South African Art Collective That Imagined the End of Apartheid by Keenan Teddy Smith, 27 August 2019
CHICAGO — Rarely are poets silenced when nations imprison them for speaking out. Mongane Wally Serote, poet and community organizer who became involved in the…
Imvaba Arts Association
Established in Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape, in 1986, Imvaba Arts Association worked closely with artists in New Brighton, Kwazakhele and Motherwell townships…
ArticleGrade 8 - Term 2: The Mineral Revolution in South Africa
… limit Indian trade and businesses to flourish. In 1924 the Township Franchise Ordinance was passed in Natal. This …
ArticleThe 1956 Women’s March in Pretoria
… hundreds of African men and women assembled in the Langa township to protest against the new laws. Delivering a fiery …
The Pioneers
… arrangÂing). Mrs Mable Cooke, who was residing in Western Township in the 1940s, still has an oil painting by Mohl of … exhibited his work in the garden of…
ArchiveAll That Glitters - Bound to strike back by Emilia Potenza
… They, too, had the problem of finding housing. A township 'coffee cart', probably late 1930s or early 1940s …
Into the Fifties: Defiance by Norman Levy
… authorities would have executive powers whereas the old township boards were simply “advisory”. The impact of this … a meeting (in defiance of his banning)…
ArchiveBiography of Florence Mkhize by Rachel Manak
… soldiers blocked all points of access to the Lamontville township, raided the homes of anti-apartheid activists, … Women”; South Africa: Security Forces Seal…
ArchiveSouth Africa’s ‘Mother of the Nation’ who was never First Lady by Mashupye Herbert Maserumule (TheConversation.com), 3 April 2018
… disguise her political mobilisation of young people in the township. Jerry Richardson, the coach of the club who was …
Speech by President Nelson Mandela at a banquet in honour of her majesty Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands Pretoria, 30 September 1996
… and 156 wounded in the disturbances at Sharpeville Bantu Township near Vereeniging. ... At Sharpeville, Colonel …
ArticleA decade by decade events account of the women’s struggle in South Africa
… Suppression of Communism Act, and restricted to Orlando Township. After the ANC is outlawed, Dorothy Nyembe becomes … Revolt. Lillian Ngoyi is banned and…
ArticleThe influence of apartheid
… They began by ordering Ndebele residents to leave the township, but soon extended this to include all non-Tswana … such developments, and in 1976 its…
Gigs, hustles and hope: work for young South Africans beyond the wage by Adam Cooper and Bernard Dubbeld
… in Pretoria. On the other side of the racial divide, township hustlers make a living through a carwash and others …
ArticleApartheid Legislation 1850's-1970's
… 86 of the Industrial Conciliation Act No 36 of 1937. The Township Franchise Ordinance of 1924 The Township Franchise Ordinance is approved by the Provincial …
ArticlePhotography and the Liberation Struggle in South Africa
… realities. I live ten minutes drive from Alexandra Township, but the smoke and thunder of the violence there …
Women at the start of the 20th century
… Commission, which wanted to remove squatters in Alexandra Township. Following the Second World War rapid urbanisation …