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ArticleInkatha Freedom Party (IFP)
… around Inkatha strongholds, in Natal and in Gauteng townships. It is alleged by the TRC that Buthelezi worked …
ArticleApartheid Legislation 1850's-1970's
… Licensing Ordinance - limited the right of appeal. The Townships Franchise Ordinance - Indians lose municipal … the growing numbers, the government set up…
General South African History Timeline: 1970s
… Act No 45: Provided for black self-government in townships. Repealed by 69 of the Black Communities … arrested for offences related to the resistance in the…
Resistance Photography and Mobilization of the Resistance, 1946-1976
… of stories about Shebeens (informal bars located in the townships), Shebeens Take A Bow! The portrayal of the new … the pre-colonial Africa) became a common…
ArticleUnited Women’s Organisation (UWO)
The United Women’s Organisation (UWO) was launched in April 1981 with 400 delegates from the Western Cape attending. Some of the women who pioneered the…
ArticleHow the Group Areas Act shaped spaces, memories and identities in Cape Town
… located areas and being moved to distantly located townships like Manenberg , Hanover Park and the like. [vi] …
ArticleGrade 9 - Term 3: Turning points in South African History, 1960, 1976 and 1990
… forcibly removed blacks to African, Coloured, or Indian "townships" (also known as "locations") on the outskirts of … all non- whites from Sophiatown to…
ArticleThe History of Education: 1658 to present
… protest is marked by uncontrollable fury. Fires rage in townships throughout the country. Residents of Alexandra … There are more reports of arson by youth…
Iliso Labantu Photo Group
Iliso Labantu is a cooperative of township-based photographers, living in the Cape Town area, who have been working together since 2005. The group has recently…
Biography of Johnny ‘Mbizo’ Dyani by Brandon Norman
… South Africa for two reasons: first, because travel in the townships had become too dangerous and interracial groups …
Abdullah Ibrahim and the Politics of Jazz in South Africa
… apartheid regime and as a ‘popular metaphor for all the townships where trouble brewed’. While Ibrahim continued to …
Apartheid - The early 1980s
… action, which was normally spontaneous, that broke out in townships and homelands across the country. Although the UDF …
ArticleCouncil of Non-European trade unions (CNETU)
… harshly with the strikers. The police were deployed in townships, at stations and at bus terminals. The strike …
Eyewitness accounts of the Sharpeville massacre 1960
The day of the Massacre, mourning the dead and getting over the shock of the event © Baileys African History Archive (BAHA) Tom Petrus, author of 'My Life…
Gertrude Fester Biography by Nehal Patel
… Africans were not allowed to live in the cities. These townships and reserves, built on dirt roads, lacked basic …
ArticleBlack Consciousness: Cultural Expression and Representation
Though first publicized as a respected medium for the liberation struggle in 1967, poetry and literary expression had been popularized throughout the 1950s and…
ArticleNatal Workers’ Theatre in the 1980s
… communities were relocated from the inner city to the new townships of KwaMashu and Umlazi, and residents suffered … in our spare time? We walk the streets…
Biography of Can Themba by Aisha Ahmed
… This act relocated all non-White Africans to segregated townships further away from city centres. Prior to this, most …
ArticleSouth African Film
… class and urban, while rural people, and people living in townships or informal settlements rarely find the opportunity …
ArticleThe turbulent 1950s - Women as defiant activists
… The only women who could live legally in the townships were the wives and unmarried daughters of the …
Biography of Miriam Makeba by Narcy Negrete
… Your Mama Not To Worry.” Soweto, which means South Western Townships, was the scene of a massacre in 1976. Soweto Blues …
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1930-1939
… Law is to be strictly enforced after 1 May 1930, even in townships like Springs which were held to be outside Gold …
ArticleDesmond Mpilo Tutu Timeline
… The police violence, which was normally confined to black townships, was exported into the city. There was a particular …
Origins: Formation, Sharpeville and banning, 1959-1960
… took place in Sharpeville and in the Western Cape in townships such as Langa. The protest was of a non-violent …
ArticleSocio-economics in Sophiatown
The economic activity of children African children living in Sophiatown were particularly vulnerable to the harshness of urban life. Schooling was not…
The Convention for a Democratic South Africa (CODESA): CODESA 2
… being killed off-duty and while at home. Police patrolling townships were frequently met by barricades, stopped and …
ArticleHistory of Women’s Struggle in South Africa
… Orange Free State declared that women living in the urban townships would be required to buy new entry permits each … Control over Africans within the…
Women’s Resistance Against the Pass Laws
… many other African women, she did bric-a-brac jobs in the townships to augment her wages in order to supÂport her …
ArticleMoses Kotane Timeline
1905 9 August, Moses Kotane is born in Tamposstad, to Samuel Segogwane, a lay preacher and traditional healer, and Siporah Mmadira Kotane, a seasonal…
Lerato Maduna
Lerato Maduna was born in Soweto in 1985. Studied various courses in photography at The Market Photo Workshop including the yearlong Photojournalism and…