On the morning of 16 June 1976, I was the casualty officer at Baragwanath Hospital who received the first victims of what would become known as the Soweto Uprising.For the 30th anniversary of the uprising, Ali Hlongwane, then curator of the Hector Pieterson Museum, commissioned me to provide an account of my experience, to be published in an anthology
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Johannesburg from the Riverbanks: Navigating the Jukskei is an ambitious and timely contribution to Johannesburg studies. Bringing together twenty-one chapters by twenty-six contributors, the volume emerged largely from the 2023 Riparian Urbanism project and seeks to reposition the Jukskei River
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This is one of the independent schools that provided formal education in the pre-apartheid era. After “Bantu Education” was introduced in 1953, it fell under the control of the state, despite extensive protest action by the community.