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BiographyTeboho “Tsietsi” Mashinini
… that Mashinini is active and moving about Soweto and other townships, but we have never been able to locate him. If you …
BiographyDavid Goldblatt
… Act which forcefully removed people to new segregated townships. In 1979 Goldblatt began working on a project …
BiographyPercival Henry Frederick “Percy” Sonn
… to the development of the game of cricket in the former townships and the marginalised communities of South Africa. …
BiographyAziz Goolam Hoosein Pahad
Aziz Goolam Hoosein Pahad was born on 25 December 1940, Schweizer Reneke, North West Province, (formerly a part of the old Transvaal Province). In 1959, he…
BiographyJoyce Sikhakhane-Rankin
… were very angry. The police were running rough-shod in the townships and the population seemed cowered somewhat. There …
Books and further reading links relating to Right to Organise
… History Archive Labour Issues Working Life Factories, Townships and Popular Culture 1886 - 1940, Brewing A place in … a place in the city, Child labour…
BiographyPatrick Vuyo Matshikiza
Article first published in The Sunday Independent January 4 2015 at 10:37am By Sam Mathe Johannesburg - Pianist, singer and composer Pat Matshikiza, 76, who…
Rioting breaks out across Soweto, South Africa’s largest Black township, following police blockade of youths protesting arrest
Rioting breaks out across Soweto, South Africa’s largest Black township, following police blockade of youths protesting arrest
Cradock becomes a municipality. The settlement started in 1813 as a frontier outpost and was proclaimed a township in 1814.
BiographyBoy Mvemve
Boy Adolphus Mvemve died a very violent death in exile in Zambia in 1974. He was 43 years of age at the time, operating under the nom de guerre John Dube (or…
BiographyMary Thipe
… She was also recognised for the work she did in the Durban townships of Chesterville and Ntuzuma when a road was named …
BiographyPatrick Mosell Molaoa
Born in Johannesburg in 1925, he grew up in Alexandra Township and attended schools in Basutoland, Johannesburg, and Kimberley until matriculation. He was one…
BiographyTikkie Sibisi
Tikkie Sibisi was born in Greater Nigel in 1975 and grew up in Duduza Township with a single parent, his father, and three sisters. (At the age of four his…
BiographyNarriman Gadija Bazier Samuels
… violence and social fragmentation in post-apartheid townships. Her life story illustrates the ongoing struggle …
BiographyWalter Kefuoe Fikeleph Chakela
Walter Kefuoe Fikelephi Chakela was a revered playwright and poet born on 13 April 1953 in Vryburg, a small, conservative Afrikaner town in Transvaal (now…
ArticleBoipatong massacre - 17 June 1992
… and 1993. Beginning in nearby Sebokeng and Sharpeville Townships, popular violence spread across South Africa, … youth formed to protect residents from…
BiographyJanet Mary Cherry
… and adult literacy programmes in Crossroads and Nyanga townships in the Cape. While at University, she ran the …
Fred Vusi Khumalo, journalist and assistant editor of the Sunday paper Rapport, is born in Chesterville Township, Durban.
A bomb explosion in an administrative building in the Batho township of Bloemfontein injures seventy-six Blacks seeking registr
The performance of Black drama and music by mushrooming township cultural groups becomes a significant factor in the propagatin
Winnie Mandela, restricted to a Black township at Brandfort (Orange Free State), is sentenced to six months’ imprisonment (susp
BiographyJabulile Nyawose
Jabulile Nyawose and her husband Petrus Nyawose worked long hours for Black Allied Workers Union (BAWU), focusing on delivery to members and paying attention…
BiographyAudrey ‘Bobbie’ Cobden
… 1957 bus boycott when 70,000 Black workers living in the townships on the fringes of Johannesburg refused to accept an …
BiographySelloane Ethel Leisa
Selloane Ethel Leisa was born on 22* February 1914 in Ga-Marishane, Northern Transvaal, (now Limpopo Province). Upon completing her schooling, she moved to…
BiographyThabo Marcus Motaung
Marcus Motaung grew up in Diepkloof in the 1960s and 1970s. His family moved to the Township around the early to mid-1960s. They were part of families forcibly…
BiographyVusumzi (Vusi) Linda Make
Vusimuzi Linda Make was born in Boksburg in 1934, the son of a priest, and later moved to Evaton.the son of an African Methodist Episcopal minister,Make grew…
A growing urban African population
… class grew in Johannesburg, the population of the freehold townships expanded. But it was Africans, Coloureds and … In 1928 there were 12 000 people living…
BiographyZacharia Solly Shoke
Zacharia Solomon Shoke was born on 15 August 1956 in Alexandra Township, Johannesburg. Shoke received his education at Orlando High School, Soweto Township,…
BiographyChris van Wyk
Chris van Wyk was born at Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital, Soweto, Johannesburg in 1957 and grew up in Newclare, before moving to Riverlea, a poor suburb…