| Fietas Museum | |
| Coordinates: | -26.1966°N 28.0188°W |
| Location: | 25 14th street, Pageview, Johannesburg |
| Type: | Apartheid |
| Curator: | Salma Patel |
| Website: | http://www.gauteng.net/attractions/attraction-fietas-museu-mmemory-in-action-mia |
Fietas Museum was opened on 24 September 2013, the museum is located in Pageview, Gauteng, South Africa. [1] 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.
See main article: Pageview, Gauteng. Fietas was the unofficial name given to the suburb of Pageview in its heyday between 1940 and 1965. During apartheid, the government attempted to exert control over the growing 'non-White' population of Johannesburg, by setting up 'locations' along racial lines.[2]
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 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: