ABSTRACT
Group Areas legislation is one of the key instruments used to reinforce the ideology of apartheid and has considerable spatial implications for the residential restructuring of South African cities. Conventionally, residential segregation is associated with the Group Areas Act of 1950, and the ascent to power of the National Party, and the entrenchment of apartheid. However, in this chapter it will be argued that the local state, the Durban City Council (DCC), played a critical role in the formulation, refinement and implementation of the Group Areas Act.
