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Chatsworth: The Making of a South African Township
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Price: R 485
Publication Date: 2013-11-04
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 978 1 86914 255 1
Width: 190
Height: 240
Pages: 532


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Review by Karina Magdalena
Cape Times, 2 May 2014

The forty contributions to this voluminous collection give a remarkable insight into the trials and tribulations of a South African township. Comprising academic studies, personal essays, and eye-witness reports on Chatsworth and its residents, the richly illustrated volume spans large chunks of the history of the township and its multitude of residents since its inception in the early 1960s.

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Review by Brij V. Lal
Diaspora Studies 7.2 (2014): 141-142.

On a visit to South Africa some years ago, my wife and I were taken to the Indian township of Chatsworth, on the unlovely outer fringes of Durban, a product of the Group Areas Act which sanctioned and enforced strict racial segregation of South Africa's population under apartheid.

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In 1960, apartheid’s planners created the ‘Indian’ township of Chatsworth, evicting people from established neighbourhoods around Durban and forcibly settling them into the grid of a modern racial ghetto. Making home within this architecture of exclusion, along streets without names, tens of thousands of new residents began building new lives and new communities, developing an urban space with a unique cultural vibrancy born of creativity and economic struggle.

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This article draws on excerpts from Chatsworth: The Making of a South African Township, edited by Ashwin Desai and Goolam Vahed. It won the UKZN book of the year 2013.

CHATSWORTH: Once you enter you never leave

CHATSWORTH was born at the height of apartheid’s madness, designed to fit a people into a frozen racial landscape. But as much as it hardened, life in Chatsworth thawed, and through the ebb and flow of everyday life and cultural and sporting tributaries, became a place both real and imagined.

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