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ArticleBiko’s imprisonment, death and the aftermath
… AZASO therefore filled the organisational vacuum in the townships created by the banning of the ANC, PAC and the BCM. …
ArticleNegotiations and the transition
… Barcelona" aimed at to stop all deliveries into the townships was launched with shouts of “One settler One …
ArticleThe Politics Behind Water
… the government tried to provide sanitation and water in townships, but the increase in illegal squatters made it … water from wells. [16] This continued till…
List of Laws on Land Dispossession and Segregation
… to cities by relocating them to far flung areas such as townships. Section 2 of the Act provided for the creation of …
ArticleThe History of LGBT legislation
… in Johannesburg. Urban areas also offered homosexuals form townships more freedom, to be away from judgmental parents … and support for Black LGBT people,…
Biography of Caiphus Semenya
… King Kong depicts the struggles of life in South Africa’s townships through the story of a black boxer. [2] The play …
ArticleGrade 9 - Term 4: Turning points in modern South African History since 1948
… aware of the extra police patrols that were set up in the townships following June 16. After the first shootings in … the third day the unrest had gained…
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1990-1999
… 15 August, Troops are deployed in three densely populated townships southeast of Johannesburg after fighting between … to discuss ways of ending violence in…
ArticleA history of Kwaito music
This genre of music started emerging in the 1990s. It is a mixture of a number of different rhythms from marabi of the 1920s, kwela of the 1950s, mbaqanga…
ArticleApartheid and reactions to it
… area) ). People from these areas were then placed in townships outside of the town. They could not own property … including Sophiatown; they were moved to…
ArticleSouth African Constitution: The Bill of Rights
… gather the 'freedom demands' of the people, from those in townships to rural homesteads, to be put into their new …
ArticleSharpeville Timeline
… activist leads a protest march from the Cape Town African townships to Cape Town city centre. 24 March 1960 – The …
ArticleThe History of Separate Development in South Africa
… with campuses in South Africa for the segregated African townships around Johannesburg, Pretoria, Benoni, Port …
ArticleBlack People’s Convention (BPC)
… leading up to 1976 uprising, youth and students in Black townships were actively involved in youth and cultural clubs. …
Growing social unrest: Community mobilisation, strikes and student protests in the Western Cape in the 1980s
… peaked between 17 and 18 June 1980 in the Coloured townships of Elsies River, Lavender Hill and Bishop Lavis …
ArticleThe Tricameral Parliament, 1983-1984
… Local Authorities (BLAs) and other local government in the townships. These structures were seen as a substitute for …
Polokwane the Segregated city
… By 1966, the construction of housing in all South African townships had been frozen, except to advance forced removals … its inhabitants moved into homelands…
ArticleBlack Consciousness Movement Timeline 1903-2009
… submit scripts for review before they can be performed in townships. Gibson Kente’s play Too Late is banned, unbanned … 4 August, Riots erupt again in Soweto…
ArticleThe Group Areas Act of 1950
… from acquiring property from non-Africans in cities and townships (Kirkwood, 2: 1951). However, the act led to … more elaborate and amended. For example, the…
ArticleThe Natal Workers Theatre Movement Timeline
… Party impis attacked the memorial service and from then on townships in and around Durban erupt into violence and …
South African Youth Revolutionary Council (SAYRCO)
… (BSL). A riot involving students in Bloemfontein’s black townships broke out during September and October 1978. The … involved with BSL and a few new…
ArticleThe 1st Johannesburg Biennale
… the term ‘community’ in relegating the “Black arts” to the townships, which then functions to maintain a hierarchy of …
ArticleAnti-pass campaigns, 1910s
… Orange Free State declared that women living in the urban townships would be required to buy new entry permits each …
ArticleRole of Black people in the South African War
… created camps for Blacks from the start of the war. Entire townships and even mission stations were transferred into …
ArticleGrade 8 - Term 2: The Mineral Revolution in South Africa
… government constructed the massive agglomeration of townships that became known as Soweto (South Western Townships). New freeways encouraged massive suburban…
ArticleThe 1956 Women’s March in Pretoria
… The only women who could live legally in the townships were the wives and unmarried daughters of the … Orange Free State declared that women living in the…
ArticleYusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1960 - 1969
… Africanist Congress youth take control of the Cape Town townships of Langa and Nyanga, setting up roadblocks. The state calls in the military. The townships…
Indian Community in Lenasia
… the unrest of June 1976, and continuous unrest in many townships and schools across the country, the State decided …
The Rise of Women’s Trade Unionism in South Africa by Peter LaNasa
… African and Coloured women were usually forced to live in townships, which required a very tiring and expensive commute … in the 1950s and relocated to…
ArticleIndian South Africans timeline 1900-1909
… sexual relations between Whites and Coloured persons. The Townships Amendment Act, Act No. 34 of 1908 (Transvaal) proclaims that Coloured persons are to live…