In the 1940s, the
Pegging Acts and the
Asiatic Land Tenure and Indian Representation Act, 1946 were passed. These acts gave the government the right to remove and destroy shacks and small self-made shelters, with the putative intention of improving sanitary conditions. This led to the
Group Areas Act of June 1950 being enforced directly by the Government, in which certain residential areas were designated for Whites, Indians,
Coloureds, and Blacks only. Indians were removed from areas such as Mayville,
Cato Manor, Clairwood,
Magazine Barracks,
Bluff, Riverside, Prospect Hall, Duikerfontein, and
Sea Cow Lake. They were forcibly moved into the two townships of
Phoenix, situated North of Durban, and Chatsworth to the South. During the late 1940s and early 1950s, there were advertisements in papers for an exclusively Indian town, Umhlatuzana. This progressed into the greater Chatsworth District in the early 1960s when planning commenced and official movements took place in 1964 to the eleven units: Unit 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, and Unit 11. Modern-day Chatsworth is spread over seven municipal wards which all fall roughly in the South Central municipal area. The intentional buffer design of Chatsworth creates today an interesting melting pot of people frequenting Chatsworth's business district which comprises a bustling centre, The Chatsworth Center. == Infrastructure ==