Witwatersrand during the 1940s and 1950s never involved themselves in "politics". Because they were almost by definition unemployed they were also marginal to the struggle between capital and labour. A study of the tsotsi ...

Crime has been a major grievance of township residents, since the 1940s. In the late 1950s to the 1970s local representative Black Bodies such as the Advisory Boards calls for better urban social conditions were ignored ...