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EventEleven people are killed in eSikhawini township
Eleven people were killed in the township of eSikhawini in northern Natal by unknown killers armed with pump action shotguns. The massacre took place a few…
Duties as Minister of the Interior, Resettlement, Township Administration, Inkatha and KwaZulu politics
… township councils 34:86 - 36:33 - Shortage of policemen in townships 36:33 - 38:08 - Personal experience of inefficiency …
ArchiveReport on public conduct during township protests
This is the report on police conduct during township protests which took place in August-November 1984, It also includes the pamphlet including chronology and…
BiographyChris Hani
… Africa and became a charismatic and popular speaker in townships. By 1990 he was known to be a close associate of … was being questioned. Hani campaigned for…
BiographyPhillip Qipu Vundla
Philip Vundla was born in 1901 and attended Healdtown for some years before finding work in Johannesburg as a mine clerk. In the mid-1940s he was an organiser…
Township living - a battle for survival
ArchiveIzwi lase Township June 1982
ArchiveIzwi lase Township July 1984
ArchiveIzwi lase Township July 1983
ArchiveIzwi lase Township January 1984
ArchiveIzwi lase Township December 1983
ArchiveIzwi lase Township August 1983
ArchiveIzwi lase Township April 1982
ArchiveTownship unrest and health care
BiographyMatthew Goniwe
… (MWC) in the Karoo. Lingelihle was one of the first townships to introduce street committees. Under the guidance … that Matthew Goniwe helped to set up were…
BiographyTony Sithembiso Yengeni
… Tony Yengeni was born in Cape Town and grew up in two Cape townships, Gugulethu and Nyanga. He completed his matric at …
BiographyElliot Mngadi
Elliot Mngadi was born in Roosboom around 1918. Alongside Peter Brown also a leading member of the LP, Mngadi spearheaded the cause of black farmers in Natal…
Cheryl Ellen Gillwald
Cheryl Ellen Gillwald was born in Welkom in the Orange Free State (now Free State Province) on 13 December 1956. She matriculated in 1974 at Roedean in…
BiographyKevin Dowling
… has ministered in various parts of South Africa, in townships in Cape Town and Pretoria. In Rustenburg, Bishop …
BiographyJoseph (Anti-Pass) M. Kumalo
During the 1955-1956 Evaton bus boycott Kumalo was banished in terms of the 1927 Native Administration Act to Duiwelskloof. From there he was brought to stand…
ArchiveTownship youth make their own parks
ArchiveAlexandra township: uplift or co-option?
BiographyPixley ka Isaka Seme
… The CPSA was particularly vibrant in local communities in townships across the country. CPSA branches became formidable … This was particularly true in…
ArchiveDevelopment of R26m Black Glenmore township to begin
Press cutting about the development of Glenmore township for the resettlement of Black people.
BiographyPenelope Jane Dunlop
… people. It was the popularity of their music in the black townships which earned her the nick name Thandeka; meaning …
BiographyPopo Molefe
… the area. He also has memories of police brutality in the townships, where he witnessed pass and liquor raids. Molefe …
BiographyAlbertina Nontsikelelo Sisulu
… still made sure to visit her patients in their homes in townships. She carried a suitcase full of her apparatus … were organized with regular weekend…
ArchiveThe effects of the current unrest on township children
Article about how township children were jailed, shot and killed, some served long prison sentences, others lost valuable years of schooling, many were forced…
EventYouth has been burnt to death in Mahwelereng Township
On 6 June 1986, Mr Ronnie Molifi was stabbed and burnt to death by a group of youth in the Mahwelereng Township in Limpopo province. He was accused of being a…
BiographyRalekeke Rantuba
Ralekeke Rantuba, from Evaton Township, Vereeniging District, Transvaal [now Gauteng], was the kingpin of the anti-boycott force during the Evaton bus boycott…