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| Title: | The Integrated Community Apartheid Could Not Destroy: The Warwick Avenue Triangle in Durban |
| Author: | Maharaj, Brij |
| Year: | 1999 |
| Periodical: | Journal of Southern African Studies |
| Volume: | 25 |
| Issue: | 2 |
| Period: | June |
| Pages: | 249-266 |
| Language: | English |
| Geographic term: | South Africa |
| Subjects: | race relations apartheid urban areas urban renewal Urbanization and Migration Ethnic and Race Relations Politics and Government |
| External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/2637602 |
| Abstract: | This paper explains how one of the oldest mixed residential areas in Durban, the Warwick Avenue Triangle (WAT), defied the apartheid State's strategies to destroy it. Since the 1930s, slum clearance, racial zoning and urban renewal plans were used by the Durban City Council (DCC) to destroy the racially integrated community in the WAT. In the 1970s, when finally accommodation was available elsewhere in Durban, Indians and Coloureds were forced to move out of the area. The relocation process contributed to the rapid decline of the WAT in the 1970s. Not everyone moved, however, and the area still retained its integral racial character (although the number of whites had decreased from 66 percent in 1900 to 20 percent in the 1970s). The post-1976 period and the political reforms of the 1980s provided the remaining residents with an opportunity to mobilize and resist relocation. They founded the Durban Central Residents' Association (DCRA), which played a significant role in successfully opposing the relocation strategies of the Department of Community Development (DOCD) and the DCC's urban renewal plans in the 1980s. South Africa's political transformation of the 1990s provided an opportunity for reconstruction, development and planning strategies to be initiated for the WAT. Notes, ref., sum. |
