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Sophiatown lives again

2005-04-21 23:52
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Johannesburg - The Johannesburg suburb of Triomf will officially be renamed Sophiatown again, SABC news reported on Thursday.

City of Johannesburg has adopted a resolution to go ahead with the renaming process.

The surbub was named Triomf after the apartheid government relocated black residents to Soweto 50 years ago.

The renaming is part of the 50 year celebration of Sophiatown.

- SAPA

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blipsie says... Max Coleman's authoritative book analyses all deaths due to political violence from 1948 to 1994 in South Africa and Namibia. According to the HRC statistics, 21,000 people died in political violence in South Africa during apartheid - of whom 14,000 people died during the six-year transition process from 1990 to 1994. The book lists the number of incidents, dates, and those involved.This includes SA Defence Force actions, for instance the 600 deaths at Kassinga in Angola during the war in 1978. Of those deaths, the vast majority, 92%, have been primarily due to Africans killing Africans -- such as the inter-tribal battles for territory: this book's detailed analyses of the period June 1990 to July 1993 indicates a total of 8580 (92%) of the 9,325 violent deaths during the period June 1990 to July 1993 were caused by Africans killing Africans, or as the news media often calls it, "Black on Black" violence - hostel killings, Inkatha Freedom Party versus ANC killlings, and taxi and turf war violence. The activities of the Civil Cooperation Bureau as outlined by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, were also included in these figures. The security forces caused 518 deaths (5.6%) throughout this period. Read the article...

 
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