Upbeat : Issue No. 8, 1990
Item
- Title
- Upbeat : Issue No. 8, 1990
- Description
- In July this year, 180 rural communities in the Natal Midlands received very good news. For more than 40 years the government has threatened 160 000 people living in Matiwane's Kop, Steincoalspruit, Cornfields, Stoffelton, Roosboom and Thenbalihle with forced removal. The government told them that they couldn't live there. This area was for whites only. But the communities said they wouldn't go. They had been living in this area for many years. In fact, their families had been living there for more than 200 years. So they decided to fight to stay. Early this year, community leaders met in Pietermaritzburg. They launched a campaign against the forced removal. They also sent a long letter to the Minister of Cooperation and Development. A few months later, the community leaders announced their victory to their communities. The government had backed down. They were not going to force the people to move.
- Subject
- Youth—South Africa—Periodicals
- Literacy
- Vocational guidance
- People's History
- Alternative education—South Africa
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/116547
- Rights
- South African Committee of Higher Education (SACHED)
- Rights Holder
- South African Committee of Higher Education (SACHED)
- Provenance
- The item is held at the Cory Library for Humanities Research, Rhodes University, on behalf of the Labour Research Service
- Type
- text
- Extent
- 40 pages
- Format
- Language
- English
- useGuidelines
- The materials are made available explicitly for research and educational purposes. Any use of these materials must be cleared with the Labour Research Service.
- Date
- 1990
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