low-cost housing
ON 12 DECEMBER 1958, the City Council resolved to acquire land in Umhlatuzana to build approximately 14 000 houses for an Indian township. Umhlatuzana included the farming areas of Chatsworth, Cavendish, Welbedacht, Witteklip, Beffelsbosch, and Zeekoe Valley, as well as three private Indian townships, Silverglen, Kharawastan, and Umhlatuzana Indian Township. Together, these would come to constitute Chatsworth Indian Township. The area was 89 hectares in extent, of which 61 hectares was buildable land.
Both the major Indian political organisations, the Natal Indian Congress (NIC) and the
