7-516: Fietas Museum was opened on 24 September 2013, the museum is located in Pageview, Gauteng , South Africa . The building that the museum is housed in is one of the few to survive the forced removals under the Group Areas Act and was declared a Heritage resource in 2007. Fietas was the unofficial name given to the suburb of Pageview in its heyday between 1940 and 1965. During apartheid ,
14-514: Is a suburb of Johannesburg , South Africa . It is located in Region F of the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality . Populated by non-whites, predominantly Indians , until the 1970s, it was one of two adjacent suburbs (Pageview, and the portion of Vrededorp south of 11th Street populated by non-whites) commonly known as Fietas . In 1894, the land that would eventually become Pageview,
21-739: The area was re-zoned as a whites only area under the Group Areas Act. 14th street in particular was a subject of interest in one of Nat Nakasa 's writings. The following quote appears on the windows of the museum entrance doors: Well-known Nationalists come all the way from the platteland to buy in Fourteenth Street. It is possible to find members of the Johannesburg Stock Exchange or a City Councillor’s wife waiting to be served after an African labourer in Fourteenth Street. Pageview, Gauteng Pageview
28-550: The city, that was burned for sanitary reasons after an outbreak of bubonic plague in 1904. Most of the displaced Indians moved into the Malay Location, and by the 1940s was it mostly inhabited by Indian South Africans. On 27 January 1942, the Malay Location Standholders and Traders Association requested the name of the township be changed to Pageview after Johannesburg Mayor J.J Page. The town
35-401: The government attempted to exert control over the growing 'non-White' population of Johannesburg , by setting up 'locations' along racial lines. Pageview was initially earmarked for 'Malay', 'Cape Coloured' and 'Coloured' people. By the 1940s, the population had become predominantly 'Indian' and 14th Street into a popular shopping destination but this came to the attention of the government and
42-700: Was allocated by the South African Republic for Cape Coloureds (including Malays ) and it became populated by Cape Malays. It was known as the Malay Camp (later Malay Location ) with 279 stands. Coloureds had managed to obtain some concessions from the Boer government of Paul Kruger , possibly because they shared the Afrikaans language . Indians lived in the Coolie location , a slum west of
49-596: Was renamed on 23 February 1943 and the council asked the government to give the Indian land owners ownership of their land. In 1948, the National Party won the election and would soon introduce Apartheid . The area would be declared a white area which meant the eviction of all non-white residents, with black residents going to Soweto and Indian residents to Lenasia with evictions continuing from 1964 to 1970. Many homes were bulldozed , and housing for white people
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