Abstract
M.A.
Katlehong, with a population of approximately 550 000
people, accommodates one of the largest black urban communities in South Africa. The socio-economic backlog which is
the residents of Katlehong are experiencing and which
described in this study, is a symptom of the long continued
neglect that the black residents of South Africa have been
subject to. The former government policy of apartheid
which caused gross race based inequalities to the detriment
of the black citizens of the country, can inter alia be
blamed for this situation ...