Apparently in preparation to relocate African township dwellers and 'squatters' from the Cape Town area, a new African township is to be built on a 9,000 acre site 25 miles outside Cape Town, the government announced in May. The virtual freeze on house-building for Africans in the Cape Peninsula over the last decade led to massive overcrowding in the three townships for Africans just outside Cape Town, forcing thousands to build makeshift shelters on neighbouring sites. (see FOCUS 46 p. 9).
It appears that the government intends to move about 1,000 'squatters' to the new township in June. The more than 150,000 Africans living in the present three townships will also be expected to move out. It is not known, however, whether any of the 72,000 black people living illegally in Cape Town will be allocated places in the new township (GN 28.5.83).
