Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Sophiatown (pronounced with a long, stressed i) (also known as Sof''town or Kofifi) is a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa. Originally called Sophiatown, it was destroyed, and a white suburb called Triomf (Triumph) was established in its place by the apartheid government, before the name Sophiatown was officially restored in 2006. Sophiatown was one of four freehold townships outside of the city of Johannesburg, South Africa. Along with Alexandra Township, Martindale, and Newclare, Sophiatown was one of the few places where black Africans could own land before a 1913 law prohibited freeholding for them.