Even within black townships, ethnic groups were often segregated into separate areas for Zulus, Xhosas, Sothos, and others. The townships were racially discriminatory in that “black ” African, “colored ” (mixed-race), and “Indian ” people were ordered by the Land Act of 1913 and the Group Areas Act of 1950 to live separately. Possibly the most famous townships are in South Africa and were a creation of the apartheid system and its predecessor regimes of white rule.Īpartheid was formally instituted as state policy in 1948, but dating from the white settlers ’ permanent landing at what is now Cape Town in 1652, racial segregation was formal practice. A township is the land formally allocated to hosting the site of a town the word township legally refers to both residential and industrial sites.
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