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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In 1919, The Technical High School, the only one of its kind, opened its doors to boys from all over South Africa. It had started in wood and iron buildings in Plein Square under Headmaster JJB Rees before moving to this site. In 1926 it changed to an academic school named Forest High School and girls were admitted for the first time.