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Westbury is a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa. It is located in the province of Gauteng. It is situated west of the Johannesburg CBD. History.
By 1930, large extensions had been made to Western Native Township, and the new suburb of Eastern Native had also been established. The latter was never permitted to grow to any significant size and, in 1976, it survived only as a Municipal single men’s hostel.
Oct 14, 2018 · In the late 1950s and early 1960s Sophiatown was demolished and named Triomf while Western Native Township, then known as Western, was renamed and preserved for coloured people. We were forcefully removed to Soweto and placed in townships like Moroka (Rockville), Chiawelo, Diepkloof and Meadowlands.
Context 1. ... 1946, the local authority had built six single-sex hostels for working class men in central Johannesburg and had established a number of official townships to accommodate African...
Nov 16, 2005 · Western Native Township. Source: 326:331.83, Museum Africa Photographic Library, Johannesburg. Aerial view of houses in Sophiatown in the mid-1950s. Note: This photograph was taken to...
Feb 12, 2015 · Extensive ethnographic research conducted by Julian Beinart (Citation 1975) maps the development of Western Native Township (WNT). Looking at the demolition of WNT and the development of Westbury, Malcolm Lupton ( Citation 1992 ) gives a detailed account of the controversial 1985 plan for the area.
A section to the south of Sophiatown became a municipal shelter location known as Western Native Township to restrict African settlement in Johannesburg after 1924 when the Native (Urban Areas) Act of 1923 was applied (Parnell and Pirie 1991).
