Mogopa community forcibly removed
Forced removals.
Date: 14 February, 1984
Over three and half million people have been victims of forced removals over the past 40 years. Perhaps the most publicized case is that of the Bakwena ba Mogopa who were forcibly removed in 1984 from two farms they had own since." /> The Black South African community at Mogopa is displaced in a "forced removal" action. About 300 homes and a cluster of community buildings are bulldozed. In 1987 the Supreme Court ruled that the removal of the Mogopa people was illegal.
Read the Story of Mogopa.
Read about the Group Areas Act.
Read more about forced removals to from Western Areas to Soweto.
Read more about the removals of Sophiatown and its final evacuation.
Read about the Supreme Court ruling on forced removals.
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