With out the proper services, such as sewage, electricity, roads, and clean water, life becomes very difficult for them. Since the houses are not there with the government’s permission they most likely do not have the proper services needed. Most often the homes are built on lands that are not owned by the occupier so it is there illegally. Within the townships, the communities face many troubling issues. The new townships being built to house people forcibly removed from shack settlements have much smaller houses than those built under apartheid and are often, but not always, even further from city centres than apartheid era townships. In Cape Town and Durban this has given rise to mass resistance.
The difference is that under apartheid all black people faced forced removals to townships while now it is only the poor living in shack settlements that face eviction to townships on the peripheries of cities. Post-apartheidįorced removal from city centres to townships has continued in post-apartheid South Africa. Some old townships have seen rapid development since 1994, with, for instance, wealthy, and middle-income areas growing up in parts of Soweto, Chatsworth, etc. Today they are often viewed as just one of the many suburbs that an urban area might have. Most South African towns and cities will have at least one township associated with them. However policy makers are, as in the 1950s, once again using the term ' slums' in a highly pejorative way. Townships sometimes have large informal settlements nearby.ĭespite their origins in apartheid South Africa, today the terms township, location and informal settlements are not used pejoratively. The slang term "Kasie", a popular short version of "Lokasie" is also used sometimes to refer to townships. Townships for non-whites were also called locations or lokasie in Afrikaans, and are often still referred to by that name in smaller towns. Legislation that enabled the Apartheid government to do this included the Group Areas Act. Separate townships were established for each of the three designated non-white race groups (blacks, coloureds and Indians).
Apartheid in South Africaĭuring the Apartheid Era blacks were evicted from properties that were in areas designated as "white only" and forced to move into segregated townships. The town of Hankey ( foreground), with accompanying township ( background) on the edge of the town.
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