Duduza is a township

Township (South Africa)

In South Africa, the term township and location usually refers to the urban living areas that, from the late 19th century until the end of Apartheid, were reserved for non-whites . Townships were usually built on the periphery of towns and cities...

 west of Nigel

Nigel, Gauteng

Nigel is a small gold mining town in Gauteng Province, South Africa. The town is on the edge of the area known as the East Rand, the industrial engine room of Johannesburg....

 on the East Rand, Gauteng

Gauteng

Gauteng is one of the nine provinces of South Africa. It was formed from part of the old Transvaal Province after South Africa's first all-race elections on 27 April 1994...

, South Africa

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. It was established in 1964

1964 in South Africa

-June:* Nelson Mandela's original 5 year sentence is commuted for life for high treason in the Rivonia Trial* 5 June - South Africa is expelled from the Universal Postal Union in Vienna-July:...

 when Africans were resettled from Charterston because it was considered by the apartheid government to be too close to a white town. A local authority was established in 1983

1983 in South Africa

-January:* 26 January - One person is killed and five injured by a bomb that explodes at the New Brighton Community Council offices* 30 January - A bomb explodes at the Pietermaritzburg Supreme Court Explosion-February:...

. Duduza experienced violent school, consumer, bus, and rent boycotts from 1984

1984 in South Africa

-Events:* 8 January - The South African Defence Force begins withdrawal from southern Angola-February:* 3 February - A bomb destroys the offices of the Ciskei consulate in Durban* 23 February - A Escom installation in Georgetown is slightly damaged by explosion...

 to 1987

1987 in South Africa

-January:* 1 January - South African Defence Force servicemen are attacked in Alexandra, Johannesburg and at least one injured* 3 January - Three people are injured when a limpet mine explodes at the corner of Jeppe and Delvers Streets in Johannesburg...

. A state of emergency was imposed in July 1985

1985 in South Africa

-January:* Three guerrillas and a policeman are killed in a skirmish near Nongoma* 31 January - Pieter Willem Botha, State President of South Africa offers a release proposal to jailed African National Congress leader Nelson Mandela...

 and the South African Army

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was called in as the violence peaked.

The name Duduza means "to comfort" in English; this was to comfort the forced removal of the residents of the then-Charterston township, which was also known as Beirut.
Duduza was one of the most highly active townships in South Africa in the fight against apartheid. It is also recorded as the first place where a 'necklace mob' burned a person to death by using a tire filled with gasoline.It has produced a lot of prominent figures such as Ntombi Mekgwe, Vuyo Mokoena, Njabulo Ndebele to name a few.