In South Africa, the Group Areas Act, which emphasised racial residential segregation, was one of the key instruments used to enforce the ideology of apartheid. However, since the mid-1980s many blacks began to move into white designated group areas, which blurred race-space divisions and led to the formation of ‘grey areas’. This paper traces the arrival of Black people in Albert Park and identifies the problems they experienced in the area. The paper concludes that Black people were moving into Albert Park because of a shortage of accommodation and a desire to escape from the strife-torn townships.
