Legislation, Dissent, and Violence in Sophiatown under Apartheid
… removals. By 1955, when the removals began, the Government’s creation of new administrative bodies (such as the 1953 … pressure to reassert the controls arose towards the War’s end, once officials took note of the population increase of … White suburb and, before the demolitions, contained 20 schools, various missions, 17 churches, 2 cinemas, and …