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- Sophiatown /soʊˈfaɪətaʊn/, also known as Sof'town or Kofifi, is a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa. Sophiatown was a poor multi-racial area and a black...
- Sophiatown is a 2003 do****entary film. Sophiatown in the 1950s was a suburb of Johannesburg South Africa where all races mixed in defiance of apartheid...
- in the early 1950s during the apartheid era for black residents from Sophiatown. Meadowlands, also known as Ndofaya, has its origin with the introduction...
- Sisulu, Congress Mbata, and William Nkomo) who in 1944 visited his home in Sophiatown to agitate for his acceptance of the league's manifesto and draft constitution...
- Johannesburg, South Africa. Westdene lies between the historic suburb of Sophiatown and Melville with the Melville Koppies nature reserve to the north of...
- removal of Sophiatown began on 9 February 1955 under the Western Areas Removal Scheme. In the early hours, heavily armed police entered Sophiatown to force...
- written in reaction to the forced relocation of black South Africans from Sophiatown, to the new township of Meadowlands. The song was po****rised by a number...
- of the most famous uses of the Group Areas Act was the destruction of Sophiatown, a suburb of Johannesburg. On 9 February 1955, 2,000 policemen began removing...
- Ferrairasdorp, Johannesburg, and later of Christ the King, Sophiatown. He became archdeacon of Sophiatown in 1999. He became archbishop of Cape Town on 31 December...
- that he had found his successor. Over the course of the next 13 years in Sophiatown, Huddleston developed into a much-loved priest and respected anti-apartheid...