April 2018 also marks the arrival of the fourth iteration of Black Chronicles, a highly acclaimed photographic and multimedia exhibition.
Sophiatown Heritage and Cultural Centre has become a lighthouse for a cultural expansion into a future Sophiatown cultural and heritage precinct.
A recently opened venue on Thornton Avenue in Sophiatown is at once a film-screening centre, gallery and jazz venue.
A "Sophiatown treasure hunt" was launched by the Trevor Huddleston Centre in Johannesburg on Wednesday, Human Rights Day, in the hopes of creating a unique collection of historic artefacts for Sophiatown’s new heritage museum, said Jerry Masoleng, the centre’s heritage officer.
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/ 12 February 2006
South Africans of all colours this weekend celebrated the return to its original name of Johannesburg’s most famous suburb, once blighted by apartheid bulldozers more than half-a-century ago. The working-class area in western Johannesburg was renamed Sophiatown on Saturday as it was once known by the 65 000 black residents who lived there before being forcibly removed by the white minority government in 1955.
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/ 11 February 2006
The reclaiming and renaming of Sophiatown, which has had two names for far too long, is a past we dare not forget, said Johannesburg Mayor Amos Masondo on Saturday. Masondo was speaking at a ceremony to rename Triomf back to Sophiatown, west of Johannesburg.
An oak tree in Sophiatown that might be as old as Joburg has been earmarked for destruction because it has become a nuisance.
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/ 18 September 1998
A small church is reuniting the uprooted residents of Kofifi, writes Peter Makurube When former residents of Sophiatown talk about their beloved Kofifi, they overdose on nostalgia. They’ve forgotten nothing – the music, the gangsters and the community spirit. However, the story of Sophiatown would not be complete without mentioning the tiny church on Ray […]
Dawn Blalock A PLAN to build a high school for disadvantaged students has stirred up charges of racism in Sophiatown – and illustrates how the community is still haunted by its turbulent history. Sparrow Schools Educational Trust, a non- profit group that runs special education schools for disadvantaged children, is trying to buy a plot […]
Three new books on the 1950s freeze history in photographs,=20 HAZEL FRIEDMAN. Is this a valuable lesson or just wallowing=20 in nostalgia? FOR each of us there is a special time and place on which=20 is indelibly stamped the word “golden”. Part reality, part=20 myth — the rough edges and contradictions blurred by=20 memory — […]