ABSTRACT
Experience throughout Africa has shown that the problems of administration in urban areas are far more serious than in rural areas. In the Union of South Africa urban locations have in the past been allowed to develop with little or no conscious direction, and municipal councils are struggling in vain with the problems created by the very existence of the locations. Tribal sanctions are severed, and the African finds that what were considered good conduct and good manners are of little account in his new environment. The government of the European townships with their adjacent Native settlements is provided for by two ordinances, the Townships Ordinance of 1929, and the Municipal Corporations Ordinance of 1927 as amended in 1929. The natural tendency will be for townships to grow into municipal corporations, and thus for the control of the Native population in the towns to pass from the Government to councils elected by the European population.
