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2.2.1.LOCATION & HISTORY
by jacques_23
2.2. SETSWETLA, ALEXANDRA
2.2.1. HISTORY & LOCATION _
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Figure 26: A picture of Alexandra in the 1990’s. The starting point of rapid urbanisation which extended beyond the master layout planned for the Township (Mere, 2011: 03) 50
NEIGHBORHOOD SCALE _
Figure 27: Locality plan of Setswetla (Bonner and Nieftagodien, 2016).
Setswetla is located on the north west edge of Alexandra. There is not specific date for when the informal settlement was established , but older residents of the settlement believe it was also around the 1980’s. It should be noted that it is somewhat contested whether Setswetla is part of Alex or not. For the purposes of this study, Setswetla is assumed to be part of Alex, because most of the official reports from the Data Monitoring Committee of South Africa and literature used, such as Bonner and Niftagodien (2016) and Mere (2011) treat Setswetla as part of Alex.
