Racial segregation in Johannesburg : the Slums Act 1934-1939
The Slums Act of 1934 was used to displace numbers of Black people from the central areas of Johannesburg to segregated suburbs on the periphery. - (AJC)
The 1918 influenza epidemic highlighted the acute sanitary crisis in the Malay Location, a slum abutting white working class suburbs, and underlined the imperative of providing adequate housing for the expanding African workforce of Johannesburg