Published August 19, 2021Updated August 19, 2021
Diepsloot is a densely populated township in the North of Johannesburg, South Africa. Diepsloot, loosely translated as "deep ditch" from the Afrikaans, is one of Johannesburg's most densely populated townships. Established in 1994, by what was at the time known as: 'the Rand Provincial Administration'; for people who had initially been evicted from informal settlements in Honeydew, Sevenfontein, Zandspruit and Alexandra.
It is made up of fully government-subsidised housing, brick houses built by landowners, partially government subsidised houses as well as shacks.