KwaMashu

KwaMashu is a township twenty miles north of Durban, South Africa with very high levels of poverty and crime. The township was formed by the apartheid state to house the mass resettlement of Africans that were living in Cato Manor during 1958-65. It is the largest of 3 townships in the area (Inanda and Ntuzuma are more rural with a lower population density). Until 1994, apartheid rules meant that it was illegal for white people to live in the township, or for blacks to live in the nearby city of Durban. In total the Inanda, Ntuzuma and KwaMashu (INK) area is home to 500,000 people living on 9,572 hectares of land, with almost 25% having incomes below subsistence level - and a 30% unemployment rate. The area is associated with high...