North County Times - A multicultural hub wiped out under apartheid is restored

Strains of jazz echoed through suburban streets Saturday as Sophiatown's former residents returned with a boisterous parade to reclaim the legendary black cultural hub wiped off the map under apartheid. The destruction of one of Johannesburg's oldest black settlements more than 50 years ago came to represent the callousness and brutality of white racist rule. The new white suburb that emerged from the rubble of Sophiatown was named 'Triomf,' Afrikaans for triumph. (...) "'Triomf' meant the victory of white supremacy," Masondo told more than 500 people gathered under a white marquee in the heart of Sophiatown. "Let me hasten to add, however, that Sophiatown was never erased from the hearts and minds of its people."