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HERITAGE STREETS OF KWA-MASHU
PART III
STREET NAMES AND OTHER INTERESTING PLACES
One would expect the various sections, A to L to have been constructed sequentially, but they were not. People moved from Mkhumbane to Kwa-Mashu starting with a few in 1957 onwards. The full official
settlement to Kwa-Mashu was October 1958 (a complete township establishment cycle). The streets already had names then, but how the names were selected, remains somewhat of a mystery.
The Town Centre was established shortly after the arrival of the new millennium, in 2005. The aim was providing economic opportunities for citizens by providing them with space trade and investment. The town centre offers includes a mall, community health care facilities, welfare offices, a small business centre and a police station, amongst others and better social infrastructure and commercial facilities; access to employment and business opportunities; access to land for
business development and urban housing. “Bridge City” is today a modern Kwa-Mashu’s “township city” (part of urban renewal development as promulgated in 1999) adjacent “Sections M, E & F”) and overlooking Phoenix area (formerly an “Indian residential area”). Developments in “Bridge City” area include Dr Pixley ka Seme Hospital, Ntuzuma Regional Court, Bridge City Mall and a residential area of flats among others.