Local histories of the Gauteng City-Region

This series is envisioned as a multi-year project of Occasional Papers. The project will centre the histories of township areas that are spatially on the periphery of the province but are also peripheral to how we remember and think about Gauteng. These histories will be written using oral histories, archival material and photographs, and will be a core area of external collaboration for the theme. The Papers will be produced in collaboration with Wits History Workshop. The first iteration of the project will be a history of the historical and contemporary ties between Reggio Emilia, Italy, and Gauteng rooted in the liberation struggle. The second iteration will be a project dedicated to Fietas (officially known as Pageview), a historic, formerly multiracial suburb just west of central Johannesburg. This locality was famous for its vibrant, tight-knit culture and the bustling 14th Street market, it was systematically destroyed and its residents forcibly relocated by the apartheid government under the Group Areas Act in the 1960s and 1970s.