Special Report Transcript Episode 29, Section 4, Time 25:20

The shocking images of Sophiatown, people just being uprooted and carted away much against their will and quite hopelessly struggling against this thing, the machine of the National Party government at the time was just simply too strong. // Shortly after that the area was razed to the ground. In its place came Triomf, ‘triumph’, victory. The sterile clean streets that emerged from the rubble was indeed a triumph for white rule. Sophiatown’s spirit was broken, its people were dispersed. But today in an era which perhaps strives to regain the free, non racial character that was Sophiatown, some people believe that Sophiatown is not necessarily dead. The name at least will be restored.

Notes: Joe Louw; Photos: Forced removals; Demolitions; Triomf; Meadowlands

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