ABSTRACT
This chapter considers example of the rural dwelling used as an associational device defining the identity of Natives as Other: The native likes everything in circles: they think in circles. The aim of the Native Locations Act was to rationalize the management and space of locations particularly those on private land, which had tended to emerge somewhat organically over time. In Cape Town, the Native Locations Act was used to house indentured labourers in barracks at the docks much like the mine compounds in Kimberley and Johannesburg. But by the end of the nineteenth century there was a growing immigrant population of mobile Natives who found accommodation within the space of the city itself. But mostly the distortions were in the way that Langa and Maitland Garden Village had none of the Romantic charm needed to disguise the ordering and segregationist policies at the heart of the Garden City Movement.
