At the meeting he spurred 5 000 people to volunteer to protest Blackspots removal.
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History: Walter Sisulu asks people to protest ‘Blackspots’ removalSource: Getty Images
These had been identified after the National Government came into power in 1948.
In 1953 the black people of Charlestown were told that they would have to move to Buffalo Flats.
In 1963 they were forcibly moved from Charlestown to another area called ‘Duck Ponds’.
Their Charlestown houses were demolished, and their goods were loaded onto lorries and moved to small prefabricated huts.
They were not allowed to take their livestock with them.
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