HOUSING IN THE SOUTH AFRICAN CITY THE number of people looking for a house in urban South Africa is growing rapidly. At the moment these people live primarily as legal or illegal squatters on the outskirts of the city and in the former townships. What immediately strikes you is the lack of continuity between the typologies of the white suburbs and the black townships. This is in sharp contrast to the earlier cities of the Dutch and the British, where the non-European population lived for a long time alongside the white colonists.
