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The Sophiatown Removals
Sophiatown was a vibrant multiracial suburb of Johannesburg. Black, White and Asian people lived side by side. But in 1955, the apartheid government began to dismantle it.
In February 1955 the apartheid government in South Africa began forcibly evicting residents from Sophiatown, a multi-racial suburb of Johannesburg. It was demolished and turned into a whites-only area called Triomf. Victor Mokine was a child at the time and shares his memories with Witness.
(Photo: Victor Mokine at the Trevor Huddleston Memorial Centre in Sophiatown. Credit: THMC).
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