The Sophiatown Removals

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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).