SOURCE: BBC
7/31/2022
tags: South Africa, apartheid
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7/31/2022
The South African Community Destroyed for a Whites-Only Suburb
Historians in the Newstags: South Africa, apartheid
On 9 February 1955 apartheid South Africa forcibly evicted residents from Sophiatown, a multi-racial suburb in Johannesburg. 65,000 people were ‘removed’ and Sophiatown was demolished and turned into a whites-only neighbourhood called Triomf.
Elizabeth Nobathane was a child at the time and shares her memories of the night soldiers arrived to move her family to a segregated new township called Meadowlands, 13 miles outside of Johannesburg.
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