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  • In other words, they are identical to the way many white South Africans view poor black South Africans such as those that lived in Chiawelo until they were evicted out of gentrifying Soweto (and thus made filming the movie there easier – how ironic!).

    What I disliked about District 9 « Digital immigrant 2009

  • After the march, residents were expected to head to Chiawelo

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2008

  • The title of young lions was inspired by the heroic battle fought by a young militant of the ANC called Linda Jabane - the Lion of Chiawelo, so named by ANC

    ANC Today 2007

  • The title of young lions was inspired by the heroic battle fought by a young militant of the ANC called Linda Jabane - the Lion of Chiawelo, so named by ANC President Oliver Tambo.

    ANC Today 2007

  • Registration campaign which kicked off in Chiawelo, Soweto.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2005

  • Working together with the structures of the ANC-led Alliance, the family has, for weeks, been involved in preparations for the reburial of Linda Jabane, a combatant of Umkhonto we Sizwe who was killed in a grenade explosion during a shoot-out with the apartheid security forces in Chiawelo in 1980.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2003

  • Working together with the structures of the ANC-led Alliance, the family has, for weeks, been involved in preparations for the reburial of Linda Jabane, a combatant of Umkhonto we Sizwe who was killed in a grenade explosion during a shoot-out with the apartheid security forces in Chiawelo in 1980.

    THE JABANE REBURIAL BECOMES JOINT BURIAL 2003

  • Neighbours, who witnessed the fight from the safety of their unlit houses, described Linda, who operated under the combat name 'Gordon Dikebu', as having fought like a lion, hence the name "The Lion of Chiawelo" which he earned posthumously.

    ANC Today 2003

  • Neighbours, who witnessed the fight from the safety of their unlit houses, described Linda, who operated under the combat name 'Gordon Dikebu', as having fought like a lion, hence the name "The Lion of Chiawelo" which he earned posthumously.

    ANC Today 2003

  • Linda died in a grenade blast during a shoot-out, in the early hours of 20 November 1980, with the apartheid security forces who had uncovered his hideout in Chiawelo, Soweto.

    ANC Today 2003

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