It was built on a municipal landfill that discouraged whites from purchasing land on the adjacent Sophiatown, forcing the owner Herman Tobiansky to sell land indiscriminately to members of any race.
: 279 Westbury is the first place black people could legally live in the City of Johannesburg. : 279 By 1967 it had its last name change when it became Westbury. : 279 It would undergo more name changes during Apartheid when it was declaimed as a black township on 2 January 1963 and proclaimed as the Western Coloured Township in July 1963 when forced removals were used to move coloured residents from Doornfontein and Pageview to this location. : 279 The residents of Newlands objected to the name and during July 1919 its name was changed to Western Native Townships. : 279 The suburb was established in May 1918 by the Johannesburg Town Council as an area for black residents and called it Newlands Location. Prior to the discovery of gold on the Witwatersrand in 1886, the suburb lay on farmland called Newlands that lay on the original farms called Waterval and Middlefontein. It is situated west of the Johannesburg CBD. It is located in the province of Gauteng. Note, ref.Westbury is a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa. Although the community was only partially successful in effecting changes to the original designs and in getting compensation on inadequate building, their action underscores the importance of micro-political struggles in shaping the built environment. However, dissatisfaction with the overall plan and the poor construction quality of the redevelopment led this usually quiescent community to organized protest. Urban renewal of the oldest and one of the poorest areas of coloured settlement in Johannesburg was initiated by the Johannesburg Council and implemented by the private sector. The 1985 Westbury tenants' struggle focused on the issue of housing standards, rather than on problems such as unaffordable rents, housing shortages or the Group Areas Act. The nature of housing demands expressed by the residents of the coloured township of Westbury, Johannesburg, South Africa, differs from those of other black township residents. The free AfricaBib App for Android is available hereĬontemporary Housing Struggles in South Africa: The Politics of Shelter in Johannesburg Coloured Township
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