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Biography of Abdullah Ibrahim by Chance Overby
… to gain momentum in an area near Johannesburg known as Sophiatown. It was here that he formed the Jazz Epistles with … to taking on other jobs just to…
ArchiveThe 1957 Alexandra Bus Boycott and its unsung heroes by Roseinnes Phahle, June 2019
… principal), located in Western Native Township, next to Sophiatown. Initially I travelled daily by bus between my … a small hostel at Christ the King, an…
Remarks by President Jacob Zuma, the Grand Patron of the National Orders, on the occasion of the awarding of the National Orders Awards, on Freedom Day, Presidential Guest House, 27 April 2012
… our dignity and our land. It was only a matter of time and Sophiatown would be reborn. (1). (p. 152). But, Don Mattera … just talking about the forced…
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1950-1959
… himself into the campaign against forced removals from Sophiatown and the Western Areas and was banned for the … this Act wants to effect the removal of…
List of Laws on Land Dispossession and Segregation
… of Black communities such as District Six in Cape Town, Sophiatown in Johannesburg and Cator Manor in Natal when … the there was a forced relocation of 100…
PlaceLenasia, Soweto
… to persuade Indians to move to Lenasia. Indians living in Sophiatown were the first to move to Lenasia, as housing had …
Working Life - Factories, Township and Popular Culture 1886 - 1940 - ‘Locations’ For Labour
… came from the blacks themselves. Black home-owners in Sophiatown, Newclare and Martindale had formed the … proclaimed a restricted area except the freehold…
Resistance Photography and Mobilization of the Resistance, 1946-1976
… major political happenings of the 1950's in detail: the Sophiatown forced removals, the Defiance Campaign, the … resistance has been crushed. The failure to…
ArticleJohannesburg the Segregated city
… infrastructural conditions, had arisen in places such as Sophiatown (1903), Newclare (1912), Prospect and the Malay … variety of sub-cultures which existed…
PlaceKwaMashu
… Umkhumbane ( Cato Manor ) an Indian township in Durban , Sophiatown in Johannesburg and District Six in Cape Town. …
ArchiveDeputy President Cyril Ramaphosa: Memorial Service of Steve Mokone
… developed his love for the game in the dusty streets of Sophiatown. He honed his skills in Atteridgeville. With a …
ArticleFietas: Pageview timeline 1880-1988
… residents to Orlando, and the rezoning of Martindale and Sophiatown. 24 October, The above-mentioned resolution is …
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1950-1959
… Mandela presides over a meeting in the Odin Cinema in Sophiatown alongside Yusuf Cachalia who is later arrested on … this Act wants to effect the removal of…
ArticleWalter Sisulu Timeline 1912-2003
… April, Sisulu acts as speaker at a meeting of the ANC in Sophiatown, Johannesburg. Sisulu urges the blacks not to … 11 July, Sisulu attends a massive meeting…
Baroness Castle of Blackburn opened an exhibition on the history of the Anti-Apartheid Movement at the opening session of the Symposium
… beauty of the atmosphere in Trevor Huddleston's church in Sophiatown although he himself was no longer there. Everybody …
Biography of Caiphus Semenya
… forced removal of non-Whites from neighborhoods such as Sophiatown the resistance against the oppressive Afrikaner …
ArchiveJonas Gwangwa embodied South Africa’s struggle for a national culture by Gwen Ansell
… jazzmen on the bioscope screen at the Odin Cinema in Sophiatown. From Dizzy Gillespie, the schoolboy Gwangwa …
ArchiveWebinar Programme: The SACP and Early Socialist Traditions. Convenor: Natasha Erlank
… one of its most prominent black women leaders. Based in Sophiatown in the 1930s and 1940s, she was an outspoken, …
The Polly Street Era
… of five years. Finally he returned to work and teach in Sophiatown. Sekoto on the other hand paid his own way to … to work and exhibit as a professional fine…
Keynote address on the launch of Mafika Gwala’s Collected Poems Howard College, UKZN, 6 October 2016 by Mandla Langa
… of black people. We can make a fetish out of this, citing Sophiatown and District Six as examples of areas where the … and relocations in her novel, Triomf,…
Document 123 - Statement of Dr Y. M. Dadoo, Secretary, Non-European United Front (Transvaal), before the Court, 6 September 1940
… by non-Europeans are very high. For example, the rents in Sophiatown and Vrededorp are as high as £1 5s. per room per … Most of the streets in non-European…
Draft Report of the National Executive Committee of the ANC, submitted to the Annual Conference, December 15-17, 1950
… in the following areas: - BENONI, ORLANDO, ALEXANDRA and SOPHIATOWN. NATIONAL DAY OF PROTEST AND MOURNING. On the 14th … leading part in the establishment of…
The Role of Women in the Struggle against Apartheid, 15 July 1980
… 25,000 Africans each day from the townships of Alexandra, Sophiatown and Lady Shelburne, Africans began a bus boycott … some 2,000 Africans attended an anti…
Chapter I - Twenty thousand strong we marched
… government plan forcibly to remove the African people of Sophiatown in the western areas of Johannesburg to another … that move. My thoughts turned away from…
Chapter XI - Witness for freedom
… the quotation from my Geneva speech with reference to the Sophiatown removals being "the spark that might set off a … his leaders. But he had known what it…
ArchiveRemembering Hugh Masekela: the horn player with a shrewd ear for music of the day by Gwen Ansell (The Conversation), 23 January 2018
… as a schoolboy at the Harlem Bioscope in Johannesburg’s Sophiatown . The erstwhile chorister resolved “then and there …
Hugh Masekela: the horn player with a shrewd ear for the music of today, not yesterday, 29 October 2017
… as a schoolboy at the Harlem Bioscope in Johannesburg’s Sophiatown. The erstwhile chorister resolved “then and there …
Beerhalls in Soweto from Soweto Heritage Survey Final Report compiled by Steven Lebelo and Elsabe Brink for the National Monuments Council, Northern Region
… people for being in possession of beer. The destruction of Sophiatown in 1955 and parts of Alexandra township in 1961-2, …
Chapter VIII - Treason - South African style 1
… defiance of an unjust law. The first marchers came from Sophiatown and were taken into custody by the police before … could then made their way to a great…
Pan-Africanism was Peter Abrahams’ Country by Tyler Flemming (Africa is a Country), 13 February 2017
… inspired the writers of the Drum generation in 1950s Sophiatown, as well as the blooming talent from Cape Town’s …