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BiographyChristopher Ndodebandla Dlamini
… together with an incident when South African authorities forced Dlamini's 16-year-old brother to return to Swaziland …
BiographyLeslie Rubin
The son of a rabbi, Leslie Rubin was born on 5 August 1909 in District Six, Cape Town, Cape Province (now Western Cape), then a multiracial district of the…
TRAC (Transvaal Rural Action Committee) Newsletter, 1983 - 1990
… with the intention of giving communities under threat of forced removal in the Transvaal province access to … of the plight of these rural communities. In…
BiographySally Gross
… last minute, Gross fought for her community. She had been forced to appeal to friends to assist her financially as her …
BiographyJob Shimankana Tabane
Job Shimankana Tabane (largely known as Cassius Make, his alias name) was born in Maile village (Diepkuil) just outside Rustenburg on 6 December 1942. Tabane…
BiographyTheresa Solomon
… organisations to campaign for amenities in the wake of forced removals in the 1970s, including schools, hospitals and …
BiographyPeter Hans Paul Gastrow
… In 1971, his political views were strengthened by the forced removal of Botshabelo residents to make way for White …
BiographyBheki Cele
Life and Early Career Bhekokwakhe (Bheki) Hamilton Cele was born on 22 April 1952 to Albertina Mtshali and Gillford Cele at uMuzumbe Mission Hospital near…
BiographyDr. Abu Baker Asvat
… for a short period after their wedding, but were forced out of the area due to conflict over the Group Areas … and tents to sleep in or by protesting against…
PlaceGugulethu Township
… Africans were the first group of people to be subjected to forced relocation. The Native (Urban Areas) Act of 1923 … In this way the Bantustan policy paved…
BiographyDenis Mayer
Denis Mayer was born in Parkwood, Johannesburg, on 8 September 1923. His father, Harold, was the Recruitment Manager for the Chamber of Mines, and had come to…
PlaceBabanango, Kwa-Zulu Natal
… of land betterment. The Act thus paved the way for the forced removal or slaughter of cattle belonging to … areas were divided into distinct land use zones…
Control: 1910 - 1948
… individual tenure it was hoped that Africans could be forced to become less independent in relation to their … result was that thousands of poorer African…
BiographyDorothy Cleminshaw
… underwent a major back surgery. As result she was forced to give up full-time involvement in a lot of the work …
BiographyDavid Wilcox Bopape
… the position of Provincial Secretary until a banning order forced him to resign. At the time of the Defiance Campaign , …
EventDemonstrators strip to deter bulldozers
… the first time for Soweto residents to be humiliated and forced to relocate - in the 1950s an event of the same nature … belongings loaded onto the back of…
ArchiveUnity in Participation Huhudi: A case study in resistance to removal: Paper presented at National Conference 1984
… at National Conference on 17 March 1984 discussing forced removals, apartheid, segregation, Urban Areas Act, labour, …
Article1973 Durban Strikes
… humiliation of pass laws, the hardship of migrant labour, forced removals and the denial of the right to organise, the denial …
ArticleThe Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) 1995
… violations in the wider context of apartheid which include forced removals and the expropriation of land, the pass laws, racial …
Biographyde Villiers Graaff
Sir de Villiers Graaff (Div) was born on 8 December 1913 in Cape Town, Western Cape. He attended Western Province Preparatory School, Claremont, Cape Town from…
EventThe Natives Resettlement Act, Act No 19 of 1954 is passed
… in anticipation of a major resistance effort against forced removals. A month later residents were loaded on to trucks with their goods and forced to…
Article”People’s Power!”, 1986
… In Cape Town, violence erupted in mid-1986 as a result of forced removals out of Old Crossroads. The UDF rejected the move, … with the support of vigilantes,…
Growth of African Nationalism and Defiance
… These were directed at the imposition of passes on women, forced removals and the increasing racial discrimination in general. … and Kensington. Man builds…
BiographyPaul Weinberg
… on Page View, a predominately Indian area before their forced removal. In late 1981 Weinberg was recruited by the … Township, Johannesburg 1981 Part of the…
PlaceSouth End Museum, Port Elizabeth
… of Port Elizabeth and who had been affected by the forced removals of the Group Areas Act, saw the need to commemorate … aim is to depict the tragedy and…
Afra Newsletter
… case studies of families personally affected by the forced removals and "black spot" removal policy of the National …
Liberation
… are the people who have borne the brunt of apartheid, of forced removals from our homes, of poverty in rural areas, of … dry up and blow away in the wind,…
ArticleGrade 9 - Term 3: Turning points in South African History, 1960, 1976 and 1990
… SEQ Figure \* ARABIC 1A community responding to the forced removals under the Group Areas Act by painting the famous … assistance. Case study: Group Areas…
BiographyPieter Willem Botha
… of Coloureds from District Six and he presided over other forced removal activities under the Group Areas Act . It is …
BiographyJohannes Gerhardus Strijdom
Born on 14 July 1893, J G Strijdom served as Prime Minister of South Africa from 30 November 1954 to 24 August 1958. During the 1920s Strijdom practised law in…