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Working Life - Factories, Townships, and Popular Culture 1886-1940
… Working Life - Factories, Townships, and Popular Culture 1886-1940 …
Working Life - Factories, Townships, and Popular Culture 1886-1940
… Working Life - Factories, Townships, and Popular Culture 1886-1940 …
Township Uprising, 1984-1985
… parliament, and did not pay much attention to black townships at this time. Some activists were aware of the … In this way the UDF started playing a bigger…
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…
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…
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…
Pretoria the Segregated city
… encouraged the idea of planned and carefully controlled townships. The idea of returning Blacks to the reserves was … also moved out of the centre of…
ArticleA history of Soweto
… labour demands in the mining industry. The creation of townships was to keep a steady labour force in urban areas … involved the forced removal of Africans…
ArticleThe Destruction of Sophiatown
… the NRB acted as a local authority in respect of the new townships. The NRB started the process by undertaking a … significantly, length of residence in…
ArticleWestern Cape Youth Uprising timeline 1976
… 14 August, There are reports of arson in the African townships. 16 August, Pupils at Alexander Sinton High and … street. 4-5 September, The youth come out in…
The people armed, 1984-1990
… Community Council. The ANC called on residents to ‘ make townships ungovernable’ by destroying the Black Local … communities, Troops and police who had…
Article1960 - 1994: Armed Struggle and Popular Resistance
… Community Council. The ANC called on residents to " make townships ungovernable" by destroying the Black Local … communities, Troops and police who had…
ArticleAn Introduction to Sophiatown
… shacks of all types Sophiatown, and the other freehold townships that developed in the Western areas - Martindale …
ArticleBlack Consciousness and student revolt in the Cape
… of protests. Student demonstrations took place in African townships such as Langa, Gugulethu and Nyanga. On 10 August … 12 August 1976 violence had spread to…
ArticleSouth African Youth Congress (SAYCO)
… national youth organization. It was decide that individual townships and regions establish their own youth congresses … of the state of emergency The…
ArticleXenophobic violence in democratic South Africa
… service delivery and the influence of micro politics in townships, involvement and complicity of local authority … Alexandra triggered more xenophobic…
ArticleSophiatown timeline 1899-1955
… as compared to growth in the other adjacent freehold townships of Newclare and Matindale. 1932-1937 Successful …
The 1980s and the crisis of Apartheid
… 'terrorists' and 'communists'. The army was sent into the townships in 1984, but the apartheid regime never recovered. … with thousands in detention and an…
ArticleWestern Cape Civic Association (WCCA)
… WCCA organised a campaign against forced removals in the townships and informal settlements in Cape Town. The WCCA was …
ArticlePopular struggles in the early years of Apartheid, 1948-1960
… Smuts was incapable of dealing with growing unrest in the townships as well as the increasing number of strikes. The … soon after the NP government assumed…
ArticleEnd Conscription Campaign (ECC)
… printed this poster against sending troops into the townships, in 1985. The ECC worked closely with the UDF. … conscription laws, the war in Angola, the…
ArticleCape Schools Join the Revolt
… aware of the extra police patrols that were set up in the townships following June 16. After the first shootings in … had experienced in June. Administrative…
June 17
… sanctions. The protest action also spread to other townships around Soweto. In Thembisa, students organised a …
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1990s
… 1990 Nelson Mandela is released from prison. 27 townships declared unrest areas in terms of the Public Safety … one against a synagogue. 8 July, Thousands of…
ArticlePass Laws and Sharpeville Massacre
… than strict policing, Sharpeville, like all other townships created by the NP government, was made to pay for … the town council. The lives of residents of…
ArticleLife in Sophiatown
… As population in the freehold townships swelled, overcrowding and rack renting became the …
ArticleXenophobic violence in democratic South Africa timeline
… of Alexandra triggered more xenophobic violence in other townships. Firstly, it only spread in the Gauteng Province. …
Biography of Mtutuzeli Dudu Pukwana by Nick Mencia
… from developed areas to racially segregated urban townships. The living situations were stark and virtually uninhabitable. Corrupt police would patrol the…
Legislation, Dissent, and Violence in Sophiatown under Apartheid
… activists; and its proximity to other (White) Johannesburg townships. Through organisations, protests, publications, and … Sophiatown, Newclare, and…
ArticleYouth Politics in South Africa in the 1970s
… philosophy, complementing SASO which was student-oriented. Townships across the country were experiencing an increase in … number of scholars and schools…