The Group Areas Act: Passed 65 years ago
On 7 July 1950 the South African government passed the The Group Areas Act, Act No 41 of 1950, which resulted in many forced removals of many "non-Whites" from their homes, such as District Six, Sophiatown...etc
"The Group Areas Act: Passed 65 years ago"
PXPA0005,South Africa, Cape Town, 1974, District 6 Six.Forced removals, apartheidPhoto: Paul Alberts/South
PXPA0001,South Africa, Cape Town, 1974, District 6 Six.Forced removals, apartheidPhoto: Paul Alberts/South
PXPA0003,South Africa, Cape Town, 1974, District 6 Six.forced removals, apartheidPhoto: Paul Alberts/South
PXPA0004,South Africa, Cape Town, 1974, District 6 Six.Forced removals, apartheidPhoto: Paul Alberts/South
PXPA0002,South Africa, Cape Town, 1974, District 6 Six.family before forced removal. apartheidPhoto: Paul Alberts/South
PXPA0006,South Africa, Cape Town, 1974, District 6 Six.forced removalsPhoto: Paul Alberts/South
DM2002071004:SAED:SOCIAL:APARTHEID:NODATE - Teenagers in Sophiatown during the Removals. (Photograph by Peter Magubane BAHA) youth, poverty,school uniform
DM2000022211:SAED:POLITICS:APARTHEID:AUG1954 - Crisis Over Western Areas - Meadowlands, the houses everyone is watching. These are some of the houses being built for the 75 000 people to be evicted from Johannesburg&aposs Western Areas. Squaters nearby want to move in. Western Areas residents don&apost want them. The police are guarding against squaters. (Photograph by Peter Magubane Baileys Archives)
DM2000022209:SAED:POLITICS:APARTHEID:FEB1955 - What will Happen In The Western Areas - Sophiatown Residents Show Mixed Feelings About The Move - The first sixty families in Sophiatown, Johannesburg, have been given orders to leave their houses, and have been offered accomodation in the new location in Meadowlands. "You are hereby required in terms of the Native Resetlement Act 1954 to vacate the premises in which you are residing..." The first date given is February 12th. (Photograph by Bob Gosani Baileys Archives)
DM2002031823:SAED:SOCIAL:POLITICS:NOV1959 - Last Days Of Sophiatown - Big machines and men with picks are beating down the last walls of Sof&apostown. Take a last look and say goodbye. Sophiatown, the city that was within a city, the Gay Paris of Johannesburg, the notorious Casbah gang den, the shebeeniest of them all. Sophiatown is now breathing for the last time. I was robbed on her streets, beaten up in her dark corners and I will never forget the day when a woman friend of mine was grabbed from me by Sophiatown&aposs tough sons. Her people do not like the fact that she is being murdered and I sympathise with them because she was a free city. There was Aunt Babes, in Edith Street. Bright&aposs place in Tucker and opposite him the Carlton Hotel, run by a Chinaman. She also had her respectable citizens. There was Dr. A.B. Xuma, the African M.D., and Mr J. R. Rathebe, who reminded everybody that he was once in America. Sophiatown will also boast that it built two gentlemen who fell in
DM2000022214:SAED:POLITICS:APARTHEID:FEB1955 - What Will Happen In The Western Areas - Sophiatown Residents Show Mixed Feelings About The Move - The first sixty families in Sophiatown, Johannesburg, have been given orders to leave their houses, and have been offered accomodation in the new location in Meadowlands. "You are hereby required in terms of the Native Resetlement Act 1954 to vacate the premises in which you are residing..." The first date given is February 12th. (Photograph by Bob Gosani Baileys Archives)
DM2000101002:SAED:POLITICS:APARTHEID:SOCIAL - Last Days Of Sophiatown - Big machines and men with picks are beating down the last walls of Sof&apostown. Take a last look and say goodbuy. Sophiatown, the city that was within a city, the Gay Paris of Johannesburg, the notorious Casbah gang den, the shebeeniest of them all. Sophiatown is now breathing for the last time. I was robbed on her streets, beaten up in her dark corners and I will never forget the day when a womean friend of mine was grabbed from me by Sophiatown&aposs tough sons. Her people do not like the fact that she is being murdered and I sympathise with them because she was a free city. There was Aunt Babes, in Edith Street. Bright&aposs place in Tucker and opposite him the Carlton Hotel, run by a Chinaman. She also had her respectable citizens. There was Dr. A.B. Xuma, the African M.D., and Mr J. R. Rathebe, who reminded everybody that he was once in America. Sophiatown will also boast that it built two gentlemen who fell
DM2001051005:SAED:SOCIAL:JUN1958 - Weenen Again - There&aposs more weeping at the place of tears. A roar of flames, a cloud of smoke, and the hopes and part of the home of a family are destroyed. About 100 yards from roads from a road in the Weenen area a frail-looking woman is pecking with a stick among burnt-out ruins of a hut , dazed, not fully knowing what she is doing. After the fire and the bulldozers had vanished with the huts there was nothing left but chared rubble. ( Photograph by Peter Magubane / G.R Naidoo Baileys Archive)
DM2001101601:GCP:SOCIAL:CHILDREN:250CT1959 - Sophia Refugge 1959 (Little Girl Crying) - I used to play here with my mates when this was our house, when Mom and Dad and Me lived here. But then the Big Men and The Big Machines came and knocked down all the houses and my friends have gone away and I&aposm lonely and I don&apost know where we&aposre going now. That&aposs why I&aposm crying. (Photograph by Drum Photographer BAHA)
DM2005020911:SAED:SOCIAL:APARTHEID:1955 - Sophiatown Removals - (Photograph by Drum Photographer BAHA) neg 926
DM2005020940:SAED:POLITICS:APARTHEID:FEB1955 - What Will Happen In The Western Areas - Sophiatown Residents Show Mixed Feelings About The Move - The first sixty families in Sophiatown, Johannesburg, have been given orders to leave their houses, and have been offered accomodation in the new location in Meadowlands. "You are hereby required in terms of the Native Resetlement Act 1954 to vacate the premises in which you are residing..." The first date given is February 12th. (Photograph by Bob Gosani BAHA)
DM2005020937:SAED:POLITICS:APARTHEID:FEB1955 - What Will Happen In The Western Areas - Sophiatown Residents Show Mixed Feelings About The Move - The first sixty families in Sophiatown, Johannesburg, have been given orders to leave their houses, and have been offered accomodation in the new location in Meadowlands. "You are hereby required in terms of the Native Resetlement Act 1954 to vacate the premises in which you are residing..." The first date given is February 12th. (Photograph by Bob Gosani BAHA)
a desolate scene in nthe forced removal area of Fietas. Johannesburg 1984� Cedric Nunn
Journalists monitor the forced removals of the Mogopa people. North West Province. 1984� Cedric Nunn
Recently evicted off white owned farms, these tenent farmers and labourers begin new lives in the resettlement camp of Waaihoek, KwaZulu/Natal 1985� Cedric Nunn
PXPG0015, South Africa, Namaqualand, 1989.Reidents and Representatives of various organisations takePart in march on municipal offices in port nolloth to demand that Tente Dorp not be moved. forced removals, anti apartheid, protest. Photograph Paul Grendon/South.
Doornkop residents return to land from which they were forcibly removed. Mpumalanga 1994� Cedric Nunn+27 082 493 6525
Recently evicted off white owned farms, these tenent farmers and farmworkers begin their new lives in the resettlement camp of Waaihoek. KwaZulu/Natal 1985� Cedric Nunn
GW0070, South Africa, East Rand, 1991: Squatters demostrate, homeless, South African defense force, army, forced removals.. Photograph: Graeme Williams/South Photographs
Impoverished family in Goedgevonden. The states policy of forced removals amongst other draconian laws disrupted many families and undoubtedly contributed to the impoverishment of families like this. 1996© Cedric Nunn
Recently evicted off white owned farms, these tenent farmers and labourers begin new lives in the resettlement camp of Waaihoek, KwaZulu/Natal 1985� Cedric Nunn
Recently returned residents of Goedgevonden after they were forcibly removed by the apartheid state. North West Province. 1996© Cedric Nunn
Recently evicted off white owned farms, these tenent farmers and labourers begin new lives in the resettlement camp of Waaihoek, KwaZulu/Natal 1985� Cedric Nunn
Recently evicted off white owned farms, these tenent farmers and labourers begin new lives in the resettlement camp of Waaihoek, KwaZulu/Natal 1985� Cedric Nunn
GW0249, South Africa, Midrand. 1991: Police watch squatters whose homes have been demolished. Homeless, forced removals, army, task force, military.. Photgraph: Graeme Williams/ South Photographs
DM2001112704:SAED:POLITICS:WOMEN:OCT1959 - Trouble in Natal - Group Areas. (Photo by Drum photographer BAHA)
Chairman of the Liberal Party, Alan Paton, addresses a crowd in Fordsburg about the harm done to South Africa By the Group Areas Act on the 28th of July 1957
Members of the Black Sash and oter sympathetic organisations protest ove rthe group Areas Act, outside Durban City Hall. 02/08/1990
Members of the Black Sash and oter sympathetic organisations protest ove rthe group Areas Act, outside Durban City Hall. 02/08/1990
Buildings before destruction
Site installation on vacant District Six site as part of the public sculture festival in 1997, by Kevin Brand
Buildings before destruction
Buildings before destruction
Buildings before destruction
Kader's Cash Store in Hanover Street, District Six before destruction
Buildings before destruction
Aerial view of District Six soon after destruction
Close up of the floor map on the interior of the District Six Museum
Mr. Ap Hung and his family must leave their shop in Sophiatown by the 18th of April 1957. They have been given no alternative housing or shop
DM2005020907:SAED:SOCIAL:APARTHEID:1955 - Sophiatown Removals - The Move - The first sixty families in Sophiatown, Johannesburg, have been given orders to leave their houses, and have been offered accomodation in the new location in Meadowlands. "You are hereby required in terms of the Native Resetlement Act 1954 to vacate the premises in which you are residing..." The first date given is February 12th. (Photograph by Drum Photographer BAHA) neg 926
DM2002031819:SAED:SOCIAL:POLITICS:NOV1959 - Last Days Of Sophiatown - Big machines and men with picks are beating down the last walls of Sof&apostown. Take a last look and say goodbye. Sophiatown, the city that was within a city, the Gay Paris of Johannesburg, the notorious Casbah gang den, the shebeeniest of them all. Sophiatown is now breathing for the last time. I was robbed on her streets, beaten up in her dark corners and I will never forget the day when a woman friend of mine was grabbed from me by Sophiatown&aposs tough sons. Her people do not like the fact that she is being murdered and I sympathise with them because she was a free city. There was Aunt Babes, in Edith Street. Bright&aposs place in Tucker and opposite him the Carlton Hotel, run by a Chinaman. She also had her respectable citizens. There was Dr. A.B. Xuma, the African M.D., and Mr J. R. Rathebe, who reminded everybody that he was once in America. Sophiatown will also boast that it built two gentlemen who fell in
DM2005020932:SAED:SOCIAL:APARTHEID:NODATE - Teenagers in Sophiatown during the Removals. (Photograph by Peter Magubane BAHA) youth, poverty. neg 889
DM2001052419:SAED:SOCIAL:CHILDREN:1955 - Sophiatown (Photograph by Bob Gosani BAHA) coca cola sign, neg 605
OCTOBER 1953 �SNATCH! WILL MEAN MORE RACIAL CONFLICT �NEG 283. SAED:SOCIAL:POLITICS:PERSONALITIES:DRUM OCTOBER 1953 �Gray Mbau, 27-year-old Social Worker, lives with wife Louisa, son Jethron and niece Edna in pleasant Sophiatown, Johannesburg, cottage. Mr. and Mrs. Mbau are two of 75,000 to be �natched�from Johannesburg homes. He bough his free hold property in 1951 for �1250 but under the �natch�Act it is evaluated at �500. He stopped all improvements through the Act so he should not lose more money. .(Photograph by Drum Photographer �Baileys Archives) NEG 283 FRAME 10
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