Drum Magazine social history photographs, South Africa edition 1016

South Africa, 1955. What Will Happen In The Western Areas: Sophiatown residents show mixed feelings about the move. The first sixty families in Sophiatown, Johannesburg, have been given orders to leave their houses, and have been offered accommodation in the new location in Meadowlands. "You are hereby required in terms of the Native Resettlement Act 1954 to vacate the premises in which you are residing ..." The first date given is February 12th.