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Ciskei, the backyard of apartheid
The Transkei was first, then came Bophuthatswana, and then Venda. And on December 4 1981, Apartheid got a new backyard. They called it...
A special day
The 20th August 1983 was a special day. Over 10 thousand people came together at a meeting in Cape Town. They met to begin their fight...
Matchboxes for sale
THE GOOD NEWS AND THE BAD NEWS Last month the government decided to sell 500 thousand houses in the townships all over South Africa....
The new pass laws
Piet ‘Promises’ Koornhof has a big new plan. He wants to make new pass laws. The new pass laws will keep millions of people in the...
Monty tastes freedom after three years
The man who went to jail for nothing Monty Mzinyathi spent 3 years in jail for nothing. He was sent to jail for something he didn’t do....
“We don’t want to become servants and beggars!”
The Bakubung people from Mathopestad are worried. The government said they must leave Mathopestad. The government wants to give...
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