July 2020 marked the 70th anniversary of the proclamation of the Group Areas Act, and Durban was the pioneering city to plan for group areas zoning. In 1958, Durban was zoned a 'white' city.

For more than 50 years, street gangs have been a defining part of life in the so-called “coloured” communities of the Cape Flats area of Cape Town, South Africa. “Coloured” was one of four ...

As the country celebrated its Freedom Day on Tuesday, there was another anniversary to be marked: 60 years of The Group Areas Act ... Museum website, the SA History Archive, the SA Institute ...

Cape Town - Government's intention to classify land owners in South Africa in terms of their race and nationality is tantamount to a return to the old Group Areas Act, the Freedom Front Plus said on ...

Durban - After years of waiting, 15 Durban families will receive a total of R9.7 million in compensation for the land they lost under the Group Areas Act. At a function in Durban on Tuesday night ...

Bloemfontein - The Supreme Court of Appeal in Bloemfontein was asked on Friday to rule on a curious dilemma created by the former apartheid regime's notorious Group Areas Act. The dispute has pitched ...

THE infamous Group Areas Act was late anti-apartheid champion Morris Fynn’s greatest bugbear. Ironically, decades after the act forced him to leave his Mtwalume ancestral home, a local chief is ...

Then one day in the mid-1950s, it was all taken away from him with no compensation under a law introduced in 1950 called the Group Areas Act. This stated that South Africa's apartheid government ...

This catastrophic event forever changed life in South Africa. It resulted in the skewed ... leading to the apartheid government's Group Areas Act in 1950. This painful legacy continues to shape ...