Township

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Township is the name used to refer to the urban ghetto where black South African citizens were required to live under the British colonial and apartheid regimes.

General definition of the word

South African definition and use of the term

Formally known as a "Location" ("Lokasie" in Afrikaans)

Specific townshhips

Langa

Sophiatown

Soweto

The township musical

A term used to refer to a uniquely South African form of musical melodrama which evolved in the various black urban townships of South Africa, also as a particularly powerful form of political and protest theatre.

See further Township musical

Township theatre

Theatre in Soweto

Township venues

A reference to venues in urban, (black) townships utilized for theatrical performances. These ranged from formal Community Halls, school and church halls to private homes, shebeens, streets and grave-sides.

After the fall of Apartheid and the new dispensation in 1994, the townships gradually became larger and economically more empowered. Also a number of new venues arose, including the Soweto Theatre in Jabulani (2012),

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