Special Report Transcript Episode 84, Section 5, Time 32:58

Sophiatown happened almost by accident. The owner of the farm Waterval, one H Tobianski planned a private lease hold township for low income white people. He named the area after his wife, Sophia, but he failed to attract white buyers to the area. It became a place where black people could buy land and they did, alongside Chinese, coloureds and Indians. As white South Africans rallied to bring the National Party into power in 1948 black South Africans were creating the first truly non-racial society in the country.

Notes: Beginnings of Sophiatown, film footage

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