Is an industrial estate mainly occupied by the textile and clothing factories. In 1923 Langa township was established 5km south east of Ndabeni, and Ndabeni was dismantled under pressure from nearby white residents at Pinelands. Washing and cooking facilities were public and inadequate, and the grid-like streets were patrolled by African constables (see Capetown The township comprised 5 large dormitories each housing 500 men, and 615 lean-to huts made of corrugated iron, without floors, which often flooded in the It was a Coloured rather than Black African township being comprised of ‘Hottentot, Malay and mixed races’. Between 6 000 and 7 000 people were forcibly moved from District Uitvlugt (later known as Ndabeni) was established on the Cape Flats, next to a sewerage plant. Apparently, the Cape Town Medical Officer for Health declared that the living conditions of Africans were ‘very undesirable, bothįrom the point of view of sanitation and socially, by bringing uncleanly, half-civilised units into intimate contact with the more cleanly and civilised portion of the community". Uncontrolled Kafir hordes’ and many whites demanded segregation. Bubonic plague had broken out which was soon blamed on ‘these The first segregated township to be developed by the white authorities was Ndabeni in 1902.
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