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ArticleLand, Labour and Apartheid
Land and labour are two very important elements of the economic development of a society, and the way they are used will influence how the society develops. In…
ArticleThe Society of Young Africa (SOYA)
The Society of Young Africa (SOYA) held its opening conference on 20th December 1951. Led by I. B. Tabata, SOYA was closely linked to the Non European Unity…
The search for Peter Johnson’s story
… the town camps in Angola, Quibaxe and Pango. In 1979, township-based regional organizations were established, such …
The Liberation Struggle in South Africa
… in Pageview. They voluntarily moved to the Coronation Township and Albertsville. Govan Mbeki publishes Transkei in …
ArticleTimeline of Land Dispossession and Segregation in South Africa 1900-1947
… Tsewu, an African who bought land in the Kliprivierskloof Township near Johannesburg successfully applies for a court …
Insurrections: The Storming
… Sazi Dlamini is founder of SKOKIANA, an extended township music performance project active since 1991 …
ArticleThe Storming: Insurrections Ensemble
… Sazi Dlamini is founder of SKOKIANA, an extended township music performance project active since 1991 …
ArchiveAll That Glitters - In the city by Emilia Potenza
… and Orlando . The following two sources describe Orlando township: Source 13 We are building the township for the better class of Native, who has a sense of …
PlaceNewcastle
… for the next two weeks, he spent his time setting out the township that he was later to register as Newcastle after the …
EventANC members meet with Adriaan Vlok and Gen. Magnus Malan
An African National Congress (ANC) delegation headed by Walter Sisulu, met with two government officials, Minister of Law and Order Adriaan Vlok and Defence…
ArticleA Short History of ESKOM, Part 1 (1923-2001)
… electricity. McRae had held interviews with churches and township residents to seek amicable and long-term solutions … of spreading electricity to rural…
ArticleNon-European Unity Movement (NEUM)
… Representative Council, the Coloured Advisory Council, township Advisory Boards, the (Transkei) Banga or any other … stayed aloof from the bus boycott of…
Event’Purple rain’ used on women protesters
The police in Adderley street, Cape Town used their new water cannons to suppress a Cape riot that had, for the third time, spread to White areas. The rioting…
PlaceMorgan Bay-Gxarha
… Adventures, game drives at Endalweni Private Game Reserve, Township tours or rock climbing and abseiling with Rock Face …
PlaceAl-Azhar Mosque, Cape Town
The Al Azhar Mosque is an Islamic Mosque in District Six, Cape Town. It holds the same name as a rather resplendent more-famous Mosque in Cairo, Egypt but what…
PlaceGrassy Park, Cape Town
… the 1960's the suburb emerged as Grassy Park, a coloured township originally known as: 'Koek se bos' which is …
Post-detention weapons
… for unrest related murders of police officers, black township councillors, suspected police informers or other … the death in 1985 of a municipal policeman…
ArticleWomen, employment and the changing economic scene, 1920s
In the 1920s, with the First World War (1914-1918) over, the pattern of female employment began to change. The war and the protectionist policy of the Pact…
The defiance campaign by M. P. Naicker
… at a meeting he was addressing in Alexandra African township, Johannesburg, where he lived. Others were arrested … the ANC, was arrested at a meeting of…
Address of the President of the Republic Of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, at the Youth Day celebrations: Absa Stadium, Buffalo City Municipality
… 16, 1976, multitudes of South African youth emerged from township school classrooms to confront a brutal system of …
ArticleBlack Consciousness Movement Timeline 1903-2009
… at 75-80 percent in Johannesburg. 17 October, The township of Soweto flares into violence again. An estimated …
39. Second report of the Natal Indian Congress, 1899
… regulations with reference to the then newly established township of Nondweni in Zululand was published. It was … that the Indians could not buy or possess…
EventAt least 150 people die in clashes between the ANC and IFP
Between 1985 and 1990, political violence was a common occurrence in South Africa, with Black townships most affected. The violence took place under the State…
IFP 2019 Election Manifesto
… Basic Education. Re-evaluate and capacitate rural and township schools that were previously closed, due to …
PlaceSimon's Town, Cape Peninsula
… day it was gone, with its residents moved to the far-off township of Gugulethu, which most of them didn’t know. …
50. The campaign resumed in 1913
… Licensing Act, the Natal Licensing Act, the Gold and the Township Laws of the Transvaal and the existing Immigration …
Last kicks of a dying horse July 1992 - June 1993
… number of deaths (3096) and exerting maximum disruption of township communities. However, there was an important shift … includes political violence, which…
General South African History Timeline: 1970s
… The performance of Black drama and music by mushrooming township cultural groups becomes a significant factor in the … The Langa students march with placards…
PlaceQueenstown, now known as Komani.
… factor was the atrocious conditions pertaining in the township. Ezibeleni was a Town established near Queenstown in …
PlaceLenasia, Soweto
… a bucket system . In 1958 Lenasia was proclaimed an Indian Township under the Group Areas. The creation of Lenasia meant … came forth) In 1958 Lenasia was…