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Brett Eloff
… and the accompanying violence, which engulfed the townships around Johannesburg. Since then Brett has been …
BiographyRomeo Zamani Makhanya
… was a highly-politicised academic institution, it was the ‘townships’ that actually took to the streets to protest …
BiographySandile Ngcobo
… involving issues such as the ejection of tenants from townships; the forced removal of black communities to …
BiographyJürgen Schadeberg
… drastically. Protesters on the streets of segregated Black townships clamored for change and for the release of Nelson …
Working Life - Factories, Township and Popular Culture 1886 - 1940 - Where Working people Lived
… The Transvaal government too would always place black townships or ‘locations’ just outside the boundaries of each …
ArchiveThe first five hundred houses of the contentious Glenmore township on the Fish River
Press cutting of a photograph of houses of Glenmore township which make up a temporary township to house to squatters from the coastal farm Klipfontein
BiographyMartin Nambala Wilpard
Martin Nambala Wilpard was acknowledged as the Chief of the Ondonga community in Ovamboland, South West Africa [now Namibia]. It was claimed that he was…
ArchiveResearch in the Black Township of Mpophomeni: Is There Hope?
ArchiveLamontville and what is really going on in the township
BiographyFred Khumalo
Fred Khumalo was born on 4 August 1966 in Chesterville, Durban, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal), and grew up in Mpumalanga Township close to the industrial area of…
BiographyEllen Elmendorp
… where she documented projects in rural areas and townships around South Africa. Photographs featured in …
BiographySipho Gumede
… he taught music and performed for young people from the townships. Yet he did not stop artistic productivity. From …
ArchiveLetter from Ben Maclennan to Priscilla Hall relating to inadequate food rations at Glenmore township
Letter from Ben Maclennan to Priscilla hall relating to the inadequate supply of food rations to the resettled Glenmore township dwellers
Working Life - Factories, Township and Popular Culture 1886 - 1940 - Protest and Resistence
From the book: Working Life - Factories, Township and Popular Culture 1886 - 1940 by Luli Callinicos Topic Towns People Between 1886 and 1914 people…
Ntombikayise Priscilla Ngocobo (née Khubeka)
Ntombikayise Priscilla Ngocobo (née Khubeka) lived in KwaMashu, a township to the north of Durban, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal) and was affiliated with the…
BiographyEla Gandhi
… her brother, sisters and friends in and went to African townships where Indians were forbidden to go by law. Her … there were raids on homes. People were…
David Pratt
… the trial of Robert Sobukwe , the police sealing off townships on the Rand, and dawn raids on a number of shack … the Sharpeville killings and the police…
BiographyAbdul ‘Apamai’ Rahman Dawood
… Forum. Many community activists from surrounding townships recall how Dawood's shop was a haven for them where …
Yunus Ismail Mahomed
… Party (IFP) in stemming the endemic violence in Natal townships at the time. For his activism Mohamed suffered …
BiographyKhaya Biko
Early lifeKhaya Biko was born in Queenstown in the Eastern Cape in 1944, the second of four children of Mzingaye Biko, a police officer and later a clerk, and…
BiographyHezekiel Sepeng
Hezekiel Sepeng was born on 30 June 1974 in Potchestroom, Western Transvaal. At primary school he began to show the natural talent of a good marathon runner. …
Working Life - Factories, Township and Popular Culture 1886 - 1940 - Themes to Think About
From the book: Working Life - Factories, Township and Popular Culture 1886 - 1940 by Luli Callinicos Themes to Think About This Feature has shown how working…
Working Life - Factories, Township and Popular Culture 1886 - 1940 - New Workers, New Unions
From the book: Working Life - Factories, Township and Popular Culture 1886 - 1940 by Luli Callinicos Topic NEW FACTORIES, NEW WORKERS described how rapid…
BiographySiyamthanda Kolisi
Siyamthanda “Siya” Kolisi was born on 16 June 1991 in Zwide Township in Port Elizabeth (PE), Eastern Cape. He was born exactly 15 years after the Soweto Youth…
Working Life - Factories, Township and Popular Culture 1886 - 1940 by Luli Callinicos
Introduction Chapter 1 - Change to Wage Labour Chapter 2 - The Early Years Chapter 3 - Where Working People Lived Chapter 4 - Protest and Resistance …
ArchiveMemorandum on Walmer township: presented at the Black Sash National Conference 1979
Memorandum presented at the Black Sash National Conference on 14 March 1979 discussing housing, resettlement, forced removals, land ownership, unemployment.
Working Life - Factories, Township and Popular Culture 1886 - 1940 - New Factories, New Workers
From the book: Working Life - Factories, Township and Popular Culture 1886 - 1940 by Luli Callinicos Topic Today the industrial working class is more…
BiographyMaggie Resha
… with her family to Mofolo South, which formed part of the townships that were soon to be known as Soweto. There she …
BiographyFather Trevor Huddleston
… in Sophiatown and Orlando, Huddleston ministered in the townships between 1943 and 1956. In 1949 Huddleston was …
BiographyMagdaline ‘Maggie’ Resha
… with her family to Mofolo South, which formed part of the townships that were soon to be known as Soweto . There she …