Port Elizabeth the Segregated city
… from 1950 Conclusion 1910-1950 By 1950, the population of New Brighton had grown from 3,650 in 1911 to 35,000. Almost … outside designated areas. Existing suburbs, as well as new housing projects for Whites, began to include racially … and residential control had the effect of increasing New Brighton's population from 35,000 persons in 1951 to …