ABSTRACT
Westville is a middle- to upper-class residential area bordering Durban (see Fig. 16.1). In 1987, the 6,000 households in Westville accommodated 20,000 whites. Practically all of the 4,000 Blacks legally living in the area were domestic workers, labourers and artisans. Only two black families occupied the main dwellings normally reserved for whites. The remainder lived in servants' quarters. The population of the adjacent, extremely wealthy, Indian Group Area, also part of Westville, was 1,800. These residents were represented by a Local Affairs Council, an all-Indian structure with very limited powers, linked to the Indian arm of the tricameral parliament, the House of Delegates. While property taxes from the Indian Group Area were paid to the Westville Council, only the white residents elected the Town Council, which was the chief executive body.
