Over the next eight years Sophiatown was flattened and removed from the maps of Johannesburg to give way for a suburb for whites, and the area was renamed Triomf-Afrikaans for "Triumph"-by the Apartheid government.
Sophiatown was flattened and removed from the maps of Johannesburg. This was over the next eight years. This was to give way for a suburb for whites. The area was renamed Triomf-Afrikaans for "Triumph"-by the Apartheid government.