Special Report Transcript Episode 84, Section 5, Time 31:53

Sophiatown was truly a melting pot, a place where musicians, artists, writers and gangsters combined to create an excitement that is still remembered with nostalgia. People lived as if they were free in a time that white capital and Afrikaner nationalism gathered forces to formalize a most restrictive ideology. Sophiatown was the embryo of an exciting South Africa, culturally and politically, and that is exactly why it had to be destroyed. Because it threatened the designs of racial separation and white Calvinist superiority.

Notes: Photos: Dorothy Masuka, gangsters, Sophiatown streets

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