The struggle for the Warwick Market in Durban

Picture 1 – Protest of the Early Morning Market Support Group in May-June 2009Author : Roy Chetty, Mai-June 2009.The Warwick Avenue Triangle (WAT), an inner city community, and one of the oldest mixed residential areas in Durban, defied the apartheid state's strategies to destroy it. Slum clearance laws, the Group Areas Act, and urban renewal programmes were used to try to destroy the community.It would appear that in the post-apartheid era, the Durban Metro is attempting to succeed where apa...