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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...
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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...
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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...
- in the
early 1950s
during the
apartheid era for
black residents from
Sophiatown. Meadowlands, also
known as Ndofaya, has its
origin with the introduction...
- area was the
township of
Sophiatown, near Johannesburg,
which had
since the 1930s
offered a
black urban lifestyle.
Sophiatown and
Alexandra were rare "freehold"...
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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...
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written in a
uniquely Sophiatown-influenced
blend of
English and Tsotsitaal. This
creative period has been
called the
Sophiatown renaissance. The backbone...
- 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...
- 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...
