SAHO global search
237 records
Archive2005 - President Mbeki, State of the Nation Address, 11 February 2005
… forced removals in our country - the destruction of Sophiatown in Johannesburg, and its transformation into a … of the People during the same year of the…
Address of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki at the Second Joint Sitting of the Third Democratic Parliament Cape Town: February 11 2005
… forced removals in our country - the destruction of Sophiatown in Johannesburg, and its transformation into a … of the People during the same year of the…
Americans for South African Resistance, 25 June 1982
… the government by race. Plans were laid for eliminating Sophiatown, an area of the city where Africans could own …
American Supporters of the Defiance Campaign by George M. Houser
… the government by race. Plans were laid for eliminating Sophiatown, an area of the city where Africans could own …
Chapter IX - Return to my faith
… and his courageous stand against apartheid and the Sophiatown removals, his commitment to the struggle for …
ArticleTimeline of the Group Areas Act and Selected Related Pieces Legislation
… Relations, 1956: 109). Graymount, Albertskroon, Claremont, Sophiatown and Westdene were declared White. Africans began … finishing the process of resettling…
Chapter VI - HEAR US!
… in addition to the Western Areas Removal and the rape of Sophiatown. The Bantu Education Act had already been passed …
ArchiveAll That Glitters - In the city by Emilia Potenza
… came to move people from places like Doornfontein to Sophiatown and Orlando . The following two sources describe …
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1920s
… in the anti-pass campaigns. Peter Papela Nthite is born in Sophiatown, Johannesburg. Ronald Edwin Press is born. Emma …
Chapter 8 - The politics of Congress in the late 1950s
… Local ANC women activists organised huge marches of Sophiatown and Alexandra women on the Johannesburg pass …
Book 5: People, Places and Apartheid - Chapter 1 - People, Politics and Ideology by Malegapuru William Makgoba
… from England in 1943 to serve as Priest-in-Charge of the Sophiatown and Orlando Anglican Mission in Johannesburg. In …
Chapter IV - A meaningful life
… in the 1950s who had stood by the African people in the Sophiatown removals, but he had left South Africa. There had …
"Apartheid - the Indictment": Paper Presented to the International Conference for Sactions agains South Africa by O. R. Tambo, April 1964
… rights to a precarious tenancy. The village of Sophiatown was literally razed to the ground with bulldozers …
Paper Presented to the International Conference for Sanctions Against South Africa, 1 April 1964, London
… residential rights to a precarious tenancy. The village of Sophiatown was literally razed to the ground with bulldozers …
Polokwane the Segregated city
… centre along today’s Mandela Street, was considered the “Sophiatown of the Northern Transvaal”. The suburb was a mixed …
ArticleSouth African Communist Party Timeline 1870-1996
… false name (K. Motsoakai) and ordered to live in hiding in Sophiatown. At the 4th Plenum, attended by delegates from all …
EventWalter Sisulu celebrates 90th birthday
… Sisulu's role in the major campaigns of the 1 950s:the Sophiatown removals; the campaign for the Congress of the …
Devout domesticity? A century of African women's Christianity in South Africa by Deborah Gaitskell
… of the active and well-staffed Anglican 'settlements' in Sophiatown Orlando in the 1930s, the staff of white single …
ArticleApartheid Legislation 1850's-1970's
… this Act aimed to effect the removal of Africans from Sophiatown to Soweto, southwest of Johannesburg. Riotous …
Archive“A Black Rather Well-Known South African Recently Arrived in London”: Critical Responses to Todd Matshikiza’s Chocolates for My Wife
… was friendly with anti-apartheid clergyman and significant Sophiatown figure Trevor Huddleston and with former Drum …
44th National Conference: Report of the National Executive Committee, 18 December 1955
… refused to go to Meadowlands. Great credit is due to the Sophiatown people and our beloved volunteers who remained …
Document 7 - The Freedom Charter
… of the active and well-staffed Anglican 'settlements' in Sophiatown Orlando in the 1930s, the staff of white single …
Article“Bantu Education or the Street” by Norman Levy
… Diocese, notably the famous St Peters School in Sophiatown.49 However, all the other Anglican educational …
ArticleA Charge of Treason by Norman Levy
… not be moved”, was taken up in chorus by the residents of Sophiatown even as they were moved in government trucks to …
‘Wash Me Black Again’: African Nationalism, the Indian Diaspora, and Kwa-Zulu Natal, 1944-1960 by Jon Soske
… in the freehold townships of Johannesburg (Martindale, Sophiatown, and New Clare). Working class Indians generally … himself). Describing an Indian market…
To Change the World ! Is Reason Enough ?, London, August, 1995
… He was large man consistent with owning an eating house in Sophiatown, old enough to be my father. A good man on the … the African workers who was a member…
ArticleuMkhonto weSizwe (MK) in exile
… formed a Swaziland branch of the ANC in Sobhuza’s house in Sophiatown. From the early 1900s there were moves to …