The township was formed by the apartheid state to house the mass resettlement of Africans that were living in Cato Manor during 1958-65.

Cato Manor is a working class area located seven kilometers from Durban's city centre.

Cato Manor today has primary schools, a clinic, a market and a multi-purpose center and talks for new places of interest are underway.

But here on the tract called Cato Manor, for the first time, the homeless are moving audaciously and by the thousands into a choice piece of urban real estate.

For frustrated blacks, the boxy houses built for Indians in Cato Manor were a symbol of the state's indifference.

Almost everyone agrees that a compromise hinges on a crash program to build better housing for all the various claimants flooding into Cato Manor.

He was born in Cato Manor, and lived there until 1958 when his family was forcibly removed to KwaMashu.

Village between Cato Manor and Westville, some 13 km west of Durban.

The school was housed in Cato Manor for 12 years.

It is likely that the police were nervous as two months before the massacre nine constables had been murdered under similar circumstances at Cato Manor.