![]() ![]() Her life in Herschel village in the Eastern Cape already felt like a long time ago. Since moving to Cape Town to work with her mother in the houses of white people, she had felt her sense of self begin to blur. She looked like someone else, Nondyebo thought. The face of a 16-year-old girl, a doek wrapped around her hair, looked up at her from the gleaming marble. Nondyebo stirred her tea, careful to wipe the kitchen countertop clean. Photo:Andrea Teagle, 7 March 2023.Ĭape Town, 1961. ![]() On 20 March, 1960, between 30,000 and 50,000 protestors from Langa and Nyanga, including PAC leaders Philip Kgosana and Robert Sobukwe, presented themselves for arrest at the police headquarters for not carrying their passes. Andrea Teagle and Diana Sanchez report.Ī woman and child pass by a mural in Langa, Cape Town, that honours the 1960 Langa March. The HSRC, in collaboration with the Langa NGO iKhaya, is collating stories for a book on the history of Langa township over the past 100 years. Yet the township’s history is rich with moments of resistance. Serving as a labour reservoir for menial work in white industries and households during apartheid, its residents faced decades of hardship. The act was designed to segregate black South Africans into designated locations, isolating them from the broader economy. A century ago, Cape Town’s first township, Langa, was created under the Urban Areas Act of 1923. ![]()
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