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BiographyMichael Guthrie Scott
… assigned to St. Alban’s Coloured Mission just outside Sophiatown. During World War II, Johannesburg rapidly …
BiographyArchbishop Emeritus Desmond Mpilo Tutu
… secondary school in the old Western Native Township, near Sophiatown . At about this time he was hospitalised for over …
EventThe Group Areas Act comes into effect
… in a many forced removals from areas like District Six and Sophiatown, uprooting millions. …
ArticleApartheid and reactions to it
… to undermine efforts to forcibly remove the community from Sophiatown to Soweto. The Bantu Education Campaign was a … group. Well known removals were those…
EventFietas, site of forced removal in Johannesburg, is renamed Pageview
… was an integrated community, not unlike District Six and Sophiatown, and was also destroyed by forced removals - as a …
PlaceFietas Museum, Johannesburg
… and a visit can be combined with a trip to the nearby Sophiatown Heritage and Cultural Centre. Hours: Monday to …
Chapter IV - Becoming an activist
… areas where blacks and white lived adjacent to each other. Sophiatown. Newclare and Martindale, the oldest black … black man could own the very land on which…
EventThe Transvaal Indian Congress takes a stand on Fietas removals
… to Orlando. It also covered the rezoning of Martindale and Sophiatown. From 1904 to 1934 Indians had increasingly become …
ArchiveRoseinnes Daniel Phahle by Allison Drew
… a political activist and joined the ANC Youth League in Sophiatown while a high school student. Under the leadership … at Madibane High organised the Sunday…
BiographyOliver Tambo
… visited South Africa in 1954, Father Trevor Huddleston of Sophiatown, also a great champion of anti-apartheid defiance, …
EventJohn Koenakeefe Mohl, SA artist is born
… On his return to South Africa he opened a school in Sophiatown and became one of the first significant art …
EventAfrican bus boycott lasting ten weeks is initiated in Johannesburg and Pretoria.
… in Alexandra, quickly spread to other areas like Sophiatown, Germiston and Edenvale and Pretoria townships …
ArchiveStaffrider Vol.4 No.4 Mar 1982
… Bhula; Keith Gottschalk. Features: Staffworker, Bra Luke Sophiatown by Miriam Tlali; Society and Art, Toward Patriotic …
EventNathaniel Nakasa, South African journalist and writer, dies in exile
… violent and somewhat romantic culture that characterised Sophiatown in the 1950s. While Nakasa worked for the Rand …
Speech delivered on the condolence motion in honour of the late Ebrahim "Cas" Saloojee in the national assembly – 5 February 2009
… Saloojee was born in Krugersdorp in 1935; and lived in Sophiatown, Bloemhof and Johannesburg. He studied in Bombay, …
PlacePageview
… an integrated community, not unlike District Six and Sophiatown. It was also destroyed by forced removals as a … early 1970s the bulldozers started moving in…
Indian Community in Lenasia
… laws and to implement these. The existence of suburbs like Sophiatown, where people of all races, including poorer White … such as in Fordsburg, Doornfontein…
The melody of freedom
… mbaqanga became popular and the band could not join in Sophiatown If the marabi was especially loved among black … by South African musicians. Singers Dolly…
Johannesburg Timeline 1800-1991
… Black residents were living in such places as Newclare, Sophiatown, Martindale and Prospect Township, in heavily … is renamed Pimville. 1935 27 water taps…
BiographyHerbert Isaac Ernest Dhlomo
… in Natal, Nkosi in many ways transported those ideas to Sophiatown where wrote extensively, as Dhlomo had in Durban, …
ArticleA history of Apartheid in South Africa
… of the city. Well known removals were those in District 6, Sophiatown and Lady Selborne. These black people were then …
ArticleFreedom Charter timeline 1948-1961
… 19 dead and 30 injured in Benoni, Orlando, Alexandra and Sophiatown 14 May, Conference of representatives of …
EventFirst Fietas Festival to celebrate the legacy of the community
… 1945 and 1960. It was a place not unlike District Six and Sophiatown. But Fietas was declared a white area, destroyed …
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1950s
… Mandela presides over a meeting in the Odin Cinema in Sophiatown alongside the Indian leader Yusuf Cachalia. … at a meeting of the African National Congress …
ArchiveThe Man Before Mandela by Steven Gish
… He returned to South Africa in late 1927 and settled in Sophiatown, one of the few neighborhoods in Johannesburg … ordered Xuma and his wife to vacate their…
ArticleA history of Soweto
… from the freehold townships of the Western Areas, such as Sophiatown, Martindale and Newclare to Diepkloof, … around Orlando. One of these 'black spots' was…
The Pioneers
… in 1940 when he purchased Yellow houses: A street scene in Sophiatown, 1940... this was the first work by a black artist … art. Sekoto Gerard (b.1913) Yellow…
PlaceDistrict Six, Cape Town
… only left in the mid-1970s. The area, together with Sophiatown , in Gauteng became a local and international …
PlaceMarket Theatre
… Africa. With plays such as Woza Albert, Asinamali, Bopha, Sophiatown, Born in RSA and Black Dog, the Market Theatre is …
Document 65 - Minutes of the meeting of the Workers’ Party of South Africa. Johannesburg Branch held at 90 President Street, Johannesburg, Friday, 24 July 1936 at 8 p.m.
… by Com Phashe that Com Philip Moloenyane, 69 Good Street, Sophiatown be accepted as a member of the W.P.S.A. This was …