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ArticleFreedom Charter timeline 1948-1961
1948 26 May, DF Malan's National Party government follows up its election victory with the introduction of new apartheid laws as well as the stricter…
Address by Oliver Tambo at the 75th anniversary meeting of the African National Congress, 08 January 1987, Lusaka
… polling booths but in the streets of our cities, towns, townships and villages, in the factories, the mines and the …
Chief Albert Luthuli Memorial Lecture by President Jacob Zuma at Inkosi Albert Luthuli International Convention Centre, 24 November 2010, Durban
… march on 30 March 1960 by about 30 000 people from the townships of Langa and Nyanga in Cape Town. The Pondoland …
Address by President Jacob Zuma on the occasion of the release of the 20 Year Review: South Africa 1994 to 2014, Sefako Makgatho Presidential Guest House, Pretoria, 11 March 2014
… spatial patterns. For example, many poor people live in townships which are far from their places of work, costing …
ArchiveAppendix 2 The Political Landscape of Cape Town, by Dr Z. Pallo Jordan
… pockets of Africans to live outside the locations and townships imposed in the rest of the country, as well as …
Address by Oliver Tambo at the 75th anniversary meeting of the African National Congress, Lusaka, 8 January 1987
… polling booths but in the streets of our cities, towns, townships and villages, in the factories, the mines and the …
Address by ANC President, Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela, at the opening of the 37th congress of the South African Jewish Board of Deputies Carlton Hotel, Saturday, 21 August 1993
… White residential areas is far more intense in the African townships of the East Rand, the Natal Midlands and Southern …
PlaceNdabeni
… (David Philip), pp.45-46, 87 • Cape Town site, The First Townships, [online], Available at www.capetown.at [Accessed: …
EventRioting and destruction in Cato Manor and Durban continues
Apartheid government efforts to remove Black people from Cato Manor close to the Durban city center to Kwa Mashu, a newly established black township on the…
PlaceFrankfort
Frankfort is a small farming town situated on the banks of the Wilge River in the Free State province of South Africa. The town was laid out in 1869 on the…
PlaceRegina Mundi, Catholic Church, Soweto
Regina Mundi Catholic Church is located in the Township of Soweto, in the Suburb of Moroka. The Church forms part of the rich History of Soweto and is the…
Into the Fifties: Defiance by Norman Levy
… the major cities of Port Elizabeth, East London and to the townships in Johannesburg; a few districts in the Eastern and …
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1960s
… goes on strike. PAC youth takes control of the Cape Town townships of Langa and Nyanga, setting up roadblocks and distributing food. 30 000 residents of…
Delegations and dialogue between ANC and internal non government groups
… businessmen in Soweto were seen as collaborators by the townships, radical youth, and many shops had been burned or …
The Colonial Photographic Discourse and Censorship – Challenges for Resistance Photographers
… South Africa had ever seen was taking place in the townships. There was no censorship of the disturbances …
ArticleSouth Africa in the 1970s
… issues as workers struggles in factories and townships were indivisible and majority of the unions in this …
State of the nation address by the President of South Africa, Nelson Mandela
… civics and other community organisations to rebuild our townships, restore services in rural and urban areas, while …
Documentary Photography and Awakening the International Community, 1976-1994
… and repressive violence raged continuously in the townships. It is during this period that documentary … are the tanks the government used when occupying the…
Chapter V - South Africa belongs to all who live in it
… comrade, always ready to go with me at night into the townships. Robert often came with us, to guide us in the …
Chapter I - Twenty thousand strong we marched
… which meant that again the women had to travel in from the townships. Nevertheless our first Transvaal provincial …
Evidence before the Foreign Affairs Committee of the House of Commons by O. R. Tambo, London, 29 October 1985
… on our television screens the real problems in some of the townships. Do you support and encourage that attitude - that … sought to stamp out by deploying…
SAHO Commemorates 40 Years Since Soweto Uprising: Intergenerational Dialogue by Thembinkosi Khumalo
Thembinkosi Khumalo is a student activist at the University of Pretoria. He is an active PASMA member. PASMA is a student division of PAC. Khumalo is also…
PlaceThe Randjeslaagte Beacon, Parktown Johannesburg
.This Beacon marks, the Northern Boundary of the Farm “Randjeslaagte" on which Johannesburg was laid out in 1886. The Randjeslaagte Beacon stands in Boundary…
PlaceOlivedale , Randburg
The Property was purchased in 1940 by a Dutch diamond trader known as Messias, who had a House erected upon it. During WWII Italian prisoners of war were used…
EventTricameral Parliament inaugurated
On 3 September 1984, Members of Parliament convened in Cape Town to promulgate a new South African Constitution with a three-tier parliament which would re…
PlaceAmanzimtoti, South Coast of Kwa-Zulu Natal
Town and Holiday Destination on the South Coast, 29 km from Durban. It was founded in 1928, proclaimed a Township in 1939 and became a Borough in 1952. In 1961…
PlaceGauteng Province
… people to move to new suburbs known as the South-Western townships, leading to the emergence of Soweto . Today 'Jozi', …
Biko’s legacy lives on in our nation’s history and culture by Nkosinathi Biko, 12 September 2012, South Africa
TODAY marks the 35th anniversary of the murder of black consciousness leader, Bantu Stephen Biko. Arrested a healthy man on August 18 1977, he died three…
PlaceSteadville, Ladysmith
Steadville is an African township situated in Ladysmith/Emnambithi, KwaZulu-Natal. The name Steadville comes from the Stead family, particularly Frederick…
30. Potchefstroom traders: we please the poorest class of customers
From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal Pachai The agitation by anti-Asiatic vigilante groups…