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Jan
18
2024
By MATHATHA TSEDU
In Loving Memory of Sedupe Josiah Ramokgopa

In Loving Memory of Sedupe Josiah Ramokgopa

THOUGHT LEADERSHIP
SEDUPE Josiah “Rams” Ramokgopa was born in Orlando East, Soweto on the 25th of March 1937. He was the second-born child of Tobola Baldwin Ramokgopa and Mapula Frieda Ramokgopa (nee Madiba).  When he was a young boy, his family moved across the river to Orlando West which is where he was raised in a family of political activists. Sedupe attended local schools and matriculated from Orlando High School in 1956. As a teenager in 1952, Sedupe became involved in the activities of the Defiance Campaign and was recruited to distribute pamphlets and copies of the New Age during this campaign…
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Oct
27
2022
By The African Mirror
Apartheid ‘town planning’ created Orlando 90 years ago. It became a hotbed of black resistance

Apartheid ‘town planning’ created Orlando 90 years ago. It became a hotbed of black resistance

SPECIAL FEATURES: ANALYSIS
ORLANDO East, a working-class community on the periphery of Johannesburg in South Africa, has turned 90 years old. Orlando was one of the first municipal locations – called townships under apartheid – established in 1932 for Africans under the 1923 Native Urban Areas Act. It was renamed Orlando East when Orlando West was established in the 1940s. Author NOOR NIEFTAGODIEN, Head of the History Workshop, University of the Witwatersrand Several new townships were created, especially in the 1950s, in the same region. They were eventually amalgamated into Soweto, the country’s largest township. Soweto was the primary dormitory township for African…
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Jul
13
2022
By The African Mirror
Police hunt gunmen who fired 137 rounds in Soweto bar shooting

Police hunt gunmen who fired 137 rounds in Soweto bar shooting

NEWS
NQOBILE DLUDLA POLICE are hunting for five attackers who burst into a bar in Soweto, South Africa and killed 15 customers in a hail of at least 137 bullets over the weekend, the police minister said. Nine other people were wounded in the raid in the early hours of Sunday morning that followed closely on two other shootings in a surge of violence that shocked a nation with one of the world's highest murder rates. "It was such a brutality," Police Minister Bheki Cele told a crowd gathered at the scene in Soweto's Orlando East neighbourhood. "These people really came…
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