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ArticleSouth African Indian Congress (SAIC)
… took place in Germiston when 40 volunteers entered a Black township without the required permits. The group included …
ArticleThe Black Sash: A History of Transformation
… 1981, Sash member Di Bishop took Blackburn to the Black township of Langa outside of Cape Town. A police raid had …
ArticleWalter Sisulu Timeline 1912-2003
… in a meeting which is held in Lady Selborne, a non-white township in Pretoria. 30 September - 2 october, Sisulu speaks … Sisulu acts as speaker at an ANC…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1980s
… 1980 3 March, A large cache of arms is discovered in a township near Springs, East of Johannesburg. Together with … bomb explosion in an administrative…
ArticleBiography of Mongane Wally Serote by Matthew Williams
… in Sophiatown. Before 1955, Sophiatown was a multiracial township in Johannesburg where writers, musicians, and … and he would eventually end up living in…
Dumile Feni biography by Sophia Reuss
… after Polly Street Art Centre. Polly Street Art features township scenes and social housing. Dumile spent much time … distinct from overtly political poster…
ArticleRobert Mangaliso Sobukwe Timeline 1924 - 1978
… participation in the Native Representative Council and the township Advisory Boards. Sobukwe reluctantly joins the ANCYL …
ArticleSharpeville Massacre, 21 March 1960
… Three people were killed and 26 others were injured. Langa Township was gripped by tension and in the turmoil that …
The Convention for a Democratic South Africa (CODESA): CODESA 2
… amount of its supporters had been removed from their township homes or hostel rooms and thereby forced to find … with the hostel residents in attacks on the…
Biography of Can Themba by Aisha Ahmed
… author and journalist, writes that ‘he Themba wallowed in township life: the shebeens, the shebeen queens, the … friend remarks that Themba would only speak…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1950s
… rights for all is held. Police opens fire in the Alexandra Township and other areas on the Reef, killing 18 and wounding … officiates at a meeting held in…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1930-1939
… (between 17th and 24th Streets) to Orlando (the first township of Soweto ), and Coloured and Tamil people move in. … (TAC) hosts anti-pass meetings in the…
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission: A Reflection of the Chasm Between Constitutional Rights and the Lived Experience in South Africa by Rhiain Moses
… of American student Amy Biehl whilst driving through the township of Guguletu, outside of Cape Town. The letters are … of a burning skull cracking”: these…
Shared Cultural Trauma: Inarticulacy as Social Disability in South African Literature by Hannah Pagan
… of American student Amy Biehl whilst driving through the township of Guguletu, outside of Cape Town. The letters are … of a burning skull cracking”: these…
Artist groups and educational facilities (1960-1980)
… formulaic stereotypical expression, which resulted in the ‘township-art’ label in the marketplace. The first Thupelo …
ArticleWorkshop ‘71
Theatre Workshop ‘71 was a theatre training workshop that was founded in 1971 by the South African Institute for Race Relations (SAIRR) in Johannesburg. SAIRR…
ArticlePaper abstracts and biographies of speakers
… records, Alexandrans and their collaborators turned the township’s square mile into a virtual ground for recruiting … the African American Underground…
Article1970s: Black Consciousness Movement in South Africa
… and lies to the south west of Johannesburg. It was a township set up by the government for black Africans to live …
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…
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 …
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 …
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…
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…
ArticleThe Group Areas Act of 1950
… Noordgesig, Newclare, Riverlea, and Western Township are administrated by Johannesburg City Council while …
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…